skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re P1: Jaynes presented his work as a method for science and engineering but throughout his work stated that the method was general. AR said that mathematics is an abstracted form of conceptualization and logic which is why she was studying higher math to understand induction. Jaynes was not an epistemologist (nor an Objectivist) so the failure to distinguish or explain the exact relation between "A is A" from "A = A" is understandable especially in light of his explicit goal of targeting science and engineering. I did not claim that Jaynes solved the problem of induction nor that his theories were perfect, just that I think he was on the right track and made some significant contributions.

Re P2: Jaynes' claim was that the laws of probability reduce to Aristotelian rules of deductive logic when the Pr=1. I do not agree that this makes logic subordinate to a mathematical process -- no more than AR's theory of concepts makes concept formation subordinate to algebra. In any case, the claim is mathematically true (given Jaynes' system which I admit may need revision) but it is also a fact that deduction is dependent on induction which is consistent. So to clarify the exact relations (without violating identity or inverting hierarchy, etc) requires AR's theory of concepts which Jaynes did not have. Moreover, to define the principles of when it is valid (without enumerating all cases) to go from Pr<1 to Pr=1 IS the problem of induction which Jaynes did not specifically address.

Re P3: Jaynes completely rejects the the counting and ratio arguments for induction. Unfortunately he flips over to the subjectivist and vague "degrees of belief" view of probability and is unable to define it (which is why he needed a theory of concepts). This failure is hardly surprising given that every field today is split on intrinsic versus subjectivist premises.
TYPO3 4.6alpha1 released
No problem in Safari 5, on a 2010 15" macbook
It's turtles all the way down...
For something which has no relation with any service Apple provides.

Call when they do that on Android Market, then we'll talk. Apple does not yet have a store for web pages.
good questions -- we're working on an api and postback right now during the beta. Should have those up soon. But yes, we'll support URL postbacks for all kinds of subscription changes (new sub, changed sub, etc). The net 60 is just during the beta and we would consider lowering it for anyone we approve/verify as a legit merchant.

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I believe an article citing this article was flagged due to Daily Mail's "tenuous relationship with the truth".
Hold a 60 day rolling reserve (10%?) instead.
- has iPad-like battery life (At least, the CR-48 does)

Much easier sell - call this an iPad with flash and a keyboard.
The only reason that machine runs Windows is because people think they want Windows, it is rather ingrained at this point in time.

I could see some people using this and being okay but I see tons of others wondering where their microsoft office is, and to be honest a boat load of other problems from the people who malware is already a problem. (I can even see people asking where the internet is or how to get to facebook or google while looking at a chrome browser window).

These chromebooks sadly will only satisfy a niche market and this market probably would be served just as well with a similarly specked netbook running linux
S3 has a web based access application as well. It is nice if you need to just manipulate a few files, check that a backup actually did make it to S3, etc.

Dropbox isn't really a storage company (they're built on top of S3) their secret sauce is in the syncing.
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Well, when I iterated through the everything2.com namespace and downloaded the majority of their content[1], I respected their robots.txt. After I did that, they changed it to:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Does that count?

1: http://bbot.org/blog/archives/2011/01/17/more_fun_with_wget/
After reading the story of self-publishing whizkid Amanda Hocking

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2011-02-09-ebooks09_...

I was inspired to start writing again. Rebuilding emphastic.com, I really wanted to find an easier way to integrate some kind of self-publishing eBook payment system, and this looks test-worthy.

In general, the timing is excellent, too. Google's Samsung Android tablet, the iPad2, etc.; the audience of digital readership is almost ready to eclipse the ebook-ready available content.
we talked before via email, but i wanted to reiterate -- for me to really integrate this into my site, i need an api available to tell me when a payment was successfully processed. get that up and running and i'll see about pulling this in.
You might wanna add some carriage returns to that post.
I was hoping for something a bit more ... modern. A real language used in production systems.
I see two problems with this strategy:
a) New developers still see "60 days" and say "Fuck you!", you should emphasize the shortest available payment schedules on your site (make the "anti-fraud" period seem more like a short hurdle to get over)
b) 30 days is still too long for verified publishers; while it's a reasonable "new account" rate (for after your beta period), if I'm verified and doing volume on your service, I expect Net-7 or daily.

But what do I know, I'm just a developer who's looking for a recurring billing platform for my indy service.
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I disagree--and think that merchants can actually make themselves more in demand by couponing. Look at Bed, Bath and Beyond. Hugely popular, in-demand merchant that coupons the hell out of their customer base, which has only had the effect of earning them serious loyalty. Solid discounts on top of great customer service helped them stay afloat even as Linens n' Things (their one-time major competitor) was folding during the height of the recession. They've also established themselves as the go-to store for registries (61% of couples who created wedding registries in 2010 signed up at BB&B). I think they'll keep couponing, keep growing and start to take more of the market share from coupon-shy Target in the kitchen and bedding categories.
There's a basic paint program
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pandfibccfbjmcmnjh...

And there's also a photo editor on the apps store - Picnik
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/inmnggcpelemfookhl...
I get your point overall, but to nitpick, can it play Netflix? Netflix uses Silverlight, not Flash.
A prize that is not a commodity. I'd love one-on-one time with a previous startup founder, a prioritized email exchange with some noteworthy person or expert, or access to a service that is not yet available.

If it had to be a commodity, I would like it to be something that is productive and not a luxury. Although a MacBook would be nice, I'd much prefer a better chance to win a developer's license for something like PyCharm.
Because if there is anything people who constantly install adware on their computer are great at, it's learning new operating systems and giving up old habits.

At least Windows has remote desktop, your recurring appointment is going to turn into weekly "retraining" sessions.

Chrome OS isn't a solution to this, no more than any previous specialized Linux distro. It will work for a small handful of people, but most of your family and friends will reject it instantly, for the reasons Parent listed.
I suspected that would be a problem for some. I've considered making sign ins optional as they are not critical to the game. To be perfectly honest, it was just a way for me to learn Twitter and Facebook authentication, etc.
The quickest/cheapest thing would probably be to startup an ec2 instance, install the GSUtils [1] and then pull from S3 and push to GS.

1 - http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/gsutil.html#install
I think there's a bug at http://www.google.com/chromebook/#support

When I click on "Guided Tour" and then try to watch the video, the lightbox closes. Seems like its registering the mouseclick as a click outside the lightbox. I'm using the most recent version of Chrome 11.

Anyone else?
By time value of money, I meant that present value of money is greater than some theoretical future value. So although your laptop costs about $11/month spread out over 4 years, it's still a $558 investment upfront, at which point it's a sunk cost. On the other hand, you could just invest $20 and invest the remaining $538 in something else that might offer greater return. Depending on the kind of interest rates you're able to get, it might be better to just put the rest of the money in the bank and let it earn you interest. There's also less risk. If something better comes along next year, you can easily switch with little to no loss.

I am assuming that you are not using a payment plan to buy your netbooks, and are actually purchasing them all upfront.
We'd also like to add CNAME support so you could have pro.yoursite.com show the payment page you make on PintPay. We're also working on an api and webhook / URL postback for info about changes/notifications/cancellations on subscriptions. A lot still to do during the beta!
Well, since the whole point of the Chromebook is having (only) the web, needing internet connection might really have seemed obvious to some Google employee. I don't find it condescending.
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I'm kind of torn here. On the one hand, as an SaaS developer, I want to get paid my money immediately if not sooner.

On the other hand, as a jaded shareware developer, I can tell you that Net 60 is a heck of a lot closer than Net 7 to the terms you will be offered by most outsourced payment processors. The DigitalRiver family of companies, which have a commanding presence in shareware payments, will get you your money on average about 45 days after the sale takes place. FastSpring, which is the most developer friendly processor I'm aware of, will average about 20 days from sale. (Other alternatives I'm intimately familiar with: Google Checkout will have the money in your bank account about 3 to 5 days from sale. Paypal can ACH to you within about 2 to 3 business days or, if you're using it for expenses, the time-to-spendibility is essentially zero since you can get a Paypal-branded debit card.)

Business reasons for not doing net 7: returns, chargebacks, and various other forms of abuse. (Not even necessarily abuse by the developer. Here's a fun fraud scenario: fraudster signs up for an affiliate account of your developer, buys their software 100 times with stolen cards, earning a few thousand bucks of affiliate payout which is essentially laundered away from the stolen cards. Six weeks later the first chargebacks start rolling in as people receive their bank statements and wonder why they're getting scammed by a payment processor they've never heard of. This is ridiculously common -- search for any of the big brands in processing and you'll find complaint threads of folks convinced that the processor or merchant is the fraudster trying to steal their money.)
So my dual core 10" Android tablet isn't a computer? The one with two cameras, one able to film 720p video, incredible 3D graphics abilities, video editing software preinstalled, voice-activated search and email dictation, crazy awesome Google Earth experience? The one that I can use my hands to paint pictures, watch live TV broadcasts (video out to big screens!), point at the sky and see what planets and stars I'm looking at, watch YouTube videos, record barometer data, write code and listen to music?

You, sir, are living in the past. (Sure, the tablets aren't shipping in the hundreds of thousands per day. But they will be soon)
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If you're looking to self publish I'd just focus on Amazon, B&N (if in the US, otherwise publish there through Smashwords), and Smashwords. Sure it's 70/30 split, but you also get on their lists of also bought if you can manage enough sales. I haven't heard of any author making major money self pubbing through their own website, it's been primarily through the major ebook retailers.

It's what the big players like Hocking, Konrath, John Locke, and more do to make a living writing.
You're on Linode and consider yourselves to be PCI compliant? Even though you're not storing the cards yourselves (probably using tokenization on Braintree or Authorize.net) you need to be compliant as the cards pass through your servers.
This is just a quick hack that pulls out the "best" or most information dense sentences from an article and shows them to you. Any suggestions or forks are welcome.
Most people don't create. You must be depressed by the wasted potential, because we're going from a world where most people don't create to a world where most people don't create.
I guess our experiences are just fundamentally different. With the plethora of free good antivirus programs that you can download, I find viruses are largely a thing of the past.

In the old days you had to pay $50/year for virus protection. And you had to go to a brick and mortar store or order it from Amazon. Cost and effort made it less common for end users to have antivirus.

Now, I install it on every box I maintain. I don't even ask them (as before, I'd have to ask, do you want to pay $50/year and many friends would say "no thanks").

I just don't get malware/virus calls anymore.

For the most part I don't get many calls at all anymore. The ones I do are generally usability questions like how do I get my pictures properly downloaded and tagged. Or what's the password to my password manager again (yes, I keep a collection to other people's password managers in my password manager, because I've gotten this call often enough) :-)
Ask HN: Startup Ideas vs Bureaucracy?
This is more of a discussion question.

How do you guys deal with (government) politics and the hurdle of a good idea? Do you think of ways around it or just hold off the idea till later?

One of the coolest things about the internet is the lack of politics and bureaucracy. Want to start a website about something social? Just start it! Unfortunately though, as time goes on and more people want their hand in the cookie jar, politics and bureaucracy will rear it's ugly head similar to other more mature industries.

For example, I have a cool idea of a medical start up where doctors and people get together and treat and research each other. The hurdle? Nine thousand miles of red tape, politics, court orders, licenses, insurance, privacy laws, liability laws, and so forth. That's even before I get to the idea! It's so much easier to start a social networking start up than to deal with that mess. Though for how long, I don't know.
* Results not typical.
I've actually read that paper some time ago, but I have not seen any implementation using that technique in the wild. In any case, double NATs are a very common situation, sadly.
1280x800 12.1" display. Netbooks are smaller than that. It doesn't need a bigger screen because it doesn't need more horiz pixels. Most web pages fit into 1280 minus the scrollbar.
which is similar to how I felt about time spent at school and collage

I agree, collages are a big waste of time.

srsly though, at least conferences are fun, if you do them right. Rule one: I don't go to any conferences which aren't in a fun location.
For some reason I assumed that such an API or callback was available. The things I take for granted.

Agreed, this is a deal-breaker for me as well.
You raise some excellent points. I guess all I can say is this is just the messaging during the beta period for our initial users. We will definitely change/fix this messaging before launch though to address the issues you've raised. Once we verify/approve a merchant, we could definitely lower the time.

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Working fine on 4.0.1 for me ;)
If that's all they're doing, how are they getting malware?
Yep, we're working on this now. We'll have that out shortly.
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Yep, you're exactly right. We're working on that right now and it'll be up soon.
I don't think it's splitting hairs at all. When you have a centralized point of failure (e.g. datacenter) backend that runs the show, you're not 100% client-side. You're probably not even 10% client-side.

And as Amazon has shown us, you're not infinitely scalable either when a routing misconfiguration wipes your service off the face of the internet.

That said, I wouldn't be so passionate about the topic if I weren't working on a true serverless client-side app framework :).
Is that a cause or an effect?
"3G-enabled Chromebooks connect to the web using blazing-fast mobile data networks"

Eh, "blazing-fast" might overselling things a bit.
Part of the problem is that people here are so used to cheap software startups that their frame of reference is skewed. We're talking about at $500k escrow or a (as some claim) $25k bond. $25k is peanuts in the cost structure of starting most businesses.

It takes upwards of $500k just to open a McDonald's franchise but they're still growing like weeds.
People created too much stuff for us to enjoy anyway. All the books in the world on average probably got read several times, but all human beings never hope to read all the books.
I agree completely.

API's today are more powerful and more open than ever. I combined just 2 or 3, but I want to integrate a dozen more, see what can be done with no server effort on my part.

The main obstacle to frontend p2p apps are security. Browsers can't create servers. The closest thing is Adobe's P2P technology (used in ChatRoulette), but that also requires a central server to coordinate peer connection.

I also didn't use Facebook, but just joined for this project. They've improved privacy significantly from years ago. You can turn off access to photos and the wall. You can basically use it as a linkedin or twitter.
Not so fast on netflix. As far as I know (and I have a vested interest so I try to stay up-to-date), Netflix doesn't work on Linux nor Android because of silverlight's DRM stack not being available on those platforms.

The rest are good but lack of Netflix support has definitely prevented me from purchasing a product in the past. This is not necessarily a problem that Google can fix right now, but hopefully it expedites Netflix' efforts to do so.
Yep, that's exactly why we've gone with Net 60 during the beta. We will definitely consider lowering it in the future. Thanks Patrick!
If you're just looking for "You give me money, I give you downloadable ebook", a quick plug for e-junkie. I've used them for several years at BCC (which used to be "you give me money, I give you license key" although that isn't relevant to most of my customers anymore), and they'll work for you very cheaply if you have a Paypal account.
You skipped right over the fact that you have an iPad. Your iPad can't run WoW, Skype, Office, Visual Studio, Emacs, Vim, etc. And it's crazy popular.
To be fair to Google, most of the S3 REST API is pretty obvious. Even if you'd never seen S3, you'd likely come up with an API that was 80% similar.
Sure. warning: I wrote this on Christmas Eve and spent little time on making it pretty :)

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I say steal the Priceline model-- you can get your deal but only if it's reasonable enough for the retailer. I could go back and change one element of my ask if it gets rejected.
Sweet, thank you. I'm going to be reading for awhile now...
I am frustrated by the fact that I have to buy it in a hardware-packaged form, why can't I just download Chrome OS to an older laptop to experiment (like I do with Linux distros)? I guess at this stage the OS is flimsy enough that they need to control all aspects of hardware.

Also, the support & distribution thing from Google doesn't work, we have already seen it with G1. Why do they want to repeat the mistake?