skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a refreshing read, thanks for posting it. It took me a moment to understand the important difference between exploratory and confirmatory experiments - that you can find patterns in anything if you look hard enough, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything until you repeat the process but look for the specific pattern you noticed previously. Reminded me of the Bible Code theory from the 90's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code)
You won't have much luck with that, I tried to view some online flash video in a virtual machine (we all know how fucked flash is on Linux), which lost the audio/movie sync after about 20 minutes.
Without a human driver, how will a cab company keep fares from trashing cabs? The issue of ensuring payment becomes a serious problem. Do you put credit card entry pads on the outside of the cab to prevent any of that? How long until someone superglues it?

With human drivers, there's a social norm to prevent misbehavior, and in extreme cases the driver can stop and insist that the passenger get out.

Even if the cab companies put human toll collectors in driverless cabs, although that could work, there would be less respect for cabbies who are not driving. I fear that bad behavior would still flourish.
Entering the European Union did some good for us. A lot of public services have to adhere to European standards, and it works. For example there is a set period in which you must get your passport/identity card/driver's licence and they respect it.

The corruption mostly moved higher. I had a coffee with a friend who works in a public institution a couple of weeks ago, and we talked about EU funds absorption. I'm a software guy, and I'd love to do projects for his institution (or any other). There's a huge need for software projects at every level - national and local. And there are lots of money available for this, provided by the EU. So why am I not working with the government (nor is anybody I know)?

Because things go like this. Say my friend wants to put something online in his institution. He has to get about 3 signatures, the last of which is pretty high in the ministry. And the guy in the ministry will invariably think something like: "if it's am idea worth doing, then we'll file it for when we can do it on a bigger scale with our boys".

So yeah. Like I said, main problems are 1. politicians up high and 2. the fact that institutions are now completely political, to the level where I can bet there's a doorman somewhere who's been hired just because his brother in law is in the right party.
I didn't read the descriptions before, they do make it clear.

I was just saying that you can't apply a technique you don't know.
Reminds me of that scene at the end of the Bourne Identity where they're at the hearing and question Treadstone, write it off as a loss, and move on.
Anonymous Allegedly Targets Tunisia, Zimbabwe
Someone knows where the money went it just wasn't the woman in that video. She oversees the lending to the regional reserve banks who loan out money. There is no possible way she could know who that money goes to.
Really interesting for me to read this analysis. For my online game, conversion of people who visit the landing page is about 0.5%, but once they're paying, churn is in the 3%-5% range per month, which is around 25 months retention on average. So for me, it seems that the real money is in trying to get the conversion rate up and I'm mostly ignoring the retention, because it seems like I'd have to do a lot of work to move the retention rate.

I guess people looking for sex are quicker to pull out their wallet but also quicker to be satisfied.
... wait for Keynesians and Krugmanites to tell us that this is good for the economy?
Vampire Weekend did pretty well with out much support from the industry. I think they've finally signed though now that I'm hearing them on the radio.
Using Kilim project, which provides lightweight threads in Java.
Interesting coincidence. My daughter got her first timeout yesterday for hitting her brother.

The "game" she wanted to play with me last night was to give me timeouts.
Schumer: Health care foes should forgo coverage - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com
i don't actually understand why this was downvoted. The point is fairly valid.

More to the oss point, if you want to really treat this in an oss sort of way, then fork the project's theme or what have you, make skinning it a sort of project people would actually give their time to rather than dangling a carrot.

I think the majority issue here is that most people don't mind giving up their time for something they care about, but most people don't like being commoditized.
"As part of the process of identifying the computer system that I seek to search, I may be forced to check each system belonging to the target customer until I have determined that it is the computer to be searched."

Another risk to basing off a 'cloud' infrastructure: if law enforcement targets one of the datacenters, every customer is in danger of being shut down. The analogy would be: if a tenant of a building is suspected of a crime, suddenly the FBI has authority to rifle through every single apartment. I wonder what happens to SLAs in this case.
I did read the post, and I will admit that until I just reread it and the comments, I did not realize that your question was not accessible anymore, but was a redirect to another one. I assumed that your original question was still accessible, and that someone had linked to another thread with the same question.

I still stand by my thoughts that you're jumping to a conclusion about it failing because of this downfall. This is like saying an IRC channel will fail because new users will enter, ask a question and be brushed off with a brusque admonition to go read the FAQ. If that keeps any new people from joining the discussion then it will fail. However, if the community of the IRC channel (or Quora), continue to grow on other merits (like having experts available to answer questions), then it can still grow even if it's not perfect. In this case, Quora lost a user (you) because of this policy, but it will retain others. I don't think that many people will find this a complete deal breaker.
The Other Android Blueprint: FacebookPhone, TwitterPhone, And Ugh, VerizonPhone?
I thought that Akka was going to be the missing link on Scala also. So I started investigating and building, and ran into some roadblocks. In particular, I found that Scala offers actors, but the distributed and highly available cluster aspects that Erlang's OTP offers were missing from Scala. Akka looks like it's going to provide this, at first blush. But after further investigation, it doesn't really provide that, yet, at least it didn't last I checked.

So I posted this question on StackOverflow and on the Akka mailing list:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3692680/scala-akka-how-to...

The question is about how you build fault tolerance, such that your cluster has no single point of failure. At the time, the principal authors of Akka responded saying that you can't right now out of the box, and they're working on that for a later commercial release.

Since then I started looking at integrating Scala + Zookeeper, and more seriously considered Go + Zookeeper, and it revived my interest in Erlang.
Wait until the next stupid bubble and sell it for a profit. Easy money.
But don't base it from the US.
My pleasure.

Not trying to toot my own horn, but you might find the bookmarklett on this page useful, it certainly made things much easier for me: http://nfriedly.com/pagerank
Ahh I see. Makes sense, very clever. HN should have the same sort of thing that Techmeme has. Clever stuff, that.
If you want another free, sincere advice : what you say doesn't matter, only how you behave, because the children just imitate you. For a start, never, ever lie to children, or try to trump or manipulate them.
Vote for Ron Paul?
Doh. I meant compared to TextMate. Sorry, I wasn't clear.
Firefox plugins have been wildly successful when solving pain.

Not sure if your idea solves pain, or is just a tool.
I used to trade CDRs with people from all over the US/World for each show via snailmail. (I recorded a few shows back in 97/98 on minidisk) The early tape trading CDR community centered around DMB is one of the most endearing 'net communities' I have ever been part of (google "Dave Matthews Band CDR Webring"). Some people might say the band killed that a little when they started releasing their own copies, but I think a lot of people accepted it because of the quality of those official copies (to this day they release old shows in much better audio that the tape traded copies). I have not really been part of the show trading community for about 7 or 8 years, but it was great fun traveling from city to city for shows and meeting people you had traded and discussed stuff with on the net. That is something that certainly can still be replicated by today's bands. This was also possible not only because of the music but also the band's charismatic singer. I think people wanted to trade shows just to see what Dave said in certain instances.
You've got a goldmine there!

With a retention like that you could drop your conversion rate even further (so market more aggressively) and still come out on top.

Don't bother optimizing the conversion, the retention or any simple formula but instead focus on optimizing the one number that matters: net profits.
http://www.builditwith.me

A web site that connects design & development entrepreneurs. It exists to make creating apps easier by connecting you with like-minded designers & developers with the same goal: create cool & useful apps. Build It With Me will help you bootstrap your ideas into actual apps.

http://collabfinder.com (this site is not responding as I enter this)

Why'd we make it? Because we want to make it easier for likeminded developers and designers to meet and collaborate with one another. In other words, we want to help folks actually build the lovely projects they're thinking about.
Not for social data.
Nice, but it's still not nearly as populated as these forums: http://social-masters.com/blog/pua-forum.

The fact that there are 56 heavily-populated PUA forums deserves some attention. The fact that forums are still used deserves attention. There should be a better platform to address questions, share stories, and share links.
Cool. There are other Uni's that do not provide other options however.
For starters, it didn't go missing and for the most part wasn't spent or even actually exist. Loan guarantees and overnight loans are a whole different ball game. If provide a $1B overnight loan for you 10 times, I haven't spent $10B dollars. Same if I had guaranteed $100B. Save for a default, I haven't spent anything (actually I made money). The reason why the Fed didn't announce which banks were in trouble is stunningly obvious, which is why outside of internet conspiracy circles this video isn't big news.
Dearest GroupMe Groupies...
RE: Control

http://images.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iPhone_Device_C...

All of the features available to business users are also available to educational users. So, it's incredibly easy to lock users out of administrative functions and basically any functions at all.

As for internet browsing in class, I don't see why a teacher wouldn't have the ability to disable wifi in their classrooms, especially during tests and whatnot.
Could it be that the threat of patent litigation is keeping Intel, Nvidia or AMD from releasing driver source codes?
Yeap. The current state of affairs is no secret to anybody. The problem is a complete lack of realistic solutions.

We won't get out in the streets. We're not hungry enough, and we don't have a culture of protesting. We pretty much think the French are uncivilized when they burn cars in the street - civilized peoples solve their problems otherwise. But how?

It's be easier if the press was somehow keeping silent, but they're not. They're scathingly vocal, if somehow distracting. The future definitely looks a lot more like Brave New World then 1984...
Thanks for sharing. I actually got more out of your post than the presentation.
If it solved a problem or created some value would you open your wallet?

Absolutely. I don't care what technology you use to solve my problems if you do it well.
I'd make it a web app that the extension compliments.
I find it kind of strange to restrain the rather unlimited possibilities of web pages and web apps to the small subset of interaction patterns that the OS GUI field allows - i have been way more impressed by all the slick, simple interfaces i found in web apps than by recent desktop developments. I wish the ease and beauty and possibilities of web dev would influence the desktop, rather than the other way around.
My favorite comment from the article, and something I'll be trying on my kids:

"Our kids played upstairs in a bonus room. If I heard fighting I’d go upstairs and break it up, then proceed to find all kinds of things that needed to be cleaned. The bonus room was always a mess.

It didn’t take many iterations of that process before I started hearing fighting, then “shhh! Do you want dad to come up here and tell us to start cleaning up?!"
I'm surprised how few people seem to see this opportunity. They should be able to grab a huge part of online advertising.

Also, I have a feeling that a lot of big media would like to stick it to Google, and would rather get their ads from Facebook instead.
Well written explanation of how internships are amazing. Mine were all similar growing up.
The last time I paid for sex it only cost me dinner and my self-respect. I bet you get a really good time for $13 Million :p
If I have a goldmine, it's been eluding me. I'm not that great at marketing and seem to be able to only get so many people in with adwords. People pay $10/mo, so a new user is worth something like $200 and I'm currently bringing them in via adwords at about $50 each, but that's the average and if I up my bids, the cost to bring in more will be about $80 each, which seems high considering how long it will take to make the money back. I only get about $3k spend/mo with adwords at the current bids.

Edit: Costs are already so low that the only way to increase net profits would be to increase revenue per user, perhaps with added micropayments, but it seems to me that with so few paying users <1200, I should be trying to get a larger user base and then later increase revenue per user?
Digital data is easy to fake, though. Wouldn't it be more prudent to have the analysis done by a third party?
More likely when it's presented as a 'Chrome App' rather than an extension.
Whats your email? I have'nt found anything solid yet. Maybe shoot me an email thoughtcoup@gmail.com
Really cool. I really want to play that 3D maze-like game.

The link says this was created in 2006/7. Have there been any advances since then in terms of resolution, or otherwise?
Somehow, comparisons involving murderous dictators are neither funny, nor very interesting.
"I never agreed to that. Here's what I signed."
You may find my experience with developing a freemium browser extension helpful:

http://www.chrisfinke.com/2010/09/13/my-experience-with-deve...

The executive summary is that a free extension with ~70,000 users had a conversion rate to paid users of about 0.1%. Of course, this situation is different than yours, as you're not starting with users who already associate your extension with being free.
As I understand, when the fed increases a bank's lending window, it is not actually giving more money to the bank. It is akin to increasing the credit limit of the bank. If the bank actually does borrow up to the increased limit, it pays interest on that loan.
Seeing the crapware cell phone service providers are putting (that can't be removed no less) on their Android devices, thinking of the future outlined in this TC piece makes me wonder how much worse it could get. And we thought the fragmentation of Android was something of concern already...

I think it would be in Google's interest to start some sort of certification program/or requirement that ensures that any device with their logo on it also can run a user installed vanilla straight-from-Google version of Android without the gunk.
If there's any meaningful risk of someone erasing content from a cell phone in a police evidence locker, no evidence stored in said locker can be considered reliable. As an example, the barrel of a firearm could be replaced between logging in to evidence and ballistic testing[0] or possible drugs could be swapped with real or fake drugs before lab testing.

[0] This procedure takes only a few seconds on many handguns. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gneUifU_0Bs
That's the problem with parenting: you don't know if you've done it right until your kids are 25.
> Firefox plugins have been wildly successful when solving pain.

But not when charging for the solution.
I think if there's one thing the App Store has shown, given the right audience and marketing people will pay for anything that has value to them.
Sufjan Stevens seems to have built a reasonably successful music career without having a major label deal. His CDs are issued by an indie label (Asthmatic Kitty) he reportedly co-owns with his stepfather (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthmatic_Kitty), and while he doesn't seem to come close to Dave Matthews in concert revenues, his tours seem to do all right.
My "normal" grocery store has Amy's and the like in a special section I think of as the "food for hippies who didn't have time to go to Whole Foods today" section. They also keep all the "environmentally friendly" cleaners and such in the same area. (I believe it is technically referred to as the "natural foods" section, but none-the-less the point is that they actually segregate the expensive, organic, natural, enviro-friendly, etc stuff off into a little store within a store.)
I don't think you're likely to contest that 1999 was an easier time for IPOs.

Private Media and Playboy are both public. And unprofitable. And not especially worth all that much these days; you'd have a hard time getting a "real" IPO done even at Playboy's 180M market cap, let alone Private's 20M valuation.
Which would be only marginally more specific. Humans have been eating "artificial", "synthetic" foods for thousands of years, and all of these things are made from "natural" ingredients because matter can't be conjured from thin air. Can you really come up with a test to distinguish between a just-invented stabilizing agent with unknown long-term effects on health and, say, flour?
I've donated to a developer that made one that I can't live without. But I wouldn't have purchased it.. I'm not sure what that's about?
As much as I would love for OpenGovernment to succeed. You guys have got NO chance, your just standard average Joes. You could be the President's son and it still wouldn't make a difference. There are so many layers of corruption, collusion, old boys networks and John McCain's that you will never change how the government works.

Not to mention that the Federal reserve is a completely different beast. You would literally have to physically destroy the government before you have any chance of change.
This is getting circular... let's not keep this up.
If I were you I'd look into Chrome Web Store (though I imagine you already are). It looks tailor made to facilitate this sort of product's sales.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore
Someone forgot about the iPhone snapshot button. It does make photos harder to carelessly share though.
Like any other program, app or website.. It's about the need and scarcity that makes me want to pay or not.

I guess what you are asking is: Assuming your tool is useful, is it being a chrome extension hindering me from buying it?

So it comes down to if I generally use Chrome for my browsing or, if your tool is only used occasionally, if I am willing to use Chrome for those moments.
It is striking that approx 30% would buy.
I think that the climate for this kind of purchase is becoming increasingly favorable because of:
a) many people regularly buy phone apps
b) micropayments and apps stores are becoming familiar
I see a bright future in this area.
Do you have kids?

I always wonder that when I see someone handing out simplistic child rearing advice. The truth is always more complex. And most parents come to understand that.

First piece of complexity. We don't want kids to just follow the rules. We want them to understand them. Which means that you don't just train them to follow your rules, you need to explain your rules.

Second piece of complexity. Small kids have non-obvious needs around learning about boundaries by crossing them repeatedly. It is not as simple as "the kid is behaving badly". This is a necessary learning process. Therefore you need to deliberately set up boundaries that you expect to be violated repeatedly. Crossing those should have very reliable consequences (this helps the kid learn where the boundary is), but not serious ones.

Third complication. Adults have limits as well. As much as we might wish we were perfectly patient people whose tempers never fray, we aren't. And kids will discover those buttons. Part of good parenting is finding ways to keep yourself from being pushed too far. (Big, big hint. Most really big blow-ups happen when one or all parties are short on sleep. Be aware of this and compensate.)

I could go on at length, but I hope I've made my point. Just training kids with operant conditioning is not sufficient to be a decent parent.
Purely by chance, I was trying out a galaxy tab at a store today. I loaded up the Financial Times web site, which took an age because the store wifi was crap and tried scrolling the web page and it stuttered quite a bit at first then smoothed up, zooming as juddery as well. Did the same thing on an ipad - slow loading about the same, but the instant the page was rendered it scrolled and zoomed perfectly.

Also the widget for editing the web page URL on the Tab was a horrible usability car crash. What's up with that? Disclosure - iPhone user, but Android curious.
> If provide an overnight loan for you 10 times, I haven't spent $10B dollars.

No, but you had to have had $10B to transfer.

> Same if I had guaranteed $100B.

No, but someone had to believe that you had access to $10B in case the guarantee was needed.

> Save for a default, I haven't spent anything (actually I made money).

"I made money" doesn't follow. Whether or not you made money depends on the terms. And, even if you did make money, it doesn't follow that it was a good deal. (The risk may have been greater than the return. The fact that you haven't been in an accident doesn't imply that not wearing seat belts is a good idea.)
That jives with what I've read as well. Also a number is incremented in the database, no currency is actually printed. So when it's returned no currency has to be taken out of supply.

For whatever reason, overnight loans are standard which grossly inflates totals over a period of time (I think it's just conspiracy theorists that use totals like that as they count on people not knowing it's an overnight loan that has been returned). A billion dollars a night for a year is $365B. It doesn't take long at all with a handful of large accounts before you hit $9T.
Giving the context of the extension is going to color the question, which is "Will you pay for something that helps you and makes your life easier?" For those folks already using Chrome (of which I am one), the answer is going to be "Yes." Folks using a different browser incur additional cost since they must both switch to Chrome and pay for the tool. That audience will have a higher percentage of "Maybe" and "No" answers.