skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like HN has another part of IP law to dislike.

If service providers didn't secure a license from the uploader/creator of a work, this could happen:

- Jim McJones uploads his photo to flickr
- flickr displays his image to the public
- Jim McJones sends flickr a cease and desist or sues for copyright infringement

Which leads to... huh? Obviously the intent when you upload a photo to flickr is to have them display it for you. But they need a license, and since this is a legal issue, it needs to be written in a legally specific way. Thus, that's what everyone has done.

DropBox's clause relating to this was already decent and fair in my opinion. Of course, I am not a lawyer or legal expert, just someone who both creates content and runs websites which distribute other peoples' works.
Haha, yes a lot of people do, I think. I wanted to setup an internet radio station as my alarm clock and I still use my laptop =).
It's actually U233 that fissions. The neutrons convert thorium to U233, and when U233 fissions it produces neutrons that convert more thorium. So once you get the reaction started, you don't need an external neutron source.

LFTR proponents figure the simplest approach is to just go ahead and use U233 to seed the reaction. The U.S. has one ton of U233, which it currently plans to dispose of.
Businesses in the United States are not permitted to refuse to conduct business with individuals for arbitrary reasons. Some states like California have stronger laws that require reasons for refusal to be legitimate business ones. So yes... I could absolutely take Amazon to court if they refused to sell me a book and then accept USD in payment simply because I exercised my right to free speech elsewhere.
It's also important to work for the right person the first time around. Make sure it's a job where you retain most of the control over the final look and feel of the result, otherwise you may not be able to use it for your portfolio.
Google... please save us.
One common way to do it is with two cars. The one car is directly in front of you, the second has you boxed in so that you can't switch lanes (a perfectly normal situation to be in while driving). The one in front of you slams on the brakes, and you hit it. It's not especially easy to convince anyone that rear-ending a car is not your fault.
It's down :)
Ask HN:  What sucks about online shopping?
I'm thinking of creating a product finder website, but first would like to know what pain points people typically encounter when trying to find the right product.

An example use case might be: You want to buy GPS for your car. How do you go about choosing the "best" one, and how would you improve this?

Personally, I find myself being very thorough. I won't purchase until I'm sure I've found a quality item with great value. So, I'll first determine what the price range for items are, and what features are generally included in those price ranges. Then, I'll decide (a personal decision) of what features I'm willing to pay for. Then, finally, I'll narrow things down to the best reviewed items that are within a price range that have those features. Often this is a lengthy process.

What pain points do you feel when you shop for products, and how would you like them fixed?
In my mind kickstarter.com is 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 industries like music or software and video games. Is it just a question of time and promotion or am I'm overlooking something important?

PS: I posted this a few seconds ago at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2723374 but then realized it would fit better here.
Thanks for your input! I've been dabbling a bit with node.js already on small projects, and I like what I see so far. I was hoping to use GAE though, but I guess that is not really a requirement. I do however worry that my relative inexperience with node.js would make it harder (for me) to really integrate everything I need like authentication etc. Of course, I might be wrong!

In pure development speed I think doing it in Django would be the fastest for me, but I hate using the "wrong" tool for the job.
Some of my buddies who have Android phones claim that poor battery life is due to the cheap background apps that come with the phone and run all the time in background. Even after those apps are killed, within few hours they respawn and keep hogging the holy electric juice.

Can you post a list of your default, background processes and idea on their CPU usage?
So, this is just a parlor trick, right? It sounds like this is just a complicated way of saying that this is what the harmonic series looks like when you've removed all terms with more than N digits.
Corrosion is one of the main objections people bring up, given that the fuel is a liquid salt. Sorenson says there's an alloy that solves the problem.
There's a lot of it going on the UK too:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11044315

A favorite is to stop very suddenly for no obvious reason. Of course, if you run into the back of anyone it is your fault. But the other party will then claim for injuries, hire cars, storage of the vehicle, etc. far in excess of what is reasonable.

Insurance companies claim this costs everyone £44 in extra premiums per year.
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"Let me emphasize again that cost-free float is /not/ an outcome to be expected in the [property-casualty] industry as a whole: In most years, industry premiums have been inadequate to cover claims plus expenses" [buffet].

So another thing to consider is that if the insurance company is a better investor than you are, the proposition might not be a negative expected value bet for you at all.

[buffet] http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2010ltr.pdf
Suppose you want to store confidential data with the server. You trust the server owners to be the good guys, but you also know that data breaches happen (e.g. equipment theft, FBI seizures, backup tape leaks), so if/when the breach happens the thieves will have made off with encrypted copy of your data. The only way your data is jeopardized is one of the two cases:

1. The people maintaining the service turned out to be not trustworthy, and have been harvesting the keys all along.

2. The hackers took control of the server and injected code to harvest the encryption keys for long enough to catch you in the net.

If you look at the relative probabilities of these two events compared to a straight-up data leak, we're looking at orders of magnitude reduction in risk. Most people who did the right thing in the past are in the habit of doing the right things, so you can lean on the host's reputation - we've been doing that for thousands of years. Code injection on the site is much less likely than the data leak, and it is a lot less fruitful for the attacker as he would have to sit there undetected and wait for enough users to punch in their keys.
Maybe, however, Google is trying to change that. E-mail is a perfectly fine choice for the protocol for such messages, but the UI has to change. Look at what they've done in the other direction, brining Talk and Buzz logs into Gmail inboxes, for instance. Why not reverse that and export certain kinds of mails received in a Gmail account out to the Google+ UI?
As someone who generally carries liability-only, and who has had two other-guy's-fault interactions, you should carry collision insurance if:

* You let other people drive your vehicle. Incurred costs can ruin relationships.

* You don't like defending your own best interests against potentially hostile parties. Getting paid for damages can be a massive headache.
At best this means "Ge a higher deductible" for most car insurance.

You very likely WANT an insurance company to deal with the fallout of an accident.

It sucks to deal with that crap yourself.

Homeowners property damage, similarly, you want a relatively high deductible (as you will pay many times over for repeated small claims).
They had a car with rear-end damage, and they idled it late at night in the leftmost lane of 880 just around a curve to the left. I came around the curve at normal freeway speed, and it took me a few seconds to process that they were only going a few miles an hour (with no brake lights, either idling or perhaps riding the brakes with the brake lights disabled). I got on the brakes too late and hit them from behind. Something about the accident, possibly a comparison of the damage to each car, set off a fraud investigation at my insurance company, which was State Farm at the time. I don't know what happened after that, because like I said, I didn't really have to be involved.

My best guess is that the driver was charging people to stage accidents so they could collect insurance when they weren't able to collect in the original accident. Or maybe he was in cahoots with a dirty body shop and he was helping people collect a few thousand dollars for repairs on cars that were actually headed to the junk yard. Something penny-ante like that. There was a woman in the car with him, and somehow I got the impression that it was her car and she didn't know or trust him. I think she got out and watched us exchange information like she wanted to make sure he wasn't doing anything behind her back. He may have told me the car was hers, but I don't really remember. At the time I thought the whole thing between them was weird, but I never thought of fraud until the insurance company told me that's what was going on.
Also a user base needs to be generated very quickly as the people are what makes the site worth using.
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Interesting. With the Craigslist angle are you posting ads for your services or responding to existing ads?

I tried responding once and it turned into a classic "Craigslist" experience.. after a few skype conversations I showed up at the client's "office" for a meeting, which turned out to be his house, and he wasn't there. Same with the next time. And after telling him to get lost, now I get passive-aggressive skype messages from him every week or two. yikes.. :)

But armed with some strategy I'll give Craigslist another shot.
Living in non-USA (Canada) what sucks about online shopping is having stuff shipped across the border, paying duty and brokerage fees, having to wait while stuff is stuck in customs.
I often shop at Canadian sites (even though it costs more) or at the few sites where they actually handle the border crossing. I would love a site that would aggregate these types of sites.
As a person who values my time (it actually has a dollar cost I quote all the time to my customers), I couldn't imagine litigating something like a non-injury car accident. It would take so much time for so little money comparatively speaking.

Hence, insurance company (professional accident cost removal companies).
If your goal is to share state secrets, then no, I wouldn't suggest using JS for crypto.

If your goal is to no longer be low hanging fruit for attackers, then yes, I would recommend it.
The example at the end of the article is terrible.

(The Nash equilibrium for the two-people-writing-down-a-price puzzle, the Traveller's dilemma, is for them both to write down that the item is worth the bare minimum, but that has no relevance to an article about insurance in the real world).
XSS is in your own control (as a site owner/developer), and it is less likely to happen than the user machine being infested with malware to begin with. And the malware infestation threat has never stopped anyone from advocating native (non-browser) crypto, right?.
But if you wanted to, you could verify the authenticity of the code. If you're just sending plaintext off into the void, then you have zero control whatsoever. You could also open up Wireshark to verify your plaintext isn't being transmitted anywhere.
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It's a strawman argument, since there are two components here. First, it's hard to make a living as a writer, perhaps your just not good enough or only appeal to a small part of the population. Secondly your right to get paid for your work. The second part doesn't go away simply because making a living as a writer is hard.
I made an offer to a guy for a job in the late nineties and he said that he was going to work on his startup instead. It was called "Grouper" and it let you find other people to negotiate group discounts with. He actually had some working code he showed me.

Might have been a better idea to get him to hire me, but I see no evidence that this went anywhere (by him, anyway)
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This is awesome. Why? Because it strokes my ego monumentally with a great list of songs. Put this on Reddit. It will get reddited!
Thanks - that's great advice.

The networking strategy makes sense to me. The more I learn about the business world, the more I realize the importance of networking. Deals seem to come out of friendships more than anything.

In terms of websites with my work, I didn't want to include them in the original post because this is about getting advice rather than trying to spam my services, but I did design http://www.concertwindow.com and http://www.tunesinthechurch.com. UI, design, development, the whole deal. Would love to hear any feedback!
Exactly. You can never be completely secure, but this mitigates against a large amount of potential problems.
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Being Google's flagship phone it probably gets a lot more updates directly. :-)

I was considering the Nexus S but ended on a SGS2 because the price here is pretty much the same and the SGS2 is much better.
There are two iOS phones. There are dozens upon dozens of Android phones. It's a big deal that one specific model is doing so well. Samsung alone has eight current models being marketed on its US site and that doesn't even include the Galaxy S II since it isn't being sold here...
And what alternative would you suggest? An application is not acceptable.
I've seen this argument before, but I think it's totally backwards.

The article calls insurance "a wager with the insurance company." It is not a wager at all. A wager is when you bet some amount of money on the hopes that you'll get back a bigger amount of money. It introduces greater uncertainty and volatility into your financial situation: you'll take either a gain or a loss depending on the outcome of some not yet determined event.

Not buying insurance is a wager with life. You wager your belongings, and if nothing happens to them you "win" the money you saved by not buying insurance. Like any wager, you have greater uncertainty and volatility than if you hadn't taken the wager.

Buying insurance is the anti-wager: you have a known outcome (you'll be out the premium but still have your belongings), which gives you decreased uncertainty and volatility. Yes, insurance companies make a profit by charging more in premiums than the expected value of their claims. But the alternative is to make a big wager with life (the value of your house, car, etc) for a relatively small return (the savings from not paying an insurance premium).

(This is ignoring any of the practical conveniences of having a pro handle all the logistics in the case of an accident).
You should have a look at http://www.hidentify.com/ and how they are tackling this market, its pretty cool.
The same rules still apply no matter how much code is in the front end: Never trust the client.
you are pretending there is on difference between attribution of ideas and utilisation of ideas. I won't even explain why this is not true.
Can you elaborate on that? I can't find any point or contribution made by that post if it wasn't an actual question.
That's a very pessimistic way of looking at insurance. Sure, extended warranties on consumer goods and so on are things to be avoided, but insurance would still exist in a world of informed and rational people.

When you buy insurance you get reduced expected value (over going it alone) but you also reduce the variance - the cost of driving a car around becomes a somewhat predictable constant rather than there being the ever-present risk of a large cost.

Yes, if you are in a financial position where the cost of a car is something you can take on the chin, then it is up there with extended warranties as something to avoid. But for the vast majority of people in the real world, that is not the case.
Yes, it does in fact. It isn't society's responsibility to make writing profitable. Just because the internet et al are making it harder to make a living as a writer doesn't mean we have any responsibility to turn around and make it easier.
His wife's Twitter account (@maradydd) appears to corroborate this. A tragic loss, especially considering his age (I don't know, but I'd estimate ~35). At that age, it would almost have to be an accident or suicide, and I'm fervently hoping that it was an accident.
that's horrible news, really really sad - our deepest and sincere condolences

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Not sure what you mean, SJCL doesn't have an RSA implementation.
hmmm - whilst sharing is defiantly one of the first and easiest use-cases to envisage, there are a whole host of other API's that will be built on this including registration for authentication (via OpenID - only present the services the user uses), cloud-based file pickers, print, send, bookmark, and in the future a lot of system generated events.

The point isn't that this is an unnecessarily generic API - it is not, it is like saying postMessage is a unnecessarily generic API, rather it is firstly a service discovery mechanism and simple communication channel.
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> They're sitting comfortably in their search advertising castle, and playing guerrilla warfare everywhere else.

Don't ever think Google is playing guerrilla warfare just to poke fun at the other guys while sitting on a pile of cash. The reason Google is attacking these companies is simple: they have become clear threats to Google's core business - not search, but targeted advertising on the web. Apple's race to dominance to the mobile space with its walled-garden approach and app- and vertical-search-based model were threatening the whole open, web-based and ads-driven model; Microsoft's stronghold on browser market with an ancient browser was holding the web hostage and killing the potential of web as a service serving platform; Facebook keeps valuable information that is not accessible to Google bot and may even be able to develop the next big thing to replace search, not to mention that it is sucking the best talent; and it has been very clear that local advertising is where the future growth of targeted advertising will be from.

Google is being offensive and aggressive, and they are not comfortable about it when their core business - not search but serving ads - is being threatened.
Interesting!

Haven't been using anything like hunch till now, so asking here. How does it work? Is is just parsing my tweets and recommending stuffs based on keywords? Where does the recommendation data come from?

EDIT: One more thing. It's pretty quick compared to some other services which try to read the tweets and do something with that. Is it really fetching and processing all the tweets before recommending?

EDIT: Ok, the above question was kinda dumb. Since it uses hunch, so it does not need to get the tweets any way. But, would be interesting to know how hunch does that, because considering that twecommend sends the request to hunch and hunch responds after doing all the processing, it is still quick.
I've experienced one of each. Progressive was excellent to deal with. The Yellow Cab Cooperative in SF was a nightmare. But hey, that's what lawyers are for.
Mainly it's historical reasons. Light-water reactors were developed first, for nuclear submarines. Once they had those working, everybody went with what they knew, and thorium advocates got fired. Then people forgot about thorium.

At this point, NRC regulations assume solid fuel, and the nuclear industry makes most of its money from selling complex fabricated fuel rods.

However, there was a small liquid-fluoride reactor actually working back in the 60s.

The main technical objection I've seen is corrosion from the liquid-salt fuel. Sorenson claims there's an alloy that makes it a non-issue.
This is a really sad moment. Please accept my deepest condolences.
Why is NY_USA_Hacker's helpful comment dead?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2723941
Because that's very realistic (Cory Doctorow aside, and he's a special case).

It's foolish besides--speaking engagements, etc. take away time from actually producing creative works. It's the sort of miss-the-point silliness often espoused by the anti-IP sorts: "spend an incredible amount of time doing X to maybe, if you're lucky, sell a marginal number of Y, where Y is totally unrelated to X."

It's silly and a misallocation of a wtiter's resources to take away from actually writing to hit the speaking circuit.
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For anyone who wants to delve into this more deeply, Sorenson's videos (http://energyfromthorium.com/2011/06/04/adventures-with-gord...) are really great. I recently watched the two-hour one, which was edited from a longer talk to cut out the pauses. It's a rapid-fire, passionate technical introduction that I found very compelling.
It's society's responsibility to enforce the laws, this isn't a discussion about internet per se, it's not excluded from the laws of the society. Other phenomenons are also thriving on the internet like credit card frauds. By your logic this isn't society's responsibility either, we simply have to accept the current state and adapt.
I had to stop reading at "ground breaking". I'll assume you're being sarcastic and leave it at that :)
Well, then Apple is not worth mentioning in this context: they also started from zero with iPhone, and I'd say even more so.
You expose the service to get users to use your service and for client application developers - it is impossible for you today to build an application that integrates all the services that your users want to use for very specific actions.

It is also about getting data into your application; for users today the process of attaching an image/file that is in the cloud to an email is as follows. Edit email, open up file store (say flickr) download file, go back to email,find downloaded file, upload file and attach. With a cloud file picker solution this becomes a whole lot more integrated and as service provider it is in your interest to offer the ability for users to pick your files.
It's certainly a well-designed site, if perhaps... limited in its use.
Too often we think of C in terms of commands. C is a matter of _operators_. Consider "=", say in the statement

y=1+x=3;

Why and how this works is foreign to
most beginners.
Likewise (ok, this is C++ but the point remains)

cout<<1+x;

Isn't a command to display 1+x. The output is the result of inserting the computed value into couture. There is a semantic difference.

Groking operators early is key to understanding C well.