skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in NY, one of the states that has required seatbelts on all schoolbuses for some time. I'm not aware of anyone actually using them.
If you wanted to be even more heartless (rational) you could approximate a statistical value of life for those casualties. It wouldn't compare favorably to even the costs of installing seat-belts in one urban school district.
I've been waiting for this stupidity to get suggested... more reason to not move your startup and your entrepreneurial self to the U.S, imho.
I'd love a link to your work, if you don't mind!
This is my favorite

• “The Internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. … Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.”

That’s Prince, formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, in a May interview with the U.K.’s Mirror.
Seems like the solution to this problem is to create a legal entity for each company you do business with. Then when they suspend FooBar LLC's Adsense account, you create BarBaz LLC and try again. If you use your real name or real SSN, you're stuck if anything bad happens.
I've been using Play to develop Sparkmuse. It is far and away my favorite Java and Scala web framework and I heartily recommend checking it out for anyone working in those languages. The framework's design works very nicely with Google App Engine unlike almost every other Java web framework.

disclaimer: No idea about this book, but this is the first time I've seen the framework mentioned on HN.
Between China and India there are over two billion people. If there weren't successful businesses and new inventions coming from them in the future, I would be deeply saddened.
What exactly does this mean? Running game backups?
The US has something that none of its competitors do: a free and open society, where entrepreneurs can flourish.

I'm impressed that you can say that when the US operates Guantanamo Bay and is actively trying to prosecute Julian Assange of the Wikileaks organization. Not to mention the DMCA, the Patriot Act and all these other laws/organizations designed to constrain the rights of its citizens.

Were it not for the PRC's protectionist policies, many (most?) of the Chinese "success stories" would not have happened.

Those policies work. It sounds like the US should put them into place since they work.
I thought I ruined this interview with a bad title. Glad it's getting attention despite the headline.
Yeah, I feel that proggit has really gone downhill. I still enjoy a handful of other specific /r/ s thou - like soccer and boston.
Cleverbot is a wise ass, answers 1+1
How about another Heroku for Ruby? Could use some competition I think, and the market is already proven.

Seems like it should be straightforward replicate the functionality for a lower price and get a good percentage of the Heroku user base. Nothing really ties people to the platform. And the addon's should work with pretty much any EC2 based platform as a service.
In my experience from a particular music scene, people with celebrity-level status who want to be treated like real people tend to be the people well worth talking to. Those who want to be treated like celebrities are generally less worthwhile to talk to.

Basically, you may not want to talk to anyone who's so shallow that fame is a really big deal to them.
Whatever tech industry reputation Paul Allen may have previously enjoyed, he's really destroying it now.
I'm going to go ahead and say that "the hot girl effect" is not true, at least for women. The hotter you are the more you'll get hit on, guaranteed.

Which leaves the theory behind this interaction up for grabs :)
Do Yourself A Favor And Start With A Prototype
The US has 308 million people. A society this big will have outliers; Gitmo being one of them.
And last I checked, Assange was _not_ in the US. And the ones who are 'actively trying to prosecute Assange' are the _Swedes_ and the Brits; not the US.

The protectionist policies absolutely don't work beyond a small point. If they worked, then Baidu would be the number 1 search engine in Japan, Korea, Russia, etc. Is it?

A (protectionist) wall may keep the outsiders out; but it also keeps the insiders in....
Yep, paying a commission for making sure that an intended purchase is made at your site is better than risking losing it to the price comparison lottery; at worst they make a slightly lower profit per sale.

eCommerce vendors are even happy to partner with sites like Quidco that openly offer cashback rewards for people making purchases via their affiliate links.
That word has been driving me crazy recently. Every time I write it I stare at it trying to decide if I got it right. Most of the time I do, but this is twice in a row I got it backward.

I think I worked at it so much I got it reversed in my head.

Choose and Chose also always give me pause when I write them.

I edited my post and fixed it.
12-15 seats per row * 2 rows * 2 people per seat = 48-60 seat belts per bus. Does $150-250 per seatbelt seem that unreasonable to you?
Essentially this will allow anyone to sign executables and run them on any retail PS3 without the need for hardware modifications to the console.
An Introduction to Correspondence Analysis by Facebook's data analyst
I think this goes to the heart of the issue.

The sort of fraud ad brokers want to avoid is 'www.fraud-u-lent.com: Hey visitors! click on 10 of these ads and get FREE warez/porn/iPad/car for every 10 clix!!'

On the other hand, there's a legitimate conversation that goes along the lines of '[niche site] is great! how do you manage to provide us with so much great content for our [niche hobby]?' 'Oh thanks, I have been a [niche hobbyist] for 20 years, and accumulated a lot of [niche content/skill]. Also those ads at the side of the page help support the project so you can enjoy it for free.'

The second is technically violating any ad agreement that prohibits click invitations, but in a vastly different way from the first example. An overly mechanical or aggressive interpretation is throwing the baby out with the bath water, and if it becomes too common it will become (or perhaps already is) an opportunity for a competitor.
Are bloggers journalists?
Yes, and I've also seen 150 road deaths on one
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/constitution/...
and 190.7 deaths via all TSA causes in another that even includes methodoloty
http://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/2010/11/24/do-the-tsa-new...
The bias of those sources might skew their results, but I really doubt the number is less than 50, hence my use of "on the order of".
The theory above is short term (get a date), when there is also the long term consideration (marry her, have kids). If you are an average joe, the chances of you having kids with a hot top model are, very frankly, very low. And we guys know that.

In the same way, the chance of us having a nice chat with the CEO of Goldman is fair, but the chance of him maintaining contact with us and being a friend or mentor is pretty low. You don't have the money to hang with him, you don't have the opportunities to share with him and so on.

So you can get a date with the top model if you're brave. You can get a coffee with the CEO if you're brave. But I doubt that anything long term will develop, unless you have true value to offer.

And people evaluate their actual value and see that it probably is not enough to make it worth their while approaching this person.

An example that I'm sure many here can identify with: How many of you have emailed Paul Graham asking him for feedback on your app or whatever? Some brave ones likely have, but how many realistically expect a relationship to develop out of that?
So what do you do for a living now? I'm in somewhat a similar situation and am curious where your skills have taken you professionally.
I guess he sees his fortune in MS stock declining over the next few years and needs a new revenue stream...
I would imagine something about Cubase

http://www.auxbuss.com/
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-get-that-...
Apple IIe followed by TI-82
The calorie counters on the exercise machines are generally not very good. They are like the scales that attempt to show you your BF%, directionally correct but number given is not very good.

You hit on the rest of the equation though, specifically about what people think is high intensity. Vigorous biking means going all out for 12 full minutes likely with the resistance turned up pretty high. When it comes to elliptical machines they are notoriously bad at making people think they do all this 'work' when in reality it's momentum unless they turn the machines resistance way up. Treadmills do some of this by 'carrying' people along, but they are not nearly as bad as ellipticals.

Boxing is very good, but really doing boxing for 10 minutes with a heavy bag is not easy. Notice how long the rounds are in a real boxing match and how tired the fighters are. Reminds me of the only other time I've puked while exercising was doing 2 minute on/1 minute off BJJ rounds.

You should actually swap your warmup method around [3]. If you can do a minute full intensity with only 30 seconds rest then that would lead me to believe the intensity isn't as high as you think. Instead do 30 seconds full intensity with 90 seconds rest[1]. Personally, I have to do this on a track b/c it scares me to even try to run at a true full speed on a treadmill (I had a 5.0sec 40yd at one point in my life hah!). 60 second splits with 180 second rest is also popular. I can't find it now [2], but the original HIIT research found the 1:3 sprint:non-sprint ratio as a key factor.

[1]http://www.intervaltraining.net/HiitTraining-30.html

[2]Darn all the 'fitness' crap on the internet because it makes it near impossible to find anything a second time

[3]To clarify - I would actually do a different warmup more focused on the up coming workout and do true HIIT post workout or on it's own day.
It's potentially dangerous for Amazon to do this. They are essentially squeezing their suppliers in the same way Walmart does, which could potentially make room for a competitor to target the higher price-points.

The more Amazon squeezes, the more high-quality authors such a competitor could get exclusive deals with. Once that happens, Amazon has lost something really important: the fact that you never have to go elsewhere.
New Years Resolutions are overrated, with failure rates pretty high. Instead last year I opted for 101 Things in 1001 days or Day Zero Project. The idea being that you create a list of 101 things you want to do and then spend the next 1001 days doing them. You're far more likely to get a great number of them done because you don't have to start immediately. There used to be a good website for keeping track of yours and other people's 101 things, but it seems to have been down for a while.

I've pretty much given up on my list after a year working on it, but in that time I've achieved quite a lot and got so much benefits from the things I've forced myself to do.

The year before my resolution was to say Yes more. I'm still saying Yes more than I was, which is leading to a lot of fun and worthwhile achievements but is taking up a lot of time.

I'm toying with doing Rejection Therapy this new year, since shyness stops me from going out and selling myself. I'm rather scared to commit to a whole month of it though.
They actually have been doing this for some time with Smart Pricing.

It wasn't working too well.
There are a lot of variables in play, and I really have no idea if this holds up for any particular woman or not. But as a guy, who spends a lot of time talking to other guys about approaching / meeting / dating women, I can definitely say that - in my experience - there is absolutely an "intimidation" effect where men will avoid the hotter women because they assume that:

A. "she's out of my league and wouldn't be interested."

B. "she is that hot, she probably gets hit on all the time and is therefore probably snooty / bitchy towards strange guys."

C. "she can have any guy she wants, so surely she's dating some bigshot executive with a rolls-royce and a private jet... no point in little ole me going over and talking to her."

D. "etc."

Not saying that all guys do this, or that all guys do it in all situations, but there is something plausible about this.
We used plai in the Programming Languages course I took last semester (which happened to be taught by Matthew Flatt, one of the authors of htdp). plai is a great book too.
Have you actually read them? Read the claims? They're software patents, so plenty of folk will hate them just based on that... but they really are not poorly drafted patents.
So when does putting two people together for mundane tasks have any benefit?
WordPress 3.0.4: critical security update
Amazon and Beyond: A conversation with Jeff Bezos (2000)
I started with 12, stealing html & javascript from other sites. I played around with Flash some time, but then started coding in PHP with 14 or something. Never stopped since then.
I'm 21 now and I have a web development company since last year based in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Pretty cool how the dots connect when you look back in time!
I absolutely hate when people respond to a legitimate debate this way.
That's funny, I was just looking at their advertising stats here: https://advertisers.federatedmedia.net/explore/view/theoatme...

According to that site they get around 27m page views per month.
Interesting, although I don't know what it means exactly.

It looks like they use simple dongles for entering service mode. These dongles are authenticated by an HMAC rather than public-key crypto (big mistake on Sony's part).
Great points. My comment below was along a similar vein.
They most certainly do increase the risk. There is a reason people choose larger cars when they can.
> However, as a practical issue, I fail to see any practical reason to disable the guy's revenue from YouTube videos . . .

Really? I have thought about it for about two minutes and came up with several.

1. Google might assume that someone who has committed click fraud in the past might do so again, and preemptively remove other facets of that person's ability to harm the system.

2. Google might want to discourage people from committing piecemeal fraud by ensuring them that there is no way to risk just part of your account with Google. By disabling all of this guy's ability to make money from Google, they are sending the signal, "Hey, don't think you can pull a fast one and still keep any part of your business with us, even if the site is unrelated."

3. Maybe there was some undisclosed badness going on with the Youtube account that we are not seeing in the account given in this article.
SEC probes trading in private Internet firms
Re: how to do this - watch this video of Gary Vaynerchuk picking up the phone and selling an ad: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/78967452/want-to-get-advertis... (it isn't rocket surgery!)

Re: fair prices - Totally depends on your content, your market, and how targeted you are to the advertiser's audience. There are plenty of sub-$1 CPM display ads, and I've been a part of buying $170 CPM ads. But you should only worry about this only after you have sold out your ad inventory. Anything is better than nothing.
older school: boot sector viruses which triggered when an infected floppy was left in a machine on bootup. They'd then TSR and infect any other floppys inserted into the machine, as well as any hard disk drives if the machine was an expensive newer model with a hard card.
Ask HN:  24/7 video recording of your computer screen useful?
Would you like to be able to view whatever you were doing on your computer from the last week say? Wouldn't that be useful?

What about if you could associate tags with key events in the recording? What about if you could search by text shown on the screen? What about searching by app(s)/doc(s) used?

For privacy/security, you could have a way to turn off the recording temporarily and/or limit how long video recordings are stored.
14. 11th grade. Got my schedule, and I had an empty 1st period. Ran into a friend who was taking the computer course. Fortran on an IBM 1130. Punch cards. 1971.
Sure but the integration of the addons is tightly done, and there'll be a commercial contract with these companies. You'd probably need a similar contract with those addon providers which they may not be willing to provide if they've an exclusive contract with Heroku.

And don't forget the number of free applications running on Heroku, these aren't making them any profit at all and are using up a lot of resources.
The rule says you can't encourage your visitors to click.

It doesn't say that you have to actively discourage people from clicking to ensure only those most determined to buy the product actually click.

As to him "looking the other way", he explicitly said he replied by telling them to only click on adverts that they were interested in.

I'd say he went above and beyond.
"Please visit our sponsors" and "please visit our advertisers" are phrases that I've seen very often on the Internet (Google Search has 18m and 750m results for these phrases, respectively.) I'm curious, do many of these sites use a different vendor than AdSense or are breaches of this term quite common?
Are you sure? I think that the PS3 uses real public-key crypto to sign the OS all the way down from the initial boot. The best you could do with this is load an alternate signed OS image (possibly an earlier one that is exploitable).

I don't really know much about PS3 hacking, so this is all just a guess.
>>Also, Mueller said, "[s]hould Google be served an injunction as a result of Interval's suit, owners of Android phones would experience a very significant degradation of the user experience."

Well that sucks. It would be terrible if I had my phone's services greatly impaired so this guy can go through his little patent suit.
It's been a while[1][2]…

How's the Scala integration nowadays?

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=898738
[2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1870407
Dremel – Google's tool for analyzing trillion-row tables in seconds [pdf]
I loved his Macro Talk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBpfOpk-ZBU
As much as I love cheatsheets, I've often wondered what the motivation is for someone to produce one - especially one of such high quality as these.

Is it simply the name brand promotion that it generates?
Audio Sprites
Quick view: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsergey.melnix...

Abstract:

Dremel is a scalable, interactive ad-hoc query system for analysis of read-only nested data. By combining multi-level execution trees and columnar data layout, it is capable of running aggregation queries over trillion-row tables in seconds. The system scales to thousands of CPUs and petabytes of data, and has thousands of users at Google. In this paper, we describe the architecture and implementation of Dremel, and explain how it complements MapReduce-based computing. We present a novel columnar storage representation for nested records and discuss experiments on few-thousand node instances of the system.

Overview by Greg Linden:
http://glinden.blogspot.com/2010/12/papers-on-specialized-da...
Ask HN: What are the best alternatives to Google AdSense?
AdSense's main appeal seems to be that its easy, automatic, usually-relevant text advertising for virtually any market.

Are there good alternatives? Better at providing relevant ads? Higher quality advertisers? Less commoditized, better paying?
I wrote html sites and dabbled with php when I was 12 from online tutorials, however, I didn't really start understanding how to program until I was 15 when I took my first computer science course.
It might seem that way to you but it's not true. You can talk about AdSense all you want, as you and many others did commenting on this story.

What you cannot do, for obvious reasons, is to entice people to click on ads. It doesn't matter how subtle the encouragement is, how good are your intentions, how many kids you still have to support, how many kittens you saved from certain death. It is against the rules that are both obvious if you think about them and spelled clearly in AdSense agreement and violating that agreement gets you banned from AdSense.

I'm also making money from AdSense and the simple reality is that if Google doesn't take steps to limit the kind of click fraud that this guy openly, if very verbosely, admits to, it'll hurt everyone else who's not matching it and in the long term will hurt everyone, period, because there will be less money in the ecosystem if ad publishers feel ripped off.
hah, you have the same problem?
I was 8 or 9 when the teacher in my small rural school brought in his Sharp MZ-80K and taught the class to program. We hand-wrote and debugged our code with pen and paper and took our turns to type them in and test them. Within a short while I was coding applications to teach and test History and Irish Language which he subsequently sold. Next summer I worked with him teaching Basic, Logo and Word Processing to teachers as a summer job. After that we got a Sharp MZ700 and later an Amstrad CPC464, and I went on to teach myself Z80 assembly. Went to Uni and studied Computer Science and the joys of VAX/VMS, Unix, x86 PCs, the early days of the Internet (nic.funet.fi via FTP-over-email anyone?)

I can't believe I've been programming for 30 years! I feel old...
Anyone really believes this is not coordinated with Microsoft?

So the next phase will be when e.g. Wozniak put up a software patent company and sues Microsoft, Google and Nokia? And then some investors in Google will finance a patent troll company which...

Patent Armageddon, here we come. :-(
From http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=24788717&post...

- It's the USB Jig Master Key

- It allows any currently available PS3 to be put into service mode.

- It allows users of 3.50 or below to downgrade.

- It doesn't allow 3.55 users to downgrade (currently, though they can still access service mode).

This isn't the PS3 master key just as no one knows the PSP master key

This will enable any user of firmware 3.5 or lower on the current hardware to run backup games that don't require a firmware of greater than 3.5, pretty much the same story as PSP modding.
I really hate not being kept in the loop, and then getting blamed when things "break".
This sounds interesting but is completely lacking in context for those not intimately familiar with the PS3 and hacking thereof.

What is the dongle ID exactly?
Years ago Paul Krugman wrote one of the best explanations of international trade and why so much of it is so counterintuitive so many: http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/ricardo.htm.
Can you setup separate accounts? This might be the way to go.
Aside from the subjective Good/Average/Bad this is a very nice list of how logos in 2010 looked. Most of them are simple and clean. If I remember correctly, in 2008/2009 we had a lot of shiny logos with shadows (the typical web2.0 look) which has been abandoned almost entirely. This years logos are more designed than just made, they invlove more of the product they represent.
They mention using "group video chat servers".
I don't have any personal experience with online ads, but this seems like a good link to jump-start the conversation: http://www.rosswalker.co.uk/adsense_top10/

http://www.adsensealternatives.org/
Wow, talk about wetware: Here's the basis of a bio-neural computer! Immortal human cells. The ultimate "wetware" infrastructure: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/05/there-was-on...

(found on HN home page)
The hole argument is stupid - there are plenty of money in Washington tied up to things that doesn't matter (bridge to nowhere comes to mind) which could be used to buy these damn safety belts. They don't hinder anything really, the price is trivial and 6 kids would not die.

But no, we got to be all "rational" about it (which is code for not do a damn thing).