skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correcting you: I got the impression pg wants to know exactly who will be your customer and what problem you're solving. He asked that again and again. (saying what problem you're solving is not marketing talk)
Indeed, the S3 prices cited include triple redundancy already.
You are setting up a straw man by saying "at it's simplest an index is a list of what words are in what documents". That kind of index(an inverted word index) could be generated from the ideal data format, but it would be stupid store such a rich data set in such a dumb, information-losing format.

"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. There would also be some kind of metadata attached to the keys to indicate HTTP status code, HTTP header information, last-crawled date, and any other interesting data. From this data set, other, more appropriate indexes could be generated(for example via hadoop)

> In the end, what the author really wants is for someone to maintain a separate copy of the internet for bots.

Yes, but not for bots. It would be for algorithms.

> In order for someone to do that, they'd need to charge the bot owners

Probably.. The funding could be like ICANN, whose long-term funding comes from groups that benefit from its services.

> but the bot owners could just index your content for free, so why would they pay?

How would you create a copy of the internet for free? Are you just going to run your crawler on your home modem while you're at work? Where are you going to store all that data? How are you going to process it? How long is that going to take? Wouldn't it just be easier to(for example) mount a shared EBS volume in EC2 that has the latest, most up to date crawled internet available for your processing?
Sure doctors in the US get sued for malpractice all the time. If they were advising a large population (e.g., they were on TV) and gave bad advice which led to many people's deaths, you can darn well bet there'd be consequences.
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I've not up or down voted you but it's pretty obvious to me why you are being down-voted:

As you can see from the debate at the top of this page, it's disrupting the regulation of the cab industry which is about creating artificial scarcity of the cabs in order to keep the prices of rides inflated. (EDIT: actually the price of rides is regulated and would be the same regardless of how many cabs there were. It is actually to ensure daily revenues for the cabs remains high by ensuring optimum utilization)

From that perspective it is even more disruptive than Netflix because Netflix operates in a free-market environment. You could choose to rent your DVD's from Amazon or Blockbuster. With cabs in cities like SF you have no real direct alternative.

The cab industry could easily add a web-interface for booking cabs.

They could but they won't because they already have more potential customers standing on street corners wanting cabs then they can service (because, as already explained, the number of cabs is artificially restricted).

There is no benefit to the cab industry to innovate in any way (such as build an app) unless regulator steps in. Which is why a private player able to do this is so disruptive.

Sounds to me like you don't really understand the way the cab market works which is why you're not getting the disruptive element.
No. Jail the CDC for failing to predict which flu strain will become a pandemic. :P
How long until "Landmark Digital Services LLC" come knocking?

http://www.redcode.nl/blog/2010/07/patent-infringement/
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In this case, it seems like like the difference between

<scientist> There is a low probability of a
major quake

and

<politician> Scientists assure me that you
are all completely safe

That and a fundamental misunderstanding of statistics by the general population (e.g. low probability == no going to happen).
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+1 for 'Century of the Self' - it is on Google Video and it is absolutely amazing. It starts slow, but stick with it, it becomes an amazing sequence of revelations and ideas.
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I would have said Prolog, it has more history in AI among other things. Forth is like assembly if you have no registers and just a stack. It's still quite low level. If you want mind bendy that you can still reasonably do things with check out Prolog.
It seems that the two top "tricky" questions to ask an entrepreneur pitching an idea are:

1. Who is gonna want to use this?

and

2. Yeah, but really, who is gonna want to use this?

A lot of ideas seem pretty half-baked. You sit there in front of a TV, you're not so sure exactly what you're watching, and you suddenly think "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if you could point your iPhone at the TV and find out what you're watching?" And the answer is: yeah, sorta, kinda, occasionally, but multiply the number of people who want such a thing by the frequency with which they want such a thing by the amount they really care and you're looking at a pretty darn low care factor.

I don't care what anyone says about how ideas are cheap and implementation is hard. Good ideas are hard. That narrow Venn diagram overlap between "problems that people really want to solve" and "problems that are actually possible to solve" is really small.
I find it interesting that the first passage offends you so much. I support gay rights and would really like to see gender taken out of the law altogether, but Card's philosophy there seems unarguably true. People have lots of natural impulses that society expects them to control, so whether homosexuality is natural or not doesn't matter. Homosexuality would be no less acceptable in my eyes if it were a choice.

The difference between my outlook and Card's is in how we define "acceptable." I say, homosexuality is not harmful, so it should be allowed. Card uses a different measuring stick for his morality. That's all.
There's an annotated Todo app source code just like Backbone.js (awesome!) ... however no link to the actual app hosted somewhere so I can play with it and experience the interaction.
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I thought TvTak was basically the same implementation of a technology used by IntoNow which I think got sold to Yahoo. And all the advice that PG was giving the guy was how the IntoNow model worked except for the obvious media/advertiser partnerships. Did anyone else catch that?
I understand the sarcasm, and I understand the fear, but do you understand the problem?

The climate on this planet will change, whether or not we lower our carbon footprint. We should know this because it has changed while we (humans) were not here, and it is changing while we (humans) are here. Moderate climate change causes loss of habitat, significant change causes extinctions. That's not sarcasm, it is literally written in stone, the geologic record.

Yes, human activity is changing the climate too, we've joined volcanoes, space junk, solar variance, biological blooms, and perhaps another half dozen yet undiscovered processes which affect climate on the planet. If you are rational you know there is absolutely no way that humans can counteract the changes to the climate that will be caused the next time Yellowstone erupts. If you are a geologist you know that Yellowstone will erupt, it's just a question of when.

We are currently alive, and we have economic productivity that exceeds 58 trillion dollars per year [1]. We could apply some of that toward making our species immune to climate change. We could be selfish and make only part of our species immune to climate change (the 'developed' nations). But we should not waste capital and economic productivity on things that do not contribute to that goal.

The science is great, and I am a huge fan of understanding all the variables. But misleading the public into believing if they just lower their carbon footprint the climate won't change is irresponsible at best.

[1] http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met_y=ny_gdp_...
Preferred pizza toppings are in no way comparable to homophobic statements.
The way I read it, the false memory wasn't that they ate it last week ... it was that they have ever eaten it. And since the fake product name sounds so much like real product names, it sounds like they were just confused over the name. Which undermines the point of the study significantly.

Am I reading something wrong?
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But the m4m market could be the most lucrative. Look at... that senator whose name I forget. Wouldn't it be much easier to solicit random sex via your phone than try to do it in a cubicle? And heck, it's probably a lot more pleasant for everyone who has to use those cubicles.

Of course in order to make this happen you'd probably need to build a general-purpose "meet people with common interests" app, just to provide some plausible deniability (either to others, or to one's own self). "Oh no, that's not a random gay sex app, I just like to meet other... model railroad enthusiasts..."

One more thing: by the time you've done all this, there's no point in restricting it to airports, is there?
?? The article is dated May 2011.
Maybe, maybe not. I do believe that fiction is not just a story, but also a peak into the author's mind. If her writing is trying to paint a picture that is obviously conflicting to what I know the author's beliefs on a topic actually are, it feels like I'm being lied to.

That doesn't mean an author can't experiment with their beliefs, though, and that is where it gets very subjective: do I feel like I'm being lied to or not?

I don't generally spend a lot of time learning about authors I read, though. They tend to exist in a similar space as their characters do in my mind: a place stitched together and colored by the words they have written.
The whole idea of the "eG8" is offensive both on the one hand to the concept of the real G8, and on the other hand to the accordance by which matters pertaining to the politics of the Internet should be debated.

The G8 is a group of elected officials who represent their respective countries based on democratic process.

The eG8 is a bunch of industry folks who represent no one but their own self-interests.

If the 'real G8' was the heads of General Electric, ExxonMobil, Toyota, ConocoPhillips, Samsung, Berkshire Hathaway, Ford, etc we'd all horrified and out raged.

If the eG8 was a private meeting of industry folks to shoot the shit on whatever, go in right ahead. But if they're going to debate policy it's a total red flag.

I'm surprised there hasn't been more outcry frankly.
The "Thinking Forth" book he likes appears to be available for free:

http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
You don't want this recursion to apply to you too. Saying a person who says someone is terrible is terrible puts you next in line. Fortunately for both of us I don't think you're terrible, just a little too excited to dislike someone.
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snarktastic response: But that doesn't answer the question :-)

Google invents lots of things, and I suspect that you are correct that they honor sitemap, they also abandon things they once thought were the answer (QR codes, Wave, Etc.). Since I have my own CMS for web pages I'll try adding this to it's output and see what GoogleBot does with it.
still too confusing. almost all the web projects and modules/libs I see today are using a BSD-like license. The benefit of a cleaner license and corporates recognizing it (eg. google) far outweighs any copyleft license attempt to force people to share their code.

It would be interesting to invest some into into looking at what proportion of released code is under which license, because I expect there is a huge spike in BSD/Apache style licenses over the copyleft licenses, mainly due to the web.
It looks like they gave some politician a detailed, comprehensive explanation that boiled down to "We don't know, but if we really had to give a definite answer we'd guess that a major earthquake is comparatively unlikely, because...". That politician turned around and told the public "Definitely no earthquake, everything is completely safe, go back to work." It's like a game of telephone where everybody in the middle is drunk or stupid and one side is getting sued for what came out the other end.
I hate to be a pedant, but I really can't help myself in this case. A CEO doesn't AFFECT change, he/she EFFECTS change. See: http://xkcd.com/326/
Yep, spite is definitely part of it here. I love proving people wrong when they doubt me... there's no sweeter feeling than knowing you did something that nobody believed you could do.
I'm pretty sure most of the cards agreements actually forbid you from passing on their charges to the consumer.
I would take issue with your view that Card isn't homophobic.

From "The Hypocrites of Homosexuality" by Orson Scott Card:

"Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating them, but to be used when necessary to send a clear message to those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society."

So the man actively opposes it gay marriage. He supports laws that make homosexual acts illegal. He doesn't think that gays should be protected from getting fired because of their sexuality. How is that not homophobic?
Awesome stuff. Not sure how I never considered batching ajax requests before... May need to play with this!
I really don't think people should be down-voted for writing a dissenting, non-inflammatory opinion. I really liked Ender's Game (it is on my top 10 list, in fact), but I would absolutely hate living in a world where everybody loved it (even worse would be a world that people felt they couldn't express their dislike for fear of upsetting others).
Anyone know how it would effect my own insurance knowing that random people will be driving my car on top of the extra mileage? Also what about extra maintenance involved with renting out my car, are there any incentives from Getaround concerning this ? Another concern would be that, yes in general people that rent cars may not be as responsible with their rental as their own car.
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If some company chooses to hire only job hoppers, that means ever hire they make takes a worker from another company, so a job vacancy is created, unless the other company chooses to eliminate the position instead of hiring a new employee.

Net effect on the unemployed: nil.

If a campaign against companies that refuse to hire the unemployed takes off, the most likely result is that they'll continue to do so quietly.

Net effect on the unemployed: more time wasted applying to jobs that they never had a chance of getting.

FWIW, I think hiring only job hoppers is idiotic.
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You should've known what you were getting into when you originally subscribed. The game has always been closed-source, and pay-to-play (even if you use PLEX, someone is paying).
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Thanks; it's very helpful to see some hard numbers.

Indeed. This is nowhere as bad as I had expected. Still don't like the language, but good to see that the "needs a carry-on bag to travel" argument is a non-issue.
I believe his comment meant to reflect a variation on your second question. Mighty giants are not bothered by the opinions of the lowly.
Hacker news is a good venue to know about Tech Startups. Go to meetup.com to find local hacker groups/startup confs.
Using the URL bar as search was F'ing brilliant! It single-handedly changed the way I browse the web in much the same way FF did when it released tabbed browsing.
Couldn't roughly the same thing be done with relative ease in any language that builds it's IO actions in terms of Input/Output streams?

It's a nice write-up, but I'm not sure it shows off anything particular to Go.
I actually don't find it offensive (though I obviously disagree with it) as much as I find it oddly recognizable: What he's trying to do throughout the entire linked text is proliferate the notion that homosexuality is in fact a choice, in that homosexuals can supposedly chose to control their sinful desires at no greater personal cost (but possibly even personal gain), whether those desires be genetically predisposed or not.

He does not cite any scientific knowledge to support this position, but he does take the time to point out that science can't prove him wrong yet (via a, quote, "science has barely scratched the surface" statement).

Of course he's also not giving any explanation for exactly why homosexuality is supposed to be sinful in the first place.

That entire angle is tired, old, trite, familiar. It's also stopping short of thinking things through fully, in the service of his personal agenda: If science has only scratched the surface so far, then it follows that what he takes for granted in his own text has to be called into question as well. Yet there is no uncertainty about his position in his text; he is very sure of himself.

And that's the part that really makes me wonder. This guy seems too intelligent to buy into half-assed argumentation of this kind - so what makes him write it?

Admittedly this does run the danger of opening up the pandora's box of the entire religion topic. I just can't for the life of me understand how someone rationally thinking could be satisfied with non-explanations like "To act otherwise is to give more respect to the opinions of men than to the judgments of God." (also from the text).

Beyond that I agree with your post, i.e. the genetic question not actually being relevant to me when it comes to whether homosexuality is acceptable.
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Three books out of thirty.

And two of those books are the same story told from the perspective of different characters. And although that is part of the plot of those books, I don't see how you can say that's all there is to those characters. The pivotal moments in Ender's life are his acts of violence, not the adults' manipulation.

And the other isn't really about naive children realizing adults are manipulative, either — the characters just happen to be young. Volemak (the main adult in the story) actually is a good man, and the children who oppose him are the antagonists.

Seriously, I have a laundry list of complaints about Card's writing (the Homecoming series in particular), but your complaints seem pretty shallow and sound like you're levying heavy criticism without ever giving them a chance.
These days Amazon has a place where writers can comment on their books. It may not have existed in 1999.

It's one thing to fake a review, but there's nothing wrong with using that spot to talk to your readers.
I started messing with Mirah, but there's just not much community yet.

True, but as that community includes Charlie Nutter it has a serious leg up. :)

Still, I expect things to move fairly quickly, so the number first-time-asked questions will diminish and getting solid work done will increase.
Ever hear of "defensive medicine" where doctors will prescribe extra courses of care and tests, just to validate what they already know to be true in order to avoid possible litigation in the rare case that they might be wrong?

Asking for certainty in areas where it can't be mathematically guaranteed is extremely expensive.
I've seen so little evidence of common sense anywhere in the last 10 years that I wouldn't hold my breath. My guess (based on zero evidence and being fairly cynical) is that they will be found guilty.
I think they are equivalent b/c both are simply aesthetic preferences. Neither is trying to persuade others to adopt his aesthetic preference. Neither is an expert on the topic being opined about.

At best one might claim that such a statement is ignorant. I think we start to get into trouble when we assume that an expert in one narrow area (such as fiction writing) should be/act non-ignorant in other areas of life. That is wishful thinking. It also suggests that we ought to expect "more" from someone with a narrow talent. Should a NFL player have perfect spelling? Should an olympic pole vaulter have a nuanced understanding of morality?

Human aptitude is very narrow and we should appreciate it where we find it and not look to put anyone on a broad pedestal.
thanks!! Anyone else have any useful links? I am looking forward to doing my first hello Sproutcore app and would love to know about the best blog posts, etc.
The swipie unlock that every Android phone I've seen in practice could be represented as a four digit number (actually less, since there's no zero and no repeats IIRC). The only difference I can see between a swipe and a digit is you hold your thumb down and it looks more futuristic.
A blog post in 1999 is asking a little much.
Cool! What's the link to the tutorial?
See answer posted elsewhere in the thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2585541
The ideal of course is regulators are proactive in regulating, rather than waiting for the horse to bolt before deciding the door should be kept closed.

This is a good idea in the case of low probability, high impact events. For example, counterparty contagion in the financial system or oil spills.

But in the case of low impact events, it's pointless. Take a few obvious precautions (e.g., track all the drivers) but otherwise just wait for problems to arise before fixing them.

The risk of an unregulated system is very low - a few consumers get scammed out of $12. The risk of regulation is very high - many consumers may be deprived of a considerable consumer surplus (i.e., they may not get a ride at all, or may be forced to overpay for a regulated cab).
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100622/full/465992a.html

The charges were originally filed over a year ago. The news now is that, after procedural delays, the judge succumbed to idiocy and actually let them go to court.
You just got a new customer.
Looks like you've created a franchisable micro-biz. The book is in effect the "operations manual" (Ok, I haven't bought nor read it).

You could add value to the book and create a franchise. For example add starter stock, etc and sell the package for say $99.

You would need to identify the sorts of people who are most likely to be interested and motivated to run such a biz, maybe part-time and then target them specifically.

Or, you could sell a master-franchise to a balloon manufacturer or distributor as a way for them to increase their sales.
Would this be suitable for a mobile app? The existing view builder in sproutcore made that a no-go. But with HTML views it might have potential.
That's how it used to be here in Aus, but they finally fixed the law to give vendors the right to charge a surcharge for cards. Most vendors only do 2-3% (around the actual chard, though Amex is higher) but there are a few bad apples who go a bit higher.
ouah I love what you say.... this is just a weekend hack... It still requires a lot of work! Please contact me @spolu so that we can make it a better tool!
Instead of failing it should return fake data, the app never need know.
I believe the senator's name you're looking for is Larry Craig, if I'm not mistaken.