skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I referred to simplification, it was more in reference to the comment about not using PyDoc than to the filename issue. Regarding the filename issue, I think you are blowing it completely out of proportion. I don't personally believe in it, but it's definitely a style thing, and it's definitely not something that only people who don't know how to program do.
Many kernels can give the necessary hard real time guarantees today. Honestly, I think that baseband chips run their own operating systems because it's illegal to sell open software radios in a lot of countries, and a cellphone where you could tweak the code running the baseband chip would essentially be one.
Just wrote this on my blog, figured i'd copy over

First of all–why do Facebook and Google care so much to canvas the web with little buttons to encourage users to share content? In fact–why do they care if users share content at all? Are they really that loving of the human race that they are doing so solely for our benefit? Of course not.

A little background:

- Facebook and Google know an inordinate amount of data about you - they track, store, and interpret every move you make through their services with the goal of figuring out who you are, mainly to sell to you.

- But this wasn't enough, so Facebook introduced the Like button and Google +1. Now Facebook and Google can track your every move on the web - regardless of whether you interact with the button. Companies claim they delete this data, but only after they fully interpret it or extrapolate it into descriptive data.

- The problem that Facebook and Google still face however - is that they collect massive amounts of data–but have a heck of a time monetizing it–because they essentially spied to get it in the first place. So what is the solution? Well, if the user actively shares the content–especially in a public realm but also privately, that user has consciously connected themselves to that content and monetization becomes easy. (This is why Gmail ads are creepy, but discounts from Foursquare checkins are welcome)

more analysis here: http://knowit.posterous.com/google-a-reaction
Are you worried at all that people will add things that they aren't interested in - just to see if others are? Curious what you've thought about that, and how you plan to mediate it. Definitely good ways to do so. BEST OF LUCK! Identity is a majorly messed up space, and this is a much better direction.
http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=ux+developer
And another 5 states already collect sales tax from Amazon -- including New York and Washington.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=4... verifies this. The other three are Kansas, Kentucky, and North Dakota.
Can anyone explain why the chips need to be inside the cable? why cant they be inside the hosting device port?
I am not a fan of this UI myself, but it is just a default. You can change this behavior by right clicking on the bar and checking the "Show tabs on a separate row" option.
interesting... especially considering how much more data Google could be providing websites given their depth of knowledge of users... dont think they won't!
The US should invest in high speed rails, better inner city transportation systems, and encouraging people to use bicycles . Electric cars aren't the solution.
I may need to use http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2708222 to understand the relationships discussed here.
Paying both the incumbent operator and the ISP was the situation in France about ten years ago, at the very begining of DSL lines for the general public. It has been for ages that most people here only pay directly the ISP. Either the line is still owned by the incombent operator and the ISP lease it from him, or the line is bought by the ISP when necessary.
I'd recommend just reading the article next time. It is much easier than coming up with each and every asscovering phrase you might need.
Seems like the video has been removed...
How to invite people to Google+
CA affiliates (myself included) received a termination email today. :/
Looks like he replaced it with this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyYp1V84Xqc
I wonder why War and Peace was not included.
Anyone else getting a "This video has been removed by the user" message?
Also worth reading:
http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-an...
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment is a good talk. It doesn't go deep, but its breadth is a good jumping off point to research and implement CI/CD.
He is if he has a dinghy no one else knows about.
I have Google+ invites - want one?
The name of the game is interaction and isolation.
MySpace still seems to have a pretty good penetration with musicians. There might be a viable way to recenter the platform around that.
When i was still doing such things i preferred to use the facilities provided by the Operating System. That is: svc on Solaris, rc on FreeBSD and services on Windows. I never did anything serious with Linux but i suspect there is a way a Linux distribution manages it's services. On Solaris and FreeBSD i found it helpful to always contain the deployed software in packages -- this takes some effort first but saves one from reinventing the wheel all over again (including service management).
You can move the tabs to be under the address bar. I prefer to squeeze them. Gives me an extra 15 or so pizels.
I've got a few of these. Worth having, some of them, but they're not always the best translations or editions. Nice to dip into on short notice, but if you want to read any in full, better to pick up a newer edition or at least peep a few before committing to a bunk translation or poor annotation.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/06/why-apples-2m-thun...

"active cables are commonly used at data rates above 5Gbps. These cables contain tiny chips at either end that are calibrated to the attenuation and dispersion properties of the wire between them. Compensating for these properties "greatly improves the signal-to-noise ratio" for high-bandwidth data transmission."
Everyone /is/ operating under the same tax constraints. The difference is, your local retailers aren't selling their products out of state like Amazon.
Amazon would like to win this in the legislature, as they have in some states with lobbying and the pull-out threat. Or by gubernatorial vetoes, as previously in California and just a few weeks ago in Texas. Or in the courts, as they are currently challenging a similar New York law. (Amazon lost an early round; they're appealing.)

They'd rather win before going to the Supreme Court but I think they'd try that route if they had to. The distraction would be worth it; this is a very, very valuable price advantage against in-state retailers like NewEgg.

The Supreme Court might find this new crop of laws, and the affiliates-as-sufficient-nexus logic, sufficient. These were crafted with the previous Supreme Court decision in mind, the one from before Internet commerce (1992) that prevented sales tax on out-of-state sellers. Or Amazon might win an updated precedent which would leave only Congress with the ability to address cross-state sales.
A damn fine point, well made. Updated!
I have doubts that there is any point where loss of sales from affiliates would cost more than taxes. The main reason for Amazon to have an affiliate program is not awareness but SEO. The tens of thousands of people placing links directly to Amazon product pages are what keep Amazon at the top of search results for hundreds of thousands of product names, in turn driving much of their search traffic.
take-away quote:

Dave McClure modified Paul Grahams slogan, ‘Make something people want’
to be ‘Make something people want… to pay for’
This is something I've been meaning to mention to the FS developers for like a year now. All you need is to let people be members of teams and track team presence with some basic blob-based map overlays. People will quickly and naturally divide into Red and Blue, Jets and Sharks, North and South. It's possible they don't want to introduce that element, but I know it'd be fun as hell now that it's so popular in many urban locations.
I agree to a point but gluster (glusterfs) stating this makes me cringe. Glusterfs is bad for small file performance from what I've personally benchmarked. Userspace multiplexing of resources is a good idea, even better would be to multiplex raw resources with filesystems as 'libraries' in my opinion anyways.
now that is very interesting. Is there $35 million worth of value left in myspace? Probably. With Timberlake involved? Almost certainly. Good luck to them.
OpenGL doesn't have a teapot primitive -- common misconception. GLUT (the OpenGL utility toolkit) provides glut[Solid/Wire]Teapot for convenience, but that's by no means core OpenGL; it just backends to a bunch of quads.
Noticed that as well. Indeed, very cool!
That's exactly right. That's how I got invited to G+ and how I invited my friends.

Google+ is Facebook on steroids.
>Goals aren't results.

To liberals they are. Go read Thomas Sowell's Vision of the Anointed.
It's shutting down.
Go pay the 185k fee and get .startup or .beta and create an official startup tld and regulate how you see fit. Let it compete, like a startup should.

I'm sorry but most start-ups can't afford 185k for a domain. Plus, re-branding takes another major investment a start-up may not be able to afford. You say "let it compete", but you're defending domain squatters who are making it more difficult to find a good name and market new services to consumers. Hell, there are even some domainers that can't even find a single name for their customer reviews startup. ;)
Still won't run on XP.

But all the other advanced browsers, Chrome, Firefox and Opera will (with hardware acceleration).

(oh and Microsoft forced an OS update yesterday that installed .NET to the useragent in Firefox, AGAIN)
Sen. Toomey: Privacy Rules Might 'Break The Internet'
I disagree.

One small example: many jurisdictions tax different categories of items at different rates. This means that you'd have to start off by knowing those rules and categorizing everything accordingly. After that, you have tons of edge cases to work out, e.g., what happens if I group two different categories of items into a special package? What percentage of the package is taxed at what rate? Or, what if different states categorize the same item in different ways? Or, what happens when you provide a service to sellers and then need the sellers to accurately provide all of this categorization for every jurisdiction?

Of all companies, Amazon probably has the best chance of getting this all figured out if they really had to. However, calling it difficult is by no means BS.
Check out Hacker Dojo: http://wiki.hackerdojo.com/w/page/25437/FrontPage

and on June 9th, there is a SuperHappyDevHouse meetup http://superhappydevhouse.org/w/page/16345504/FrontPage I'll probably be there -- I'm from Ann Arbor, MI myself and I'm visiting SF between July 3rd and July 10th. We should meet up while I'm there. Hit me up on twitter @ip2k :)
Paul has a brilliant sense of humour.
So can we beg for invites here? If so, I'd appreciate one at (got one, thanks Carson), thanks.

EDIT: Heh, I love how everyone's joining in yet downvoting me for starting it. Is the competition too fierce? :p
How to Get and Share Invites to Google Plus Right Now (Really)
Yeah, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyYp1V84Xqc seems to be a redone video.
Thank you Carson! Forever grateful
If you've ever implemented real-world code that solves a problem you'll find that there are some people (mostly who have not implemented much practical code but read a lot about it) who want to tell you how you should have done it. I think Linus got sick of hearing these suggestions and began defending his implementation decisions based on his experience and the running code.
I am going to try and take advantage of your comment's popularity and post a link near the top of the page to the new video that seems to replace the one that he took down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyYp1V84Xqc

Hopefully a mod can change the link.
This needs to be the #1 story on HackerNews for a week. I AM SICK AND TIRED OF MONOPOLIZING CABLE COMPANIES. The article hits right on the spot, word for word. It's time we do something about this, it's time we have some competition and reasonable prices. IT'S TIME TO ACT!
Me too at typeshige@gmail.com. Thanks!
I would love one too....

jason.swindle @gmail.com
We will all collectively drop what we are doing and run to our inbox's to send emails detailing this problem, if you give us the power of attorney to act on your behalf.
Talk about nitpicking. You are clearly missing the point here. These videos are not aimed to tell everyone everything there is to know about a topic. They are there to lay the basics or spark some interest after which the person should go off on their own with a basic understanding and learn more. Can you can honestly sit there and tell me that commenting would be a major focus on an intro to [insert language here]?
If that's the case: dannytatom@gmail.com
That's what I do. Being the overly honest person that I am, I go through and total up all my Amazon purchases for the year. They should really have a way to compute the total automatically. It always takes me a while to do it by hand. But at least that way, you're paying the right amount.
You might be able to, but you'll pay 10% more in NY over many other places (but not Seattle) due to Amazon being forced to charge sales tax in KS, KY, NY, ND and WA.
FYI, looks like the video has been taken down...
There are a lot of mindless retweeters out there...adds so much noise.
He uploaded a new one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyYp1V84Xqc
Thank you Carson!
I would be grateful for a plausible period of time, albeit not forever: mark.sabalauskas@gmail.com
I'm downvoting anyone that posts their email address. The -4 I take from this is going to look a lot like an army of musketeers going up against a M134
90% of life is just showing up.

jfoutz@gmail.com

Thank you Carson
yeah. I mostly avoid going through provantage.com for similar reasons. Keeping track of what I bought for use tax is a pain in the ass, and provantage does some ridiculous "ship it from CA to Oklahoma, then back to me in CA" scheme to allow me to evade sales tax. Well, i end up paying use tax anyhow, so it just costs me extra in shipping and bookkeeping costs.
downvote me first! I really really care about points so it will be extra effective!
Anyone else find it annoying if you use google apps for your email? Going to http://www.google.com/+ gives the message
"Google Profiles is not available for your organisation".

Guess I'll just have to wait as creating a profile just for Google+ does not interest me at all.
I would also love an invite: @gmail.com

edit: Invite Received! Email redacted! Thanks alot
These look great. I have been looking for more Kahn-style videos that were more advanced, but still not from an actual class like the MIT OCW stuff.
Also note that there is still a controller chip inside each TB-enabled device. The chips in the connectors mostly handle attenuation and SNR tuning (as indicated by Steko).
My response to CA's gov and legislature as a Jerry Brown voter
I upvoted & replied to you thinking if your comment is at the top, I won't be too far behind. ;)
> No agency guarantees licensing if you meet simple criteria.

Simple is not a requirement. Objective is.

> For example, they can reject or revoke your driver's license for many obscure and subjective reasons.

And that's also a problem.
Invites need a manual? Kind of sucks...
Haha, sneaky!
I'd love to use this for finding co-founders or team building, so some form of grouping feature would be helpful to organize certain overlaps together. After signing up and adding a number of overlaps I immediately thought that this is how Hunch, Quora, and/or LinkedIn should feel in terms of experience. So far I really like this. Looking forward to seeing it grow.
One for blntechie at gmail.com please.
Worth a shot: [redacted]

Edit: Thanks to everyone who sent me an invite.
Patent Issued, now what?
At the risk of garnering some potentially negative comments, I'd like some ideas on what to do with my soon-to-be-issued (software) patent.

I pursued it as a means of heading off potential competition. However, that ship has subsequently sailed and I don't really have the heart for more legal squabbles.

Frankly, I'd be happy to donate it to some non-profit portfolio, but given how much money I spent pursuing it, I can't afford this.

While I understand much of the vitriol around this area of law, I'd also happily sell it to any third party, if only to recover my costs.

So, here's the main question for me right now: what the heck can / should I do with this thing?

I'm hoping someone on this list has been in this situation and has some ideas I haven't yet considered.

Alternatively, if anyone's interested in acquiring a patent, this one deals with synchronizing a mobile device with a desktop/other system.

Thanks.
Yeah but f7u12 is one of the most popular subreddits with its own purpose. I made /r/hidden expressly to experiment with anonymity. I showed it to a good number of people and asked their opinion, whether they'd use it (assuming it got popular), etc and almost everyone told me that either a) the anonymity would be irrelevant to them or b) they'd prefer to not be anonymous so they could "enjoy" their karma.
Hackers target Al-Qaida Internet communications systems
mathews.kyle@gmail.com
Thanks!
I wonder if they're limiting invite rates for technical reasons, or if it's just a marketing ploy - to make Google+ more desirable because of exclusivity. (Wasn't that the original catch for Facebook?)
I would also appreciate an invite:

luke.sleeman at gmail.com
rawk... \m/

email sent...
This is why I liken overlaps more to 'tact' than 'privacy'... because you can't prevent people from lying/misrepresenting themselves, nor can you prevent people from changing honestly wanting to change their overlaps over time (you might be Christian today, but atheist tomorrow...).

One possible solution is to only let you leave an overlap a week after you've joined. But then you have an incentive to create a fake account, and you can't use it for short term overlaps (like joining "I feel like shit" for four hours).
Oh, definitely, I'm just throwing that out there as a data point of the experiment in a subreddit with thousands of subscribers.
I would love to get an invite. Thanks so much for spreading the love, even if it's not to me.

[redacted]@gmail.com

EDIT*
Got it, thanks!!
Thanks to the kind soul who got me in!
Niftyion at gmail would much appreciate an invite too! Thanks!
Don't take this the wrong way, I actually appreciate the dialogue you and I are having. I like debating with an opposing view in order to bring more issues to the surface. My argument is that domain squatters provide very little value in comparison to potential alternative users of that domain. That's the thing, a domain squatter's sole intention is to profit from buying and reselling domains, while a startup's intention is to profit by creating external value through a service utilizing that domain.
@gmail.com - Thanks in advance!

Edit - I'm in! Thanks!
If anyone wants to help me out:
redacted
Does this mean soon I can start ordering groceries online and have them delivered?
Write some more ruby.
I'm also really keen on getting into G+. There are a lot of great things about it, judging from the demo, but it's a shame it's so exclusive right now. I hope it's just a marketing ploy, rather than a technical fear. If the service isn't reliable--or has a reputation as such--it has no chance of competing with Facebook.

[REDACTED] if anyone's interested in inviting a stranger.

Edit: Fixed a typo (repeated word).
Edit 2: Invited. Thanks!
Why does legislation have to be some confusing. So I get that certain parts of the law have been signed, but what about the affiliate tax? Is that now the law. The article says

"Brown announced signing eight separate pieces of that package Wednesday, though not the main spending plan itself.

The online sales tax law, AB 28 1x, would seek to force online retailers who have no physical presence in California, such as Amazon.com, to collect the same levies as bricks-and-mortar stores."

The use of "would seek to force" seems to suggest this part hasn't passed yet. So the real question is did it pass or not?
----@----.com, if there are still any going around. Thanks a bunch.

EDIT: Thanks fellas!
I don't know what their reasons are and the invite rate here seems to be quick enough that it won't cause an issue, but IMO part of what killed Wave was Google's use of their standard user rate limiting on the product. I got access to it relatively early and it seemed really cool but by the time anyone else I knew could actually get into the service it was already pretty much dead.

Doling out exclusive invites can be useful for all sorts of reasons (including marketing/psychological), but you really need to be careful that it isn't so restricted that it causes your product (assuming it is at all 'social') to be stillborn.
Google unveils Swiffy: turns high maintenance Flash animations into HTML5
I'll go ahead and join in with the begging.. I would greatly appreciate it. Email redacted. Thank you!
That's the problem: the internals of Python are not thread safe. Essentially every library backing up Python is written without thread safety in mind, and this is precisely why the GIL is necessary.
It's a great idea and I've experimented with UI's for grouping in the past (grouping/lists were a victim of the simplify-before-launch phase).

All tweets, blog posts, postcards, phone calls to friends, shouts from rooftops etc. would be greatly appreciated in helping Overlap grow ;-). My marketing budget is less than what I spend on coffee, and I'm currently in Colombia.
Edit: thanks to the two gentlemen that have invited me!

I'd appreciate if you can invite me: ~~~@gmail.com
The battle over similar issues in Texas has also been fun:

• Amazon has a distribution center in Irving, Texas but argued its clever legal structure freed it from having to pay sales taxes.

• The Republican Comptroller Susan Combs insisted on payment of a past tax bill, based on these operations.

• Amazon said it'd thus need to close the facility, and Republican Governor Rick Perry announced his opposition to the Comptroller's decision.

• The Republican-dominated legislature then passed a bill, similar to this California bill, further establishing Amazon's sales tax obligations, for not just the distribution center but the affiliates.

• Perry vetoed it.

• Amazon's hometown newspaper, the Seattle Times, then editorialized that it should stop dodging state sales taxes nationwide.

• The Texas legislature started working on a veto-proof way to obligate Amazon, perhaps by attaching the obligation to a larger budget bill.

• Amazon offered the legislature a bigger new distribution center, with 5000 (and then 6000) new jobs, in return for a full legislative exemption from sales taxes for the next few years.

The part-time legislature, which usually only meets every other year and (with no state income tax) takes sales taxes very seriously, has so far declined Amazon's offers.

Some of the coverage:

http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/02/texas-governor-back...

http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/amazon-sweetens...
Heading off the competition? We need to let the market decide the best products and not our broken patent system. FLOSS