skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This rich guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Hellman

Does a pretty awesome thing:

http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/
Don't get me wrong, I'm plenty capable with real world stuff. I just don't like it when people think a CS education should mean learning Java libraries and design patterns and server configuration. I'm glad I wasn't forced to waste my time taking classes devoid of conceptual material.
> for people not familiar with EVE: Jita is the main trade hub of the game. Since EVE only has one server, that makes Jita the de-facto capital of the game, and it's main system. There are other simmilar (but smaller) trade hubs (Amarr and Rens, among others), and those are seeing protests as well. Those systems have a hard limit to their population, and when it's capped, the gates close. The protests seem to have capped both Amarr and Jita, and are therefore stopping people from entering the picketed systems, slowing down the player-driven market inside them.

http://www.ps3trophies.com/forums/pc/63552-eve-online-virtua...
Australia got these in 1992. The main benefit is that they don't suffer when you accidentally put them through the wash/ocean/pool.
1) Merely possessing money does not mean you can necessarily deploy it efficiently to solve a problem. It requires, among other things, skilled human time and energy--a rare resource.

2) In an economy where trade is voluntary, rich people have already done awesome things in the first place to become wealthy. They offered a product, service or some kind of value of enough magnitude to get a lot of money from people.
See also: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Building_...
That would be perjury, though. You are now a Lying Guy, not just a Fifth Amendment Guy, and no amendment will be able to save you if they figure out that you gave a hidden volume password and claimed it as the "real" and only password.

I'm not saying plausible deniability is bad, just that it would be better not to rely on technical arms races to protect fundamental rights.

The Passive Aggressive Award will go to the guy who freely gives the real password to the feds when subpoenaed, but claims it is just a hidden volume password.
It happened to about half the people I work with when we got acquired a few years ago. Options, stock, everything the non-C-level people held was worthless. A lot of unhappy people and a few left over it, even some with single-digit employee numbers. Me, I always asked for a salary increase instead of options and it's worked out great so far. I would think different though if I was in early on something with more upside.
Regarding embedding hidden words in these binary images, I'm sometimes alarmed that people seem unaware of how well computer vision can work in restricted scenarios like this. After all, we've had realtime face detectors in cheap cameras for awhile now. It's one thing to prevent spam with captchas but another to protect sensitive information with them.
And if they do put 2 and 2 together, now you have perjured yourself, not just refused to testify. Much worse.

> Just jerk off to normal porn like everybody else, problem solved.

sigh

First they came for those accused of pedophilia, and I said nothing because I wasn't accused of pedophilia.
I'm a massive nerd who spends ungodly amounts of time online, yet:

* I've only heard of Google Health in one obscure place, and I don't even remember where. I checked it out, put some info into it, but didn't see how it was of use to me.

* I've never heard of PowerMeter. Ever.

* I still have no idea what Wave was about.

I don't know what's going on with them, but this, combined with things like the really lousy duplicate-login migration with Google Hosted, makes me very hesitant to get on-board with anything new from the Goog. It's like a ball-dropping convention hosted by MENSA.
It'd also be trivial to devise a decryption algorithm, and key, which "decrypts" anyones hard drive to reveal illegal images even when none are really there...

Well the revealed images could not be significantly larger in size than then the "key material" you supplied plus the most concise description of the algorithm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
I agree, and if anyone figures out how to persuade rich people to do this, I'd really like to know how. My goal in life is to become rich in order to do specific awesome things, but convincing rich people to do those awesome things seems like it could bring a much higher return on investment if I could pull it off.
I usually have a bunch of $1 bills in my wallet. I'm not sure I'd want $1 coins, given that they're heavier than a paper bill and are more likely to get lost.
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Explain to the jury that you lost the key before you knew there was a criminal investigation. It only becomes illegal afterward.
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> Every store would have to change their prices to the exact point at which the price of the item + sales tax equaled a multiple of 5 cents.

Um, you know that sales tax results in prices with fractional pennies? And that stores simply round the prices?

> Or they would keep the item prices the same, at which point customers might not like they are being charged, at the maximum, 4 cents more than they should.

You mean like how gas stations add on 9/10 of a cent to every gallon?
This is not relevant to the OP at all, but I don't see any way to do private messages in Hacker News, so... A while ago you commented on one of my essays and I didn't respond: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479738

I've expanded http://www.gwern.net/Girl%20Scouts%20and%20good%20governance... to hopefully answer your wheat question.

As for your point about building character - I didn't see much of that in my sister when I was selling boxes with her or in her troop, I don't know how one would measure this one way or the other, and I don't think I actually criticized the cookie-selling practice at all, since the focus was on the price and whether money was being wasted by the organization. (Likewise, I don't follow your point about advertising. Walmart isn't exactly raking in all its profits and underselling Girl Scouts by auctioning off the advertising space on the sides of its cookie boxes.)
Thanks Joel, this helps.
I do a bit of traveling and collect an awful lot of currency- http://i.imgur.com/CWkjX.jpg - So I'd also like to chime in on this. I like the US cotton bills as they get better with age. Of course, having crisp bills is nice, but nothing stays that way for ever. My polymer bills maintain creases and it makes them hard to sort. Where as the cotton bills age gracefully.

Check out the AUS 10, see how folded it looks? Now check out the $5 Military Payment certificate from around 1951. Just an observation.
We should get rid of the penny and the nickel, and then issue 10, 20, 50, 100, and 200 cent coins.
I'm pretty sure they don't, or else they'd be hounding you for the fractional pennies that you owe them (3/20 of every penny earned, remember!).
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If your imaginary world is all you have, is it not your real world?
Providing access to subpoenaed evidence.

The evidence is what it is, the court is there to judge it.
more like a book/article/magazine

You mean, more like a media form that has evolved to be readable.
No you won't. I never see charges with fractions of pennies when I use my card at the gas pumps (which charge 9/10¢ extra per gallon, remember); why would I see charges with fractions of nickels when pennies are gone?
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While not quite the "fine dining" experience, the combination has been proven in at least one location -- Alfredo, Weinstein & Ho in Halifax. It's been around for a lot of years (it wasn't new when I lived there thirty years ago). Unsurprisingly, it's a combination kosher, Italian and Chinese restaurant (the signature dish is something called "Kosher Chinese spaghetti").

It's not quite the "incubator" idea you have, and it may not hit all tastes, but it is a good place to go when people can't agree on a theme, and it's never empty.
I dot think you'd be charged with destroying evidence, because that would be assuming that there would be evidence. Instead, I suspect you'd be charged with contempt or obstruction of justice, or something along those lines. Otherwise, yes, I think you're right.
Typically, you are in trouble when you destroy evidence when you has reasonable cause to believe that it is evidence.

If I delete all of my email today, I'm not committing a crime. But if I find out that my company is being sued for breach of a contract that I was working on, deleting email becomes suspicious.
Well, how many awesome things do you typically do? Awesome things don't necessarily have to involve large amounts of money. Ever stopped on the side of the rode to help somebody? Given somebody a ride across town when they were lost?

If you want to see more wealthy people do more awesome things, lead by example. Tomorrow go find somebody that needs help, and help them.
Cool idea, can;t wait until the all phones support it.
If there's a 90% chance of winning, maybe the lawyer would be willing to pay the defendant's legal fees if he lost.
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If you really believe this, I suggest you watch the video of him doing "office hours" live at TC Disrupt last month. You might love or hate what he has to say, but his insight and ability to pick up often incoherent business models in faster-than-realtime is incredible to watch. I described it to a friend as "spooky in the good way".

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/25/absolute-must-watch-office-...
If there was a court order for the decryption keys for your drive and you gave them a key that destroyed it, you would almost certainly be found guilty of deliberately destroying evidence.
No, you couldn't be compelled to translate a document in a foreign language. The police have another way to get the information - ask someone else who knows the language to do it. You would be making their job harder, but not impossible. In the case of an encryption key, you might be the only one that can assist the investigation. So you'd be hindering it. At least that's how I'd see it.
Didn't they do that and call it SICP(/TAOCP/K&R/HTDP/...)?
This things are damn durable.
As far as i know, if you fold them they get back to their original shape.

[Most] People don't use cash these days anyway.
Show HN: Our first game for Facebook, a math based puzzler
Our first Facebook game, Mexem, went live a few weeks ago. The idea of it is to find simple equations in a hexagon grid of numbers. The game matches chains of numbers (you can select with a trackpad or mouse, but it's a lot quicker with a mouse) when a valid equation is found. You don't need to select an operator - the game does that automatically. It supports four operators (+, -, /, and *) and can calculate multi or single digit answers from a selection of single digit hexes. The game rewards you with score multipliers or 'bombs' for making longer chains more quickly. There is also a 'Full House' bonus for each time the player uses the whole set of operators. Each game lasts for one minute.

The Mexem Facebook page is here: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=126083207410955

or you can go straight to the app: http://apps.facebook.com/mexemgame/

Any suggestions for gaining more users and/or monetising the Facebook version would be appreciated (we also have an IOS version in the works, but it's on the sideline at the moment due to working on another project).

[For clarity: I (this username, Trouble) am the girlfriend of one of the two programmers who made the game. They're both very focused on making games and solving problems, so I suggested that I post Mexem here on HN for feedback on marketing and monetization. I will be making sure they see and respond to any comments and questions. Thank you!]
While I probably directly run the risk of sounding like a mega-douche, I truly believe that my startup buzzdata.com is going to make life better for millions of people.

Is that allowed to count?
Yes this tool could be very helpful to many. I could see it working very nicely with Klout. And taking it a step further sales departments could use this info to see who their 'target' is influenced, which could be very helpful as well.
I am just as confused as before.
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Moreover, the vast majority of Facebook employees aren't going to be /empowered/ to say anything about this. I sure as hell am never going to make any statements on behalf of any company I work for.
Despite MtGox not being online, bitcoin trading has never been shutdown:
http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/

Trading volume has been down a bit, especially just after MtGox closed, but it has not been illiquid.
This is yet another reason I refuse to use Skype. I won't patronize a company that treats it's employees like that.
I've yet to hear someone define what useful, diverse set of results is that has been filtered from them; they simply state that the sites that they see on Google, FB, et al. are filtered and that some other filtered pages could hypothetically be useful.

What diverse results do you want to see that you aren't seeing now, and how could they potentially be useful?

This is an easy experiment. Submit a google query while logged in, and open an incognito Chrome window and submit the same query there. Compare the search results. What would have been helpful that you didn't see in your filter "bubble"?
Open an incognito window in Chrome, don't log in to your google account, and search there.
Isn't the distinction kind of academic? Most people study computer science with the goal of getting a job as a professional programmer.
>Why don't more startups choose to solve problems that would really improve peoples' lives?

People keep bringing this up, but I never see examples. If I saw one, I'd chase it like an alcoholic that's spotted Jim Beam at the bottom of a hill.

To my detriment, and with gusto.
Not related to the paper, but interesting nonetheless. ReCaptcha only checks 1 of the words; the other is used to help transcribe old writings. As long as the $control is correct, it doesn't matter what you put as the second word.
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After a few years working in academia, I have a simple statement:

That which pays thy bills is the real world.

It can correspond to another statement: that which feeds thy mouth is the real world, too.

I can't eat virtual bread. It's not the real world.
"Interest in Computer Science has grown in resent years"

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/06/11/technology/11...

from

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/technology/11computing.htm...
Paul Allen single-handedly funded development of the private spacecraft SpaceShipOne.[1][2]

He apparently began funding that spaceship, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, around 2001, several YEARS before he told anybody that he was doing so (in 2004). By definition, rich people who are doing things for non-showoff-y reasons are not necessarily showing off about it.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen#Assets
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipOne#Development_and_wi...
There's value given to a cause if someone important endorses it. Sure, a wealthy individual can write a check and cover the entire amount with ease, but why should he/she? You won't be rich for long if you hand out money every time you're asked. In the end, even the most generous wealthy individuals have to prioritize:

-"I support X so much that I'll donate $100k."
-"I like what Y is doing, I'll associate my name with it."
-"I don't care for Z much/Z might be a scam, ignore them."

And sometimes the money will go toward a new house or a car. It's their money, and I assure you it's a lot harder to see from their perspective than you think.
For reference, here's our original post on this very topic in June of 2006 when Basecamp was 2.5 years old.

http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/growing_in_vs_growing_out...

Today Basecamp is 7 years old. Signups are stronger than ever.

Whenever we survey customers asking them what they love most about Basecamp, the top response by a mile is: it's simple, easy, and their co-workers and clients actually use it. It's not multiple choice either - the words "simple" "easy" "intuitive" show up more than any others in the open ended textarea.

We've made Basecamp a lot better over the years. Some people still ask for more. Others say it's too complicated and they wish it was even simpler.

Software development is a challenge. Everyone wants something different. So you do what you can to thread the needle and make as many of the right customers as happy as possible. Not everyone is the right customer.

It sucks to lose a customer because we did something wrong, but it's OK to lose a customer if we just aren't the right fit anymore. People move on from all sorts of things. Clothes, houses, cars, jobs, relationships... Why not software? As circumstances change, one product may not fit someone forever. That's OK as long as it fits plenty of other people at the same time.

Some customers stick with you forever. Others come and go. Many who go come back after trying other tools that promise them more but that no one actually used. In the end, the tool that actually gets used is the one that's the right fit for someone. It's really really hard to get people to actually use things.

We've found that the simplest stuff is what actually gets used. It's why email is still the world's most popular project management tool.
Did you start it with the intention of profiting? I think the OP is specifically looking for unprofitable-but-awesome ventures. For example, curing AIDS because you want people to not have AIDS is awesome, but curing AIDS because you want to sell AIDS medicine is not awesome.
...this is a really valuable communication...

not so sure about that, it's simply a copy/paste of his comment on the forum. I wouldn't hang about waiting for a reply
Have you seen the gcc backend?
Question: Who wants to work for a government that locks up its citizens for using TrueCrypt or exploring around, as the hackers they have now grew up? It seems to me that they have cut off their "user base" from the very thing it requires to exist.
I remember when that happened. Cancelled my sub immediately afterwards. The reasoning was to kill real money trading by any means possible. The problem with runescape at the time was that the economy started to revolve around using alchemy to transmute mainly items into gold, adding new money to the system, and each step along the way was incredibly repetitive and easily bottable, resulting in a feedback loop. I'm not quite sure why Jagex thought their solutions were the best available, seeing as fixing all prices hurts the entire economy unnecessarily.
There were hundreds of times that we should have "folded."

Was one of those times being, oh, I dunno, $180k in personal debt? Just pulled that number out of thin air (didn't happen to me personally), but I would disagree (as would your bankers/financiers/investors) that there is never a time to 'give up'. You could perhaps mask it as a 'pivot' (or whatever term is in vogue at the time) but "giving up" is something some people eventually have to do.

Congrats on doing $1M in business. Realize that you didn't get there solely because you didn't give up, though. There were other factors involved beyond just "keeping on keeping on". I don't even know what those factors were, but they existed.
Virtual riots. Fascinating. SPACE ANARCHY!

Are they destroying in-game property by their actions? Or is it just noise? The post talks about the capital 'burning.'

All we need now is lulzsec to inject their galleon into the server to take everyone's credits in some kind of hilarious mirroring of the mtgox debacle.

Surely the opportunity for nautical/piratical double entendre, and apocalyptic nerd-drama is too much for them to resist?

EDIT: do the SA forums still control the eve universe these days?
I think this really comes down to basic economics. Talking about a "shortage" of something is equivalent to saying the market isn't clearing: that there's more demand than supply. And having more demand than supply is equivalent to the price being too low. Salaries for developers, inflation-adjusted, have remained essentially the same since the dot-com boom. Meanwhile, salaries for bankers and consultants and lawyers have exploded. The results of this should be obvious.

You guys want people to major in computer science? Pay them to. I'm sure that the DoD and Google and Microsoft would all like to hire top people for $50,000 a year. But that isn't the way markets work. If I want a Ferrari, I can't refuse to pay more than $10,000, and then complain about a "Ferrari shortage" because no one will sell me one at that price.
I suggest working to deprecate the glorification of sports stars, actors, rock musicians, and other careers that don't contribute to the advancement of humanity.

Demonstrate the wonders of STEM fields, and do so in a non-hokey manner (I've seen the government ads and the ACM ads, they are terrible).

Instead of bubble-heads on the evening news, work to have thoughtful people providing the voice of the country. Work to have authorities in those fields providing discussion and commentary.

Work to raise the national mind past football, movies and booze and towards deeper understanding and discussion of real issues.

I believe that with an increase in the average thought level, we will suddenly find more geeks in our midst.
Evidence of it being mounted could exist, for instance in his shell history.
You can also export your data in HTML format so you can still view your projects locally on your own computer:

http://help.37signals.com/basecamp/questions/164-can-we-expo...
It just says "Contact me with my name," which is clearly "Terreta." And I assume he means aol.com.
which school did you go to and what were the web apps?
Some countries (Malaysia, that I'm familiar with) actually have notes of a different physical size within the country. For example, the dimensions of the five ringitt and twenty ringitt note are different. I believe this is what the GP was referring to.