skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard a radio interview about this about a year ago in Dubai.

This is the land of SUVs with tinted windows, maids to do anything that remotely resembles domestic work, and wretchedly excessive bling. When asked about who would want to live in this experimental community (there ain't no hippies down here), the developer said that it would start with the employees of the companies who get the contracts to build out the town.

Now that's what I call synergy.
I never suggested hitting a child. I said the expression "I want to smack..." conveys an emotion like a parent reprimanding a child. The emotion is one of "talking down", not one of hitting someone, even though that's what a literal reading means.

What I hate about HN is that very few people here seem to be able to understand that the written word can be interpreted in many ways. What the words literally mean is not what the combination of those words means.

And that the excuse "hitting children is educational" is false.

But actually, I assume you're just trolling. I know because you are "anticipating" future arguments that have absolutely nothing to do with the comment thread. The OP used a figure of speech. I mentioned parents and kids. Now you want to have a debate on parenting philosophy?

What for? To waste my time?

Well, it worked, but now you have several fewer karma points and I have several more.
My original comment deserved it then, not my clarification and praise of the implementation idea in the article?

The idea of a website being able to inject things into the task bar menu seems like it would open the door for injecting things that overflow buffers, call other code, etc. What is the security model for that code? What are the limits on what the URL can point to, etc.

It's not like the IE team has a stellar record for this kind of stuff?
Disable JavaScript and visit this site.
Interesting. I would have expected the Menu to be identical for a site or application. Maybe have different ones for a forum vs a dashboard, but identical between topics in the forum. What is the use-case for a different menu per-page? Do you expect users to pin different pages?

And even gzipped, 260B * 1M pageviews/day is ~ 1GB a month. Plus the memory to hold the text, the CPU to compress it, versus serving a static file from Apache to the fraction of users the ask for it? Still sounds like a win.

Maybe make it even more like stylesheets: embeddable in the page or linkable to another page.
Yeah, it would be easier innovate on hard problems, Mr. Myhrvold, if you you weren't trying to strangle startups and small tech firms every chance you get with your Intellectual Ventures.
How do you still not understand this, 7 years later? The RSS specs you defined do not allow the author to specify the type of text contained within an element — the processor has to guess whether it was plain text or HTML based on how many levels of escaping were applied.
Don't worry, I'm not downvoting you because your views are unpopular. I'm downvoting you because you're trolling.
Hacker's Delight builds upon HAKMEM, cataloguing all kinds of bit-twiddling tricks. It's not the kind of book you'll use every day*, but it's a great reference for your bookshelf.

http://www.hackersdelight.org/

If you do use it every day, I'd love to know where you work.
Won't someone please think of the OP's failed business model? The government needs to protect the lucrative business of owning a link farm!!
The linked article plainly explains it:

"The main problem with the RSS title element is how to deal with the characters & and <. They have to be encoded at least once as a requirement of XML, but for those aggregators that treat titles as HTML, a second level of encoding may be expected in order to comply with HTML."

They have to be encoded at least once but do you do it once, or twice? That's the ambiguity.
http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-justintv-kills-some-liv... - “Justin.tv has grown from a place where one guy broadcasted his life, to a place where people all over the world broadcast and watch millions of live videos. Justin.tv is 100 percent DMCA-compliant and we promptly respond to all DMCA takedown requests.”
If you don't want a debate on parenting philosophy, then don't advocate doing cruel things to children. You brought it up but now you deem it off topic?

As to educational, if you do not consider hitting or punishing children educational, then I'm curious: what is your justification?
I can't seem to ropy to the child of this post, but this is a response to that.

All of those risks are present for PDFs or png images. If the browser's XML parser is vulnerable, having this feature additionally available won't make and difference.
Reads like a PR piece written by Myrhvold...
I'm very curious why this comment got down-voted. I would not have thought of doing what aberkowitz suggested, and it's doesn't sound stupid to me at all. Would anyone care to explain why they think it's a bad idea?
Is this a security issue? Could someone hold open communications with them and effectively DOS Houston?
Linode allows internal routes as well, and it is unmetered (it just has to be in the same datacenter, though that should be a given).
It is easy to understand. Government spending comes out of the economy via taxes and inflation. Taxes reduce company and personal profits reducing budgets for the next year, and thus reducing spending on purchases or expansion that would create jobs. Inflation raises costs, having the same effect.

Meanwhile, the government spending is often in non-productive sectors of the economy, such as increasing government jobs at all levels of government, which going forward add an additional spending burden on the economy.

Very little of the investment is even in areas targeted at building jobs. Hiring a bunch of people to build a bridge or highway does not create permanent jobs, and the positive impact of that highway or bridge is spread over many years, while the job hit from the spending starts immediately. Most government "innovation" efforts are misguided, poorly allocated or poorly managed, and rarely produce any substantive industry creation or economic growth. This is to be expected since politicians do not understand business very well, and have an incentive to feather their own nests or build their own political empires & burocratic fiefdoms. Thus the incentive is towards having more cushy government jobs to hand out as favors, and more employees under them... not to produce anything beneficial to society or the economy.

Further, it is not in government interest, really, to have a robust economy, because it is the damage done to the economy-- by government-- that lets government rationalize the power grab to have more control over the economy. Thus government "profits" by doing damage to the economy. The 2008 collapse is the result of government policies- clintons "you must loan to people who can't repay the loans" housing problem, the moral hazard of fannie mae and freddie mac, and bushs "we're gonna set interest rates below inflation"... stoked by constant economic pronouncements from everyone from the president to the fed chairman to Paul Krugman that there was no housing bubble and that if there was it would be good for the economy (the latter a position krugman took in one of his articles.)
The tradeoff is the same as an external JavaScript or stylesheet, which noone seems to mind. Plus, only some clients will be downloading the menu.xml.
DDG is currently my main search engine. I've tried it for a few days a couple times in the past, but now I'm trying to give it more time - at least a couple weeks - to see if it grows enough on me to replace Google.

I'm finding myself using the "!g" command a lot to double-check results on Google, and I'm definitely noticing the speed difference with Google. But overall, I'd say that it's almost on par with Google for my searches.

Some things that would make me like it more:

-A bit more speed.

-A way in the settings to decide between using Yahoo News or Google News (that link in the sidebar on the right), same thing for images (google images or bing images) and maps.

-Some way to highlight the most likely or most popular result when the disambiguation page is very long (maybe just subtly point out which result is clicked on more often?).

-A way to personalize the DDG homepage with a couple of personal links (for those who use it as a browser homepage -- you could add a link to GMail or whatever, so that it even more seamlessly replaces Google).

I can see some pros and cons to all these suggestions (except more speed), but I figured I'd just throw them out there.
I can confirm this - large companies must show effort or risk losing their trademark rights. That doesn't mean they have to take you to court though.
How is this relevant to hacker news? I'm curious.
Juggernaut 2 using node.js and redis
http://www.wpreviewsite.com/
Look: I didn't say parents should hit their kids. I didn't say parents shouldn't hit their kids. Nowhere in anything I've said in this thread, did I bring this subject up. I have no opinion on this matter and don't care to discuss it.

Please find some other comment thread to reply to.
And between getting training on a job where you actually do the work involved and "watching videos online".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#Com...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_and_Data_Relay_Satelli...

It seems all their important stuff is routed via satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
pretty much every technology is new before people decide to try it. and a lot of technologies, old or otherwise, suck and get replaced and disappear and we are left with only those old technologies that are great. so distinctions based on whether a technology is old or new are meaningless
MSFT Word's autoshape: is it copyright protected? 
I wish to have users on my website the ability to draw shapes (similar to what you find in Microsoft Word "autoshape"). Shapes such as arrows, circles, etc. My questions are:
1) Is this protected by Microsoft?
2) If yes, are there similar codes (not copyright to program shapes?)
3) How difficult is it to write a program, where the user is given the opportunity to draw shapes on a website?

Sorry in advance if this is all elementary questions. I am a non-techie and trying to learn.
For technical details about the work, see this blog: http://research.zscaler.com/2010/09/new-orkut-worm-bom-sabad...
wouldn't it be harder if yo didn't have the distros standard environment to target? if the user had gone upstrem to get any significant number of packages for their system that would be very messy, no?

in my experience there is nothing better then having a repo/ppa or even a well built .deb / .rpm, i wish for it every other day for my mac/win boxes.
As wglb points out, they frequently talk on their amateur radio as a means of entertainment. A lot of astronauts that go up to the ISS get licenses so they can chat with people when they get bored and have some free time on their hands.
On the other hand, C&D letters carry no particular weight. It does indicate the seriousness -- if someone is so cheap that they send an email instead of paying the $5 a registered letter costs, they probably can't afford to sue you.
An under-emphasized detail is what your college's policy is on leave-of-absences, or allowing dropouts to return. For me, dropping out to try my first startup and returning to school after it failed was literally filling out a single-sided form when I left and filling out a similar single-sided form when I wanted to return. If it's that easy at your college, the risk of dropping out is extremely small, so if you have an idea you are passionate about and the opportunity to execute on it, you may as well try. I'll bet somebody told Mark Zuckerberg that he was probably not Bill Gates, so he should probably stay in school.
Is the question really: am I better off completing college, spending a few years with a big company (or a startup) and then starting my own company... or is it: what do I want to achieve - e.g. build my own company in the xyz industry - and what is the best way for me to achieve that? If you know that you want to start 'a' company but don't know exactly what kind of company or what industry, etc the question may then become: what would I like to learn about and what will enable me to learn about that? The answer may well be to go to / stay in college and then work for a company or two in order to develop business skills and work out what kind of business you'd like to build. On the other hand, if you know exactly what you want to start, and have the skills and resources to 'just do it', maybe you are better off dropping out of college. Personally, I am almost a textbook example of Vivek's advice precisely because I wasn't sure what kind of business I wanted to start back in my high school and university days. I will say this, though, even if you stay in college or work for another company, I recommend starting some kind of business on the side. Not only will you learn skills you won't learn at college or in a big company - and you may stumble on the business you really want to commit to - but it will also help off-set the socialization (i.e. to keep that nice, high paying job with benefits) that can arise in a big corporate environment and that may stop you from ever taking the entrepreneurial plunge.
I tried very hard to resist the temptation to do that on the 99 bottles problem because I suspect it's a dead-end.

It's down to 189 bytes now, I'm curious if someone will have beaten me by morning.

That was fun to do. My first attempt was absolutely horrible :)
Do you value the various Chinatowns in cities like New York and San Francisco. To me, these unplanned, spontaneous developments is what makes a city worthwhile. Modern urban planners seem to want to make such spontaneity impossible, and will end up as sterile and uninviting as a strip mall.
It is so old-fashioned and nostalgic.
Now it is time to write something like Nodejs clone in Flash - almost perfect mix of a buzz, uselessness and absurdity. ^_^
The comments here are a wall of text.
I have a master's and have also taken all the prereqs for, and am halfway through a 2nd master's. Even if I had paid for all this, all of my education would not have come close to 100k (I know this has been addressed in other comments). All of my coursework after undergrad (roughly 24 courses) was done while working full time. The only real opportunity cost is in undergrad. Some of the first masters and all of the additional course work I've taken have been paid by employers.

Additionally I would say that the balance of course work (requiring an artist to take biology and a biologist to take art) is the most important part of an undergrad degree. In my experience well-roundedness is extremely important in real-world problem solving. It's not entirely surprising that the guy who discovered the quark also spent time reading Finnegan's Wake.
I have to plead some ignorance on this one: I'm familiar with Australian securities law (at a very high level) but American securities law is of course quite something else.

Price-fixing I'm not sure applies here. It normally applies on the sell side but not the buy side. So if all the gas stations in the country said they would charge $6/gallon that would be price fixing. If all the consumers said they wouldn't pay more than $1.50/gallon then that's not price-fixing in the same sense.

But which side the angel investors are treated as is open to interpretation. It's also worth noting that this is investment rather than the sale of goods or services so price-fixing, depending on the law, may not even apply.

Collusion is a little more interesting. Australia has very strict laws here compared to the US (to both our benefit and detriment I suspect). I'm not even sure how to begin at unravelling such a thing.

It strikes me a little odd that it's the FBI spearheading this. I would've thought the FTC and/or the SEC would've been at the front of this. The FBI means the DoJ doesn't it? Or is the FBI the enforcement arm for these kinds of actions?

One disturbing possibility that would require FBI intervention: racketeering. Take a look at RICO:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrup...

Trigger offences include securities fraud:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_fraud

"Securities fraud, also known as stock fraud and investment fraud, is a practice that induces investors to make purchase or sale decisions on the basis of false information, frequently resulting in losses, in violation of the securities laws."

Now that normally applies to companies but could it be applied to the enticement of other investors? If angel A puts in money at $3m pre-money while at the same time someone else is putting in money at $4m pre-money, enticed by angel A (without A disclosing his or her better deal), couldn't that qualify as securities fraud?

IANAL and it seems unlikely but when you get any securities malfeasance or the appearance thereof the whole thing can really spider in all sorts of unexpected directions.
Build things that people will ultimately find useful...

as opposed to products that are conducive to a quick sell to the angels and VCs.

Build a product that can potentially make money on its own merit. A 2 million dollar series A round should not be considered as a sign of a successful startup.

This article does raise some valid points (regardless of the intentions of the writer). Strike the part about Intellectual Ventures because it unfortunately overshadows the main point.
There's a huge market for this, and devices like this are already on the market based on Wi-Fi, rather than image recognition. I know ICON fitness made an accessory last year that interface to standard fitness equipments, and allows you to share data with your Facebook friends.

this would be a really useful app if it's based on image recognition, but the question here is does it work? to do this, you would have to take an image, send it back to your server for computation, and pass information back to the user. you'd have to periodically feed images to your server - would it be every second? or 5 seconds? it'll be quite a CPU-intensive task, so image recognition may not be the answer if fitness companies out there are already doing it Wi-Fi.

wrt to the use model alone, if you make the user hold the device while they're exercising, no one would do that. it'd be too awkward.

And i wouldn't think about allow users to entering data manually.
How'd you finance that?
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If you are a VC who was at those meetings, and you are on your blog loudly claiming nothing illegal was going down, I guess you'll be directly answering all the FBI's questions instead of letting a lawyer do the talking for you, right?

I didn't think so.

The bad thing is, even if the conversations were innocent, the FBI does not let go easily. Things start nice... "just want to make sure we clear up any misunderstandings..." and then there are wiretaps, and more fun. Good luck.
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I'm not sure what's more rare: working the space station or seeing a ham radio story covered by the media.
Talk. About. A. Troll. (edit: ah, no wonder. the author is fake steve jobs blogger)

This is almost as good as the article from the 90s making fun of the Internet and how useless it is.

...a place where smart kids arrive hoping to make an easy fortune building companies that seem, if not pointless, at least not as serious as, say, old-guard companies like HP, Intel, Cisco, and Apple.

"Easy fortune" huh? That's what you call those 15-20 hours days many founders pull? This writer owes an apology to the Valley.

Just another version of old dudes complaining about the new gen.
Flash already has sockets. What would be the point?
Waiting tables and tending bar, great jobs for your early 20s ;-)
Intel is kinda like God. You got to be a special kinda stupid to treat Him like an enemy, no matter what He does.

God says...
sell blameworthy sufficient This gains presented rejoicest
mountains settest doubteth whereof determined guardianship
stayed ending Alas Could
Hubpages does rev sharing by showing their adsense code a certain % of the time and the authors code the remaining. Maybe this is a good way to monetize the free customers.
If you want to incorporate, I would get a startup-savvy lawyer in your area and just use their boilerplate restricted stock and IP agreements for you and your co-founders.

If you aren't ready to incorporate, then just write the terms everyone has agreed to in plain, unambiguous English, and have everyone sign it and give everyone a copy. Note the equity splits, the agreed-upon vesting schedule (standard seems to be 4 year vesting, first 25% after 1 year, then monthly after that, with double-trigger acceleration upon acquisition), what everyone is agreeing to for the IP, and any other rules you might be coming up with for the business.

This just keeps everyone on the same page right from the get-go, and prevents revisionist history later. However, once you get serious, I would go ahead and incorporate.
How much did you work? Given how little waiters make, it seems like you'd have to work something close to full time to get by, especially with enough excess to cover travel, which makes it no more free than a real job, but making less and doing less interesting stuff.

Now, consulting 5-10 hours a week (or a few months a year) while enjoying yourself and traveling could be appealing.
You're right, there is. I never said all institutions that claim to offer higher education are not scams or not free; some are in it purely for business. The University of Phoenix is pretty much 'open source' online education with a price tag, which really just supports my point in that there's still a definite need for and lots of value in the traditional hands-on sort of education.