skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it is perceived as fair, and everyone has the option to participate if they choose."

But why doesn't everyone choose to do so? After all, it would mean a shorter wait, and who wouldn't want that?

Could it be that not everyone can afford to use the system? Is this really fair? And how do you know that it's "perceived as fair"? By whom? How many people who are waiting in the slow line have you surveyed?
Good way to teach the kids to team up against the parents.

There isn't some secret to raising kids. Just create good/bad consequences for good/bad behavior. Make sure they understand you love them, and your goal is to teach them to be good. Their behavior is simply choosing the method in which they are taught.
The market value of Goldman Sachs is just $88 billion. I'd take more than half that company over the whole of Facebook any day of the week.

It's a fair point: if you had $50 billion lying around the place, which of the two would you choose to invest in?
I always keep a virtual machine with some flavor of linux installed on my Macbook Pro. I like to see the progress that's been made and just to try something different for a while.

I am used to linux and have used it pretty extensively, and I enjoy it. What I find to be my main blockers are related to working with other people who are using OS X / Windows. I agree that this is mostly the fault of vendors. Skype and Team Viewer come to mind as applications that support linux but always keep you a few versions back, thus not having support for some features that the rest of your team is using on OS X / Windows.

Ultimately I just get tired of messing the little things that bug me with linux, that I know just work on OS X. It was well said by someone else in the thread that linux is a lifestyle and I can't agree more with that.
Sell it for $15 million to someone who is more of a sucker than you are.

Isn't that the same plan Goldman Sachs has for its 'investment' in Facebook?
Did you even read the post? This has nothing to do with folks not answering my question. They didn't have a chance to answer it.

Another reason Quora will fail is because its full of folks that don't read the post.
This is available outside of iTunes on YouTube (I think). I understand your reasoning, but as I do have iTunes it makes a very nice, seamless way of subscribing to their content, which can then be shared across my various devices (iphone / iPad etc). I even have a projector in my lounge attached to a Mac Mini that I've started using for this rather than just for movies
Yes, my third-party cookies are disabled.
http://anything.com/

http://can.com

http://happen.com/

http://on.com

http://the.com

http://internets.com
As luck would have it, one of my best guys is a former MM -ish trader on the CBOE.

For whatever it's worth: total agreement with you that GS isn't acting as a MM (after an earful about delta and position risk and volatility risk and long strangles and gahhhhh). He says "GS is a BD, MM's can't trade for clients" and a bunch of other stuff.

You are 100% right. GS is not a market maker. "Doing trades that help provide liquidity to Facebook instruments that somehow down the line helps build a market for Facebook" is in no way the same thing as "being a market maker". People should stop saying "market maker" when they mean "market helper" or something else.

On the other hand, had no clue what a hidden quantity was; neither did my exchange engineer friend. So I feel a little less dumb. He knew what an iceberg order was. Also, note that there's at least one exchange that doesn't draw a distinction.

That was fun, thanks!
The way to approach this problem isn't to write the emulator to run in the browser, but to build a remote client that controls the emulator running on a more powerful server. Not only do you get the benefit of the server's speed, but if multiple people are playing, you don't have to send machine state over TCP/IP, just graphics data.

Gaikai and OnLive are doing this with current-gen games. Doing it with an SNES would probably be trivial.

This does not, however, solve the issues of game compatibility that you mention in other comments, but in my experience the amount of games that don't work in SNES emulators is trivial.
While we are at it, don't forget about http://academicearth.org/. They've done a great job of wrangling all of these sites together. Something nice about being able to jump from circuit design at MIT to Civil War lectures at Yale in just a couple clicks.
I like to think that everyone does that. ;-)

https://skitch.com/aaron.patterson/r8s8i/keywords-google-ana...
Web Intents: a web protocol based on Android's intent model
> Xe Services

Little note: this is what Blackwater is calling themselves these days. I didn't know this, and figured I'd save someone from looking it up.
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I'll take a crack at it. Here the author seems to be claiming that to remain popular and grow, Zynga and other Facebook-platform-users will need to have razor thin profit margins like Walmart in order to reach as many people with the lowest-common-denominator:

But here's the disconnect: if Facebook's future success depends on aiming for the lowest common denominator with the most people possible, that implies pretty slim margins a la Wal-Mart. You think they're going to justify a $50 billion market capitalization through banner ads? Are you kidding me?

How does selling virtual goods - which are all profit - relate at all to selling actual physical goods to consumers? Walmart drives the price down on what it sells based on it's huge presence in the market. This analogy barely makes any sense, and I have no idea what banner ads have to do with the comparison.

Frankly I would say that Reason #3 reveals that the author has a hard time making an argument in a concise or clear way.
"floating point conversion algorithm will perform several runs until the error between the original number and the floating point representation is smaller than some very small value"

Yes yes yes yes yes, but my question is not "what happens in the PHP" but why does that happen. Shouldn't there just be an algorithm that just runs down the number and produces the correct float without any approximation step? Floats and doubles may be inaccurate but the inaccuracy in this case is purely deterministic.

Here's the strtod.c in tcl, with various exciting things in the copyright: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/tcl/tcl-14/tcl/compat... Unless I've missed it, there's no convergence testing there, it just gets on with the conversion; all the if, while, and gotos seem to be focused on the matter of parsing, not checking error sizes. Is the PHP way faster? Is the linked code somehow inaccurate? Is the PHP way just insane?
how is this different from 99designs?
It would probably be heavily based around RSA encryption.
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I think an apprenticeship combined with online material would be more valuable and definitely more practical from a financial standpoint.
Things RSS can't (and can) do
There are Love Bucks at stake.
Even better, use Scribes for a totally unique editor experience only available on Linux.
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bookmarking, delicious-ing, resending to ( / spamming) all my friends and family ....

ddg rules and this finally puts my pov into nice, simple, pretty pictures.

W00t!
I can, for example, give 100 bucks to a friend to do my homework, and he might accept and do my homework even though he has more money than me. Trading money for favors is not necessarily a measure of wealth, and wealth does not preclude asking/providing any kind of favors
You should offer to sell it to one of their competitors. That might increase its perceived value a bit.
It isn't different .. this is a request for speculative work - and they're also asking for completed projects up front (in the same way that 99designs does). There's also a very small 'prize'.
They are not trying to replicate Silicon Valley but to create an innovation hub for start-ups and entrepreneurship like in other small countries (Israel and Finland is mentioned). "Silicon Valley" is just a recognized name, it's like saying Kleenex for tissues.
Is it really that foggy?
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if you put it that way ... ok :)
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I just thought of Cryptonomicon first, mostly because I've been rereading the Baroque Cycle. I think it also matches the original poster's request better, though, because it covers life in a raw startup.
Calling Ruby code from Python.

http://twitter.com/vborja/status/22350595050438657

Awesome!! seems to work like from __future__ in python.
Wireless anywhere.. I'm thinking of writing the following
I live in a block of flats with about 30 different units and to me it's insane and wasteful that we all pay an individual monthly fee to get internet and no one uses anywhere near bandwidth.

I'm thinking of writing a small program to do the following.

1) You can donate your access point to the community
2) This gives you access to other peoples wireless access points in the community
3) Every time someone uses your access point, you get that much bandwidth as credit
4) If not enough people are using your access point, you can pay for more credit at a very low rate.

Thoughts?
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I am not 100% sure if this is what you are asking but with a state based drop-down, hit the letter "N" six times in a row and New York should be highlighted. Hit the enter key and you have selected it.
Why do you feel bad?

One of the biggest common gripes here is the non-technical partner who "just needs a programmer" to get the project off the ground. Everyone bashes those types, yet this exact thing, except for exploiting designers, is on the front page. There'd be a riot if some marketer came on this board looking for a programmer, cheap.
Why not just buy a nice theme on http://themeforest.net or any of the other template websites and modify it slightly?
I think that would be due to BSNES's touted "100% accuracy." There are good-enough-for-government-play SNES emulators that work fine on N64-era hardware.
"when you scroll on an iPhone it really feels like there's a piece of paper under the screen that your physically moving around with the tip of you finger"

Thats one of the best descriptions of iOs scrolling I have ever read. It's exactly right.
I have the complete set from 0.3 to 0.9 and they are all equally well made. I got mine on amazon with prime and it was free shipping / no tax.
And so the closed web begins! I am sure these new chips will have magical "flaws" in them that prevent regular content from being shown for unforeseen reasons, and they will also prevent copying DVDs and using certain share apps. It was only a matter of time. Prepare to have to pay every time you want to watch content, instead of being able to buy individual copies of DVDs, prepared to get milked for your dollars every time you log on!

The DIVX revolution has been killed.
Significant changes have probably been made to the implementation since the NSPlugin implementation was dropped; the protocol may have become dependent on ActiveX-specific features/settings.

I don't know enough of the technical details to fully follow the discussion, but it looks like support might have been added to Firefox ("Status:	RESOLVED FIXED"): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478839

This commit definitely makes it look like something has happened: https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.1/rev/653b75a8f4...
Facebook can simply move out of the US, can't they?
When I look at systems of people the first thing I look at is failure: how does the system/individual fail, what sort of feedback loop is there, and how are changes made?

So Steve's statement about the culture not accepting failure was a red flag. His statement that the government was the prime investor was another red flag. (Governments are notorious for not admitting failure. To do so would challenge the their authority and ability) And once he said that bankruptcy laws there were draconian? The red alert started going off. It's simply non-doable.

It's a shame. I love the scenery, and the people are terrific. But a million small failures make a great success, and if you can't fail easily, quickly, and learn from it? You're never going to develop much of anything.
Well, now it only needs to be as customisable.
Seems like a merger would solve the whole problem.
My favorite quote on the matter:

> For Alex, the impossibility of making digital information copy-proof is a central truth of our age: something to be explained, and then re-explained, to judges, reporters, and businesspeople, in amicus curiae briefs and interviews on NPR. For me, it follows from the fact that the set of n-bit strings constitutes an orthogonal basis for Hilbert space.

-- http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=32
1. because this article is on CNN and our formula for getting visitors is to find a popular current event and take a controversial or contrary point of view on it.

2-5. see #1
BT denies creating "two-tier Internet"
> "I'm not getting any, so immoral hacks are OK"? You could use the same argument to justify rape.

You could, most people would reject such reasoning.

The vast majority of people in dating situations are less than 100% honest. The vast majority of people are also not rapists. This suggests to me that most people do in fact see dishonesty as being different from rape.
I follow this extensively for some reasons, but I've generally boiled it down to the following issues, in addition to TomofTTB's notes below:

-2.4Ghz Wireless spectrum is overly crowded, and really finnicky. You start throwing a few dozens of devices on one radio and you're going to run in some serious performance problems to each device. Streaming video amongst other things goes down the drain completely. You need a rather massive wireless network to be able to handle this adequately--especially in a school with a few hundred students.

-Massive backend content delivery system. Again, if you want to stream content such as video, you need something in the backend that can handle potentially that much capacity at once during regular school hours. While not every student will be streaming at once (so building it to handle 500x streamers at once is a bit extreme for a 500 student school), you do need to invest in something a bit more than your average system to do that. This will only get worse with large file sizes of HD video, also keeping in mind that you have to deal with the potential of people having to read text off of the videos, which if you're trying to go for "youtube-like", you might run into some text readability issues with compression. YMMV.

-Apple software delivery. So say you want to do an update to your programs, you have to really consider the way Apple does delivery of software updates. Also consider that the kids may take the devices home with them, and want to work on homework from there. So you need to now host your application inside and outside of your network. Depending on how secure you want to be, this could be an issue.

And it's not just about updating the application itself, but updating which content is there as well. Depending on the size of the data, your entire network could come to a crawl as people wait and wait and wait for updates to go out.

Let's not forget Apple's draconian security on releasing "enterprise" applications. At least with 4.2 they let you do something like HTTP download of the app updates which you couldn't do beforehand. But you still have to have a well implemented public/private key cryptography system to make it all work right.
It get's left hovering over the ad based on the amount of content wrapped on the page. Some sayings are larger and it's downward and goes with the flow of the content others are shorter and the ads shouldn't be placed the same way a longer sentence would.

Nothing in adsense TOS says that doing that is wrong.
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Maybe they aren't the best way, but contests can make things more fun if you don't take them so seriously. I don't think he's scouting for cheap work to capitalize on, rather he's just looking to get the Ruby community's help involved in building a pretty looking site (hence why he isn't offering it on 99designs) and offering a prize to make it more fun.
I remember when Goldman Sachs went public in 1999, only 12% of their shares went public. The remainder stayed with the partnership. I'm not sure (or able to quickly find) the current ownership, but it's certainly not ALL publicly traded.

So $50 billion would get you about one-fourteenth of Goldman. Not half.

Edit: grossly mis-remembered my facts. 511M shares include both stockholders and the shares of the former partners.
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MySpace to lay off up to 50% of its workforce
The investment banks are stuffed full of money they got from the fed buying all their worthless MBSs they sold to them at par. They are just dying to find some other bubble to invest it in.

You see, when too much money is idly sloshing around the economy it sooner or later finds a bubble to invest in. It has to be something new and shiny though with "unlimited" growth potential in order to really get the bubble going though.

As usual the Onion does a better job explaining it than I ever could:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/recessionplagued-nation-dem...
He's clearly talking about the software and not the "virtual goods". Zynga's games require all the engineering expertise required from WalMart's 2.99 gallon jars of pickles. Any other company that can deliver pickles in an acceptable way can get right into that market. By contrast, try making a WoW or Call of Duty clone. Huge, huge undertakings.

If you don't believe me, actually play some of Zynga's games. 50 percent of the random shit on Kongregate is better by far. The difference is marketing only.
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While it is true that encryption will be involved, it is not the hard problem, I think that's a bit like saying nails will be used to construct a building. The hard problems are how to get a packet of data from here to there without a central mediator (solvable with current tech but can have performance issues), and how to create a human-usable naming service of some kind that doesn't have a central mediator and doesn't inevitably degenerate back into having a central mediator by its very nature. Technically DNS is decentralized but the way it works causes it to centralize naturally. I'm not sure if this is avoidable.
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One reason why I'm not buying Facebook:

I don't have $2mil lying around.

Another one;

Why is Mark so reticent to IPO? Because he loses control? Or because that means making the numbers public, and people will see just where the money is going. Either way, if the CEO doesn't want to go public and may be forced to, that is not good.
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haha i meant a tool for following a twitter conversation between two people.
Fair enough. I just usually avoid recommending Crypto, due to its sheer size and density. At least until someone finishes Snow Crash -- if they're interested in more Stephenson, then I go to Crypto.

What did you think of Anathem? I thought it was interesting, but pretty much agree with the XKCD comic -- http://xkcd.com/483/
I wonder whether most donors actually understand this, with non-donors being the primary complainers.

Randy Milholland, the webcomic artist behind Something Positive, quit his job and funded himself for a year with donations to spend more time on his comics. When his output was still less-than-daily, he got a flood of complaints. "We gave you money and you're still not updating as often as you promised!" When he offered to refund the donations of anyone unsatisfied, not a single donor took him up on it. Apparently most (or all) of the complainers hadn't donated, but still felt entitled to greater output.

This is not to say that Rich is making a mistake by no longer accepting donations. Even if most complaints are from non-donors, their (unfounded) sense of entitlement comes from the fact that donations are happening. Still, I hate to think that people happy to donate can no longer do so because of the negative effects caused by non-contributing complainers.
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It may yet be possible to create a sort of 'commons' by opening up large portions of the radio spectrum for free data interchange.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network
I usually make a spreadsheet to figure out if I can make any money on it and the adjust the prices and customer numbers and marketing cost until I figure out if it's worth while to invest additional time.
Quora will be bigger than Twitter
Typical worthless purist drivel.

Sure, let's throw away 25 years worth of infrastructure and progress and go back to a system where people have to dial in to a centrally controlled system via ham radios or the (corporate-owned) telephone system! We can even use our old 56k modems! Or pigeons! And let's make sure not to use any money to support it, since money is corporate owned as well!
Love Bucks is serious business.
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Eh. Zynga is social games at scale. The engineering talent isn't in the games part, it's in the scale part. Getting to that scale isn't any easy feat either.

What you've basically just said is that any idiot could clone facebook. Yes, they could. Except they still have everything to do.
Don't buy into the notion that if it's not "ethical" it's not hacking.
For pro-move bonus points, you can combine this with "2. Learn one or two words of a new (or old) language, translate a phrase".

During a slow period at work, I started doing this with Pablo Neruda. It was a strange experience: I could translate most of the words fairly accurately but, even after looking up the missing pieces, sometimes they made no sense. That's when I realized how much space there really is between what a word means and the potential it has in the hands of a master - something I think we take for granted in our native tongues.