skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
S&P Warns It May Downgrade U.S. Credit Rating
The Illusions of Psychiatry
It seemed to be a common thread among the founders that the unencumbered sharing of discoveries was a greater good. Patents serve as roadblocks creating a temporary dead end in the process of discovery. It's better to share and have everyone benefit from the fruits of innovation. Of course, most the founders were well off anyhow and patent trolls didn't exist yet, so the topic was a different matter at the time.

http://movingtofreedom.org/2006/08/31/ben-franklin-on-patent...
I still have a Hotmail address as my 'spam catchall' address around the web. I've had it since probably 1998 and since a lot of old friends and accounts are still connected to it I'm not letting it go. It continues to serve its purpose well. I've watched Hotmail evolve over the years and honestly the current state of it is pretty good. Considering they are the #1 spam sink on the web I get virtually none in my in-box. Their interface is pretty slow at times but considering I don't live in there I don't mind.

I wouldn't write off a Hotmail address as a 'joke' though.. some of those who still have them may have had them a long, long time.
Part 2 of http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/epidemi...

Previously discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2639359
Choice is great for veterans, but for someone learning Python or Ruby, how do they know what to pick? How to they know that they're not going to bet on a losing horse that stops being actively developed after a while and doesn't do anything for their career. Veterans can afford to play around and test out new frameworks, because they can always fall back to Django or whatever pays the bills, but newbies can't.
Why the links black, with a black background?

On a more technical front, the link to Anon+ goes to a site[1] which really only has a link to the Anon+ dev forum[2], this is hosted by ZetaBoards. A company in Maryland[3]. And the "anonplus.com" URL is: A) a .com domain, which I believe the US has recently claimed rights over, and B) all the contacts visible from `whois` are in the US.

Yup. Can't be shut down. Won't be silenced.

[1]: http://anonplus.com/
[2]: http://s13.zetaboards.com/anonplus/index/
[3]: http://www.zetaboards.com/contact/
You're assuming the assets are contained by one owner. Most likely though the asset is shared by a number of financial institutions and will be attempted to be split by selling the house, but none of the new asset owners are willing to finance the split of an asset that may not show returns (like if the house is sold for very little money, or not sold at all).

This is also assuming that the company went bankrupt by being worth less than their total loans. It may have been a case of the company simply loosing income and being unable to pay their financiers, even when the loans were worth less than the total value of the company. In such a case I don't know what happens to the "left overs", but I assume that they would belong to the shareholders.
If you recall, Circuit City vanished a few years ago after a several decades as a leading nationwide retailer. Part of this was surely caused by direct retail competition by Best Buy, Target, WalMart, but it would be reasonable to presume that at least a part of this was caused by technological advancement as well (it certainly couldn't have helped circuit city to have to compete with NewEgg and Amazon)
>What's a tool library?

A library, for tools instead of books. Like Vancouver's: http://www.granvilleonline.ca/home-and-garden/home/vancouver...
Thanks for this commentary. My thinking when writing the article was certainly not that startups should, to use your words, give away what they earn the salvage the prospects of those who are failing. My personal feeling is that tech entrepreneurs should be less encumbered and more free to innovate and anything that remotely approaches turning the tech sector into something that resembles a welfare state is anathema to me.

What we do in the Valley (using that as code for tech hubs) though does reverberate around the country and world. The types of startups we create affect people we'll never meet in places we'll never go (one of the potentially wonderful things about technology). The conversation that I'd love to see more of then is should we in the Valley care about what's happening elsewhere in the country.

But I deliberately wanted to stop short in the article of making any judgments. I think it's a perfectly rational approach to say as a tech entrepreneur that as long as I'm not breaking any laws in the process, any negative externalities (or lack of positive externalities) associated with the product I'm building shouldn't be my concern. I don't believe that personally but feel everyone has the right to their opinion on that matter.
Well, that's all very nice and good and whatnot, except that as soon as such a network comes into existence, one where "anything" is allowed, someone, possibly even the police themselves, will upload child porn, and then the whole thing goes away, along with anyone at the top of its operation. That's the big problem.

You must allow everything, and protection from being shut down by the government must be built in from the start, and you must design in the ability for people to apply complex filtering so as to get as close as possible to the holy grail of "only what I want, when I want it", and the whole thing must be super simple to use, with a very comfortable feel, unlike torrents and traditional p2p, and some level of anonymity must be allowed, as well as the ability to confirm the identities of people who want to be identified.

And that's just for starters. Anyway, I have Anonymous beat by 6 months on this, or at least as far as domain registrations go. Let's see which of us is first to create something of real and lasting value. Finally, my one-man startup not only has competition, but it comes from none other than the most brilliant group of malcontents ever assembled in human history. Woot!
Microsoft Registers Microsoft-Sony Domains
I dunno, I kind of like movie theaters as they are. You'd really have to wow me to sell me on "next-generation movie theaters"
I don't quite follow you... Do you doubt that there are significant neurological differences between children and adults that enable children to perform feats (involving neural plasticity and learning ability) that are out of reach of adults?
i wish...
superhigh-resolution photos

I don't know how big they're talking, but if they're GBs then 270Mbps could seem slow, especially if you only have a limited window of opportunity to download them.
37signals's suite of products (http://37signals.com) is pretty good for what you need. Basecamp can handle the progress/deadlines and questions, and Backpack's a pretty good solution for sharing documents and such internally.
I've got the exact same function (also php) but mine is called print_arr() as in array.
Price of Land = Value of Developed Parcel To User - Cost of Construction - Legal and Government costs - Any other costs during the development or after the development including Time value of money of property taxes.

This equation holds true in the US, and should hold true in India. The reason for US subsidies is that sometimes, the right side of the equation is still negative because the value to the end user is so low (think section 8 where tenants only have $500/month or less to rent housing, feed their family etc.)

Building a $500 house will only be beneficial to people if the right side of the equation has a value less than 0. If the value of the right hand side of the equation is greater than 0 then the land value simply goes up.
I'm sitting on a Moses right now.
Bank of America does this for newly issued accounts and cards (both debit and credit), too, unless you specifically request a photo-less card.
"The idea is to invert the normal rhythms of school, so that lectures are viewed on the kids’ own time and homework is done at school."

That's exactly right - there is no point for human teacher to do what video can do better.

Human teacher show help students when they stuck during exercise.
If I'm not mistaken, that has the same semantics as the standard one line event definition, i.e.:

public event EventHandler MyEvent;
// Inside the class, MyEvent is bound to a multicast delegate.
// Outside the class, MyEvent is bound to an auto-generated add/remove mechanism.
// So MyEvent can only be set to null or invoked from inside the class.
A lesson from Economy 101:

A company goes defunct when their debt obligations grow bigger than what the company is worth. It is said that "liabilities are bigger than asserts" on the balance sheet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_sheet

So if the company can not pay its debt, the company is given to its debtors.

So THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE WHO OWNS the house, those that expended the money for the house to be built and own the debt. Odds are that the $300.000 is worth $100.000 in the open market today(if they want to recoup the investment) and they will loose money but it is not $0 or $16.
I've fixed the scrolling issue, the preview not working seems to be an issue with certain versions of firefox (are you running FF4?) Gonna see if I can solve that one now.

Thanks again for the heads up, its always so hard to find these bugs when there's so many browsers available...

Edit: The preview button not working in firefox is now fixed, also tested in chrome, and IE 7, 8 & 9
Oh. my. god. there is a guy on the internet making comics about my life. oO
10 Signs of a born entrepreneur: r u one?
Thanks for reading, and yeah! You got the idea right. Didn't mean to make it sound complicated. It's just something I found myself messing around with a couple of days ago.
Wow, that's strange. No changes here either. Wonder what's going on.
I also wondered the same thing. I think that could be made a bit more clear.
Can you post OS and browser versions along with the hardware revision? That sounds bad.
Developer Lorem Ipsum
excellent summation
When movie/game night is at my place I'm going to say, "Welcome to my next-generation movie theater."
Undoubtedly a number of lawyers' children have benefited from their family's greatly increased income. Otherwise, I can't think of anything.
This is very cool, but when running it on Chrome 13 beta it was extremely choppy and basically locked up my PC. It took 2 minutes to move my mouse to the "close tab" button.
My surge started on May 19 and it abruptly ended, actually plummeted last July 8.
I still got first page results in Bing and Yahoo..
The sad thing is that there is tons of work that the idle resources of the construction industry could be doing, such as fixing America's deteriorating infrastructure. But our elites have decided that it's better for them to stay idle.
Not being burdened with having to make a profit will make it easier for you to build a successful product. You’d never have to think about limiting or exploiting your users...

Okay, this is true some of the time, and I work supporting an open-source software product so I'm officially committed to trying to make this as true as it can possibly be.

But let's not take this too far. If you build a product with no visible means of support... it won't be supported. Yeah, you'll support it while it is new and fun, but six months from now? Two years from now, when you're in the middle of that startup that this toy project is the warmup exercise for? Ten years from now?

If it doesn't at least make back its costs -- hosting, support, whatever -- the product is not going to fly long-term, and that is eventually going to limit your users.

Unless your users are hackers (in which case you really can make them perfectly happy by releasing completely unsupported, underfunded, possibly even dangerous software on Github with the GPL attached; they'll happily take it from there) they may ultimately wish that you had at least a modest business model to go along with your project. Because more than half the game in product design is to design something that is at least modestly profitable in the long run. If it was merely a matter of making customers happy, product development would be easy. This is a PG-rated comment so I'll refrain from suggesting the sorts of things your project could supply if economics could really be ignored.

(Hm, I've just noticed my own tl;dr: A project which is not also a business tends to be, or rapidly devolve into, a project which is aimed at hackers. And this is fine if you're trying to build your skills or show off for hackers, but if you're trying to learn to design a product for people who can't compile the product themselves there may be no way to play the game without actually playing the game.)
I agree that the algorithm would have been published anyway, since it was part of Page's PhD work, I believe. But I disagree that the patent hasn't been used for "good."

Google has been a huge net positive in the development of the Internet in the last decade+. All of this development is the result of Google's dominance in search. The PageRank algorithm was where that began. Yes, things might have turned out the same without the patent. Or maybe Yahoo would have integrated the algorithm and cut Google off at its knees, and we'd all be stuck using hotmail with 2MB inboxes. I think it's unfair to simply dismiss the beneficial impact of the patent on the algorithm that started Google.
Yes, that's what I meant, and I used the wrong term. :)

I agree; it merely illustrates the flaws in the system that we have.
Identical twins studies are often flawed, because the environment difference between twins is far from random for obvious reasons. For example, in one of the (often used) minesota studies about IQ and twins, the average IQ of the father was 120, whereas the state average was 105 (see http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bul/125/4/392/).

And while it has become a cliche, it is still true that correlation is not causation: coming up with correlation is easy, but solid scientific works need to prove that the correlation is not spurious. Most studies don't (this is sadly not specific to discussions about IQ, and is a plague of many studies in too many areas - good statistics are hard).
Can you add more or make a separate post with them? It would be very useful.
Depends whether you ask on a Monday or Friday.
I've worked a few places where this would be terrific. Am I the only one who thinks this might be a possible business opportunity?
I don't see how the article applies here, as we're not discussing a matter of significance. Were we discussing something that affected people's lives, it'd be appropriate. But I was being deliberately irreverent towards the notion that one should take care to choose the 'right' email provider. After all, its a fucking email provider. It sends and receives email. That's it. To talk about it as if it is something to take seriously is goofy.

Peace.
In that case, it couldn't find the element to delete in constant time.
Does this mean none of the founders are totally focused on Twitter any more?
Where did you get dropouts per year from? The article is saying that in the year 2007 of the cohort of individuals ages 16 to 24 6.2 million were dropouts. 16% is far too high of a dropout rate ... but 6.2 million per year is clearly impossible in a nation of ~300 million.
I remember having one of those cards (with a photo on it.) I always found it amusing when I was asked for photo id upon using it.
Flying sphere goes where man fears to tread | Video.com
I would run as far and fast away from this idea as possible.

Implementing this is a horrendous sucking morass of death and the best available evidence (Yodlee) suggests that it's not an especially profitable service to provide.
Most paten holders are harming the ecosystem.
"Many people can edit at the same time in Docs ..."

... and see each others' edits in real time. It's very cool.
I've been looking at backbone.js stuff for the past three days and couldn't find anything worthwhile besides cloudedit's tutorial and the docs. Just today i was checking on books. Talk about luck :).
What is legal is not always ethical. America was built on the slaves, the extermination of the native nations. A lot of "entrepreneurship" involved in the process. It's your prerogative to absolve yourself and the industry. You have done nothing "wrong". It is also the right of other people to question the ethical ramification of this structural shift. The citizens of the country are affected negatively, not even foreign subjects.

The one thing people never lack is rationalizations, even after the worst crimes possible. In the end it is not just that some people become poor and other rich, it's the wealth transfer from one side to the other. As the middle class goes so does the democracy as the concentrated money class takes over the government. This is the worst development that was going on in America even before the Great Recession.
Social Memories Turns Your Facebook Activity Into 28 Pages Hardcover Book
I wasn't advocating choosing the "right" provider (though you should certainly try to pick a good one, for your own sake!).

I have simply found that people's technical competence generally (GENERALLY) corresponds to what domain they are using. It's an observation, not a fashion trend.
Ok we're on the same page then. I fear that the word "drill" is often linked to mindless repetition without caring for motivation. However, as that paper says ("The instructional task is not to "kill" motivation by demanding drill...") it emphasizes the importance of motivation in the process, which is great. I well understand the role of practice in competence development as well.

Thanks for the source.
Google+ All Boy's Club Turning More Pink?
If you're lucky, you can find a low-end netbook on clearance at Best Buy or the like for $199.

Other than that, you do seem to have to go digging online. Deeply.
Elsewhere, Anonymous gets banned from Google+ because they violated some community standards. Here's the HN discussion link. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2771246
Same for me -- Chrome 12.0.742.122, MBA 2.13 GHz 13" latest, 4GB ram
Ok, but that has nothing to do with Google+ does it,
or is it somehow a Google+ feature?
"Yeah, you'll support it while it is new and fun, but six months from now? Two years from now, when you're in the middle of that startup that this toy project is the warmup exercise for? Ten years from now?"

You're taking it too far-- I sometimes see great projects on HN that took less than a month to make.

By the way, since you bring up the commitment issue; I've been sticking with my own non-profit project for slightly more than two years now, and I see it as a real possibility that I will keep working on up to the next decade. But maybe that's just me :)
The people I know who use hotmail these days all love it.

I couldn't tell if you were joking, so I just logged into my hotmail account after years. Wow, some things never change. What do your friends love more - the flashing banner ads or the Outlook-style frames with scrollbars?
There are fundamental problems that aren't even close to being solved. Health care is the most obvious one. Efficiency in one area should (in theory) allow us to spend more on unsolved problems. Of course, that can only lead to employment to the extent that someone is willing to spend.
$200 in (say) 1985 ~= $400 in 2011. You can get a computer you can program for $400, and it will be a lot more capable than a Commodore 64.
Gotta figure out how to reduce the cost of drugs and lab tests as well. Which'll mean reducing the cost of lab equipment.
Fair enough, but by that logic you can say any business that provides services that the poor can afford is 'helping the poor'. Bing helps the poor the same way google does, Apple helps the poor by selling music by the track, etc. Zynga helps the poor by providing cheap entertainment, etc.

I thought there was the implication that google did
something specific.
"Curious that the neighbors would rather have an unmaintained and abandoned property sit vacant and all of the potential associated problems with that rather than occupied by someone who presumably has an interest in keeping it up."

It is not curious, it is obvious:

First they hate to have a neighbor that is not used to buy things like they do. Maybe they consider this action stealing somebody else property, as it is in fact.

People don't like thieves as neighbors that claim property of what "you don't use", I met a guy that stole bicycles and motorbikes as "nobody uses them"(when they did not use it for periods of 20 or 30 days, witch made it easier to rob).

In Spain and Romania, gypsies use to enter your property and steal everything they can if there is not somebody watching. E.g they steal the copper for the power grid from public railroads at night, in south crops they steal the copper from transformers that make electrovalves work. In Spain something like 20 people die every month stealing copper(electrocuted).

They have someone from a different socio economic status too.

If the home is free,then they want to have the opportunity to buy it at free market. They will have family members or friends that are in need to.

Those people think that if they respect the rules, everybody has to respect it too, because if they don't there is not reason they have to work, they can steal or kill for getting what they need too.(maybe even better).
What you say is both right and wrong. It is wrong because sometimes children already know the material and would like to move on to other things. On the other hand, letting people race ahead sets up certain unhealthy incentives for people not to properly master their subjects.
What I lost on the Google+ Diet
Pyee: Node.js EventEmitter Ported to Python
I have been cataloging my ideas for several months now, in preparation for bringing others into the loop to help further refine and develop them,

By every metric bandied about on most start-up/entrepreneur websites involving initial position to make a good jump, I wouldn't appear to have a chance. I certainly don't fit the model of elite-school graduate with powerful social networks/resources installed from boot-up.

I don't even think about that stuff. It's information detailing other people. Not me. Not my thoughts. Not my ideas. Not my approach. Not my experience. Not my insight. Not my life.

Not a problem.

They say there's nothing you can say or do that hasn't been said or done before... but we've got more resources at our fingertips this instant than the entirety of all civilizations on Earth did just 20 years ago. We have the ability to grow our thoughts into real things like never before in history, and I mean to use them. You should too-- be exited, not pensive.

Be awesome-- your inspiration is not like others, and your implementation need not be the same either.

I think of articulating ideas in a software solution context as describing Mona Lisa's smile. Many people will use many different words. Some will sound better to some people than others, and others will sound good to everyone-- but there is no perfect answer for everyone.
Just remember the most important thing: they are all describing the same thing! Of course there will be similarities between them. They're trying to solve the same problem(s). No worries.

All you can do is observe, watch others observe, and learn to describe your solution the best way you can-- using your vision and the world around you as a feedback mechanism to tweak and develop your approach.

You might have a superior element to your design that the current developers will not even ponder until they see you implement it.

TL;DR: JUST DO IT.
Hopefully the real owners will figure out that they've got a squatter and will evict him.

But if it actually takes them more than ten years to figure out that someone else is living in their house, even when this has hit the national news, just how well can they be maintaining the property? You'd think they would notice the problem the first time they cut the grass.