skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an agreement between the user and their ISP, I for one have never made any agreement with KISSMetrics though I've used sites where they have tracked my information. Now I do make an agreement between a service like hulu when I use the site (Terms of Use) but the kicker here is (from their privacy policy):

You have choices about the collection and use of your information by third parties

But in fact because of KissMetrics shenanigans, the user did not have the choice which is probably why Hulu is in trouble. I suspect the other defendants have similar clauses that were not followed
My last app submitted two months ago has made a total of $34, and it wasnt put together in a weekend, it took 6 months in design and development.

So its not as easy sailing as you make it sound. I think you still need a lot of advertising if you want to make some money.
Looked more into Cash WinFall, looks like they are trying to fix the lottery and are blocking gamblers from buying more than $5000 of tickets per day per terminal:
http://www.masslottery.com/about/news.html
Something like Facebook shows album photos may be? Thumbnails next to each other, with a headline like you suggested saying how many you have shared per day?

Also I feel sharing should be one-click, something like Google +1, without the need to fill any status/heading/description/tag fields.
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Without more telling numbers around customer behavior, these numbers aren't particularly relevant. What we really need to know is what their customer churn is - what percentage of merchants use the service again? What percentage of consumers use the service again?

If their churn is very low, the adjusted CSOI numbers are interesting to look at (once acquired, customers stick around for awhile and have a positive lifetime value). If their churn is very high, welcome back to the 2001 bubble. The fundamental question about a business at this scale isn't so much whether they are making or losing money, but whether anyone actually wants what they're selling (at a price higher than what it costs to deliver). It really isn't rocket surgery.

Or their business model is to sell irrational exuberance and cash out before anyone notices. That's also a viable business model.
IRC:

Well - irssi actually. But when I say that I think that the XMPP clients suck I'm talking about nice and clean GUI things. That I can force upon my non-technical peers.

My 'presence' in this discussion should show that I'm a strong xmpp proponent, crappy clients (in the 'Not for my SO' sense) or not.

pyre said the very same thing in this thread. Sorry for that - I'm clearly mistaken and need to figure out what the reason for this assessment was.. You (and pyre) are correct, federation was announced int 2006(!) here:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/open-federation-for-g...

Thanks a lot for the clarification.
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I think whether economics is closely tied to politics depends on what you're asking after. There are two sets of economists: social scientists and engineers. The latter seem to work primarily for government and their work is necessarily closely tied to politics. But there are plenty of economists who like to propose solutions to current issues who don't work for the government.

The former are less tied to politics, but much more closely to it than, say, physics.
So, an article about how Felicia Day is well positioned as a figure in online entertainment, and they don't even mention Dr. Horrible?

My understanding is that Whedon embarked upon that after seeing the success of The Guild, and talking to Day about online distribution. (Obviously the writer's strike had a lot to do with it too...)
Go to a dive bar in Western PA, ask the people there what they think about neurosurgeons and what they think about bankers. The American conservative base hates bankers.
I think it's worth pointing out that while this is great tech, it's still relying on antibody detection, and the incubation period between infection and antibody production can be anywhere from 6 weeks to 6 months. However, you yourself become infectious from a couple of days after infection, and in fact there's often a really high viral load in these early few weeks/months before antibodies start being produced.

Long story short, for the 2-6 months after you first become infected the test would return negative, but you'd still be highly infectious.
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But shouldn't the page at least run in its own thread (or process)? If Javascript hangs, sure the page can hang, but the browser UI should still work and give you the opportunity to terminate or recover. According to TFA, Javascript blocks the UI thread in IE9.

Their own guidelines that they link to [1] says "Do not: call into any 'unknown' code from your UI thread". I don't see why a browser is special and can't keep to that rule - especially a modern browser like IE9.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744765(v=vs.85).as...
Nope, connect your social accounts, that's the funny/best part.
Isn't this the same line of reasoning that the Catholic church uses to try to prevent the spread of condoms in certain parts of the World?
Your competitors can also buy AdWords on keywords such as "(your business) coupon codes", sniping your sales at the very end of your funnel.
Well kudos to you, good sir.
Are you taking suggestions?
Rubbish. You should design using clear and non-technical language, but you shouldn't misname things because your customers don't understand what you've built.
I actually only dislike the MUC presentation most of the time. It always feels bolted on to me.

As I said elsewhere in this thread I'm not really having an issue for myself, but I've yet to find a decent client that I can hand to my peers. That's why I actually like the idea of this project, I guess.
"causal sex is fine as long as you take precautions" is an "extremist" view?
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While his exact point was rather moronic, you could lessen the idea and have a good plan.

Sure, testing everybody in Africa wouldn't get rid of HIV, it would do far more good than just offering them for $1, and it would be a huge step towards eradication - though definitely not the final step.
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type Expr =
| Num of int
| Add of Expr * Expr
| Mul of Expr * Expr
| Var of string

let rec Evaluate (env:Map<string,int>) exp =
match exp with
| Num n -> n
| Add (x,y) -> Evaluate env x + Evaluate env y
| Mul (x,y) -> Evaluate env x * Evaluate env y
| Var id -> env.[id]

let envA = Map.ofList [ "a", 1; "b", 2; "c", 3 ]

let expT1 = Add(Var "a",Mul(Num 2,Var "b"))
let resT1 = Evaluate envA expT1

=> 5
+1 for this. I'd be really interested to see what kind of return you can get on this kind of site.
Apple wasn't interested in inductive charging until they could come up with a highly conspicuous implementation.

They'll leave unceremoniously plopping a phone onto a charging mat as an exercise for the Android plebes. Imagine the smug satisfaction that iPhone users will have as they meticulously wrap their headphone cords around their $199 iTower...
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Plus it is the case with hg (but I guess also with git) that you can use any merge tool to merge your files. Once someone write such a tool, everyone profit!

(My understanding is that it happens too rarely in practice to make it worth the effort)
Agreed. Title is pure link-bait.

The only VCS I see mentioned is git in one of the footnotes regarding rerere.
Haven't tested this specifically, but, every test I've ever done (that had statistically significant results) has shown "Less fields in a form is always better".
Your numbers don't address his comment.

The recession started in late 2007 and became apparent in late 2008. Efforts to address the recession (the Stimulus package) weren't implemented until 2009 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestm...) so that's the baseline. To show his comment is false we need the spending numbers for 2010 and YTD 2011. The site doesn't have solid numbers yet, but the "guesstimate" for 2010 ($5,799) indicates that krschultz is right.
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I realize that the amount of debt can be larger than the total amount of money. In fact given every dollar in existence is on loan from the federal reserve the total amount of debt will always be higher than the total number of dollars in the system by design. The question is, how does the system not implode under the massive amount of debt that is ever increasing?
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Hi smart hackers, only u can help me ^^
Ok guys, it's a little complicated, first of all this hacking issue is related to cell-phone and not computer, but I think maybe you can help.

What I need is, to pretend that a particular someone has sent me a msg on my mobile, with this someone's number showing as the sender, while this someone didn't really send anything.

I hope I could make it clear ^^ I'll appreciate your help very much.
How would JavaScript be able to override default event handlers if it weren't tied to the UI thread?

Synchronous XHR will tie up every other browser too--because it's a blocking call, hence the "synchronous"...

A rare example of appropriate use is an onbeforeunload handler that saves your work on a webpage when you close the window, because in this case, asynchronous calls will never complete between the click and the window unloading so you have to synchronously block the unload event handler. Now, go post that on this SO thread [1] and make some points ;-)

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2088318/is-there-any-reas...
And conveniently enough for this discussion, this happens to be exercise 1.19 of SICP (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-11.html...).
I've met some of my best (online) buddies on /b/ or in /b/-related activities (though I don't go there anymore).

Yes, it's a raging shithole of trolls, mouth-frothing idiots and general retardation, but there're probably just as many decent people there. They're just not as vocal. This applies to many places, by the way, not just /b/.

Also, generally speaking, /b/ is the worst kind of example that you can probably think of. This makes for an interesting argument though: it can hardly get worse than /b/ - it's the absolute superlative of anonymity induced uncivility.
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Or their business model is to sell irrational exuberance and cash out before anyone notices.

Don't forget that they hid $36.2 million in stock-based compensation as part of this accounting trick.
No matter what PR spin anyone puts on it Microsoft is a destructive parasite in the smartphone marketplace. Extorting money out of android manufacturers after it failed to compete is one of the most disgusting spectacles I've seen in the industry.
I was surprised myself.

Also, the article makes it out like she gave up on television and to some degree acting, but she's in a guest arc on Eureka right now.

Otherwise, the article IS pretty interesting.
The accuracy will improve over time, but the real challenge for all of these health tools is that they accomplish a job most people aren't trying to do.

A lot of people say they care about or would be curious to follow things like their weight, BP, or heart rate, but very few people actually do. The barriers aren't even very high--taking your morning, resting heart rate or stepping on a scale is dead easy, it's just not very valuable information to most of us.

Heck, what most people who have hypertension, pre-diabetes, or obesity really want is for the disease to just go away. Since a quick pill or surgery for many of these problems don't exist, not thinking about the condition is the next best thing.

These health tools are getting a ton of press lately and I have no doubt that they'll be very useful for doctors and the committed few, but the real problem to be solved is motivating people to care about their health like they care about their bank accounts.
What's interesting to me about stories like this is that with content creators can deliver their art/entertainment without the middlemen and actually make good money doing it to the point that they don't need traditional broadcast formats. It's the democratization of media that is a cliche but sometimes actually true.

This is starting to happen in the podcasting world as well. Comic Jimmy Pardo charges $20/season for his "Never Not Funny" audio podcast in lieu of advertising. While I don't believe he's divulged his numbers, I'm pretty sure it's in the tens of thousands, which is a good hunk of change considering his costs to produce the show.
I don't think people pay money for this type of thing. They do for CMSs or hosted solutions of any type, but no so much for starter kits.

I think it will be a long road to get traction selling this, but if you want, you could promote and give away the starter kit for free, then sell add-ons that tackle difficult tasks. You could make money this way.

Again, I think there are easier ways to make money, but my first steps would be to promote the heck out of this free starter kit. Then solicit suggestions from your user base for additional features or custom work. You could do this with a forum. Pick the feature requests that you think would be the most difficult for your users to do themselves and that also provide value to their business (bonus points for value easily identified with dollar signs) and then make them as add-ons to sell.
Of course at $1/15m/test, a battery of tests is practically built in to the price. If the instructions are to "take three cards and put a drop of blood on each," and that it isn't a positive result unless all three agree, you've solved that problem.
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I'm not a troll. Read my blog, my past posts here, posts on reddit, posts on the Bitcoin Forum, and my Tweets. I mean what I say.

> Are you a techie? Do you understand the web? Who would you want writing legislation to govern the web? Lawyers who are clueless about the web and think that the internet is a series of tubes, or people that are VERY web savvy - like Tim Berners-Lee, et. al? The same thing applies to finance, banking and everything else. Makes no sense to have people writing legislation or creating systems that don't understand what they are doing.

The tech equivalent of the Fed would be if the techies designed an internet where 1) all information goes through some central servers that they control, 2) they sell that information and profit, 3) everyone is legally required to use their internet and not a competing internet for sending information over long distances. This would be a corrupt, Fed-like version of the internet where some particular group of people have all the power and use it for their own benefit. This analogy isn't perfect, but it captures the basic point, that the Fed was designed in a corrupt way. It doesn't matter that the corrupt people were experts or not. If anything, being experts and using expert-jargon just allowed them to mislead everyone about the true purpose of their design - socialism for the rich.

For more of this type of information on the Fed, read "End the Fed" by Ron Paul and "The Case Against the Fed" by Murray Rothbard.

> If that's the case, why has inflation been so low in the US in the last two years, when the Fed undertook the largest expansion of it's balance sheet in modern history? i.e. it has printed more money recently, than at any other time in it's mandate - but inflation AND inflation expectations are still low.

The Fed publishes misleading inflation numbers. Anyone who spends a lot of their income on things like food and energy recognizes that prices are rising pretty quickly. For me one price that stands out is that a cup of coffee used to cost less than $2 a few years ago, but now costs something like $2.30. It stands out because paying $2 and receiving a nickle as change is a lot more convenient than paying $3 and receiving $0.70 as change.

However, I agree that inflation is not as high as I would expect given just how much money the Fed has printed. I'm not exactly sure where the new money has gone, but it is probably just sitting around in some bank accounts somewhere, not circulating in the economy, and that's why we haven't felt it more than we have. I suppose it is probably being used by banks to patch up their balance sheets after the crisis and that's why it is just sitting there. My bet would be that in the coming years, that money will get used, and that's when we will really start to feel the inflation. When coffee reaches $5 per cup, we will know QE1 and QE2, etc., have trickled down.
Thanks for the link. I've been thinking there was a gap in the market for this kind of service for a while now. I wonder if there's scope to add some psychological indicators to the API, so as to integrate with Mappiness (http://mappiness.org.uk) or similar?
Seems like a chat client for geeks(i.e. we HN frequenters). Well, just looking at there setup section!!
But as already said in other comments, there's nothing new.

The title could have been "chats are not dead yet, but innovative new chat tool are"
Realistically, in the first world it's gay men who most need to worry about HIV, due both to the greater likelihood of it being transmitted by anal sex and the much greater preexisting incidence among gay men.

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/msm/index.htm

"A recent CDC study found that in 2008 one in five (19%) MSM in 21 major US cities were infected with HIV, and nearly half (44%) were unaware of their infection." -- eep

Heterosexual college-town hookups? Likely to give you all sorts of things, but probably not AIDS. But expect to see these quick AIDS tests in West Hollywood and the Castro real soon now.
I've always suspected there ought to be a physics portion on the driving exam.
Thanks! This is superb feedback - I updated the website to reflect your suggested changes - much, much better!
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You assume the offer was real and made in good faith. If, however, Microsoft offered Google the chance to jointly bid without any intention of really doing so, Google's interpretation still holds.
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Google's punch was related to Nortel Patents, Microsoft's misfired missile carried Novell patents as the warhead.

"Google says we bought Novell patents to keep them from Google. Really? We asked them to bid jointly with us. They said no."

So Google may still have a point that Nortel patents were gobbled up by Apple and MSFT to strangle Android just as the Novell ones are.
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This fact is part of the money system. When a loan is taken out from a bank, the principal of the loan is created, but the interest is not. This creates a competition in the economy to get the money that is not created to pay back the interest on the loans where some people can and some people cannot. Defaults are inherent to the monetary system as it is currently implemented. See "The Money Fix" (documentary) for the best explanation of this process that I have seen.
I really doubt the "no human interpretation" part of the Engadget article. I've been involved in HIV education as part of the gay community, and this sort of kit worries me greatly. If the test is an antibody based test, then it could do far more harm than good by giving uneducated users a false sense of security: a negative result does not mean that you don't have HIV.

While I'm sure that everyone on HN understands the seroconversion window period, this is simply not the case in the larger community. Ignorance about HIV is widespread. I cannot even begin to count the number of people who believe that pulling out before ejaculating affords some sort of magical protection from the virus. These are the same people who upon seeing a negative result would assume that they're safe without condoms.

The CDC states that the window period for detectable HIV antibody formation is three months; however, this figure is based on first generation HIV tests and is considered somewhat conservative. Public health experts like H. Hunter Handsfield state that detectable antibodies usually form in four to six weeks.

Whatever figure you choose to believe, it's a pretty significant time period. And it's a deadly one. It's during the window period that an HIV infected person is most infectious. Their viral loads are off the chart and they can unknowingly infect multiple people in a short period of time.

The "cure" for HIV is the same as it has always been: education and safer sex practices. HIV is largely a preventable disease. I would be okay with personal test kits if they were bundled with extremely clear educational packets printed in multiple languages. But this particular kit is advertised too much like a silver bullet to assure me that the manufacturers are anywhere near that responsible.
Verizon has a solution (for Verizon customers)
https://text.vzw.com/customer_site/jsp/messaging_lo.jsp
This isn't a hack, but you can specify the number from, the callback and actually write the message.
I'm sure that there are other services like it with no hacking involved.

Assuming that you want this for legitimate reasons...
So long as we understand that I never suggested that prudent investing relies on the investor performing their own careful appraisal of the investment or relies on a regulatory agency--of any kind--screening investments.
Always wanted to do an AI course, would be signing up right away ...
Wikipedia says that the false positive rate of the standard ELISA test is only 1.5% (thats < 6%)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_test#Accuracy_of_HIV_testin...

and a "positive" result should be confirmed by a Western Blot test. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_test#Interpreting_antibody_...
I can think of at least three conflicting approaches to teach programming:

- Start with a low-level language like C (or MMIX...), possibly on embedded devices, so that students know what is going on at the hardware level and don't think that primitives in high-level languages are free.

- Start with a functional language like Lisp, so that students know the theory and the elegance of functional programming.

- Start with an easy and practical language like Python, so that students get to write (crappy) code as soon as possible, tweak it until it works, and finally see their program work and do something impressive (to them).

SICP is an excellent book, and a very good choice for the second approach, but it is not the only sensible way to discover programming.
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Again - it sends it in 'chunks' of 5 or 10 chars at a time, which is not what I want.
Reviewed by the NYT in Jan and discussed here about 6 months ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2077312

But it had been popping up ad-nauseum for a couple of months before its December 2010 release.

It's an old story.
It was broken from the start, since it was introduced in conjunction with Win95 and at that point it was designed to trigger the Start menu with a single press.
Works for medical professionals, but I think to sell this to the general public, those three cards should be baked in together to avoid confusion.
7 Billion people, $7 Billion dollars to identify everyone with HIV (* plus administration costs). Sure, it won't immediately cure eliminate HIV overnight but it would be a start.
> Instead of competing by building new features or devices, they are fighting through litigation.

I think that 'instead of' should be a 'As well as'.