skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now we're just being pedantic. My point was that each branch should have enough cash to act as a "proper bank", whatever amount of money you'd reasonably expect one to have in its vault.

But I'd sure expect more than 10k euro.
Even the forced slant in that "round-up" doesn't really serve to justify the conclusion in its last sentence. There is also no coherent argument that a dubious origin necessarily implies the lack of useful premise.

The Internet and personal computing technology indeed add "roll-your-own" options to publishing and completing a work that did not exist beforehand. But, at this point, they certainly have not replaced the need for the (sometimes creative) work done to support the work of authors. Things like: editing, typesetting, music production, video post-processing etc.

What happens when the publishing model is dead? Look at poetry. Poets still write, and some of it is decent. However, big publishers won't touch a poetry book that isn't a classic or a guaranteed sale anthology. Smaller imprints will usually only bother if the book has won a prize. In a number of cases authors pay a reading fee to enter contests, and the fee pays for the publishing of the book in a near break even scenario. In the case where poems are published on the internet, there's a small but arguable respectable audience, however there's no money changing hands whatsoever. Poets have second jobs, I know some who just gave up, who went into finance and law. I'll grant that lack of market is more of an issue as copying in this case, but publishers can help make markets. It should be easy to see how the effects are related. That is to say:

What's the difference between a bitcoin and a poem? You can buy food with a bitcoin.

Not everyone wants to be a sustenance farmer for a living.
It's a basic right, if you spend a year writing a book, you are the one who have the rights to sell it and thus make money from your work. Same with software, a GPL license would be worthless without copyright.
I'm not a prolific enough Twitter user, so I didn't expect the recommendations to be right for my name (they weren't close).

I tried using the names of some friends who do tweet/follow/are followed a lot but the site doesn't seem to be working at this time.

It's a neat concept/idea. Would love to hear a little bit of the background behind it.
Google, gimme the Meat already; Mr.Easy-Twitter does
Check your password strength with Microsoft Safety & Security Center.
You do know that california gives more to the federal government than it receives, to keep shit states such as alabama and the like propped up? You do know that if california did not have to pay out to the federal government there would be no financial issues of any kind?

Of course you didn't.
With great power comes great responsibility. ;)
CyanogenMod is a customized aftermarket firmware for Android devices
What does that mean though? The Samsung Galaxy Tab has no sign of Android 3.1 on it; the latest is 2.3, and last I checked it was only available in Italy; people in the UK are on 2.2 and have been waiting months. According to another comment on this post, the Galaxy S II is already an update behind.

What qualifies as a timely update?
That is my problem right now, I won't buy an android until cyanogen runs on it and it is easily rooted, so when my droid first gen finally broke I actually ended up buying an iphone as all the comparative weren't listed as meeting my requirements.

I hope when my iphone breaks the ecosystem is better (so far I only really miss native gmail and having an actual filesystem to use with the apps.)
Apache Hadoop Goes Realtime at Facebook (pdf)
And yet many projects reach the same equilibrium. Some of the biggest jerks are also the best contributors. And then you can't throw them out without making the project quality suffer.

Is being a jerk strongly correlated with skill of any kind?

Or are the jerky-but-competent driving away some nice-but-competent people?

Is jerkiness strongly correlated with being motivated to contribute to open source? Perhaps for these people, their lack of social skills means their career is somewhat stunted.

Is there something about bad behavior, exhibited by a skilled or high-status person, that is more infective of community values than good behavior? Thus the former tend to dominate, as everybody else adopts the asshole attitude? I've seen this in at least two OSS communities.
No mention of advertising?
A single Quine for 11 languages
Another interesting one is that if you remove everything but the prime numbers, it still diverges. So there are more primes than numbers without a 9 in them.
Many people claim you can't, due to fact it's generally a mixture of U232 as well, which will decay rapidly and cook your detonator/firing mechanism, but a couple of interesting comments I found suggest a liquid fuel would be amenable to continuous separation:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/03/question...

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/03/question...

The MET test of Operation Teapot being the first example of a successful U233 firing: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Teapot.html
Doesn't hunch already do this for me?
The way I earn a living is the same way most musicians earn a living: By working for hire or teaching (consulting).

There are about 10,000 books that make any measurable money at all, at any given time, and only a small fraction of those earn the authors enough to live on. Even famous authors of widely read books often have a "day job."

Books I have co-authored are "pirated," mainly in markets where wages are lower than would support a local edition at local pricing. My publisher does not use DRM on e-books, and e-books still rapidly outpaced paper books.

If you do the thought experiment, lack of copyright protection or a significantly shorter term of copyright, or some other variant, like a publishers' agreement not to trespass on other publishers' author relationships for some term, would not change my direct income from book writing very much.

Publishing would adapt: Books might be serialized so that subscribers get first access on a continuing basis. Or frequent editions (which you might see anyway, with e-books) might become the norm.

Apart from the handful of authors of "blockbusters" the book publishing economy would not change that much. We have made, and are protecting at great expense a novel result: A small number of authors, musicians, motion-picture makers, etc. can make big money through mass-reproduction of their works.

Is that an advancement of civilization worth subverting all the potential for free expression the Internet provides, or not?
The ratio of plutonium needed to seed and convert thorium into fissionable uranium-233 is very high (0.8:1)
If you want to use a war analogy, Google isn't really fighting a 6 front war at all. They're sitting comfortably in their search advertising castle, and playing guerrilla warfare everywhere else.

Google is attacking Apple/Facebook/Microsoft with free products, and is betting their entire company that they will win by attrition, or that their search revenue will continue to fund their efforts.
Whenever I see posts like this, I have to ask the question: How can code be improved if nobody criticizes it? I can sense the ableist vibe of this blog post, but in general, the ability to say, frankly, that somebody's code is bad is essential for teaching that person how to write good code. I've seen far too many students get away with writing horrible code simply because there isn't a TA on the planet willing to directly point out what's wrong with their algorithms or logic.

In other disciplines, like music (something in which I have quite a bit of experience), criticism is essential. The best teachers I ever had were the ones who were unafraid to tell me exactly what I was doing wrong. One class was taught in a group setting, and the instructor told us at the beginning of class that he usually made people feel uncomfortable, and that thick skins would be required. He had a habit of pointing out what you were doing wrong in the middle of class, not for humiliation, but so that the entire class could learn from example. Best class I've ever taken in that department.
Its true that copyrights aren't very much like monopolies in the economic sense, but they grew out of the the older, legal meaning of that term. Back In The Day the grown would sell patents granting the owner a monopoly over the production of some good as a way of raising money quickly. This practice has quite thankfully died out as a way of raising revenue, but our current system of assigning exclusive rights to creators grew directly out of it. The Wikipedia article on the Statute of Monopolies is pretty interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Monopolies_1623
I don't know if the author intended to imply that, but I don't read that any place in the article. It does mention entering data for times when wearing your device is inappropriate.

That said, I don't think the thing could possibly tell the difference between jostling around on a ladder and hugs-n-kisses.
Regarding Search, it's impressive how far Google is. Blekko, Bing, Yahoo fails with good results in queries including few keywords.

I don't know why we don't have good Web Search Engine Benchmarks.
While I agree that our current intellectual property system is doing a great deal of harm (particularly due to it being slanted in favor of monied interests), there is a protect-the-little-guy rationale for some form of copyright.

Let's imagine a world without copyright. Suppose I spend a year writing a novel. This novel is great; it has the capacity to become the #1 bestseller, provided the right marketing is there. I go to my publisher and enter into a contract saying that I'll let them read my manuscript in exchange for them promising not to publish or sell it until we've worked out a deal.

So far so good. Contracts keep me protected in the world without copyright. I give them the manuscript, they love it, and they publish it.

All is well until a huge publishing company notices my book and starts printing and marketing it, without paying me or my publisher a dime. They manage to sell 100 times as many copies as my publisher, because mine is a small, independent operation, and the big company has a sophisticated and well-funded marketing machine.

This is one area where intellectual property laws, if properly designed, would protect smaller entities against larger ones. And that's where I think the real value of (hypothetical) intellectual property laws lies.
Criticism of the work != condemnation of the person
Sexual Activity Tracked By Fitbit Shows Up In Google Search Results
I can't say for sure, but as a Greek-American living in Denmark, I don't think any of the three nationalities I have contact with would be particularly happy about a publicly broadcast log of every time they have sex, especially if they didn't realize it was happening. Sex might be natural, but publicly posting a sex-diary is unusual at best.
easiest way for a government to bag some money is to liberalize to the private by means of copyrights. but what it does it slowly slaving it self to the private. one fine day the private will own the public completely and even copyright the constitution. so no other country can have its right to have rights.. pathetic system.
Similarly with Movable-Type's implementation: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/aes.html

http://www.movable-type.co.uk/ contains several very useful resources for implementing JS crypto.
Can you be more specific? Which output of clang are you referring to?
Why so offensively? :) English isn't my native...
Actually, in my case, it is interfering. The affiliate tax thing cuts off an important source of revenue for my business. I only recently moved to CA specifically because of the valley's reputation for startups. Now I am doubting that decision.

For the record I should state that I am not opposed to taxes at all. But this affiliate tax completely blocks an entire class of income. It is disheartening to think that here in Silicon Valley I am actually disadvantaged in a big way compared to competitors. Still, the real advantage is the talent pool. But you know, the talent pool is around only as long as business can afford to exist.
Sure, I'm pat@ninite.com
I think "intellectual property" is an excellent example to use when distinguishing between free markets and capitalism. Free markets and IP are opposed for the same reasons that free markets are opposed to any other government granted monopoly. But IP laws extend the reach of capitalism into places that might be outside it without legal assistance.
I don't man any kind of certification or tests... I just meant knowing English fluently.
Not "California", California residents. You are referring to US income tax, which is the same everywhere. Yes, it bleeds money out of our state. But I don't understand HTF you make the leap that this is the cause of all of our fiscal problems.
I am beginning to feel like kickstarter.com is one of the most important websites of the decade. I love how it basically solves the organisation problem for open source projects requiring capital up front. It gives me great pleasure to throw $10 or $20 into the pot of some of these projects; not only because I feel it's generally the right thing to do but also because of the giddy possibility that one of them could turn out to be, well, the internet of the physical world, the democratising tool that changed everything.

I don't have the time or, frankly, the space to build my own CNC machine right now but damn I'd like to have one one day. Projects like this (there are many more of course) make it possible so I have nothing but thanks. And thanks to kickstarter too, for fulfilling this huge need.

I also like looking at the profiles of the other backers of a project and seeing what else they supported. There are a decent number of people there who are really pouring money into open source hardware projects; it's exciting and has a real Homebrew Computer Club feel to it. Wonder who's going to be Apple.

* I have no connection with this project, have not even donated yet, just love to see this emerging trend/capability/paradigm shift ..
I was thinking over how Google+ fits in my everyday life. To me G+ is a perfect email addition, email with social networking. G+ allows me to address my posts to an individual, circles, public and have a social element to every way I communicate.

What I would like to see in G+:

* Search like in GMail

* Ability to read my email

Though, these are just my initial thoughts and we have yet to see how people would start using G+.
To be fair, the only reason this info is public is the person is 'tagging' the activity. By default all tagged links in delicious are public and that makes sense. If you tag an activity like this on fitbit, you should mark it private.

I have a fitbit and I can't for the life of me figure out why people would start tagging every activity they do and start and end times... but if they are adding tags, comments, and other personal details they should mark it all private.
Either way, there is no privacy. It is always possible to take a screenshot, and share the screenshot publicly.

The only solution against it, which I'm able to come up with quickly, is Google Plus adding subtle watermarks identifying uniquely each recipient.
Sort of reminds me of Blippy sharing credit card numbers, except that was by accident not design

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/apr/26/blippy-credi...
> Is there a major technical hurdle ... ?

That's exactly my question, too. So I tried to find some alternative view on that topic. Unfortunately, I only found some criticism of questionable quality ...

http://www.ieer.org/fctsheet/thorium2009factsheet.pdf

... as well as a rebuttal of questionable quality:

http://energyfromthorium.com/2011/03/23/sorensen-rebuttal/
We used to be Volery at getvolery.com but pg advised us to change that since Dropbox had such a hard time eventually getting dropbox.com.
Ask HN: Please review my startup
Hi

My startup is [name redacted] and is a platform for running contests on. (web or facebook).

I have been working on it for the last 3 months part time.

I have been getting quite a few users just at the 400 user mark now with quite a lot of positive feedback.

The main feedback I want is regarding growth and marketing.

The only differentiating point my software has at the moment is it has a free option. Oddly enough other contest platforms do not offer a free option, or if they do I haven't found them yet.

I have the roadmap written down for building on this platform a type of contest much more engaging and unique than other offerings out there.

This will be my first unique spin in the niche.

But that is going to take more time and development. My question is: Do I start marketing now, or will it be unheard until I can actually market something unique?

Also if you could please have a look over the site and tell me if the message / UI is clear.
(More) tips for writing well
I think the site is getting data from Hunch itself...In the footer it shows powered by Hunch
Black Hole Math for grades 7 through 12
Large numbers tend to have a large number of digits.

Given a number with N digits, the probability that it doesn't have any 9s is (9/10)^N because each digit is equally likely at a position.

(9/10)^N becomes very small as N becomes large, so the probability of a large number not having 9s is 0.
On a public account on Daytum.com I once came across a chart in which a couple seemed to be logging their sexual positions, including "what what in the butt."

Daytum is pretty much anonymous are far as the end user goes, there's no name or "social" information to an account, but it was pretty funny and doubt they knew other people could see that data.
Brett Cosby (founder of Urchin / Google Analytics) was interviewed by the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader seminar. He touches on why Analytics is free, as well as a weath of other interesting information:

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1905
... or integrate it into Google+ recommendations.
Thanks for the feedback. The lighter designs we've been using lately are much more readable (they've pretty much eliminated common questions about things we already say on the homepage). That block of logos is just temporary, we just put the current design up a week ago and haven't had much time to iterate on it yet.
Why isn't the email submit on the front page?
Am I the only one who wants to know what the numbers that were not even numbers were? What does that mean?
Apple sells a lot more 4s than 3GSes.
The most common 'gotcha' is that you can't make a thorium reactor critical with just thorium. It needs 'boost' neutrons. The most way that was done in the past was a small bit of uranium or plutonium that was critical to provide the neutrons. A more innovative way is to use a small particle accellerator to provide the thorium with neutrons [1].

[1] http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-pint-sized-particle-nucl...
Yes, that is wrong -- it seems covered by the ethics of lying/truth-telling (from Kant, it is contradictory: if lying were a universal rule, it would destroy the possibility of communication in general).

But IP is about more than just clear attribution. And clear attribution is not dependent on IP -- we can have it without the other IP features. So a justification of attribution is not sufficient to support IP too.
(While the third party didn't have to write your work, they nevertheless would have to do a lot of work themselves to make a profit from it.)

This is both bad and wrong. I will attempt to explain why for each.

It is bad on the level that it creates an exchange of sweat of the brow work with originality. That is to say if I copied someone else's book in the more laborious way, I'm more allowed to copy it and make profit. As Justice O'Connor said in Feist, "The sine qua non of copyright is originality." Hard work does not equal good or useful work-- ask Sisyphus.

It is wrong for two reasons. The first is that roll-your-own publishing options are available to an author, and all someone would have to do to make a profit is copy your book from lulu, blurb or whatever ebook publisher you use and post it again with a lower price. The second is that, even if republishing was its own difficult endeavor, the gain a copycat has is simply waiting for success. A publisher who spends money on editing, typesetting, marketing and binding must print a number of books before turning a profit. A copycat publisher can simply wait until it appears a book will be successful before undercutting. This is a drastic reduction in cost and income risk, and it's definitely unfair.
Feedback:

When showing the list of recommendations, keep the form with the inputs on top, so that I can change my option right there and see the next set. Going back (honestly I had to search for that link) and choosing again is tedious.

Also, for some reason, the twitter user name was gone and I've to type it every time. But I guess that could be my browser, not sure. (Linux 11.04, Chrome)
As an engineer, I'm naturally fond of doing more with less. And California obviously has substantial problems. But the "tax cuts = patriotism = awesome" meme has nothing to do with efficiency. Indeed, I think it's a big cause of inefficiency. California's biggest structural problem is the insane mess created by Proposition 13, the result of a previous wave of anti-tax fervor.

There's also no discernment about what to cut, or how. Every hacker knows that optimization always requires a firm grasp of the details, and that a well-optimized system requires long-term thinking and investment.

If this guy were proposing particular fixes, I'd be totally in favor of that. But his only proposed fix is "please allow me to continue taking advantage of a quirky sales tax loophole". While, of course, running his business via a medium created by government-funded research. So no, I'm pretty sure he's in the IGMFY camp.
How does that make terms with the 9 special?
Some data about this - http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/266.html
What if you wrote fiction?
...Way to shit on this obviously great, cross-platform, multi-device-compatible open source project.

caludio: this looks great, and will certainly come in handy for lots of people, including myself. Thanks!
It doesn't, this is true for any digit.
You're papering over some things here to make your point. Like the fact that "equivalent engineers" is an expensive proposition. And data centers cost as much as factories.

In fact, I'd say it's a lot easier to build another Tesla -- who moved into a shuttered NUMI factory -- than another Facebook. It's a lot easier and cheaper to hire machinists, fabricators, welders, millwrights and assembly workers than it is to hire developers. And there's no network effects to selling your product.

Facebook began earning the mindshare of people outside college campuses 7 years ago. Hardly a day. And you say "sical internet companies" as if Facebook can be compared to other social networks. Truth is, facebook has market penetration (in mindshare and daily use) unmatched in internet history outside of Google (and Amazon I suppose).

I think that G+ will be successful. But i think it'll be successful alongside Facebook, and that Facebook will be a strong, profitable, influential company for a long time to come. And that Facebook isn't nearly as easily broken as you claim: In fact, I think there's only one company capable of really threatening it, and that is of course the company that is doing just that with G+.
Rs 75,000 cr and counting: More treasure tumbles out of shrine
5 Mechanics Google+ Gets Right