skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey ... no offense was meant, I never said that you're not a generous or giving person - I was just pointing out that we have no way of knowing whether you would have donated regardless of seeing the post that annoyed you. I think that you should go with your gut and donate anyhow :)

We'll have to agree to disagree, it's not obvious to me whether that guy his a chip - but in fairness I will always side with those less well off rather than those who are more affluent because all other things being equal that is the fair way to balance the inequalities in this world.

It was not innocuous, it was crass and gauche. I was snorting in derision whilst reading it and was very glad and not at all surprised that it was responded to strongly.

Middle class in the US (I presume you're from the US) is far beyond the reach of most of the world, when will you begin to learn this? I'm from Ireland where we as a nation only recently became affluent, maybe this colors things somewhat. Look, I have no issue with you but it's easier to rub shoulders with other people from vastly different backgrounds due to the decentralized open nature of the Net and maybe we should all remember that :)
Why do we call them "piggy banks"?
You Americans are crazy. Look at the rest of the western world, and how common it is for public health insurance, and how it is a good thing generally.

Out of all your issues, you pick this one to be stupidly paranoid about.
Facebook is going to make shitloads of money, but is going to have a valuation that manages to surpass that, so that both the people hyping it too much and those hyping it too little will be proved wrong.

We know very little about how much money Facebook actually makes at the moment - much like Twitter. My guess is that both companies are already very profitable but playing their cards very close to the chest. They have nothing to gain from letting out how much money they're making (the hype is already stratospheric on both), and they have a lot to lose (copycats, spammers, etc). All those who know the real numbers are under NDAs so strict that if they so much as farted an information leak they'd spend the next 5 years in court.

You can fool some people some time, but you can't fool a whole battalion of dot-com-bust-battle-hardened top notch VCs and angel investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars for 5 years in a row. The private investors know what they're investing in, and it's probably not hot air.
Why do I not feel any better about that?
Not good for whom? Potential investors or Facebook (the company)?

In any case, I think it will be quite interesting to see just how much revenue facebook is generating from it's various sources.
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Well, TM is not an issue because the domain name is my actual name, so I wouldn't lose a dispute over it.

I didn't ever say I was squatting, all I have done is said that I own this domain, it is mine, I get your email, and I forward it to you because I am nice. I would rather this problem go away for us both, but I am not willing to hand over a domain for less than its value to me.
You're right; I thought they had created a new entity when they went public, and retained the partnership as the parent of the C-Corp.

But you're correct, there's only one entity, and the 511M shares represent both stockholders and (former) partners.

http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_20/b3629102.htm
Going Asynchronous using AsyncHttpClient: The Complex
The Async Http Client library purpose is to allow Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process the HTTP responses. In this second part on the topic, I will describe more complex operations that can be done with the AsyncHttpClient like resumable download, zero in memory bytes copy, oAuth calculation, optimal transfer listener and performance tricks.
Not only that, the skills gained in games like Quake (eye-hand coordination, reaction time, etc) transfer over to real-life. I think Quake is to WoW as psychedelics are to narcotics.
This is excellent, thank you so much!
I see your angle, but how do you accurately measure the usage for billing? Since I'm running a private AP off my private home network, how do you know if the 10000GB of monthly traffic I've reported is an actual stat, or me manipulating the logs?

I think your idea has some merit, but it's more along the lines of "community project" and not "commercial ISP" (at least at first). Keep it simple and uncomplicated. Think of ways users could exploit things to their advantage (which will happen anytime there is financial incentive) and try to minimize those things.
Sadly, as it is a personal name, the only value to competitors would be squatting, which as other HN'ers have rightly said, would put it square in line for losing a dispute with the NIC.
There's a difference between specifically penalising dead-end sites (or sites that only send linkjuice internally or to "low quality" sites) and scoring sites positively by number or quality of outbound links.
I usually start with, "Do I believe the proposition is true? If so, why?"

This is sort of like the "Do I understand it" part of the flowchart in the OP.

But in my experience, if you think in detail and can justify why you believe the proposition is true, that helps break down the proof into steps.
We try to keep an eye out for feedback across the web, on Twitter, at search conferences, in comments on blogs, etc. There's also a forum linked to from google.com/webmasters that we keep an eye on.
I see what you are trying to say. I'm not saying you are wrong, just what I think.

In my opinion, 1) doesn't make sense in our current society. Nor did it make sense any time before it if having less children but more successful ones didn't translate in those children themselves having more offspring than if they had had brothers. The path to reproductive success is to make sure your children reach adulthood and can have children of their own..., ideally so your descendants grow exponentially. I don't know how making sure my kid has a Playstation 3 and an HD TV guarantees that he will have more reproductive success. College you say? Any lower-middle class person can go to college, you'll just get into debt like everybody else. Besides you don't need a college degree to reproduce, how are immigrants doing it then?

2) I know that you weren't arguing for any of this, but I'd really like to see citation for this one. Maybe during a time of famine it would be true, but how exactly would I be less healthy if I had 10 siblings?

3) I don't know if they are more promiscuous or not, but they are definitely not having more children, that's the whole point of these ideas about idiocracy.

I didn't cover the successful couples that don't have kids at all, which are a lot of them. Please, explain to me how that makes sense, not having children will help your reproductive success because...? How is that not a wrong move?

You might think that it's the right move if having only one well provided child made sure that he went to the top of society, i.e. become a millionaire, which is very unlikely anyway for most people. If your line of descendants has just one child over a few generations, your original DNA that is in that person will be a small part of him. I think the person whose descendants had at least 3 children each generation will have a greater chance of having his genetic legacy survive even if those descendants are a little less well off, which doesn't need to be true.

I would really like to believe that you are right and in fact there is something we are not seeing. But there aren't even any statistics that show that an only child will be richer or healthier in the future.
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only during the summer month July to August.. built in air conditioning. ;-D
iOS 4.2 for iPad offers extensive parental controls so that you can limit or block access to Safari, YouTube, iTunes, Mail, etc. Using parental controls, you can also prevent deletion or installation of third party apps.

More information:

http://knol.google.com/k/suren-ramasubbu/how-to-setup-parent...

http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/enterprise/

There are also third party solutions for managing iPads, like this one:

http://www.zenprise.com/solutions/iphone_management/

As for temporary disabling of Internet access in the classroom: purchase WiFi iPads instead of 3G iPads. Set up the students' wireless network using MAC-based authentication, then you can disable Internet access to groups of users at will.
No, that's not what I am asking. And I am very familiar with how to combat XSS and CSRF, having written a PHP framework that does it for you out of the box, among other things (http://phponpie.com)

I am asking another question.

If I am operating an OpenID provider, say Auth.com, and CoolStuff.com uses me to authenticate a user, then they can use that session. Great. But now let's say I operate an OAuth provider, and it releases this user's uid, first_name and last_name. What measures does facebook and other OAuth providers take to prevent the uid, first_name, last_name and other data from just being changed by the user in javascript, before being posted to the CoolStuff.com servers, after they have been obtained using Javascript ... such as FB.api('fql.query', ...)
Well it's clear what the opportunity is in Chile right now... Teaching entrepreneurship! If you've got a business idea to target that, they'll be lining up to pay you money.
Maybe a lasagna that feeds half a dozen people. That's all I've ever seen in that price range. What single-entre item costs $7?
But it was likely to give offense, and did give offense (as is evident by the responses he got).
Incidentally it's a similar setup for .edu, which is run through the edu-servers.net domain (registered via dotster to a real person), which is subject to the standard TLD glue that should make changes a little harder than regular domain hijacking.

Incidentally mod.uk has a nameserver pointing to ns1.cs.ucl.ac.uk. I wonder if there are many other domains that use academic resources.
My guess is the poster just made a mistake, but I guess you might know more info than I do :-)
Make it an adult dating site...it has the makings of a strong brand.

The significant type-in traffic will help get over the network effect issues that plague most dating sites, and your traffic is very targeted- people looking for sex(or at least naughty pics). So you'll quickly have a core of active users you can leverage to build your audience.

Dating sites done right are FAR more profitable than porn sites.
Isn't that the plot of "Atlas Shrugged"?

Anyway, humans managed to survive back when we lived in caves and got our food by throwing sticks at animals. The threshold of intelligence needed for the race to survive would seem to be far below what we have today.
>Facebook is going to make shitloads of money...

How? (I tend to agree with you, but when I ask myself "How?", I don't have clear answers.)
The reason he doesn’t simply jump into the lucrative online porn industry? Because such an endeavor would close the door on other, more mainstream options, narrow down his exit possibilities – such as selling to a public company – and limit the ability to take the business public in the future, Jeff says.

I've noticed recently that most porn businesses are, in fact, private. The TechCrunch article alludes to this as obvious, but to me it is not. What would be the obstacles to taking a porn business public?
Single-word domains from the common vocabulary usually make for shitty brands.

Probably because business efforts behind these domains are rather transparently profit-seeking and wired for the short-term, make a quick buck, approach.

Also there's a good amount of technological quackery that goes on in the hyping of these domains to not-so-tech-savvy investors who don't realize that a typical 14yo kid understands intuitively that "sex.com" is probably a crap parked site or link directory, whereas pornhub.com, on the other hand, provides a service that 14yo will love.

"..and we've got a GREAT domain name, pets.com, I mean, if you want a pet, where you gonna go? We're right there."

Labors of love are what win and enable you to eventually fleece your customers and have them thank you for doing it -- not having a 13 million dollar domain.
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Can anyone in Colombus, OH give this man a job?
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Strange, I love Yoshi's Island and have beat it many times and have never noticed a problem (at least, haven't noticed it to the point that I would remember it. If it was unplayable, I would've noticed). I'll have to load it up again sometime and see if I see a problem.
It's never a good idea to tie yourself to one DRM provider. Assuming that Apple wanted hardware DRM support (which they don't seem to care about), they could use Intel DRM on Macs and TrustZone on ARM.
If your homepage and your portfolio page are on the same site and on the same url directory, then it could be an artifact of the block rank approximation to Pagerank.

Since Pagerank is an expensive computation, one effective optimization/approximation is to cluster pages into groups and then compute the Pagerank per group. The group-scores are then re-distributed.

I am not sure whether this is what is going on, but it is a possibility.
interesting, but i'm not sure this is the whole story.

google maps's stroke width for roads seems to be based on some measure of traffic or connectedness. from my experience, roads that see fewer cars and fewer intersections tend to show up less prominently. since google has vector data for maps, my guess is they algorithmically weigh and display routes and this leads to dead ends being fainter than other roads
He is assuming this was an aesthetic choice. It's entirely possible they weighted dead ends lower for the algorithm and the tiles just came out like that when they rendered them.
How does that solve the problem of not being able to unilaterally write off a debt obligation?
That doesn't follow. Of course lax enforcement of government regulation by, in the case of the SEC, underfunded agencies, will reduce the efficacy of the regulation. But that says nothing about the law itself either way. I wouldn't hire 50 cops to patrol New York and then complain that laws against armed robbery solve no problems.
I have mate and I have a direct number to my publisher manager. I have a different relationship with Google. It's more personal. I also reply on paid traffic because it will converts better for us both.

In the end this is exactly what the big boys do....just check out statistics of facebook for example running ads on Google Adwords or Techcrunch or even Sears.

for one thing I'm not done testing nor will I ever be I don't need tens of thousands of clicks now as I did initially.
If you don't want this to happen to you, PIN-lock your phone. They'll ask you for the PIN. You'll refuse. They'll get a warrant almost instantly, and then you won't be able to refuse anymore.

I was under the impression that in the US you can't be compelled to disclose your password or encryption key, even with a warrant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
I submit that your links are not appropriate for Hacker News. They are not of sufficient quality that someone with a hacker's interest in finance would find them interesting.

Link 1 is an exceptionally low quality discussion about a Goldman analyst report. I can stop there, but I'll add further that if you actually read the report under discussion, it says quite clearly that Ireland will not be OK unless there is a bailout, due to the risks that all financial institutions regardless of capitalization face during a crisis. In other words, Goldman's analysts believes Ireland will be OK given a good bailout, which is not a shocking opinion at all.

Link 2 I have little comment on, because it provides no useful contextual information. Trying to read this account of financial engineering is like trying to read about a science study in the daily paper. All the details are left out, and a newspaper cannot be trusted to get the big picture right. The phrase "special kind of swap with fictional exchange rates", for example, might be accurate, but it just smells like the writer misunderstood a forward contract or something.

Link 3 is Matt Taibbi-level flamebait, except Taibbi is a better writer. I have no patience for this stuff anymore.

None of these links have been accurate or meaningfully informative, yet they seem to be very popular. The financial news discussions on HN is becoming increasingly frustrating as it becomes more and more like r/economics. If someone disagrees with any of my assessments, I would appreciate a reply.
I'm sorry about being so out of scope - I know I'm crossing a bit of a line (even a line I like myself). But I'm pretty sure that collectively we're in a great position to help this guy. I'm quite sure there's one (or several) of us in Colombus who can help this guy out somehow.

If you do live in Colombus, I would love to wire some money to you if you could have it reach this guy.
I'd suggest "not feeling right" has more to do with experience with a different platform, just as random decisions about mouse acceleration or font hinting or what side of the window to put close buttons can completely befuddle switchers.

You specifically state "People who use iPhones" and many others seem to think that the problem is only apparent if you compare it side-by-side. Which suggests to me that it's a fairly marginal concern, particularly compared with other Android flaws that the same people could be working on.

I switched from iPhone (to one of the lowest-end Android phones on the market) and didn't notice this particular issue. I did have general confusion at where things were and how to do things, but by the same token two weeks later my iPhone felt like it was missing a back button.

With subtle effects like this it's easy to sound like audiophiles talking about mp3 encoding. I'd suggest that if you're expecting the hoi polloi to pick up on these subtleties (which may well be imagined or exagerrated in some cases) and carry this fight for you then, like the audiophiles, you're going to be disappointed.
Does this apply to Android apps as well, or is this iPhone-specific?
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At the end of the article, the authors recommend that California phone users ought to put a password on their phones.

My question: Would this really slow the police down?
As a programmer who founded a Digital Advertising and Design group this past year with a very talented designer, you couldn't be more wrong.

As a programmer, I have much more leverage when selling my services over that of a designer. There are a lot more "designers" out there than there are "programmers" and people use that to their advantage.

The fact is, you can go with cheap design because "it works" for most people (that's not to say it sells). However, with a cheap programmer there are a lot of the times that the code doesn't even work. That's the difference, and IT IS exploited.

Edit: That's not to say a designer shouldn't come along and contribute to this - I`m merely defending no-spec, which I agree with.
You can design for free, but don't do it with the anticipation that you will earn a living from winning the spec contest, do it because you want to support the project. This is much like a programmer would commit to an open source project.
Confessing everything is better than continuing to hide that you lied. But it doesn't excuse lying in the first place.
Big deal, so it's not a real allergy. When I eat food containing a lot of added MSG, my brain feels like it's on fire. Maybe it's not anaphylaxis but it's still annoying.
Honest question: Got any numbers to illustrate that last point?
When 9 Trillion dollars from Fed Reserve goes missing what can we do about it?
Well, I don't think there have been any anti-capitalist statements made here, unless you consider Wall Street an example of capitalism. And, I don't see any conflict between being a startup founder and suggesting that Wall Street does more harm than good.
I've never heard a sentence in actual usage[1] where the usage of the singular "they" was ambiguous.

In terms of being understandable and elegant, the singular "they" is probably the best English can do. Unfortunately, it's not widely accepted because it "sounds" uneducated, despite being the current best solution to the problem. Gender-neutral neologisms, like Spivak pronouns [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun], are not commonly understood, while constructs like "he/she" or randomly alternating between generic "he" and generic "she" as in the OP is inelegant and confusing (hence this whole thread).

[1] I'm sure you could construct a contrived example.
Amy's organic stuff.
But the article says "$2-$3" as what people want to pay, and that's what stuff costs at the store.
A feeling of entitlement does not work that way. People aren't that rational; they don't donate for the purpose of having a say in what happens. They probably donate for honorable reasons, but once something they want becomes an issue, they feel entitled because they donated.