skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that's great, but are we still talking about how folks don't want random strangers riding in their cars? Because I still don't want random strangers riding in my car, and I don't reckon that's in any way unreasonable.
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Unless you extract fuel from the environment on your stop, it's a very bad idea to make a stop when you are shipping cargo to space. Any change in trajectory spends fuel. If you absolutely have to send the vehicle in pieces, you'd better send them to the lowest energy orbit, assemble them there and blast off. The ISS is not on a particularly useful orbit for this and the only reason I imagine to stop by would be to use the extra helping hands of the resident crew to do the required assembly.

And shipping cargo to Mars doesn't need to be very expensive if you are patient - you send the cargo towards a low-perihelion trajectory and deploy a solar sail closest to the Sun. It may take a good couple years for the shipment to get to Mars, but the delta-V on the way up will be free. If you send the shipments well ahead of the landing crews, they'll have lots of toys when they arrive.

But I agree with the SpaceX folks. Nuclear is the way to go if we are to even go back to the Moon.
I use TPP, mostly because they've been pretty easy when it comes to keeping multiple domains under control - easy to delegate to default nameservers, pay by default credit card on file, etc. 95% of the domains I look after (60-70ish personal ones and then others for friends and a bunch more for clients) are .com.au though and I keep the majority of my .coms with TPP also even though they're more expensive - just saves having different logins for every domain with Joker, Gandi, etc.
Craftsman's Creed
I don't really know what people find so disappointing with the default player, it's basically the same as everything else. I don't think Winamp is much different, I tried using it for the syncing but it breaks on non-English filenames so I went back to the default player for the lock screen integration.

I also tried 3, but it looked a bit too gimmicky... What don't you like about the default player?
Honestly, I just don't care anymore. Napster has shown it's face over 10 years ago, so anyone still thinking the same music business model is going to sustain forever is a fool.

Hacking a system to create artificial value is not the answer, especially when producing music is becoming cheaper and cheaper.
I think the point of SLAs (at least strong ones) is to incentivize the provider to spend real money to avoid downtime.
Synchronize? I use Linux, and I just cp the files over to the 'music' directory on my SD card. I suppose if I wanted to have my entire collection on my phone I could script something with rsync, but there's no way it could fit on a 16 GB SD card.
I met Baydin's founder a few months ago, very friendly guy.

Their game was quite useful for me (during beta, haven't tried lately) - though if you're a chronic "I'll do this later" emailer, prepare to move out of your comfort zone.
That's because your goods are relatively expensive when compared to the call and you can use the opportunity to upsell when the client phones in.

I said it could be turned into an advantage ;-)
We ended up hosting ourselves for a couple reasons:

- We found it pretty necessary to control our network end-to-end in order to manage uptime properly, as well as protect against attacks.

- We see pretty significant economies of scale in terms of purchasing our own machines vs. renting someone else's. Our infrastructure is lean and mean and not super processor-intensive, so we don't have huge spikes up and down (they generally just go up and stay there).

- We get to do cool stuff like IP anycasting and datacenter failover, which just wouldn't be possible if we were hosted in the cloud.

Long story short, it ends up we had the knowledge and expertise to build our own "cloud" and do so cost-effectively.
All online services have downtime, lose data, don't serve every user perfectly at every second -- paid or free. This post makes no sense. Not to mention Google makes a ton of money from serving ads and Gmail already runs at a 99.99% uptime rate (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-aiming-for-9999-percent...)

And how did paying for service work out for Jott users who tied the whole thing into their voicemail and now have to untie it pretty quick?
That's what you think, until you're working with someone and you watch him/her typing out Unix commands at 20 wpm, making constant mistakes.
It may not be perfect, but it's a much-needed improvement that improves readability. Thanks!
This happened to me (refresh and see my timeline, refresh someone else's, AJAX refresh in my tweets in someone else's timeline, etc) and I'm now seeing the old web interface. Odd.
It's really interesting to me that comment count > vote count for this story. Haven't seen that before here.
Also they throw a killer holiday party...
If you think Glasgow is bad for rain you should try further up the west coast - there are places that get four times as much rain as Glasgow does. But on the days when it's clear they can be utterly gorgeous.
"WTF? How do the Mad Men citations relate to this?"

"Mr. Campbell, who cares."
<shocked pause>
"What?"
"Who *cares*? Even if this were true, who cares?"

Perhaps you had to see it in context. Anyway, I was trying to say I don't know what version to trust, and it doesn't seem that important to me. It's super easy to distort incidents from people's lives where just a couple of people were involved. All you have is hearsay.[1]

"The distortions in the first anecdote of the essay show that it's anything but balanced."

I said balanced, not truthful. The essay interleaves harsh criticism with things like, "more complex.. more interesting than the character shown on the screen," "supported the empire ardently in no fewer than three wars.. with the most extreme zeal" (which didn't strike me as criticism), "a leader looking for a cause". I think the essay has a tone of admiration for the man just beneath the surface. And given the harsh tone, the things he's not able to claim are equally remarkable. Really, you couldn't find anything better than that he changed his mind? That's pretty awesome over a whole lifetime. So he was blind to the plight of non-indians? Lincoln would be racist by today's standards.

To me the essay didn't claim a neutral point of view, so I didn't expect facts. I expected interpretation. I was not disappointed.

[1] The second link was just for fault tolerance. Who knows how long a link from hark.com will continue working.
Could you add the option to let the payee set the price? That would be great for donations and pay-what-it's-worth-to-you transactions. :)
Kind of makes me to not want to read the article
> Whatever happened to saving in the good years to spend in the lean years?

Companies and families (including individuals) surely do, but has ANY government ever "saved for the lean years"?

> Wait, was it all spent on bribes and political promises?

I suspect an awful lot went (in)directly into corrupt government employees'/officials' pockets: remember Bell, CA?
http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/03/24/former-bell-city-adminis...

Power (the largely unchecked ability to spend OPM) corrupts?

P.S. (from the above linked article) quick, name the party affiliation of those arraigned! I think they must be "Independents" all.
It is my understanding that at top schools like MIT at Berkeley, EE and CS are actually combined into a single undergraduate degree.

e.g. "The Berkeley EECS major, offered through the College of Engineering (COE), combines fundamentals of computer science and electrical engineering in one major."
this is hilarious and disgusting all at the same time.
Game mechanics are what makes games, and there has not been an ad network so far that leverages those mechanics to engage users at the same time

Sure, worked great for education.

Why are we trying to advertise to people at the worst possible times? Yeah, they are "engaged", but not with you. What's next, ads during sex? Ads in exams?

Seems to me that advertising is most effective when people are bored stiff. Elevators, waiting rooms, blackouts.. this is when their attention is cheap. They're never bored on the internet.
I believe OM Malik (gigaom.com) took funding, but I'm not able to find the source right now.

I'm not sure if any of the other major ones did too -- TechCrunch, Engadget, The Next Web, Venture Beat, etc.
Owning the subscriber relationship isn’t really about selling the data
If you want to debug an issue like this on Linux, the Massif tool (part of Valgrind) is a decent heap profiler.
Alas, this version does not include the edits and commentary by E.B. White (thus, it came to be known as "Strunk and White"), but it's an interesting archive of the original work.
Show HN: my first Saas app in alpha: gethirely.com
I am almost ready to launch my first Saas app, inspired by HN. Its called Hirely, it's for hiring.

It's trying to make hiring a good team a little easier by centralizing positions, candidates, resumes, comments in easy-to-use app. For the overall interaction it's (clearly) inspired on Gmail.

You can have a look at some screenshots here (and sign up for the alpha):
http://gethirely.com/

The competition is mainly http://www.theresumator.com/, which is clearly a more mature product right now (although I do dislike their overall UI experience).

If you want to try it out sooner, just contact me at petervandijck at gmail

Thanks for the inspiration HN. Now I hope I can make it through the valley of Prototype-Almost-Finished to the mountain of App-That-Actually-Helps-Users.
Ask HN: How to pay your users?
I'm in the brainstorming part of trying to start a new app. Similar to Amazon's affiliate program or the way 99 designs holds design contests, I'd like to be able to compensate the site's users for their input.

For those getting compensation, I'm thinking the average amount would be less than $100.

What are some hurdles to paying your users? What legal obstacles should I be aware of? Is this a solved problem (i.e. should I go with PayPal? Stripe?)
Amazon should be paying taxes in CA -- they have a major dev shop here [1]. a2z is right off market street in sf, and while they somehow managed to finagle their way out of being technically employed by amazon, employees there (1) receive amazon stock, (2) receive a discount on amazon purchases, (3) produce software used exclusively by amazon such as the recent online music player/locker service. As far as I can tell, that's Amazon having a presence in CA and as such, they should be collecting sales tax for the state. Not that I'm jonesing to pay sales tax...

[1] http://public.a2z.com/about.html
You're aware of what outliers are, but not about how they're not representative of the norm?

Not to mention that those two guys are only considered sexy because they have strong charisma to begin with and have a solid body of work behind them. They are sexy in spite of being bald, not because of it.
Video for Exercises 1-5, by Zed Shaw
Aside from what's already been mentioned, no real competition. You had NASA or nothing for decades.
Lots of companies have in-house legal counsel - they can't all be managed by lawyers unless it is lawyers all the way up to and including the CEO.

What it might be is that law firms in most places can't have partners who are non-lawyers, but that's quite different.
I never said people from the US were unreasonable, just unbelievably intolerant. That's a matter of preference, and I don't think it makes sense to describe preferences as reasonable or unreasonable. It's like saying that it's unreasonable to have the flu or be short. Preferences aren't voluntary choices.
You have to admit, it would be memorable.

I can't remember a single ad I've ever seen in an elevator. But if an ad popped up during sex I'd be sure to remember that.
"mystical" -- no. But "super brilliant genius" -- yes. That's just the best quick way of summarizing it.

Alas, this is a "method" for achieving greatness that you or I can't replicate.

Feynmann was not "just a guy who had some particular skills in thinking about problems". This is just not accurate.

At age 24, his Princeton advisor suggested he join the Manhattan Project. He routinely dazzled the other physicists there, probably the greatest collection of physics talent (Bohr, Oppenheimer, Bethe, Fermi) gathered in one place since the Cavendish Lab in the early 1900s. And that was only the start of his long career.
Backbone.js Tutorials - What is a model?
Understanding delete (JavaScript)
Haskell for the Cloud
> 0 taxes on $5B in US revenue is at least a major business strategy.

No, it's a result. (And, it's 0 income taxes. There are other taxes.)

> 975 employees dedicated to tax avoidance.

No again - compliance.

Like you, GE is not obligated to pay any more taxes than the law requires. The law is complicated, GE's biz is complicated, therefore they need a lot of folks to make sure that they're complying.

Unlike you, GE gets to "help" write tax laws and regulations.

That's possible because "the people" want the tax system to encourage some behaviors and discourage others.

The only way to stop GE from gaming the system is to stop trying to use the tax system to achieve social goals.
Clicky: http://gethirely.com/
man, that sucks. Good luck with your masters degree, though. (Where did you apply, if you don't mind me asking?)

I don't think there's that much of a difference in the curriculum itself, especially if you're majoring in CS and not SE. Most of the trouble, from what I've seen both in myself and other Indian students who've just come to do their masters here, is because of our attitude towards authority (yes, I'm being stereotypical here, but bear with me.)

For most of my high school education, I'd been accustomed to incompetent - and often sadistic - teachers and so I had a healthy hatred towards them. This carried on even in college, till I realized professors here were genuinely interested in helping students out, and they wouldn't mind me asking them questions, or guidance. I used to remain completely aloof even at my part-time job on campus, which turned out to be a bad idea. Anyway, I wouldn't have mentioned this if I hadn't seen the exact same behavior in many of the people who came here for grad school, so yeah.. treat them as your peers and you'll be fine.
And I'm sure the third hunter got his medical expenses reimbursed - not an arbitrary amount of money based on the best case scenario of what he could have done with his time.

The problem here isn't the blame, it's the fact that the maximum possible damage the defendant inflicted (price of song x no of downloads) is still much lower then the prescribed penalty - probably order of magnitudes lower.
Well, if that's the case, I don't want their advice in writing clear sentences.
IMO an angel might, but not a VC. VCs look for 10x return on their investment of at least 500k-1mm, and a blog needing that kind of investment or providing that kind of return is highly unlikely.
The main hurdles seem to be taxes. The solution seems to be (IANAL) to have some checkboxes that say "I will take care of taxes myself".

See how Adsense and Amazon affiliates do it. You can probably get away with doing less than them.

Good luck, interested in finding out the answer myself :)
Great story, the accident that spawned an event!
This is good, I'm going to implement it. I have a large amount of dynamic data the I load at various times on http://hoptopus.com (shameless, I know) but doing it in one pass is pretty slow.

I recently learned about the cross domain trick (load from assets from subdomains to speed it up) but I am running in to some funky behavior when, say, trying to execute some code on document.load :) Hopefully, this will be a reasonably simple drop in replacement for that technique!
Given the numbers 1 to 1,000, what is the minimum number of guesses needed to find a specific number, if you are given the hint 'higher' or 'lower' for each guess you make?

Log_2 1000.

"How many balloons would fit in this room?"

.64 * length * width * height (distance measurements roughly in feet).

"How do you weigh an elephant without using a scale?"

Displacement of the zoo environment's pool.

"If you had 5,623 participants in a tournament, how many games would need to be played to determine the winner?"

Let d = Log_2 N. Sum 2^(d-k) for k = 0 ... d

""You have three boxes. One contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled so that no label accurately identifies the contents of any of the boxes. Opening just one box, and without looking inside, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?"

The fact that no label is correct reduces the degrees of freedom by one, making the problem solvable.

"How many ..."

The packing efficiency of randomly organized spheres is .64. Know this number. Fear it.
Jaywalking is just as obviously illegal. Would you support the death penalty for it? Or lengthy imprisonment? Or bankruptcy-generating fines?

In the case of pirated music, using this kind of fines is much more immoral then the punished act itself - in the opinion of most of us.
looks good (similar to an earlier idea I had last year).
I worked on a farm all throughout my teens and can fully vouch for this, they adopt technology fast and truly understand capital outlay far more than the majority of small to medium enterprises (at least in the UK), as they pay for the majority of investment out of their own money rather than taking risks with other peoples money, there are however some things that distort this such as the EU CAP subsidies and regulations which lock out other markets, so they are operating in a little bit of a vacuum

It however provided a good grounding for me as you worked 60-100 hour weeks at harvest time and it was physically exhausting but mentally boring, nowadays what I do is physically easy but mentally exhausting, both however are difficult in very different ways but necessary for a healthy economy.
Their rationale could be that (if this is only affecting public tweets) no private data was exposed.

Or, maybe, since you can't steal anyone's password or anything, it's not a security issue.

What were you talking about?
OK, so we've got abelsson, helwr, and Zdenek all aware of what's going on here. What happened?

helwr, how do you have instant notification of this stuff?

abelsson, how did you get the source code? Did you email him early, get the GPLv2'ed source, and he later thought better of it?

Zdenek Kalal/ekalic/zk00006, are you reading this somewhere? Do you know or support the actions of these guys?

Regardless of abelsson's right (legally and ethically) to do this, I'd like to know the circumstances of this release before I use something that the author doesn't want used.
I don't mind.

I think this make it more colloquial, hence more personal (at least to some).

Like "Wanna lunch"? You most likely would prefer that over a fully formed, grammatically correct subject line.
I find it strange that news articles always phrase it as

"The state estimates it loses about $1.1 billion a year in revenue through uncollected "use taxes" from online sales."

rather than

"It is estimated that consumers save about $1.1 billion a year form online sales"
Yeah, that's the same thing I was thinking. It seems like you could do payments through PayPal, but I'd rather not get stuck keeping track of all compensation paid and providing the requisite tax forms at the end of the year -- it's just too much overhead for a bootstrapped side-project.
You're going to have some major practical trade-offs with this choice of cooling system. For one thing, any data you get out of this computer when you're positioned further away from the event horizon is going to be red-shifted down to a lower data rate.

For another thing, the electrical and magnetic fields generated by your computing and data transmitting hardware are going to induce a Lorentz force on the event horizon and torque it into rotation, which in turn produces both gravitational frame dragging and dissipation. Now it's a lot hotter than if it were just a Schwarzchild black hole emitting only Hawking radiation.
> Maybe the the whole "people getting money to which they are not entitled" plays a role in government finance shortfalls.

The low estimates of medicare fraud start at $60B/year. Folks who claim some familiarity with the issue say that it's over $100B/year.

Then there's the "hey, you're old, you need a power-chair" market. It's not fraud, but ....

At the same time, medicare/medicaid seem more likely to deny legitimate claims than the evil insurance companies.

However, medicare is able to cut a check efficiently.
Thanks :) Any suggestions for features, marketing, etc.?
Once you see the problem the right way, the solution will present itself. Instead of trying to "solve" the problem, work on trying to see the problem from different perspectives.

Like in chess -- "see the whole board."

Feynman said, "You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, “How did he do it? He must be a genius!"

This was one of his "tricks" for finding associations among things others had yet to see.

The more associations you can find, the better you will see the problem and draw from different domains of knowledge. This helped him see things in way where solutions presented themselves.
Isn't it, strictly speaking, tax evasion for the consumer to not pay it? If I recall correctly, my California tax return asked me how much stuff I'd bought in other states, and would I very kindly pay N% of the value of that to the state now please.
I've rarely heard this in verbal communication. Much more common is the contraction, "I'd love to talk to you about this further."

The only time I've really seen this is through written communication, including instant messages, texts, informal letters/postcards, and informal emails. In each of these forms, sentence fragments in general are very common. I've also seen this more and more in formal written communications over the past few years, but usually from people who regularly use the aforementioned informal written forms of communication.
seems you haven't use google at all my friend, google is not just a search engine, but they do have many other products.
products like google checkout and merchant generate millions of revenue for Google, but google never care to provide satisfactory customer support, read google checkout forums, you will find hundreds of frustrated buyers and sellers. plus android market place, when you have transaction dispute, that means a nightmare, auto generated reply and countless hours of waiting's to get a answer... no! that's not the way you deal with money.
Epic developer calls iPad 2 graphics leap "astonishing"
From the article:

> The regex relies on backtracking and thus would not work with a DFA-based engine

So the author already stated that strictly speaking, those are not true Regular Expressions. However, it would have been nice if he had stated this more clearly.
But what is your core business?

Most startups claim to be technology companies. I think 90% of these are tech-based companies as opposed to technology businesses. The difference being the latter kind is more like Intel or VMware. If you are tech-enabled, then what is your core business? Is it the software you write?