skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a lawyer and I'm not really talking about the law.

You raise some really excellent points about privacy and ads that I totally agree with. But if you don't want ads in your ad-supported app, I think the only fair thing to do is not use it. In the same sense the it's only fair to pay for shareware that you routinely use, even if there's no DRM and you're not legally or functionally obligated to do so.
Mobile Phones Document Rape as Weapon in Libya
http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=id:6n3Ji59CZ3S&...

Did hemorrhoids cause the GFC?
If you look at most mobile-optimized web applications today, they tend to be very "web-style," which SproutCore 2.0 is great for.

In the next few months, we will be working on a mobile control set that allows you to create more "native-style" interactions. I think both have their place and can deliver awesome experiences to users.
It depends how the program was created. Programmers have to make assumptions, if one of these is broken, and the programmer hasn't 'handled' it, then the program will either crash or show bugs. Programmers do cut a lot of corners, where they feel assumptions are safe, and assuming the the permissions will be there is one of them.
Be Your Own Bitch - Do What You Want
Reinventing imperative programming?
> One likely works on projects as part of employment. One may work on projects outside of employment.

I guess my confusion in your original response comes from the notion in my belief that all work is employment. Although I do believe I have a little bit of a better understanding of where you are coming from now.

With that said, even when I'm hacking away for fun on purely personal projects, I still consider that an act under the umbrella of my business – which does happens to be a corporation in my case, but it need not be. If the project turns into something that is marketable, it will be sold under my business. That also adds to the confusion of where to draw the line.

Ultimately, I strongly believe the employer is going to be interested in what you have been doing no matter what the circumstances. If it is interesting and applicable to the job, it is not going to matter who commissioned the work or how much you were paid to do it and it is certainly going to look a lot better than a job at McDonalds.
Same here, tried in both Safari and Firefox. Briefly got the play button to show up in Firefox, and then the browser crashed...
G-d, jam your bad or expired link message
Work with people you love, doing stuff that feels like a hobby, with your kids helping. And sleep with those you love, as appropriate.
I'm curious where you got the idea that Google has "abandoned" QR codes.
US to store passenger data for 15 years
The man helped the NACP when it was somewhat Taboo to do so. When cigarettes were later proved to be harmful, he devoted an enormous portion of his energy and a lot of money to campaigns against it. And after all, persuasion is an incredibly important part of democracy; look back to ancient Greek, even the arguments against rhetoric were heavily rhetorical. He was not evil.
But then again, Ender's Game included the general idea of blogs as a plot point... (Not sure what else you would classify Peter/Valentine's self-published online essays as.)
This isn't the first time Italy has reduced itself to the status of reactionary backwater by attacking scientists, Galileo being a case in point.

In the wake of that travesty, Louis XIV didn't have a hard time convincing Cassini to abandon his post in Bologna and emigrate to France, where he could continue his work safely. Given the extraordinary military advantage conveyed by Cassini's work in improving cartography through increasingly sophisticated astronomical observation, the Netherlands and England were quick to join the seventeenth-century's war for technical talent.

Not grasping the extent to which the world was passing it by, the Papacy kept Galileo's works on the list of banned books until the mid-nineteenth century. By the time they came off, Italy's once formidable lead had been squandered permanently.

File this current fiasco under 'lessons not learned'.
Lossy storage might be more accurate. Like a biological Amazon EBS.
They better execute this idea quickly. Within a few years, these media formats will most likely be gone.
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I would recommend companies with a low P/E ratio, low debt, and a history of earning a profit. Here are a few.

ARO,CSCO,MSFT,WDC,RSH,GES,APPL

You should then research each company and understand how they are making money and try to determine whether they will continue to make a decent profit.

I am not a professional. Take this advice at your own risk.
Centralization [of search index] has significant overhead.

Bandwidth is not nearly as expensive as the overhead of such search index centralization.
I have an idea for you. This might work. You REALLY need to read up on Copyright Law, though. To be honest, you might not be the best person for this. You may want to speak with an experienced copyright person. Anyway...

This might work: Stop broadcasting the video. You make an audio only CD where you and friends play the parts in the movies. The customer is instructed on when to start the audio CD so that it syncs with the movie. You can also distribute a book that tells the person when to start and stop the movie/audio and then do your thing with your company.

So all you are selling is an audio CD, which you performed, and a companion workbook.

This MAY work because what you are doing is making a "cover song" of the movie audio. You will need a mechanical license, if it is even available. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_license

I have never heard of this for movies, but it might work. A mechanical license will be cheaper and easier than negotiating with a movie studio.

This is how it works in the music world: http://www.harryfox.com/public/FAQ.jsp

No idea if you can do this in the movie world, but you should check it out.
It's funny that pundits can't seem to decide whether Microsoft is saving Nokia or Nokia is saving Microsoft.
Research the authors of apps and email them?
question: Is the Bitcoin approach to distributed, secure transactions useful (and is it novel?) without the currency generation component? Are they potentially separable?
I've invented a board game - now what do I do?
Aren't they explicitly described as forum postings?
How would they prevent a group of car thieves from using prepaid Master or Visa cards with fake names? Couldn't a thief just book a rental car for an hour, find the location, unlock the car with the iphone app, then take off with the car because the key will be inside? Let me know if I am missing something?
You reckon?

I started out using FixedSys, since it was the default on the editor I was using at the time - PFE, I think. And since taking the time to switch to the X 6x13 font (which I happened to encounter towards the end of my time at university), I must have saved enough time scrolling horizontally through other people's code to break even.

I have dicked about a bit trying out other programming fonts, it's true, but having had success the once from doing this, why not double check?
No.
http://www.bls.gov/cps/faq.htm#Ques5
"Persons are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work."
"Homophobic" gets bandied about to the point of losing its meaning. "Unreasoning fear/antipathy towards homosexuals/homosexuality" is what the dictionary spat out, and I suspect Card would say 1) it's not "unreasoning" 2)"antipathy towards homosexuality" != "evil."
Finderous: Locial Network
Finderous is a location based short Query/Reply website about a place. A user can post anonymous/non-anonymous queries/replies, chose to follow a place of interest or queries and post replies to queries.
No, retire. That said, 20 years is still a long time.
I had the same experience with Watership Down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down

I was set to read it when I was 14 or 15 in English. What 14 or 15 yo boy wants to read a book about a rabbit? I was wrong, and loved it, then went and read every other book Richard Adams wrote.

So I guess it's not impossible, but at the same time I was probably broad minded enough to change my mind. Many people won't.
there is no danger

Was that a misquote, or what the seismologists actually said? Their position is a little more shaky (ha, ha) if they said there is NO danger
Heh, time correlation of "exam schedule" tells a sad story.

Shifted 1 week: gpa calculator

Shifted 2 weeks: final grades

Shifted 3 weeks: academic suspension

Shifted 4 weeks: academic dismissal

http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=exam+schedule&t...

http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=exam+schedule&t...

http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=exam+schedule&t...

http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=exam+schedule&t...
Akira Isogawa Fall/Winter 2011-12
What an Instant-Edu Machine might do to Education
the only thing keeping me from moving completely from Firefox to Chrome is Pentadactyl (http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/), and better greasemonkeyscript-ability. Firefox on Mac has always had memory hogging issues, but I really can't live without my vim overlay (I've tried the Chrome alternatives, like vimium, but they pale in comparison)

As people have said about Firefox's hackability, I don't think there will be a Chrome extension as good as Pentadactyl.
since this one is easy to remove, I am assuming you meant to say 'as easy to get rid of.'
Rifftrax.com (some of the MST3K stars) has been putting out very good voiceover tracks for current movies. You might ask them what kind of licensing they needed to go through.
Next week's news: Italy suffers severe shortage of qualified seismologists. Government officials are baffled.
Not hard, dude. You should know that the people-who-search-for-x-also-search-for-y is inherently built into WHEN-people-search-x-other-people-are-also-likely-to-search-y, since people who are searching on "accident" and not finding what they want aren't likely to wait 4 weeks before trying "fatal accident" - instead they are going to immediately try it, meaning that WHEN that person searches x it is also likely he will search for y.

The other (non-mutually exclusive) explanation here is that different people are searching for the same thing (e.g. a news item they saw on TV about a recent car accident) but using different terms to do it (e.g. accident, car accident, fatal accident).
When an author's writing consistently expresses their personal philosophy as "The Right Thing", it is hard to draw a line between the two. I don't find it to be true of Card as much as say Heinlein but his politics are clearly visible in his work.
Nuggests from our recent angel investment panel in Boston
Count me as someone who has never bought something via a Google paid search link. I have bought something via a facebook ad though...
I'm really curious to read any discussion about this on HN, because I think the other times Eli Pariser's TED talk and book have been posted there haven't been much discussion. It's been circulating in my family (mostly by non-technical members) and there was some amount of alarm stirred up. I'm skeptical of this just because the evidence doesn't seem that damning.

Has anyone read the book? Is there significant evidence that this is a serious issue? I completely believe that this is beginning to happen, and would believe that FB does it since I don't spend enough time on the news feed to notice if it was happening, but the example in the TED talk and in the NYTimes column linked to by mhb is a Google search for "Egypt" earlier in the year, and two people seeing drastically different results: "Two people who each search on Google for “Egypt” may get significantly different results, based on their past clicks."

Aren't there other reasons for two people being served different results by Google? I've often read that they do heavy A/B style testing and stuff like that, which seems like it could explain some discrepancies.

So what does HN think? Is there stronger evidence here than comparing a few Google searches?
> You say, "He is clearly not homophobic."

In the interview, Card says "I find the comparison between civil rights based on race and supposed new rights being granted for what amounts to deviant behavior to be really kind of ridiculous. There is no comparison. A black as a person does not by being black harm anyone. Gay rights is a collective delusion that's being attempted" (emphasis mine).

Calling homosexuality "deviant behavior" upsets me, but the really revealing part, I think is the bit I emphasized. The implication certainly appears to be that (by parity of reasoning) "A homosexual does harm someone simply by being homosexual".

If that's not homophobic, I don't know what is.
So they should be hanging the politician...
Neither is trying to persuade others to adopt his aesthetic preference. He wishes to make it illegal how is that not pushing his views on others?
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I used Terminus for many years. About 18 months ago I switched to gohufont -- http://font.gohu.eu/

A person can't fit quite as much on the screen but I find the extra spacing makes it much easier to read (eg emails).
I'd go to every possibly relevant meetup and try to find someone that needs her services and offer them for free.

Or start a meetup of her own to attract exactly the sort of people she wants to meet. Find a place nearby and its actually cheaper to pay meetup its fee than spend an hour traveling to someone else's meetup.

Contracting might also be the way to go. If they can get rid of you easily, an employer can take more risk.
If you need the distributed approach for ultimate survivability and security, yes.
> "The index" would just be a list of key/values. The key would be a URL, and the value would be the content located at that URL.

They have that index already. It's called "the internet". If you're storing the entire page content, that's not really much of an "index".

> it would be stupid store such a rich data set in such a dumb, information-losing format.

Discarding information is the entire purpose of indexing and doing things like map-reduce (emphasis on the reduce!): you discard worthless information so that the stuff you care about is of a manageable size.

The reason Google serves up search results quickly is because it carefully controls the data it has to wade through. Adding more data doesn't make it smarter, it makes it slower.
Keep in mind also that Orson has written several books for writers and does a ton of workshops etc. For sci-fi he's a pretty prolific (and good imo) writing teacher. In his response he was specifically targeting literary concepts that he teaches and has written about while trying to dilute some of the ad-homonim attacks that were apparently exploding for the book at the time.
I'm pretty sure a reasonable person would consider it antipathy towards homosexuality.
Cool! Nice job, looks great for a first app :)
Hey George. That's a very good point. I'm going to edit the post and be sure to include this info because it's very valid and helpful.

Cheers mate
It's not that funny any more if you have to explain it ;)
«Sure, card is a Mormon and appears somewhat socially conservative in his personal beliefs.»

Not just «somewhat», he believes that armed insurrection is justified as a response to gay marriage:

«Because when government is the enemy of marriage, then the people who are actually creating successful marriages have no choice but to change governments, by whatever means is made possible or necessary.»

see http://www.mormontimes.com/article/10233/State-job-is-not-to...
Oh! Random idea. How about having multiple levels of difficulty?

"Every 5 words you gain an additional 15 seconds. "

Easy would be, say, every 5 words gives you 20 more seconds. Medium would be 15 seconds, and hard would be 10 seconds. Something like that!
This is a textbook terrible HN comment.

It sources what may be the single worst literary interview ever conducted (the author interviews herself snickering at her subject) to illuminate the worst-kept secret in all sci-fi fandom (that Orson Scott Card is a devout socially conservative Mormon), all in service of the conclusion that social conservatives are "terrible" people.

NOTHING GOOD CAN CONCEIVABLY COME OF THE ENSUING DISCUSSION.

I've read a bunch of your comments. You are way better than this one.

Please don't write stuff like this on HN.
Looking forward to version 2.0, Google Causality
Looks like it - it was originally "buckss". I'm not proud.
Mathematics in Python
You know what? I think I'm actually alright with someone thinking that I am terrible because I think that outspoken homophobes are terrible.

Yeah, I am pretty sure that doesn't concern me in the slightest.

Edit: fixed stupid corrective spelling thing...
Matt Cutts: Why do Porn Sites have lower PageRank?
The possibility of going to jail for interpreting data will certainly deter scientist from interpreting data.

Which is great, because the average person can just look at the seismic data each morning and decide for themselves. Right after they sift through the weather data to see if any tornados might have swung by while they were sleeping.
Well I don't think CM is necessarily "ours" if you are referring to users. I would bet that every major CM contributor has their own apps in the market, so obviously they're interests lie much more on the vendor side than the user's. That's why you see here more interest in accurate data collection than in privacy.
So you want to share equity with your developer?
Consumer protection is one goal of taxi regulation, but public safety is another.
Taxi cab fares in Chicago (and I believe NYC and SF) are set by the city. Cab drivers can't vary them to account for card payments.
You better be right about this common sense deficit or I will have to drag you into court.
> people that I follow what they listen to and vice versa.

That's kind of cool, so you have a group of "friends" on facebook or whatever that you use for new music discovery?

edit: the poorly implied question would be what does using a generic social network get you that an account on a targeted site like last.fm doesn't have?
ASU Gets Some Green Bling
Same, I got my job based largely on the quality of my code which was created for a hobby project. Those who are hiring programmers love to see real work even if it was a hobby project. The quality of your code speaks for it's self.
B&N fires back at Amazon over Kindle battery life
Then it's not old news, is it?
Laws in general seem to mostly ignore volunteer work, despite that having always been an essential part of community economies. That's just an area that hasn't sprouted many conflicts.

It seems to me that the new change is that suddenly, discovery and dissemination are enjoying large-scale volunteer effects, where previously it was just word of mouth. The pre-existing laws presume to deal with for-profit redistributors, and as such are hardly applicable.

The burning question in my mind is whether the volunteering will persist and suffice to meet the offering of the distribution business. Will it result in a karma economy, or will there be a new business area in archival? Will people tire of providing free service when they find themselves preoccupied with the worries of middle age, or will they merely scale back?
Great Video. In my YC application I will be sure to pre-answer these questions: Who in the world needs you the most and... what's special about you?

People will seek out something they desperately need

One mechanism to evaluate opportunity appeal: f(how bad they need you, how fast they move)
Are people getting more sick or are they just searching it more?

http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=sore+throat&t=w...
Here's a more complete article:

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100622/full/465992a.html

It seems like the committee contained 6 geophysicists who reported to a civil defense bureaucrat (who has a PhD in Fluid Mechanics - think Civil Engineering). The geophysicists said the standard things ("we can't rule it out").

Then these deliberations were summarized by the bureaucrat for the press conference, which the geophysicists did not attend, as (presumably in Italian ;-):

"The scientific community tells us there is no danger, because there is an ongoing discharge of energy. The situation looks favorable."

And there's your trouble spot.

It is wrong to misrepresent appropriately-hedged claims where life and limb are at stake. It should be a scandal.

And incidentally, this is why it's really hard to be the technical person who stands in front of the press conference. Doing it well is a gift.
The same thing could certainly be done in other languages. I'm not convinced as to the "relative ease". I find the use of a slice backed by a temporary array particularly cool.

In any case, this post was written to educate Go programmers, and not (primarily) to evangelize Go.
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the kung-fu of using your enemies strengths against them...

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Doesn't Bitcoin imply nonderministic and potentially large delays in transaction settlement?
I open sourced the code here: https://github.com/jasonjckn/snake3d

I don't have a tutorial for Snake3D, but there's quite a bit out there for Clojure + OpenGL:

1) https://github.com/ztellman/penumbra/wiki/Applications

2) https://github.com/swannodette/clj-nehe
There's a project that repurposes Bitcoin's block chain distributed notarisation to implement a decentralised replacement for DNS.
You're absolutely right. My comment probably implied that I didn't think Card is homophobic. Rather, I meant to get across that I don't think he minds.
That's not how I interpret him. Here's the quotation with more context:

"Of course, those who approached Ender's Game skeptically or because they were 'forced' to read it can hardly imagine their response is valid for those who read it as volunteers or with belief: No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading."
Compilers and Compiler Generators
Yes, and leave the scientists out.
Very interesting stuff, although I noticed that they left out bootstrapping as an option. While obviously not right for every company, I think too many startups turn to funding as a necessity when they could bootstrap it. It's sure as hell stressful, but it forces you to be lean and build good habits from the beginning.

I'm also a huge fan of the benefits of multiple co-founders. With the startup I'm currently working on, GooseChase (http://goosecha.se), we have 5 co-founders: 2 Business, 2 Developers, 1 Front-End Designer. For the business guys and the development guys, they each have different strengths so there's minimal overlap, but it's very helpful to have someone that you can bounce ideas off of. Problems are a hell of a lot easier to solve when you have a fresh take on it.

Anyone have any stories or examples of bootstrapping and/or relatively large co-founder groups?
When I click on the Firefox icon in my dock, it may take up to 2 minutes for Firefox to load and be usable. Chrome feels almost instant. I want badly to use Firefox more, but I can't justify it when it's so slow (and I'm using 4.0).
How to Maximize Shareholder Value
With Golang on AppEngine, I can see a momentum within Google pushing for Golang for Android. Rob's comment sounds very positive. I'm guessing we will see something at Google IO next year.
There's a nice quote from a geophysicist in the other Nature article on this:

Scientists are often asked the wrong question, which is 'when will the next earthquake hit?' The right question is 'how do we make sure it won't kill so many people when it hits?'
Mapping God's Bloodline
You don't even need to steal the car. You could simply take the the most valuable parts. Some parts can be taken without the owner knowing. Example: air bags. If you rented your car out, you would never know that your air bag was missing until you actually needed it.