skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is, I've been doing a bit of poking around in the patent applications filed by this guy recently and that seems to be the gist of it. Unlike normal MIMO though, only the base station has multiple antennas, the mobile stations have one antenna each.

This leads to the downstream bandwidth being much higher than the upstream, but given that video is going to drive mobile bandwidth growth that is ok.

Basically what's happening is that a training signal from each of the base station antennas is constantly being monitored by the mobile station, channel information gets calculated and sent back to the base station.

The base station uses the channel vectors for each of the mobile stations (updated frequently because this is spatial multiplexing and mobile stations... move) to compute the signals for the entire antenna array.

The odd seeming stuff about energy not being transferred has to do with using a sort of inverse spatial coding where you can aim signal nulls at mobile stations that don't want to receive particular signals.

Relevant patents:
http://patents.com/us-20110044193.html
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...
From New URL to Full-blown Website in 5 Minutes? 
Having a relatively popular blog is quite challenging as you have to come up with new stuff every day, be consistent and all that so it’s kinda hard to launch big side projects. That’s why our most important project took around 12 months to be developed but it’s almost ready to help you build fast websites and will rock your designer & developer socks off!
If this would be the case then why does every startup ask for an email address to let people know when the product is ready? It's really no different. If you are genuinely interested in something you will chomp at the bit to access it. I for one will try it out no matter when I get access. The only thing that really matters is if I can use it right out the gate or not.
If you need specific advice about tax liability or incorporation decisions, you may want to talk to an attorney.

Incorporating in Delaware does not necessarily make a corporation a Delaware resident only. If a corporation operates in California, it is probably subject to California taxes. In general, a corporation can be a resident of both the state of incorporation and the state of its principal place of business.

For sales/use tax, owning property in California or having regular employees in California may be enough.
its interesting (to me) that they avoid collecting sales taxes in various US states, but that (at least for AWS) they are compelled to collect VAT for all EU states because they have a presence in at least one of those EU states...
Hundreds of them. Anyone can set up a copy of iDevAffiliate (and many do), and thousands of small businesses have programs run through networks like ShareASale, Clixgalore and CJ. You can start a professionally managed 3rd party affiliate program on a network for $75-350.

There are hundreds of thousands of products with affiliate programs on ClickBank. Most of them are info products and software being sold by an individual with no employees.
Honestly, for me, if they're interested in the web or hobby dev, I think JS is the better choice, even download aside. The path from HTML to JS to JQuery and CSS in there somewhere seems like a more useful path for most people nowadays. Once they get that, Ruby/Python will come relatively easy.
This is a really, really good idea. Much time has been spent discussing separating different parts of your social life, but the idea of doing it based on "shared secrets" is great.

A big obstacle in my mind is duplication of overlaps, e.g. 'I read Hacker News' and 'I read HN'. The both mean the same thing, but if two users click "Me Too" on the different versions, they won't see the common interest. People may be tempted to just add a new overlap instead of searching for an existing version, especially as the number of users and possible overlaps grow. Hopefully you can find a way to have the community help aggregate overlaps.
> I know OSX uses something like a micro-kernel and it is a perfectly fine desktop OS,

OSX doesn't use anything like a micro-kernel, it runs Mach (which even microkernel fans ridicule, it is bigger than many monolithic kernels like the Plan 9 kernel), with a monolithic BSD-style kernel directly on top, when your microkernel has (being generous) two components, both huge, I don't think it is like what most people consider a microkernel at all.

It is also fun to remember that people also claimed Windows NT was a microkernel, and then they added the graphics system right into the kernel.
There are good lifecycle analysis studies that back up organically grown vegetables have a smaller carbon footprint than conventional:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArTN5sf...

So while you are eating less meat, may as well eat more organic vegetables, locally grown all else being equal.

And if you want to find food where you can trace it back to its farm, http://realtimefarms.com is the place to go! (disclaimer, that's my startup, feedback welcome :)
1) Free as in open source: they have had a couple high profile open source projects including Chrome (Chromium), Wave, I think Google Code is free for any open source project, they are the majority funding source of Mozilla and therefore Firefox. Practically every month there is some announcement like this about how they are supporting free software:

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2060629/Google-Funds-Op...

2) Free as in liberated data; they make a big deal that it is trivial to import or export your data out of any of their services. If you are looking at your contacts in GMail it's as simple as More Actions > Export Contacts. Compare that with exporting contacts from Facebook. They have a whole "data liberation" API that they have been pushing for that is far more open than any other major player in the tech industry.
Paramount: No 3D printing of our alien Super 8 cubes
Couldn't find any news stories that weren't just reporting on the "what ifs", but the press release from the governor's office is available here: http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17101
Yes. They are shell corporations that happen to be owned by Amazon.

I don't know how they are affected by this bill. But it will be interesting to see what happens with it.
the EU doesn't have a single VAT, or a even a single VAT rate. Each country can choose its own. But if you sell from country A to a resident of country B, you have to charge your country A VAT (in most end-consumer situations) just like you charge to a country A resident. (unless you get real big, then you have to collect country B VAT instead...)
So, what exactly is deemed "presence?" Apparently an Amazon distribution center in Texas was deemed "presence" a while back. On the other hand, surely Amazon operates a fairly extensive network of data centers, warehouses, and other fixed-location logistical inputs in California? Is that "presence?" Where is the distinction lie?
Well one thing i definitely do remember about Microsoft at that time was their "white papers" that were little more than made-up visions of a utopian future (which when implemented fell a long way short).

My favourite (from a bit earlier - mid 90s I think) was the "zero-configuration PC" - no matter which PC you logged into it would know all your settings, programmes and documents - which eventually materialised as a "synchronised My Documents folder".
This is just one of the symptoms of a country that is paralyzed by it's continuing corruption.
You are part of the solution, good luck to you and your generation with trying to get rid of some of that corruption. (not meant cynical)
The cloud is slow....too slow for mass adoption?
He was replying to someone named Andrew. I'm pretty sure it's a reflex by now.
Without a doubt, just like rampant window breaking incents people to build houses with less windows. Is that a good thing?

Bob, no one was talking about fire dept or highways... where did that come from?
"Look & Feel" is part of the designer role; UX is more like "How much the user understands the app" i think.
I agree that those four items you mentioned I think would make IE10 a very competent browser. Do you have any idea how hard they each are to implememnt (since they've all been implemented in existing browsers)?

Regarding XP support -- I hope they never support it. I really wish the OS would go away. They do support WebM today, just install the codec. Presumably if you have Chrome on your machine, WebM will work with IE (I assume Chrome installs the codec). Given that IE is not open source, you will almost certainly never see a public bugtracker.
Scribus 1.3.5: Beginner's Guide
Bitter much?

The value of a college education hasn't changed in a long time. It has never been a guarantee of a job. It has never been the only way to learn things. The only thing that has changed is the cost: the price of college has outpaced inflation for many many years. Only a small part of your rant covered that aspect.

Success comes to those who demonstrate their worth. A degree is only a part of that process.
There was a recent essay taking Khan to task for what the essayist saw as superficiality in Khan's coverage of world history. I am interested to see how the Hacker News community assesses the quality of materials that are related to subjects that are within the areas of expertise of many of us.

On a related note, what many people here found a helpful introduction to Clojure was viewed with circumspection my some in the #clojure Freenode community. Assessing the quality of materials is made even more difficult by the challenge of finding the critics whose opinions are worth paying attention to.
The books are the same price. Amazon simply tacks on WA sales tax. Here's an example from a purchase I made last month:

Amazon.com items (Sold by Amazon.com, LLC) :

1 Apple iPod touch 8 GB (4th... $204.99 1 $204.99

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Item Subtotal: $204.99
Shipping and handling: $3.99
Sales Tax Collected: $19.85
Total: $228.83
Paid by Visa: $228.83
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Not surprisingly, items that are sold by third parties on Amazon, but still fulfilled by Amazon are not subject to sales tax, as long as the third party is not located here in Washington state.
If it was simple as filtering for those files, you would have a point. It's not though. If you can't see the difference between a big compiled database of 1 million+ users password DBs vs a multiple petabyte mess of all types of files including a handful of agilekeychains, then it's not worth discussing further.
Full Tilt's gaming license in Alderney is revoked, thanks to USDOJ.
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CA Amazon Tax Signed Into Law
Funny how Alderney never noticed before that FT was doing business in the States, huh?
Photobucket recently announced a deal with Twitter to be their official photo sharing service. And I think that Photobucket was sold last year.
What do you think is the population density of Sweden, Norway, or Finland? There is still very decent broadband to be had up here at 70 degrees northern latitude.
I'm pretty sure Lisp OSes (you know, on the bytecoded Lisp Machines from companies such as Symbolics and TI) worked like that, and I know the CISC variants of the AS/400 architecture worked like that as well. (I don't know the RISC AS/400 or iSeries that well.)

An interesting aspect of that is what it does to your security model: In the AS/400 world, where applications are compiled to bytecode and then to machine code, the software that compiles to machine code is trusted to never emit dangerous machine code, as there are no further checks on application behavior. In the Lisp Machine world, anyone who can load microcode is God. In Singularity OS, the .Net runtime is effectively the microcode and the same remarks about Lisp Machines apply.
There are companies out there like http://www.avalara.com/ that exist to help deal with the complexities of state, county and city sales tax rates.
The moderate experience I have with OpenGL confirms this explanation. However, it sort of misses the point. The author may be a bit too close to OpenGL to judge the relative significance of the all the historical details he knows.

Take a step back:

A) There's no way in hell Microsoft would allow OpenGL to take the lead from Direct3D on Windows and Xbox. They would wield the carrots and the sticks to prop up Direct3D (and perhaps even disadvantage OpenGL) if it ever came down to it.

B) OpenGL is a success by any objective measure. Nearly every platform except Windows and Xbox uses it exclusively. E.g. mobiles. Game consoles may have dedicated APIs but I'm sure there's a better OpenGL compat layer than a Direct3D.

Recently I've developed some code on Linux for OpenGL 3.3 with GLSL and it is awesome.
I have a regrettable snobbery towards modern IF for reasons that I can't fully justify. When it comes down to it, I think Infocom games got me at the right age, where almost all grown-up writing (even writing that has to 'work' when chopped into little interactive fragments) seemed very sophisticated and interesting.

It's a bit akin to a passage in one of Bret Easton Ellis' (yes, I know) early books where the 20-something protagonist realizes the Playboy centerfold is now _younger_ than he is and finds that it all doesn't work so well.

Plus, I've lost the long attention span for this stuff. My 12 year old self would regard his current self as a gibbering, ADHD-addled chimp. I hope to have some time to rectify this, and maybe play some modern IF at some point (or even write some?)...
Just carefully read through parts of this and noticed the following exception for small retailers (<$10,000 annually), which may or may not be applicable to Amazon Affiliates (could be interpreted either way, because "retailer" includes "an entity affiliated with a retailer within the meaning of Section 1504 of the Internal Revenue Code."):

"This bill would include in the definition of a retailer engaged in business in this state any retailer entering into agreements under which a person or persons in this state, for a commission or other consideration, directly or indirectly refer potential purchasers, whether by an Internet-based link or an Internet Web site, or otherwise, to the retailer, provided the total cumulative sales price from all sales by the retailer to purchasers in this state that are referred pursuant to these agreements is in excess of $10,000 within the preceding 12 months, and provided further that the retailer has cumulative sales of tangible personal property to purchasers in this state of over $500,000, within the preceding 12 months, except as specified. This bill would also provide that a retailer entering into specified agreements to purchase advertising is not a retailer engaged in business in this state and would define a retailer to include an entity affiliated with a retailer under federal income tax law, as specified. This bill would further provide that these provisions would not apply if the retailer can demonstrate that the referrals wold not satisfy specified United States constitutional requirements,as provided."

EDIT: slight formatting changes
For more background from the founder of FaceCash:

http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/Why-Im-Furious-with-Sil...
http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/In-Thirty-Days-Payments...
Check out Singapore's policy for a middle ground.

There's a cash bonus paid to women who opt for sterilization after two children, coupled with preferred admission into the best state schools for the children of sterilized women and increasing tax penalties for each child beyond the second.
Sarah Palin Blasts Hollywood Stars as 'Full of Hate' at Movie Premiere
The first 10 minutes of "The Undefeated" doc features entertainers using vulgar language aimed at Palin, who told THR it was the first time she'd seen most of it: "It makes you want to reach out to some of these folks and say, What's your problem?"
I think you're confused -- Amazon has affiliates in both Washington and New York; affiliates in those states are fine. And so are affiliates in the states that already collect sales tax that you list -- which makes me think you don't understand the issue at hand.

Add in the 5 states that don't charge sales tax, and there are plenty of great options to locate a business.
On the subject of connection fees:

"If a connection charge applies most people find they don't need to pay this it costs £30 if you're just taking a BT line or free with any broadband package."

From:

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displ...

I'm pretty sure we didn't pay anything when we moved a while back.
The main thing I use fuse for is sshfs, where trying to optimize inside the kernel is unlikely to give noticeable gains relative to network latency.

And Linus acknowledges:

> fuse works fine if the thing being exported is some random low-use

> interface to a fundamentally slow device
Google Now Lets Website Owners Measure The Power Of Social Widgets
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand the context of your comment.

Are you pointing out that the upfront cost of digital content is high? Because, if that's the case, I entirely agree. I'm simply saying that the marginal cost of digital goods is close to zero, so theft of such goods is only a problem if it's done in lieu of purchasing them.
Surprised no one's mentioned the Fahrenheit project. Microsoft's aborted alliance with Silicon Graphics.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1997/dec97/fahrpr.m...

Re: 1. The NT-OpenGL connection made sense for things like CAD "workstations". Win95 and the DirectX stuff was designed for games. It really was completely separate back then, the kernel driver models were completely different.
Can you elaborate on toughness? I.e. not pushed around as much by potential buyers, users?
Texas is trying to go after Amazon shell companies; I'm not sure if California has tried that route.

In Texas, there are two companies involved: Amazon.com.kydc, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. The sole business of the former is to operate physical facilities, some of which are in Texas, and which provide warehousing and shipment of books for the latter. Texas argues that this constitutes Amazon having a physical presence in Texas, but Amazon disagrees.
I agree that college is overpriced in general. However, not getting a degree is just not an option for most people. It's not just lawyers, doctors and high finance -- entry-level jobs in most professional fields including sciences, engineering, education, nursing, psychology, journalism (I can go on and on) require at least a bachelor's degree. Yes, people can learn a lot on their own, but without that piece of paper, many positions will be completely out of reach for you without it (not saying its right or wrong, just that it's reality)
Is that because of usability or network effects, though?
I don't get it now... tedunangst and ojbyrne claim, that I would pay no tax, and you say that I still pay WA tax. So if Callifornia would collect its sales/use tax as well, I would pay tax twice, or no WA tax, or what?
I decided to check it out and take a look around and I'm already running into my first issue! It won't let me update my location at all.

Running Chrome 12.0.742.100 on Maverick.

Unrelated feedback wrt the dating settings: restricting the gender identifications to male/female and most definitely restricting the "looking for" to male XOR female leaves a nontrivial number of people in a bit of a bind.
I feel weird about suggesting this kind of stuff to my friends and family because after writing code for basically ten years, I have absolutely no idea whether a given tutorial is clear to someone who's never done it before.

How do people evaluate this kind of stuff?
Great! It's interesting if you invite 3 or more people!
I don't see why our hosting choice has anything to do with the tutorial content, Señor Benjamin
Then pursue the customers and force them to actually report their rightful use-tax when they file their taxes at the end of the year. Amazon isn't not collecting CA sales tax because they think it shouldn't be paid. They're not collecting the sales tax because they have no legal requirement to.
Sounds similar to the Untrusted Deterministic Functions used in exokernels to let userspace do god-knows-what to underlying hardware resources in an efficient but provably safe way, using a correct-by-construction language [1,2].

Another tool in this space is Native Client; any chance it could be adapted to allow an even smaller, safer x86 subset, so that you could give the kernel pre-compiled 'callbacks' that it could execute on, e.g., receiving a network packet, with 0 context switches? Probably not without a lot of work, since NaCl relies a lot on virtual memory for memory isolation, but it's an idea.

[1] http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=266644
[2] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.120...
In his own words: "Finally, I take full responsibility for the technical decision to develop the GNU kernel based on Mach, a decision which seems to have been responsible for the slowness of the development. I thought using Mach would speed the work by saving us a large part of the job, but I was wrong."

http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2000101200421OPCYRH
Given that most phones doing more than just providing calling and texting are running on monolithic or hybrid kernels, I wonder where you get this statistic. In addition, the most important part of secure and reliable systems is not what distributed safeguards you build into them, it's the amount of attack surface. If the monolithic kernel + drivers is smaller than the microkernel, it's probably more likely that the monolithic kernel is more secure.
I don't think Khan claimed about teaching expert level material.

`Superficiality` is a strong word. Zed Shaw's LPTHW is for beginners, but not superficial. Similarly, most of Khan's lectures target a particular audience. Some of his lectures are advanced, some are intermediate, some are for beginners...just the way it should be.

Khan himself responded to one of superficiality claims here on HN(the one about history lessons).
I live in Seattle, WA, and therefore I pay WA state sales tax when I purchase items from Amazon. If I lived in California, I would not pay sales tax.
A good reminder to entrepreneurs -- even if you don't need the capital, having outside investment (especially from a top VC firm) essentially provides you with:

1. Validation and hopefully constructive criticism of your business model by virtue of their due diligence process.

2. Network and contacts.

These two alone are often worth more than the cash.
aufs isn't mainline, and will probably never be mainline, because it's ~27,000 lines of poorly documented and often buggy code, written by a single maintainer in a style that doesn't really mesh with the rest of the kernel.

Speaking from experience, there are a lot of edge-case bugs remaining in aufs. It's usable enough for livecds and whatnot, but trying to use it on a server is a recipe for disaster.
If you're not paying for it, you're the product.
Wikipedia also has an extensive page on this topic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_OpenGL_and_Direct...
I'm glad I'm not the only "thenewboston" fan on HN. He really does a great job of making objective C approachable. Watching his videos were a huge help to me.
(The parent post is by the Khan Academy lead developer.)
How to Adopt New Systems
Ha! I guess that could go either way, yeah!
That's why I want to do this experiment.
Link to his response: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2633796
Ouch. It seems Ceglia's old firm agrees with Facebook's. This case is basically over, what with Facebook coming right out and saying it can prove the documents are forgeries.
Pushing a fix for the location bug right now.

Dating settings will be updated... I removed extra options yesterday to simplify the user queries, but they will be put back in.