skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that I subconsciously interpret cursor:pointer as "clicking here will do something with GET semantics" vs. cursor:default as "clicking will do something with POST semantics". I feel about the same way about cursor:pointer-styled buttons as I do about plain blue-underlined "Delete" links.
I think the interesting part of this product is that often times you have large collections of party pictures that aren't all that interesting to wade thru on FB or whatever. This makes all those potentially less interesting photos more valuable as frames in a movie instead.
This is exactly what we are building here; https://www.mepin.com The private key is generated and stored in a smarphone or separate USB smartcard, so that normal users don't have to manage their private keys.
We have GvR as a BDFL
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The terrible, terrible UI.

Plus: the same problem as normal SSL certs: the registries aren't secure/trustable.
If an adult is hiding in the bushes to avoid work, he does not deserve public benefits of any sort. The program I propose would eliminate such people from the unemployment/welfare/public benefit rolls, saving millions of taxpayer dollars.

Some simple accounting:

Days 1-3: lazy bum is employed by your company and accomplishes nothing.

Day 4: you fire them for laziness.

Day 5: the government compensates you for their wages plus a premium for the wasted supervisor's time, risk, etc.

Day 6-week 99: the government does not pay unemployment benefits to the lazy bum.

Provided 99 weeks of unemployment costs more than 3 days wages + supervisory premiums, I can't see how this could fail to save money.
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It was not just a mistake, it was a deliberate attempt to monkey with the unemployment figures before an election! One the electorate fell for. Of course you could make exactly the same case about Thatcher boosting her popularity by winning the Falklands War.

The Nu Labour "project" was very cynically about power for the sake of power, using techniques hitherto reserved for selling consumer goods and pop music. Thatcher, for all her faults, was a true believer in what later became known as Thatcherism. Blair and Brown were so intent on power their whole political careers that they had absolutely no idea what to do when they got it!
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He amended his returns to take into consideration the business deductions and received a refund as a result of the re-filed returns. Although, I didn't help him file the returns I walked him through the process because he'd be required to continue to file his future tax returns under the business classification.

Finding an accountant is often expensive and considering his income from the website, it was significant enough to justify the additional cost of hiring a professional.
Apple tends to pre-pay manufacturers (of e.g. LCD screens, flash memory, etc) large sums in exchange for lower per-unit prices and first access to the supply chain. This results in Apple's part orders taking priority over everyone else's for a specified length of time.

There was a time, not too long ago, where every MP3 player manufacturer in the world had a hard time getting flash memory because Samsung, the world's largest manufacturer, was selling most of its supply to Apple. Thanks to the tendency of such large companies to operate each division as a separate business unit, this meant that even Samsung's portable phone and MP3 player division had a hard time getting flash memory.

In the end, prices went up for everyone except Apple, since the supply was severely depleted.

My understanding is that Apple has done the same thing for 10" 1024x768 LCD screens, resulting in a diminished worldwide supply (and, as a result, an increased price for anyone looking to purchase them).
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Somewhat related, but when I had issues with my heart, had I blindly followed what my doctor said and not done due diligence, I would have missed a very critical parameter that had to be fixed. The doc (multiple doctors, actually) never suggested the tests, I did my research and found it out, with some push got the test prescribed, lo and behold! That test was positive and was a primary reason for my ill health. Does everyone need to have an understanding of these things? I don't know, but it probably saved me from another heart attack for sure!
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Please check "micro jobs" and related sites before down voting. You may not agree on "hard truth", but downvoting purely because you disagree is wrong in HN, AFAIK
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some monkey/human pairs do know ways of communicating with each other. signing, and key boards
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Didn't read the article. But "typical" is a rather vague expression. If it aims at households of "internet of things" fanboys... perhaps.

Otherwise I bet it won't be true.

PS: Man, I hate the internet of things expression. Sounds like buzz from last century.
> you only get one go at it

Sadly, I don't see how you could hope to enforce this constraint... The idea of a game seat is nice, though -- a collaborative time capsule of sorts.
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I've been saying it to a lot of people for quite a while, but that's a very nice example: client certificates, OpenID, PGP, and a host of extremely-useful systems like those aren't hard because they're inherently hard. They're hard because their presentations are absolute crap.

Take OpenID for example. I've encountered a bajillion nay-sayers, "it's too complicated" this and "too many steps for the user" that. So what's "sign in with Facebook" if not a better presentation of the exact same idea? And how many people have no problem using it every day?

To have a security revolution, we need to have a security software revolution. The tech exists for the vast majority of problems, we just need to use it.
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A very easy way to send public Google+ posts to Twitter
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So... to add a little bit more to this story.

I have a copy of Chain World.

I was having lunch with a friend of mine in NYC a few weeks ago, and he was telling me about all this. He said that he was talking with his friend who got the USB drive from Rohrer (I assume this is Ji) and that before Ji sold it, he bootlegged a copy of it. A copy that my friend emailed to me.

I have yet to play (I haven't played Minecraft before, I want a bit of practice before I boot into the game world and die), but it's sitting on my desktop right now.

I think the fact that there is now at least two bootlegged copies going around adds to parallelism to religion. There is "the true path" (the original USB drive), and then there have been two "sects" that have broken off, gone to different parts of the world, and have begun to grow.

I plan on passing my copy from friend to friend on the West Coast. Maybe one day someone will come across copies of two different strains and they'll be able to see the differences that occur after 50 generations of evolution.
Here's mine:
http://eugene.lt/resume.pdf

The goal was to fit everything onto a single page. Laid out in HTML and simply saved to PDF with Safari.
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A box of vintage wine?

I thought these were boxes of wine: http://www.instructables.com/image/FO6BCL6F8DOSUHR/FINISH-OF...
She was found not guilty wasn't she? Why does it matter now that his initial findings were faulty against her.
Why do we grade?
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"For an arbitrary polynomial function [...] determining whether it’s convex is what’s called NP-hard. That means that the most powerful computers in the world couldn’t provide an answer in a reasonable amount of time."

eye twitch

A problem's complexity class only gives an indication of potential runtime. There are decent algorithms for a lot of NP-complete problems (airline/package routing, compiler backend optimizations, etc.) that don't require "the most powerful computer in the world". I'm pretty sure the correct definition of hardness/completeness in complexity theory can be boiled down to a sentence that's much more correct than that, especially if you include something like "at least as hard as all other NP problems"
> We know this is true in our own lives. Things are lasting longer and working better.

Is this guy living in some parallel universe where planned obsolescence of overly complicated and fragile products isn't the norm?
Surely it matters that the prosecution had a responsibility to pass on the information and chose not to?

That, and the fact that you've got to seriously worry when a report from a piece of software that can confuse the numbers 1 and 84 is being used as evidence in court.
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Do you really think that the opinion of people on HN has a measurable impact on our patent system?

Getting geeks to dislike patents is easy. We have a lot of geeks who hate patents and are passionate about it. Yet the patent system hasn't been changing as a result. Why not?

If you can't get geeks, who should all have at least some distaste for software patents, to agree on a solid argument against them, then how can you expect to convince congress? One could view these geeks-only debates as individual geeks refining their arguments and accumulating additional information, in preparation for attacking the problem at its legislative source.
Ask HN: Any advice for negotiating a partnership with a bigger company?
Hi HN,

We have just launched a fantasy sports app on Facebook. Following a lot of the principles learnt from HN, we focussed on just getting the app out as quickly as possible and iterating rapidly based on user feedback. In two weeks we have grown to 600 users with some users playing the game daily.

Unexpectedly, we caught the attention of a much bigger web company, with approx 1.5 million visitors per month, who is interested in forming a partnership because we have the same target market and this company has been hoping to get into the Facebook space for sometime now. They are offering to advertise our app on their website in return for a 50/50 revenue split as well as having their name on our app.

Does this sound fair?
From our perspective, we will benefit from a lot more exposure but because we funded the project from our own pockets it'll make the task of breaking even much harder. The ongoing maintenance costs and enhancements will be funded by us too. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
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It matters because the prosecution should have said something. The prosecutor's job is not to just put somebody in jail, but rather, to put the right somebody in jail. Unfortunately, we seem to have forgotten that in the US as part of the adversarial position between law enforcement and citizens.
Because said findings were found faulty while the case was still proceeding. It would be irresponsible to let the prosecution get away with illegal behaviour just because the defendant won.
got it! good and mainstream for this particular community. because can't believe that my content [1] is bad (except that i know only 8500 of english words :)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2777753
Back in 2006 my brother and I started a business with $0 upfront cost.

1and1 at the time was running a deal for 3 years free hosting. We made a site on there, put up AdSense, made enough money to buy a domain. Then made enough money to upgrade to paid shared hosting, and then dedicated hosting. It's still profitable today.
I took away the message that I would need to be quite careful about being called as an expert witness, viz what exactly my brief was. He thought it was about something, the prosecutor asked him about something else.

Good on him for having the moral fortitude to correct his error.
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Finally! I'm sick of web hosts claiming the protocol is still changing constantly, so they won't support websockets on their servers.
If a human stole his camera and took a picture, it would not be his.
We just released this. I've wanted it ever since I started using Plus, so hopefully some of you will find it useful too :)

I spent quite a bit of time getting the sharing correct - sharing Google+'s various data types is surprisingly hard to get right and make sure links go where you would expect them to.

Feedback welcome.
That's like praising child porn because the alternative is sometimes raping children.
I wonder if that's born from OS UI semantics... interesting. I wonder what pushed us in opposite directions.
Maybe better to post a "Who's Hiring Remote" thread, like these: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=who%27s+hir...
I taught someone programming with Python and Django. 6 months later he has a job at a bioinformatics startup.

Python is dead easy to teach and Django is dead easy to apply for newbies.
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Hacking a dead girl's voicemail and lying about it to the police is not the same as hacking the CMS of the assholes responsible for it.
The unfortunate, but probably avoidable downside: the rich old people most interested in and capable of affording life extension therapy give so much inertia to the status quo that humanity's progress is thrown to a screeching halt.
Good god, bring back Groklaw. If the most respectable commenter on this topic is Florian Mueller, then we're in serious trouble.
In math (well, in proofs) an answer must be "the" answer, a good enough answer is not good enough.

Those algorithms you mention provide reasonable answers, but they do not guarantee that the answer is the best answer.
It's terrifying that an analysis from software like CacheBack can be used as an important piece of evidence in a murder trial. An error of this magnitude could easily contribute to somebody wrongly losing his or her life and that is not alright in any way. I would feel a lot more comfortable if a piece of FOSS, which could be independently vetted, was used instead of some half-baked proprietary garbage with a $500 price tag. I'm all for finding a niche market and exploiting it, but to me there is something deeply wrong about hiding the logic behind a piece of software producing courtroom evidence.
My econ professor in undergrad did some interesting research on utility and happiness: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mkimball/pdf/uhap.pdf

I think the sooner you figure out exactly what your utility curve is (e.g. what really drives you and what you're looking for out of life), the more successful you'll be at maximizing it and living a fulfilling life.

The meaning of life is to make the most meaning out of it.
On topic, i think the Stanford U on-campus bookstore is the only good technical bookstore in the SF to Mountain View corridor now
Would you like to explain how you tested this?
It's probably clear enough that the word you were searching for is cue, but it strikes me that in the age of Instapaper, ReadItLater and their ilk, your use of queue isn't entirely off the mark.
We are beings of transience and impermanence. If you aren´t satisfied with 80 years, you won´t be satisfied with 8000.

Satisfaction and permanence are not binary attributes. One needn't find complete contentment in any arbitrary lifespan to conclude that one could be more satisfied with a long life span than a short one. Plus, the longer one lives, the more likely it is that some true form of permanent conscious existence may be discovered and/or invented.
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I agree. But I would also add political asylum and similar human rights considerations (they do exist, but need to be broader, imho). Perhaps this aspect is less relevant to HN, however it is relevant to the immigration issue.
I love books. I also like paper books, but I believe that in the long run we're better off without them for economic and environmental reasons, and e-books are a pretty darned good alternative. I think that the inherent value of a book is its contents. Whether it is tangible or not doesn't matter as much.

I disagree, at least until e-books get much, much better. Dead tree books are still easier for me to read in a number of ways (ranging from actual ease of transferring information from the medium to the brain to not having the ability to open up TVTropes on my dead trees to the easy visual indicator letting me know that I've only got a couple more pages or that I should maybe stop for the night). I can quickly and easily jot down notes in the margin that are both apparent and easy to read on further rereads (the copy of The Count of Monte Cristo I have annotated over the years is a dear treasure to me) and I've yet to see anything that works so well in electronic form. Perhaps the most difficult thing to fix, though, is simply the way memory works. It often happens that I will want to reread a certain scene (or bit of information, in the case of nonfiction) but I don't really remember any good keywords from the scene, so an e-book search wouldn't do much good. Nevertheless, a strong visual memory is very helpful here: I'm usually able to quickly turn to the appropriate part of the book and start investigating bottom halves of left pages or what have you. From my experience, this same sort of search is far more tedious and less effective on e-books as they are today.

Now, is any of this universal? I hardly think so. It's not really complete, though, and I'm willing to bet that a large number of avid readers have their necessary features where e-books are lacking, and these extend beyond simple romanticism. I mean, sure, there is a lot of romanticism also buried in there (ever notice how the olfactory experience is so much richer with books than with Kindles?), but it's hardly the whole picutre.

That's not to say that e-books can't catch up to alleviate some of these issues, but I find it borderline ridiculous to say that there's no inherent value in the tangibility of a book.
Mark Evans, an executive at Borders until 2009, had a few insights into why Borders died.

http://www.quora.com/Borders-Books/Why-is-Barnes-and-Noble-p...
This article got me thinking about the constructivist theory of education... and I realized that as a self-taught programmer, this theory hasn't worked for me except in very limited ways. I think constructivism works within a certain radius of mastered knowledge. No amount of 'fumbling around' is going to allow me to write a parser, or an operating system. Even for something that I have (or had) the motivation to do, which is to write a very simple learning game [0], the lack of knowledge was a show-stopper.

I think constructivism works for tasks that are just outside of your scope of knowledge. So if I really wanted to create a rails app, I could do that, since that's what I've been doing.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032484
Honestly?

I don't think either "side" (if there is such a thing as "sides" here -- South's lead developer has a commit bit on Django) wants to just transplant South into Django directly. The plan, which got hashed out secretly behind closed doors in a shadowy back room (on our public mailing list), is to work the low-level support for migration-ish stuff -- APIs for DB manipulation, etc. -- into Django, but not officially "bless" any particular high-level implementation.
Huh? The outcome of any one trial matters very little. Accuracy and honesty in evidence collection matters in every trial.
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Not at all. Internships are a valid option (well, as long as they're paid), but they certainly are not the only option. You could be contributing to one of the open source projects out there, participating in research on campus, or doing inter-professional projects if your school offers them.

When it comes to education and employment, there is no single right way of doing things.
Well, a lot of them can approximate "the" answer to within an arbitrarily and provably small amount, so it's definitions. For example, there is a polynomial-time approximation for euclidean TSP that produces a solution with length at most (1 + epsilon) * optimal.
For what its worth, in the one class I've had where the professor did catch a fifth of the students cheating in the first midterm (and immediately handed everyone Fs), his mood towards the rest of the class changed similarly.
Ooh, that's a dangerous line of thought. We certainly do respect rights of people who aren't smart enough to understand them; we also protect the welfare of animals in other ways despite their not being able to comprehend that we generally choose to treat their health and comfort as a "right".

The personhood horizon doesn't lie on a speciation boundary, and "rights" as extended by us go much further.
Needs an account to view. Is there any other way to see this article?
That still doesn't answer: Is this formula convex or not. It's a yes or no question, not a probabilistic one.

A probabilistic answer may be useful! But that's not the point of this proof.
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