skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really can't imagine that this is the first time this particular move was tried.

Google had been a dominant search engine for years before they went public, and I can't imagine they turned down many $50 billion funding rounds simply to avoid turning public before their IPO.
Actually, this is false. Printing USD is a tax on all current holders of USD - that is, it dilutes the value of all existing USD while raising money for the US government. Since there are large foreign holders of USD, but the US government can (theoretically) spend all of its USD on US citizens, printing money does in fact make us richer. This method of raising money is called seignorage, and it is how the US can tax the rest of the world to pay for whatever we want. We used it extensively during the Vietnam war to, in effect, make the French (large holders of USD at the time) pay for our war effort. They were not happy.

This says nothing of the long term effects of seniorage, just that printing money does, currently, make us richer.
Only if you turn off your Google account's Web History.
I used ETag in an iPhone app (it was necessary to download a lot of contents, so we used ETag to track the differences) and the result was amazing, worked great and was really easy.

If you need use etag for iPhone, I strongly recommend using ASIHTTPRequest library.
> I've created my own guidelines for now: no rewrites, no link-spam, no tricking the user, no link-bait. Perhaps I need more. Don't know. That's all I have so far.

Google Webmaster Guidelines: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

"We strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the 'Quality Guidelines,' which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise penalized. "

http://www.whattofix.com/ looks a little dodgy through the eyes of a SEO link farm hunter when it links to http://www.hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/ and http://neuropathyinfeet.us/ and http://paycheck-stub.com/ and http://facebook-login-help.com/
What sets it apart is obviously those sites really DO provide original information on those topics. But the layout of something like http://www.hamburger-casserole-recipes.com looks like http://www.spamrecipes.net/ which just copies other people's recipes and sticks a juicy ad block under them. It's hard to be honest in a world of scammers.
What will be the big startup & tech trends for 2011?
I don't know if this lead to anything.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2q5/lws_first_job_ad/
>The most amazing part about the whole process is that they got the 6502 right in one try. Quoting On the Edge:
Bil Herd summarizes the situation. “No chip worked the first time,” he states emphatically. “No chip. It took seven or nine revs [revisions], or if someone was real good they would get it in five or six.”

In some ways (and I'm speaking in a general sense) situations like that actually make me more nervous than when I know there's a problem. I get this uneasy "there's no way it really went that smoothly" feeling that can be hard to shake.

Then again, my personality is to approach most things in life iteratively, so that probably plays a part as well. Great read either way.
Once a company has a certain number of shareholders (investors and employees with options, for example) then they are forced to complete a lot of the paperwork that makes being a public company so onerous. They are not forced to go public, but they are forced to pay the costs of being a public company whether or not they are actually traded on the open market.
It's a little strange, because another trend directly competing with automatic cars is telecommunications. If it were possible and culturally acceptable for all white-collar workers to telecommute full-time, all of a sudden there would be half as many cars on the streets. If there were efficient, cost-effective, and prompt delivery systems for local goods like groceries, there would be half as many again. It's conceivable that there won't be much private driving for reasons besides pure leisure 15 years from now.

So it's not clear to me whether automatic cars or "rooms that go places" will always remain as useful as they sound today.

(Practically speaking, though, I'd bet on it, since cars are pretty ingrained into American culture and since the auto industry is large and very committed to keeping individuals on the road.)
Well, neither C nor C++ are assembly, and vice versa. That's my usual response to this kind of "arguments", in every such question; boy do they come up a lot.

Regardless, I'll repeat it; maybe it'll stick this time:

i < 0

is a conditional expression,

if (i < 0) {}

is a conditional statement.

Also, while the above could be (mis)taken for C code;

cmp eax, 0
jl foo

this one surely wouldn't.

And at this point I'll stop beating this particular horse.
Sure, Goldman has it, but the sub-investors in their fund probably just get a "Very Good Valuation" assessment.
A tautology, no? He wouldn't use Debian if he did have problems.

I get neck deep in large Ruby deployments and the issue is clear to me. Ruby is evolving at a breakneck speed but as a result has very poor release management.

My solution:

Use Bash and Python for systems programming. Both are stable and simple well integrated into Ubuntu and frankly much better for the task anyway. Oh no, now I can't use Chef! (sarcasm)

Use Ruby for web development, with RVM and bundler. This is a vast universe of bleeding edge web programming toys.

I struggle to see a real problem here...
Because "it's another fucking twitter site" and it's incomprehensible what you guys actually DO from the home page.

I suppose "Beepl is a Question and Answer platform powered by the social Web." is what you want/need to tell me, but that paragraph is REALLY hard to find on the page. Make it the attention grabber. And rewrite it to tell me how you're different from the 30 other "twitter Q/A" sites on the web. A quick illustrated 3-step guide to how a user interacts on this site would be good too.
For many people, whatever nice benefits of density there are (and I'm struggling to think of more than one or two... choice of places to go for fun, maybe?) seem offset by the harms of density, which are manifold. However, lower commute time is something nearly everyone wants, even if it's currently only 10 minutes, so it's an easy point to make.
They're going by the name "3-D printer" right now, but the overall idea is a home fabrication machine capable of producing complex 3-D goods (including moving parts, electronics, etc) on demand. Current 3-D printing is an extremely crude version of the eventual device.

So if you wanted a new microwave, go online and download the design. Then go to the Christmas Tree machine and have it print one up for you. Just like presents under a Christmas Tree, you ask for something, say the magic words, then it appears with a little bow on it. (It occurs to me they should have been named Santa Claus machines, but I don't make this stuff up, I simply repeat it)

Of course, we're starting off with extremely simple implementations. I think the current technology does stuff like figurines. Adding moving parts is probably a next logical step, then printable simple electronics.

There's a long way to go, but once realized, Christmas Tree machines will change everything.
Your argument would carry more weight if, the user had the ability to switch to SSL search from the "Classic" search page or if SSL search was a setting that was accessible from "Search Settings" or "Advanced Search" on the "Classic" page.

The articles you reference speak to the problems for advertisers and related interests. They do not address issues of web user privacy.

Don't get me wrong, Google is in the difficult position of balancing the display of results based on advertising revenue with the display of results based on utility to the user.

What I see Google facing is that given their market share and mind share and the typical web user's tolerance for providing information it is probably easy to make a business case for skewing the balance. The problem is that there is no precedent from which to draw long term conclusions about loss of anonymity at the scale at which it currently occurs.
The Size of the Tablet Market
Self driving cars are 15 years away. The self driving cars will have to deal with the chaotic human drivers, and this will require Strong AI. Once we have this, driving around will be one of the small issues of the day.
I take major issue with his prediction that driverless cars would subsume subway usage - at least, in cities where mass rail transit is the norm instead of the exception. Five million ride on NYC's subway every day. No matter how good the algorithms, an additional 2.5m (riders typically ride twice a day - to and from work/school) cars on the streets of Manhattan and the boroughs would be catastrophic.
You do not need to register a business to right off business expenses in the US.
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Didn't this happen with their last round of consoles, and didn't they hire the people that did this last time around? I recall something about this from that case with the guy who was chipping in CA a few weeks ago.
Scifi. Imagine you had nano-scale robots where, given a substrate to work with, they would assemble whatever the local environment needed to look like, then assemble two child bots coming from them like twigs on the branch of a Christmas tree. This is supposed to allow arbitrarily complex construction at prices which are rounding error next to current ones, solving scarcity, reshaping the world, and generally making for a nice backdrop for your novel of choice.

[Edit: Hmm, Daniel and I seem to have different etymologies for the word...]

[Edit the second: Engrish is hard.]
Most of their "long term securities" are actually short term by any reasonable meaning of the word. It's just a technical terminology thing for filings that doesn't mean what you assume it means. They have been north of 40 billion for a while.

The relevant thing is how much is liquid fast enough to use it for what they want to use it for. For that we should listen to Apple telling us directly (which they have repeatedly done), not just check some field on their govt filings.
But if they were the savvy type, would they have been pwned at nearly every security layer like that?

True. If I were him, I'd try working at Apple. Also, "they" are not monolithic. It's quite possible that the parties they beat would not be in his chain of command. One would have to do some diligent research before taking that job. It might well be worth it, however.
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My grandparents used to call their RV 'the wheelhouse', which I guess is like the more common term 'motorhome'.

When someone else is driving, for you it certainly functions like a room that goes places.

I mean, isn't this a room that goes places? http://www.prevostcar.com/DB/markets/market_motorhome_4high....

Major changes would have to made to cars so they could function like that for everyone safely, though. Even with robot drivers, I still wouldn't trust that I could be walking around cooking and playing ping pong while we're moving.
No kidding? I remember someone from GDC in 2005(the one, I believe from Maxis, who created a storm on Gamasutra after bashing the Wii two years later) that putting out-of-order execution on gaming consoles was going to cripple their capabilities... but the PS3 certainly doesn't seem to suffer from it as far as games are concerned. I don't know enough about the topic at this point so I'd have to read some more.
Problem is, precious metals have an expected return of 0%. One gold bar sitting on a shelf is still one gold bar ten years later. Commodities are not necessarily a bad idea to own in moderation, but stocks and bonds are what allow your portfolio to benefit from economic growth.

For those who are enamored with gold and want to invest conservatively, I would look at something like the Permanent Portfolio (http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2008/12/22/permanent-portfolio-...) Not how I would invest personally, but the PP isn't an unreasonable approach.
Some are using Google's copy of popular javascript libraries like jQuery. This means that when you are moving from site A to site B to site C, there is a good chance that even though A or B or C does not know about it, Google knows your full browsing path and even how you move from one to another.

Wrong.

When a browser gets a request for a JavaScript file that it has seen before, it returns a cached copy from the local hard drive rather than sending out a request to the website. Therefore sites that use Google's copy of jQuery are maximizing their chances of having browsers not make a round trip, rather than giving Google something that they can use for tracking.
Moore's Law doesn't apply to a single given machine...my hard drive isn't magically doubling in size every X months. You see the problem?
Facebook raises $500 million from Goldman Sachs; has $50 billion valuation
Yes it could. It's much easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
This is true-the parent should also bear in mind that not every single Xbox game is supported on the 360. They gave up on trying to be backwards compatible about 2.5 years in, or so.
Companies that check out your years-in-business history (one of the central points of the original article) normally do not go for sole proprietorships. If an RFP says, minimum 3 years in business, the next line is usually, minimum X number of employees.

As far as costs, yes, it may cost you $25 to register your sole proprietorship but then it will cost you hundreds of dollars to file your year-end taxes, plus all the quarterly's. Add hundreds more for UBT. Plus most states get you in other ways, e.g. the metropolitan commuter tax in New York.
If You Don't Change the UI, Nobody Notices
I'm not saying anything about whether the SEC should address this. My last sentence should certainly make that clear.

But, yes. Given everything that has happened in the last 15 years, we should be expected to believe that the private clients are getting screwed by Goldman/Facebook.

Creating an ad-hoc venture capital fund to invest in Facebook can be both legal and sinister.
Cool! I've just started doing something like this, but just for myself. It's based on lionhearted's time tracking efforts... so it's interesting to see others building things around recording your productivity.
Science says that humans have no special value over any other substance in the universe. Until science can proudly declare that humans are of infinite worth, and monkeys, chicken and my cow-burgers are less than that, people will embrace creationism over evolution and faith over science.

People think that science causes morality to fly out the window, if I have a gun, stealing the food in your house is a scientifically valid way of acquiring food. Eating a burger is similar to this. Faith is used to reconcile the problems of why we don't eat other humans when we are hungry, yet we eat chicken and cows when we are.
He was a host on the screensavers, and I think that's basically what he's good at - "light" tech journalism. Don't expect too much depth.
Ask HN: How have you used 3D printing?
I got a giftcard to http://www.shapeways.com
-- they do 3D printing as a service.

I have a few ideas on how to use it, but this piqued my interest. How have you used 3D printing?

If you haven't, what would you like to do?
The read range you're seeing also seems compatible with a low frequency device.

I'm quite perplexed. I don't think the foil could be attenuating the signal directly. It might be reflecting it/altering the field pattern so as to reduce the effective gain between the transmitter and receiver antennas.
Thanks for posting this Will. I think this quote from my original post rings more true than ever:
"Learning to code is like learning anything from scratch; at first it's mind numbingly difficult. For example, when I first started learning Wing Chun (a martial art) I was like a baby gazelle on ice. Uncoordinated, falling over a lot and certainly no good in a fight. You stay in this "completely inept" phase for longer than you think. But then, once you start coming out of that phase your rate of improvement is quicker than you think"

I've learned so much and gotten so much quicker at writing code (and writing better code at that!). I'm really happy with the front-end changes in particular with V2 - jquery really is like black magic. Even more so than python!

For those that missed the original "making of" it's here:

http://www.7bks.com/blog/179001
I guessed 3d printer. A search results suggested it was a common science fiction term synonymous with Star Trek's replicator.
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Today we will start with this iPhone infographic. It is hard for me to believe it has been almost four years since Steve Jobs announced the original iPhone.
> For that we should listen to Apple telling us directly (which they have repeatedly done), not just check some field on their govt filings.

Between trusting a company on what they claim and what they actually report, I'd go with what they report. That's what's legally binding. Not that the final result is much different, cash isn't an obstacle in whatever Apple wants to do (and hasn't been in quite some time).
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I did ping the right people about SO and added a new example that someone mentioned. The right team (and their manager) are actively discussing what steps are doable to improve these searches.
Once cars are driverless, they become investment vehicles (pun unintended). One might buy a car, then lease it out by the mile/km, with certain times during the day that it has return to one's location to pick up (assuming the spot market makes it cheaper to call one's car back rather than just lease another one). So cars become an investment that is on average an order of magnitude less expensive than real estate.
Getting an error after registration:

NoReverseMatch at /
Reverse for 'dailydone_calendar' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{'username': u'.....'}' not found.

edit: my username has a dash '-' in it, maybe your URL regex isn't catching it

edit2: also you shouldn't run with DEBUG on
Mixing the 'search term' and 'browser & computer info' points in the same lead sentence is misleading, suggesting (again to the 'average' person) you're more different from Google than you are.
I mean, apt-get install will also compile from source, if you have the right repositories enabled.

No, it doesn't. It will install binary packages that are signed. That means that if I install a package on my local desktop and a server in New York, it will exactly be the same. No matter if there are differences in the environment or configuration. Besides that I want every system file tracked by one package management system (for ease of administration), and easy security updates.

Another important benefit of using binary Debian packages is that you get the testing that preceded progressing of the package into Debian testing for free. Constrast that with a gem that happened to be updated just 30 minutes ago, with no testing in the particular configuration where it is used.

We have been burnt badly in the past by out-of-distro 'package management' before (little testing, incompatible versions, failing builds, etc.), that I stopped using non-distribution packages mostly.

Unless you are referring to kernel module packages that use DKMS (I guess not) or 'apt-get source' which retrieves the source of a package in conjunction with '--compile'. But that's not a very common use of APT.
For many people, whatever nice benefits of density there are

Here are a few that I came up with in 30sec:

Varied options on things to do (like you said)

Closer proximity to other people in general (more social opportunities)

Commuting on foot

Better access to more government services

Greater selection of goods, food and produce
Should you validate your idea first before registering your company? And is it ok to start out with a DBA and then LLC later?
i'm assuming you're not joking. it's "browser recognition" and this value is generally 99.9% for paid providers.
http://code.google.com/apis/predict/

this seems a perfect stepping stone... an awesome move on Google's part.
FWIW your version is the one I've encountered before.

I saw it in a nice book called Indistinguishable From Magic by Robert L. Forward. It is half sci-fi, and half hard science fact. The format is that he first describes a hard science idea that could allow future technology to do something that looks like magic. And then he has a short story showing a world with that technology. Then he moves on to the next idea.

Christmas Tree robots were one of the ideas he considered.
Can Google's page cache be poisoned? A possible example.
I've tried going through the appropriate channels (including tweeting @MattCutts) but haven't recieved a response. Therefore, I figure I'd bring this in front of the community in general (and knowing Matt reads this) to raise awareness of the issue.

The issue is it may be possible to poison Google's page cache. I'm unsure of the means, but nevertheless, I've at least been able to provide one example.

So suppose you search google for "search jungle disk" to figure out why you can't search your JungleDisk volumes (to find out you don't have the Enterprise version)...

Here's the query string: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=search+jungle+disk

This is a result you'll be linked to: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kD4X3vNgTUwJ:blog.jungledisk.com/2009/04/28/jungle-disk-261-released/+search+jungle+disk&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

This is the cached version of that result: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kD4X3vNgTUwJ:blog.jungledisk.com/2009/04/28/jungle-disk-261-released/+search+jungle+disk&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Now if you look at the cached result, it seems that JungleDisk is trying to sell me some cheap Reductil. Lots of it. With no prescription! Moreover there are plenty of keywords and strings - some in foreign languages - peppered throughout the cached document. This also appears to occur in

Perhaps this isn't Google's problem, and is instead a problem with JungleDisk's blog being compromised in some respect. The question I pose to HN is - have you seen this before? If so, can you cite some examples -- if this is a real problem, I think it's in all of our interest that this be nipped in the bud.