skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I couldn't believe some of the responses. There were tons of people saying that their iPhone apps were because they made it easier to find restaurants.. or that their B2B social media marketing startup was because it was improving productivity for marketers. I'm paraphrasing but that was the gist of many of the responses. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing but respect for people who have successful typical startups. But that said, I think people sometimes are extremely sheltered if they think that those sorts of problems are really impacting lives."
No, they could still make empty promises.
Being asked in a poll "Do you support dismantlement of West Bank Settlements" is a far cry from actual going through a process of forcing 300k Israelis out of their homes. Remember the Gaza evacuation? If you think Israel has the stomach to let that happen on a scale more than 30 times larger, you are dreaming.

> As an Israeli I refuse to control another people.

No matter how you spin it, the existence of West Bank settlements does not imply controlling other people. They're just houses. You can have any number of political arrangements that allows the existence of the houses without controlling anyone. Which includes the one that exists now where the Palestinians completely control their own civilian lives. Those are the facts on the ground, and is certainly a far cry from "apartheid."
Absolutely! Do you have a happy, productive workplace, or are you running a sweatshop? It's all part of the equation. Who naps, how often do they nap, when do they nap, all these things are signals that tell you what's going on in your team.
In Europe they have the phrase "soup coma". It's what happens after lunch when the blood sugar level rises and the insulin kicks in and shuts off the brain. Expect it, and work with it, as the company in that article did.
It does not justify the high valuation. That's what I meant with "clone the usability in no time".
>If the highway system were not held back by government planning,

What do you mean by this? Are you opposed to the EIS/EIR process?
When a headline ends in a question mark, and the question can be answered either "yes" or "no", it's never yes.
I forget the URL, but I opted out of junk mail years ago via the Direct Marketers Association web page. I think that's the name. After a couple of months, my dead tree spam fell to a trickle.

It's not perfect. I still get local grocery and retail circulars that I could do without. But at least the daily credit card offers stopped, which cut down the volume dramatically.

If someone would drop a bomb on Geico's direct marketing arm, I'd be a happy camper.
I'm interested in knowing what these are - barring an alignment-related weirdness, I can't think of any reason to do that.
I think USPS would have been in a great position to be an online identity depository and payment platform for consumer to business dealings. They should have done it 10 years ago.

Imagine an email like system where you and the companies you do business with can communicate, and you can pay them. Some sort of whitelisted communications channels, whereby when you enter in a service contract with a company, you also add them to this comm channel. No spam. Just valid communications and invoices. Verified identities and verified payments.

The USPS is in a great position for that sort of thing, being they actually come to your house every day. They already know who you are, and where you are. They have a pre-existing business relationship with every entity in the US.

Whereas now I have to tell my parents and grandparents to basically not believe anything they see in their email inbox -- it would be nice if a more secure channel existed. $250K startup -- get on it!
You maybe right about category (iii). I have need for stats/ML person to solve problems for features that can truly act as a competitive advantage. But haven't found anyone in my peer circles for various reasons (primarily lack of vocabulary (on my part) when talking to stats people.)

Maybe item(iii) is approachable by using some of the principles used by the SEO or web design companies in approaching clients.
With all die respect, I don't agree with you. Personally, in light of his little hack, there is no way I would trust him or any company he is affiliated with with my personal data. Heck, I can't even bring myself to tweet out a direct link to his apology!

I wish him all the best, but I cannot become a customer!
How about an open database of vehicle license plates to Facebook profiles.
I can't think of a more easily targeted tax.
Google+ sends users to Yahoo/Hotmail to import Facebook friends
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Too bad you can't kill two birds with one stone. Bitcoin should put all that computing power towards something like this rather than useless busywork.
The best thing you can do is probably to donate a significant percentage of your income to an effective international aid organization, like VillageReach or Oxfam. The money you're earning performing your standard job is simply able to produce more good than having you fly around the world attempting to do things to help (usually in an inferior way to locals) would.

I've been doing this for a few years:
http://blog.printf.net/articles/2010/11/26/giving-thanks

And I've come to rely on GiveWell, which is an organization performing quantitative review of which charities produce the most good per dollar donated:
http://www.givewell.org/

Good luck!
Bell Labs Innovations (Video Song)
Amazing to see what Bell Labs is responsible for other than the awesome music.
Show HN: A Forum Aggregator - http://beta.agalanche.com
For a little over a year now, we have been building a forum aggregator to connect forum owners and forum readers in order to:

(1) Simplify the process to subscribe, access, and search diverse forum content;
(2) Increase traffic to forum websites, which increases forum participation thus increasing potential advertising revenue for forum owners;

With this win/win business model in mind, we can provide forum readers a simple yet familiar interface to follow their favorite forums and forum owners with increased traffic. So far we have gotten a lot of positive feedback but that was just from a small number of people. We are now reaching out to the HN community to get some more feedback on:

(1)	Our direct and indirect approach for aggregation.
(2)	If you are a forum owner and do not want to add your forum to Agalanche, why? What can we do to convince you to add your forum?
(3)	Is there something fundamentally (e.g. programmatically) wrong with what we are doing?
(4)	How can we improve the functionality of Agalanche to make the website easier to use?
(5)	How can we make it easier for forum owners to add their forums?

To our surprise it has been a significant challenge to make contact with the actual owner (or admin) of a forum. We hope that if you are a forum owner you will want to add your forum and/or give us feedback.

Please note: Due to budget restraints, Agalanche runs on an old Pentium 4 computer in a living room so it might be a little slow and there is a high probability it will crash with too many visitors.

Thanks for taking the time to view Agalanche and for the feedback.

http://beta.agalanche
Even though you built a social network for Harvard first, Facebook beat you. They out-manuevered you. I can completely see it being a huge regret, both not getting as far as Facebook and not joining them early on, but the best thing you can do for yourself is to just get over it and keep building cool stuff.

When you get old and tell your grand-children that story, don't make it one of jealousy and bitterness. Make it something that shows them the potential of small things.
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That's very interesting. Do you have an idea in which of these two categories cancer treatments typically fall?
Is this Western ego-mass trying to adopt and assimilate emerging Asian economies by embracing its cultural distinctiveness?
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Firefox 6 is online, before it's release
HN had problems redirecting to the ftp server, thus the shortened link.
similarities that are ancient by now

The Wii came out in 2006, the iPhone was released in 2007. Both were created with a simple user interface and slick design, and both changed their respective industries.

Are their similarities really so ancient?
Thanks, Fish. I appreciate the advice.
Completely agree. Wasn't JC a Starbucks marketing op in the first place? This guy giving the money to charity was stupid, but so was people feeling altruistic by participating in a commercial coffee chain's latest astroturf viral ad campaign
Actually, for extracting tar files, using xf is enough.

tar xf archive.tar.gz
tar xf archive.tar.bz2

Still, this will be useful for other formats, I think. Thanks.
Robin Hood was largely stealing from a landed Norman aristocracy which had conquered and subjugated the people he was giving to. That's the context for the legend. Try again.
Update: A torrent of readers and my meager server's CPU usage sits at a constant <1%. Hardly miraculous — trivial even — but compare it to the countless sites that fall over when they receive any attention at all. When I built this trivial blog engine, largely for a laugh, efficiency was a principal consideration right at the outset, and was an architectural concern with every decision.

Web servers typically don't fall over because PHP or Rails can't hand a whole ten requests a second on a CPU that can do a billion operations a second. They fall over because of a performance optimization written into the default Apache configuration in1996 to increase throughput by ~2%

Death to KeepAlive.
You were mostly talking about the NES and the Gameboy.
According to the article, we do have a way to detect dsRNA. But viruses can block those mechanisms. Fortunately yet viruses can't block physical injection of this drug.
Since science hasn't entirely explained it yet, it must be supernatural. When has that type of thinking ever worked in the past?
I personally doubt that the drop in volume is all that much related to prices. If they cut the price of a first-class stamp in half, mail volume would not go up much, because what we mail vs what we call/e-mail/fax/whatever is almost always based on capabilities, not cost. Likewise, if the price of a first-class stamp went up by 50%, I really don't see the extra 22 cents (or whatever it would be now) influencing all that many people to stop sending mail. A letter is already vastly more expensive than an e-mail. It seems to me that those items which are being mailed are those items which more or less have to be mailed.
I live in a semi-rural area and honestly, I'd rather pick up my mail at the post office. Our carrier delivers letters to the wrong houses at least once a week. I really don't know how much of my mail I never get, I only assume that other neighbors do as I do and redeliver the mail correctly.
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"Color Pink® and Pink Nitrile® are registered Trademarks of Colur World, LLC."

You can find that disclaimer on any site containing mentions of pink nitrile gloves for use in hospitals.
Sending an email on an error might be a bad idea. We had this set up on a server that powers an API (along with our main site). During a network problem in the data center where the server could not get to the mysql, we had about 10,000 requests on the sever = 10,000 emails = the outlook guys having to reboot the exchange server because of some odd interaction with their spam filtering appliance.
Calls for Nintendo to produce for iOS sound like those criticisms of Apple in the 90s where pundits suggest they ship Windows machines.

Nintendo is all about their franchises, and millions buy their consoles just to play Zelda or Mario. They'd dilute their brand and cannibalize their console sales if they began producing for iOS.
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I think he's saying it's not clear that games perform prediction in single-player mode, which is what the other person was asking.
It's no more "useless busywork" than security guards protecting banks from theft. In this case, the proof-of-work protects the network from double-spending.

Do you have a concrete suggestion for how the proof-of-work could be dual-purposed and still serve its function in the bitcoin network?
All I can say is you're missing the forest for the trees

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2883641
Except as has been documented, it was more Blackberry Messaging that was being used to organize, in this case. Where's the push to ban proprietary, dying, overpriced text messaging services? At least that would do some actual societal good, by clearing out some obsolete technological cruft.
I am interested. Gameofficial@gmail.com

Malcolm
I honestly didn't realize that, so thank you for clarifying.

My skeptical side wonders if that really changes much, though. Sure, some ISPs would stay up but many of the largest backbones and retail ISPs are deep in bed with the government already, and would have a lot to lose if they fell out of favor. Congress already had to give the telcos retroactive immunity once to cover them for the illegal warrant less wiretaps that they ran for years. I'm not sure if they feel compelled or are just looking to find favor, but either way it's hard to not imagine them going along for the ride if the president was calling.

And while I think some kind of cyberwar is a serious threat, that defense scenario doesn't make much sense when gamed. That kind of response implies a decapitation attack: either looking to disable our networks/economy or attacking infrastructure and critical systems and making things go boom.

A kill switch doesn't help anything if they just wanted us offline in the first place. You may need to drop off for a while to get back in control but I'd be surprised if the big SLA's didn't cover acts of war the same as earthquakes. In the case of major ongoing infrastructure attacks you have to believe that'd be setup well in advance and just triggered - with boots on the ground and satellite gear to handle the glitches, all while coordination and response was that much more difficult.

Looking for examples of internet controls around the world it's hard to not conclude that social control is the primary motivation, really only China has any real defensive posture. Maybe we are the exception to the rule.

I do think it's rather far fetched that it'd actually ever get used in that way though. I think it's just the product of paranoid minds that have been high on the patriot act for ten years now.
Recreational use of Viagra
Ask HN: How to Retrieve an Expired Posting on Craigslist
I recently bought a car on craigslist that I was told was not in an accident - only to find out it was (the family confirmed this, but the seller had lied to me). His craigslist posting had said the car was not in an accident, I want that posting that I can't find now! (Shame on me for not getting a mechanic...)

Can I talk to a real person from Craigslist? How do I retrieve the posting? Any tips on my situation. It was up between end of May and end of June. It was reposted twice during that time.

The resources online have largely revolved around being the one who put up the posting. Search engines will not archive (most of them) Craigslist postings.

Edit: I've already gone through Craigslist's help form, but that's largely ineffective, except for giving an automated message and faq.

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If you have a track record of making competitors or peer organizations staggering amounts of money, what you actually do is almost irrelevant. So yes, I vote "viable.". Heck, for certain (very simple) definitions of statistics, I already do it.

Pricing: charge more. Too much work? Raise rates. Repeat until satisfied.

Criteria for success: you'll likely have more understanding than customers of the likely outcomes of engagements, so communicate as best as possible, but ultimately the engagement is a success if they are happy with the outcome and is a failure if they are not. This counsels listening very carefully when they say what worries them, and taking an active role in picking any success metrics.
When I worked at UPS, they told us the company had a trademark on "Pullman Brown". Not sure if that's actually true or not (can't find reliable info with a quick search).
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
Sorry, but he could have easily saved the situation with a little bit of social understanding and thought.

Tweets like this: https://twitter.com/#!/sodio/status/102435437930479616 are ridiculous.

"@sodio
Sam Odio
Starbucks gift card now up to $660. I've offered to sign it if that increases anyone's willingness to donate. cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d…"
How does getting notified of a certain balance help take money off the card? Does starbucks allow people to transfer money between gift cards?
Mind map software options for Linux
I agree with your sentiment (that headlines containing question marks are generally conjecture and not news), but in this case the answer pretty clearly is "yes, trees do communicate." To be sure, it's not a great headline, but it was chosen by the original author so maybe you should post a comment on his blog if you're concerned.
FTA "Nonetheless, I submit that in absence of any compelling alternative and with the obviousness of the reality of our self-awareness so manifestly apparent -- it is the rational conclusion to draw."

So because we have no proof of either option (consciousness being a function of the brain vs us having a soul), it must be the one that we choose to define as being impossible to prove.
In this case, they did successful in vivo tests on mice with H1N1.
Thank you, you made my day! Tall mocha :)

I just hope it's still around by Friday so I can put some money on it.
This was never an experiment. Where was the hypothesis? Where was the control? It was no more an experiment than me "experimenting" with Elbonian food is an experiment.

To write off somebody's lack of understanding of social mores because "we were all just ants" is disingenuous.

That said, this whole thing has actually been very interesting to watch from the outside, and there is little doubt Odie made it far more interesting (if not somewhat dishearening).
I worked as an intern over the summer at a small startup and had an hour long lunch break. While the other interns would eat out and be gone for an entire time, I would eat the lunch I brought and take a 30-40 minute nap each day. I slept at my desk, right in front of my boss.

I was away from work for an hour, like everyone else, only I would be much more productive after the lunch hour. My boss was amused by my behavior.
Where did viruses come from?
Using &, rather than % is important, if someone used signed types for index for example, then % would've generate division, while & would still keep masking it - the example uses unsigned.

Also even if it was unsigned, but % was used then people might have the idea that any value could be used, while if & was used - it's more clear (at least to me) that power of 2 - 1 mask is needed - it just brings the right message.

The only case where % would've been used in similar fashion is in a hash-table, where the number of elements in the current bucket is prime number.
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True. My son wanted his own "Angry Bird machine" and he got it. :)
To someone who does not know what QuakeWorld is, that line does not explicitely say that it is about the online multiplayer engine instead of the "Quake engine" that was powering the singleplayer game.
Can the Massachusetts video game industry hit restart?
I mentioned each in one line, and decided to not discuss the merits of the DS (which was amazing for its time in 2004).

Ultimately, though, I only talk about consoles to illustrate how Nintendo and Apple develop their products in similar ways.
“We prefer knowing to thinking because knowing has more immediate value. It keeps us in the loop, keeps us connected to our friends and our cohort. Ideas are too airy, too impractical, too much work for too little reward. Few talk ideas. Everyone talks information, usually personal information. Where are you going? What are you doing? Whom are you seeing? These are today’s big questions.”

Knowing is also what gets you brownie points from academia & from most cubicle jobs. Rote memorization has become the litmus test by which many seem to measure intelligence. And most on the receiving end oblige because hey, do what your told and while society might suffer as a result of your lack of imagination & ideas, at least you’ll get that A. Or the promotion you so desperately want. So to me, our learning institutions and a great bulk of corporate America are to blame for big ideas dying on the vine just as much as new media.

The author makes some salient points though, particularly with the concept of “information narcissism.” That's certainly something I can see becoming more & more prevalent with the rise of the social graph.
Originality only applies to patents.
Somebody once said "If you want to learn something new, read an old paper".
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No, the two statements are equivalent. Taking 97% robustness on 2G to mean any given call will drop to be 3/100 then on 3G it is 5/100 which gives a relative probability of 5/3 or 66% more likely.
Gmail Paper
US Software Patents: Can they be worse for EU startups?
I have a different opinion with regards to midsized companies: if you have 20+ employees, you can afford to drop $X0k on a consulting engagement without it being more than a percent of payroll. Often, there are two or three people in the company who could a) individually decide to pull that trigger and b) reasonably speak about the matter to an outside consultant.

YMMV, but midsized companies have been my sweet spot for consulting engagements. They've got the agility of one-man shops with the attitude towards spending money of businesses as opposed to people.
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How Everything Else Is Connected To The Internet
It looks like they are asserting copyright, not trademarks.
This is astonishing, but not too surprising. It seems natural (because it is, ha), that any system that is allowed to evolve would evolve the ability to gather information from its surrounding environment. If that environment includes trees, then it holds that trees would be able to "communicate" with each other. (In this case, the communication is just reading the state of your neighbors)

The interesting thing to me about this is it kindof forces us to examine life in a different way (not because it's a new finding, just because it is being presented to us).

Consider the "Chinese Brain" thought experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_brain

To paraphrase: sentience can be looked at as an emergent property of complexity, especially in a lossy system.

I guess the point I'm kindof dancing around here (because it sounds silly) is: what are the emergent properties of enormous, several billion member sensor networks like a forest? To an outside observer, perhaps looking at this on a different time scale than we do, is there something more there than just wood and leaves?

Something people get hung up on when talking about "life" on other planets is this idea that the life would look anything even remotely like us, or share our concepts of language. If (as the chinese brain thought experiment suggests) sentience can emerge from complexity, then maybe there is sentient life on other planets (or our own planet) that just lives in a totally, totally different timescale, or concept of communication than we do.

Another way of saying this is: think of the trees like cells in your body.
I like the observation. It is a corollary of Amdahl's law: if every step is slow there is no point optimizing any of them until you can optimize all of them.
GitHub uses node.js to serve up the Zip and Tarball downloads (nodeload), as well as to power Hubot (http://productblog.37signals.com/products/2011/04/hubot-gith...)