skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you define high web ranking? And why to limit your 5 keyword benchmark queries on such sites?

One of the key features for me in a search engine is that it searches data from as many sources as possible.
There's an economic justification for the current type of IP law in societies that philosophically believe that the free market should be used whenever possible to determine the allocation of resources. It goes like this:

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It can be shown by the mathematical economics folks that the free market leads to economically optimum results if and only if the goods in the market have certain attributes.

If goods do not have those attributes, the free market does not work with those goods in the sense that it does not lead to a good allocation of resources.

Intellectual goods do not have those attributes. Therefore the free market does not work for intellectual goods.

If we want to have optimal allocation of resources to the production of intellectual goods, we either need some mechanism other than the free market (e.g., patronage, probably by the government) or we need to pretend that intellectual goods DO have the necessary attributes. Our current IP law takes the later approach.

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Nearly every anti-current-IP-system opinion I've read (including the submitted article and most of the comments here so far) fails to propose how to achieve reasonable allocation of resources using some system other than the current system (except for RMS...he's one of the few who gets it--see below).

At best we usually get suggestions that creators of intellectual goods will find something else to do. For instance, musicians will give concerts, writers will make their living doing contract articles, programmers will provide customization or support, and so on.

Those suggestions are missing the point. When a great novelist is spending time writing articles, he's not writing his next great novel. When a great programmer is handling tech support, he's not writing great programs. Those resources are not being optimally allocated.

RMS has suggested that there be a tax on internet connectivity, with the money going to fund creators of intellectual goods, with distribution of the money based on the cube root of popularity.
They should probably just change the default to disallow re-sharing on limited posts. I found the disable re-share option immediately but my wife didn't notice it due to the low contrast of the drop down button on each post.

I'm a little more concerned with the fact that you can see who a limited post was shared with by clicking on the limited link next to posts. It should be pretty simple to figure out who your friends have placed in their circles by looking at who their limited posts were shared with.
Who Is The Guy Typing In Your Startup?
If, for some strange reason you want to use Javascript encryption, why not use the more well established SJCL?
You can remove 8, 7 , 1 ,2... in fact, any digit and that will make the series convergent. You can go further. Remove 'any' group of digits that occurs in the series repeatedly (say, all terms with 373737 somewhere in it) and the series will converge. This is because as the terms get bigger, it becomes increasingly common to find your chosen 'digit' in almost all the terms, thus making the series convergent.
I used wifi all day at work the past weeks without much problems, but I can understand your frustration if it suddenly eats up a lot of power. After 7 hours idling today my phone is at 81% battery now, but I have only been on the phone for like 20 minutes earlier today so "Android OS" and "Voice calls" have about 25 minutes of cpu usage each, while maps has 15% today for some reason.

My phone runs stock samsung android since I just got it:

Android 2.3.3 GINGERBREAD.XWKE2 Linux Kernel 2.6.35.7
I'm here because I think California's climate for business is great. What I need is smart, well-educated, creative workers. I need reliable infrastructure. I need great universities. I need a broad-minded culture, so creative oddballs feel comfortable, and talent from overseas feels like they could make a life here.

There isn't anything on this list you can't find in Texas. Those workers will move where the jobs are, especially if the cost of living is lower. Even the oddballs. California's infrastructure (including universities) is getting creaky and decrepit after years of underfunding; I'm amused you listed it in the plus column.

We have one big remaining advantage over Texas: weather.
But it would be wrong to suggest that people shouldn't place an upper bound on their spending because the average case is lower.

The loss of a computer might not be financially disastrous. The loss of another gadget might not be, either. But if you get a bad roll and lose multiple things within a short period of time, do you think you can withstand it financially? That is the real question. Don't look at these things in isolation.
Why, if you have plenty of money, would you make a decision based entirely on saving a few dollars and possibly losing some conveniences at the same time?

For example, I was in a car accident on 880 in Oakland that was staged by insurance fraudsters. I had no clue; I was just a little worried because superficially it looked like my fault but it really wasn't. My insurance company knew right away what was going on. My end of it was limited to talking to them on the phone a few times, and they took care of everything else.

Also, consider your insurance company's ability to deal with the other driver's insurance company. Insurance companies are relatively civilized with each other, because they don't want lawsuits driving up their costs, but will they be fair with an uninsured driver who is negotiating on his own behalf? They might be fair after you hire a lawyer, but that costs money and time.

I get that the willingness to take on huge hassles to save a few bucks is one way people get ahead in the first place, but it's no way to enjoy your money if you've got it.
Safely Storing Passwords | James Aitken [blogs.perl.org]
I read an American company is trying to make one in the north of Chile. It's because they really need energy (they're currently using coal and diesel to keep the lights on in the north) and there's not a whole lot of bio-anything to protect there. I think it's a great idea, but a lot of people don't.
It might be. We won't know for another decade when we can look back and see where dynamism was.
> I didn't expect the recommendations to be right for my name (they weren't close).

how do you know? it's recommendations, not your current preferences. if you listen to break-bit-hard-core-metal-funk, it may recommend you some Tchaikovsky
They're also making a lot of enemies in the progress. They run the risk as well of being perceived to be getting stale which has plagued MS for the past decade. A potential mounting list of failures doesn't help a reputation.
This would be more interesting if you addressed the things I actually said, rather than the straw men you find most convenient to argue against.
i raised none, tomorrow i land a job to feed mah kids.
Concurrency and Redis
Does Dropbox keep a revision history of your 1password data? It does that by default with other files.

If there is a Dropbox breach, I would want to prevent hackers from getting their hands on older versions of my passwords locked with an outdated (eg, no longer top secret) master password.
Agree - It'd sure be nice to know what the subscriber volume and hit rate was before dropping $100 + on a listing.
Domarate | Reveal the quality of your domain names
If you statically link, will it only run on the latest platform? I don't believe I've ever shipped an app that dynamically linked to the MSVCRT.
More clarifications from Dropbox blog
Yes. This has been happening for a long time:
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/business/24road.html

The 9th circuit court already ruled it permissible.

The Association of Corporate Travel Executives put out this warning:

"ACTE’s advice to business travelers states:

1. That you should not carry any confidential, personal information that you do not want examined by third parties on your computer – or other electronic devices. This includes financial data, photographs, and email stored on computers, wireless phones, Blackberries, or iPod-type devices.

2. That you should limit the amount of proprietary business information you carry on your computer, and that it be transmitted before crossing the border so you have access to it in the event your unit is seized.

3. If your laptop also serves as your major home computer, get another one for travel purposes.

4. The Association of Corporate Travel Executives is not advising travelers to hide data from U.S. border authorities, but to take steps to minimize the impact of its loss, or the inability to access it, in the event it is seized."

Source: http://www.eturbonews.com/2264/ninth-circuit-court-rules-bor...
The issue as I see it is they're pushing the burden of collecting taxes onto out-of-state companies. California, like most (all?) other states with sales tax, has a use tax that is to be paid by the constituent if sales tax is not collected by the merchant. Use tax requires honesty on the part of the constituent, or tax audits, and I'm guessing they're not having much luck with either. So, CA wants to push that on out-of-state merchants to reduce their own burden.

Having inadvertently formed nexus in other states before, I can assure it's an absolute pain in the neck to deal with. The author here muddies the issue with his anti-tax stance, but I can wholly empathize with anyone that doesn't want to become a CA tax collector due to some rewrite of what constitutes nexus.
How was your accident staged? That sounds interesting.
Still says it's closed? (Checking from the UK)

Also I know it's probably considered trivial, but why are Google calling it a 'project'? I.e. calling it merely a 'project' sounds like this is a bit of fun by Google and that they aren't taking it seriously?
Wow, that's crazy! Oh, wait, in Oakland, nevermind. :)

But I think this is a red herring because the fraudsters wanted to sue you for damages like a fake neck injury or something. So it's your liability insurance that would pay (or call them out on their fraud). And liability insurance is legally required (and is probably a good idea anyway, for theoretical reasons described in the article, as well as your anecdote).

The article is just arguing against buying things collision insurance.
Oh man. That's a sad, sad, loss if true.
I'm not seeing anything that indicates whether they differentiated between area codes/numbers and geographical locations of the caller and callee.

I suspect, however, area code/number analysis would be easier. Example: Alice lives in Atlanta, but kept her St. Louis number so that her mom with a land line can call her without long distance fees. So when Alice calls mom from Atlanta, it's a call from Atlanta. Bob lives in St. Louis but travels to Atlanta on business. When Bob calls his wife in St. Louis on his St. Louis number from Atlanta, should that be a call from Atlanta back to St. Louis?
Yes, but kod's development is slow.
Wow thanks a lot for the feedback guys.
Yes, it uses hunch. I could be wrong but hunch didn't have a way an unregistered user could just enter the twitter username and get the recommendations.
Also, it was my first attempt at using apis and it was meant as a learning experience more than anything.
Technically, this class is intro to CS and EE; almost a third, if not more, is spent on EE subjects, and students should know python before this class. 6.00 is a class that specifically teaches CS and python.
I disagree with the author.
I see no point in making my conversations accessable for everyone, especially if they cant actively participate in them.

There is no need in grouping your friends in any way, just create a circle with all your friends and those will behave the same way facebook does,at least if I got it right (by the time I got my invite it was already full).
I think there is a difference in what I want my friends and family to know about me and what people I just know but have no deeper relationship with should know.
Posting something publicly would make it accessible for everyone, twitterlike.
There is a benchmark of search engines over Russian internet, and its results seem to actually mean something.
http://analyzethis.ru/?&lang=en
So buy extended warranties on all your electronics in case everything breaks at once and you couldn't afford to replace them all?

That's too far-fetched for me. I'd assume that you could scrape together enough money (especially with all the money you saved not buying extended warranties!) to replace the most critical things first and the rest later.
Show HN: Use your mac as an alarm clock without any special alarm clock apps
That is the case, and it's a big problem. NRC regulations for example require "fuel integrity," which doesn't exist with liquid fuel.

Sorenson's company plans to market initially to the military, which has need of compact energy sources for remote bases and isn't constrained by the NRC.
Nope, they didn't claim any injuries. They staged the accident using a car that was already damaged.
Hm. If two people were fitbit users, google could automatically +1 depending on the duration. I predict a new saying: "I'd +1 that".
That is a nice feature. thanks.
That's cool, but doesn't everyone use their cell phone as their alarm clock?
I've studied this for years and haven't found any credible reason why we couldn't do this today.

But there are a lot of forces allied against Thorium in both the government, energy companies and the current nuclear industry.

Senator Hatch (R) Utah with support from Harry Reid (D) Nevada has introduced a bill annually for five years to fund $200 million to research to commercialize Thorium power. Yet every year the bill never even gets voted on.

http://hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=releases&Cont...

What is stopping Google itself from funding this I don't know? Our country should make this a major initiative similar to the race to the moon and get us off coal, oil and gas.
Thanks for the info, I'll check into it. I agree there are lots of complexities here and finding the "lowest resting state" economically is difficult.

Maybe someone should write a program that does this ...
It could have been many more, if only the sold the damn thing in the US... ;)
Mozilla Firefox 5, why it matters and what difference it'll make
Flagged. Still in limited trial.
I'm not "asking for approval". I'm asking for your definition of free speech.
Interesting. I tried it and it gave lists of magazines I read and tv shows I watch, probably because I have the word "prog" which is short for "program" in my twitter username.

Feedback: I have the same opinion as vijaydev, you should keep the form input on the top, it would be more convenient. Also, it's a bit slow, took me sometimes more than 20 seconds to load the recommendations. And possible bug: When you press on GO multiple times the loading image appears several times on the page.

Nice job, for a first application.
In theory you can, but nobody makes bombs with U233 because it's easier to make bombs in other ways.

It seems to me that the real question for proliferation is not "is it theoretically possible to make bombs with this," but rather "if you wanted to make bombs and you had this technology, would you use it to make your bombs, or would you still prefer other methods?"
People are engaging in activity Y.

Activity Y is not profitable.

How can we control the internet to make Activity Y profitable?

Suggesting folks engaged in Activity Y figure it out is not an acceptable response.

I can't help but feel this is a false dilemma. What about Activity A B and C that aren't profitable? Shouldn't we care about the proliferation and development of all these activities? Furthermore, maybe folks engaging in Activity Y should just evolve and adopt to the modern climate of the digital age. See GNU/Linux.
Seems like the opening isn't rolled out to all nodes yet but everyone I've talked to is seeing:

Join Google+
Just sign in with your Google account to start using the new parts of Google

I also just got a flood of new connection notifications.
My view on this, is that insurance companies are performing arbitrage across objective functions. Insurance companies car about the expected return of their premiums. For individual car-owners, it's not the expected value that matters so much, it's that you don't want to not have a car. In other words, they're optimizing against the Minimax objective function (minimizing the maximum loss). The insurance company can average across hundreds of accidents, but an individual car-owner cannot. So yeah, if you look at the expected values of your premiums, it's a loss. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's a sucker's bet.

This is, of course, predicated on the idea that a car accident is a relatively catastrophic event. If you have enough money in savings that you can sign a check and walk away, than it's not really in that category anymore, and the Minimax may not make sense as an objective function. So, I guess I do agree with the headline, just not the article behind it.
I got my first jobs via Craigslist and still get many of them that way. Aim high instead of starting with crappy jobs and working our way up- having a good portfolio is actually better than having a lot of clients or references.
The point of the example is to explain pointers by starting with a more familiar concept: indexed arrays. It would help if you were referring to the book; the authors note more than once that "the programs are intended to be illustrative, not bullet-proof."

Understanding the precedence and order of evaluation of operators is fundamental to mastery of any programming language (chapter 2.12 in K&R). All C code must "rely on" the order of operations, and if an indirect assignment through a pointer with post-increment is confusing... well that's the point I was making in the first place.
Agree with the article as a general principle, but there are some exceptions.

By definition, successful insurance companies are offering negative expected value bets to their customers, all else being equal.

But all else isn't equal. The insurance company has efficient legal representation, so a situation with legal liability might be +EV for both of you. The insurance could cost you less than (legal fees + damages)*chance-of-event, whereas the insurance company specializes in the case law and has in-house staff, meaning lower legal fees and lower average damages/settlements.

Sometimes insurance is tax advantaged. And it can take stress of your head. And they might take some time hassle off your head - a girl I dated some years back got the full maintenance/insurance package from the dealer when she bought a car, which I thought was crazy... but then she knew that all she needed to do was stop at the dealership instead of screwing around with mechanics, and they treated her very nicely consistently. Your time in a situation like that might be worth more than the bucks you save.

So yeah, all else being equal, insurance on things you can eat the cost of isn't a good buy. But all else isn't always equal.
Yes. In my mind kickstarter.com is also the solution to the intelectual property problem. How can, knowledge workers, for instance musicians, earn money in the 21. century? Simple, charge upfront before publishing.

Imagine a popular band like U2 would ask for the money, they expect from their next album, upfront. I think, their fans, including me, would do what ever it takes to raise that money together. Et voila, you can still become rich as musician without mega concerts or a police state.

I've been talking about this solution with my friends for years. We never made it happen. Now kickstarter.com is here. But I'm still waiting for a large adaptation in the music or game industry. Is it just a question of time and promotion or am I'm overlooking something important?
Since you seem to have the hang of JS already, you could try Node.js for the backend. You can reuse the same Models you've created in backbone, and choose your favorite DB from among Node's offerings (MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis or just plain ol' MySQL).
> It's mathematically impossible for it to be a good idea to buy this!

No more than any other form of insurance. Insurance companies make a profit, but that hardly makes it a bad idea to buy insurance. I'd be rather screwed if my family were responsible for the seven figures of medical care we've incurred in the last two years.
I am truly insuring against fraudsters. If someone does attempt to defraud me by way of a staged automobile accident, the insurance company is there to take on the responsibility of enacting the legal system to bring the perpetrators to "justice." That's really the benefit of insurance.
Here are the original videos:

The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHs2Ugxo7-8

Aim High: Using Thorium Energy to Address Environmental Problems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgKfS74hVvQ

Lessons for the Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactor (from history)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZR0UKxNPh8
It's very easy to say someone else should work for nothing and do additional work to earn money.

Do you have a free-job that consumes most of your time, and a paid-job you fit in around it?
I'm his wife. Sadly, the reports are true; I've been visiting family in the States and I got the call from the Leuven police department a couple of hours ago.

He was the most brilliant man I ever met, and I still can't believe this is happening.
Since they will probably block this soon and get Google to flush its public cache, here's are some examples (with user tokens redacted):

Google results: https://img.skitch.com/20110703-r79t4swrjt3e2akwh3xdfbcrsg.p...

Part of a profile: https://img.skitch.com/20110703-cwmhwiicewy6hh5xw67ctwrq7m.p...
Another factor, though, is that insurance companies don't just put premiums in a lockbox and pay out as needed, they invest the premiums and thus have more capital than what the customers paid in.
People usually like to see a portfolio of pretty projects if you're a UI person. Got a website with some work on it? It would certainly help having one. In fact, you might even get a few jobs from here! =)

Once you have one, print a nice business card with your website on it.

Start networking. Meetup.com has programing / startup / business type meetups... go them all! Be nice, have fun, listen to what people say, and when the opportunity comes up - usually when they ask you what you do (people are interested in you if you're interested in them), tell them you're a UI designer. Give them your card. Take their card. Send them an email telling them how glad you were to meet them (which, you were).

Place an ad on Craigslist / other popular classifieds sites. I know someone who started getting UI work this way.
Ask HN: JS-heavy apps revealing business logic on frontend?
I'd like a better informed opinion on this, but with the torrent of JS-heavy frontend web apps these days, isn't there a risk of revealing some potentially compromising security flaws if someone simply opens up the downloaded .js file and studies it carefully?
Wouldn't it make more sense to tuck away all the meat of the app in the backend and only use frontend JS for UX/UI updates?
It's easier to make them other ways at the moment, because U233 isn't common. But popularize and reduce the cost of this cycle, as well as claiming it's "proliferation resistant" and hence suitable for export to non-members of the we-got-nukes club, may well lead to weapons being made out of it.
Really, again? When I have an own opinion here that does not follow the mainstream, I just get downvoted without any arguments. Why is it so bad to have your sex duration published but its okay that your jogging performance visible to the world?
I completely agree. There is only one good use case for the Web Intents API: sharing. But sharing should have a simple non-generic HTML tag and JS API just for that.

There's no other purpose for this unnecessarily generic API.