skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So...

If you actually go through the various stuff posted, you find a recurring theme: people who lose data fall into a pattern of "well, they told me not to do this, but I did it anyway, so now it must be their fault".

Which, I think you'll find, is a far cry from "database corruption is inherent in the design".

But hey, learning that sort of thing would require reading; much easier to jump on a bandwagon, badmouth a product and downvote anyone who disagrees, amirite?
With clang, ObjC is getting very interesting features that take it closer and closer to "real" high level languages, like GCD, ARC and blocks.
I'd still like more type safety, but the evolution there is slower and would need more fundamental changes to the language and abandoning C compatibility.
Good job with the display, looks great.

Question: when you separated and reattached the LEDs, did you keep them in original order when reattaching? I seem to recall each LED node having a unique address, but maybe I'm misinterpreting.
I wish I had this while in school.
To test it I just grabbed the first image I found on the New York Times website. It's a pretty good one:

http://mustachify.me/?src=http://i1.nyt.com/images/2011/11/1...
So, student subsidies are the odd one out here, because they're not money you're given to survive, they're given in exchange for a specific activity. They do, however, count as transfer income, and the source I have for 60% didn't break it down.

Yes, unemployment benefits can provide a backstop that enables entrepreneurship, but Denmark has more generous benefits than most other countries, yet the levels of entrepreneurship don't follow.

Any other direct subsidy towards entrepreneurship (although often misguided) aren't transfer income in the sense being suggested by the GP.

The people who can just sit around and come up with exciting new research or who can become successful entrepreneurs are generally also the kind of people who can get a job if they want or need one.
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No, I did not keep the in the same order. In fact when the LEDs power up they are waiting for the first packet to arrive and they will use the address in that packet to set the address for that LED. Until an LED has received its first packet it will not forward packets on.

So that allows you to program the LEDs with arbitrary addresses. I make use of this to program addresses that are easy to encode for the 7x7 display (each address is six bits so I use 3 bits for X and 3 bits for Y). This is complicated by the physical snaking layout on the board. See the code sample in the blog post for how this works.

https://github.com/jgrahamc/gece/blob/master/gece/protocol.c...
Strapping LEDs to the back of monitor? It's easier to just point ordinary desk lamp at the wall behind monitor.
> The fact is, unless Klout is hosted or incorporated in the UK or EU, the latter have no jurisdiction over the company, and such their laws don't apply.

Jurisdiction is up for the court and legislative to decide.

I do believe that UK courts will assert jurisdiction in cases such as this. UK courts certainly do assert worldwide jurisdiction in other situations - one of several reasons why UK courts are so popular for people who wish to sue for libel, for example.
> Mr. Stross is free to deny the holocaust happened (violate German law)

While it is true that holocaust denial is legal in the UK, that doesn't stop the UK authorities detaining people for it -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Fredrick_T%C3%B6ben#2008...
This account never had any credibility to begin with, and i am the original owner, that's the point i'm trying to make.
Emacs isn't 100% Lisp, there's also C code at the lower levels.
This is the difference between a database product that has been developed for more then 40 years and a developing software product that has been public for 2.5 years. If mongo has the longevity that Oracle has had with their db product, my guess is that in 40 years we will not be talking about mongo data loss. (However, my guess is that in 40 years we will not be talking about mongo)
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Okay, the book they wrote is at

http://moodle.anoka.k12.mn.us/mod/resource/view.php?inpopup=...

and I started reading it.

Don't.

No one should take a course from that book. The authors of the book don't know the subject.

That book won't be a prerequisite for anything important.

So, if want a first course in probability and statistics, then get a college textbook and/or just go to college.

More generally, in college in the US, in math, physical science, and engineering, quite good texts are easy to find, and the best texts are excellent. Moreover, the prerequisites for college are quite basic, essentially just the '3Rs' where for 'rithmetic' we do include algebra and plane geometry (trigonometry and solid geometry would also be good).

So, in K-12, just get the 3Rs and then start with college texts and/or just college.

In particular, for anything much past the 3Rs, just f'get about K-12. Bluntly, as illustrated by the book of this thread, the K-12 system is rarely able to teach anything worthwhile much beyond just the basic 3Rs.

This conclusion is not new: Once I looked at AP calculus. Don't. The people who wrote the AP calculus materials don't understand calculus. Instead, for calculus, just get a good college text and dig in. I learned from Johnson and Kiokemeister, taught from Protter and Morrey, and have seen several other good college calculus texts, e.g., from Thomas. When I was studying and, later, teaching calculus in college, there was no shortage of good texts. Just why K-12 has so much trouble getting good calculus texts is strange and tragic.

Once I looked at some materials on optimization, i.e., linear programming, developed by the K-12 system in North Carolina. Don't. Those materials fill several much needed gaps on the library shelves and would be illuminating if ignited. The authors didn't understand linear programming.

The site

http://boston.conman.org/2004/01/21.1

has some excellent quotes from Feynman looking at K-12 texts. Feynman was correct, and apparently the situation has not changed.

My qualifications: I hold a Ph.D. from one of the world's best research universities; there I did research on optimization and also on stochastic optimal control. For calculus, I've done well studying it, advanced calculus, and well beyond, taught calculus in college, applied calculus in business and to problems of US national security, and published peer-reviewed original research using calculus. For optimization, I've studied it at advanced levels, applied it in both in business to problems of US national security, taught it in college and graduate school, and published peer-reviewed original research in it. My startup has some original, crucial, core, powerful, valuable 'secret sauce' that is based on some advanced topics in applied math including 'analysis' (way past calculus), probability, and statistics.
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Steve Jobs was a great director; perhaps the greatest of our generation.

That's the simplest I can say it. It wasn't about his singular abilities or his design sense. He was the right director who had the decline and ownership to do the great things he did.

I only read this piece because it was a Gladwell, but frankly i'm getting tired of every other person and their mom trying to define Steve Jobs.
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Can you expand on this creative process? Interested in learning more.
If that really bothers you, you can either search for 'golang' or you can use this custom search engine: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/go-search

But really if that is your biggest issue with the language, I think they are doing a pretty damned good job.
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It also seems like insurance might (in theory) be a good fit for the incentives encountered.
I think that doing a usability study on both of them would reveal that the usability people would run shrieking from the building once the basics were explained to them. On one hand, you peck at the esc button like a hungry chicken to do anything useful, with the other, your hands play twister on the keyboard "pinky.... CTRL... thumb... ALT... index finger... S".

That said, I've never been even remotely tempted to move to anything besides Emacs, and at this point, it's ingrained in my fingers, so non-Emacs things really piss me off.
Was it, that he made things closed because he didn't want the user to screw them up or was it because he thought they were already perfect and couldn't be made better?

I would like to believe the former.
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This whole article is geared towards getting some future Internet Marketers klicking on his "Bo_okmarkwhiz" affiliate link to generate money. Normally I think this is okay since more than 50% of the articles on HN are submitted as ads for a service or a way to boost sales and/or a brand. But this guys article is not about books on amazon its about how you should also pay for the tools to make these niche sites...
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Do your users actually pay you $5 for every time they leave their 'yellow zone'? I'd be much more inclined to do this if it were a much smaller amount of money and donated to a charity of my choice instead
Oh it is, my friend, it is!
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If you've never used Heroku or git, the Read Me isn't all that helpful. I tried to fill in some of the blanks that I ran across while getting it up and running.
"That meaning, however, has completely fallen out of use."

I'm not convinced of that - in fact, I think that is a little naive.

I don't believe that the OSI definition is completely accepted by the uneducated population at large, and don't believe that the term "open source" is not used by various software companies in ways that mislead and obfuscate the OSI meaning.

I'll quote Mr Stallman:

"However, the obvious meaning for the expression “open source software”—and the one most people seem to think it means—is “You can look at the source code.” That criterion is much weaker than the free software definition, much weaker also than the official definition of open source. It includes many programs that are neither free nor open source."

"The term “open source” has been further stretched by its application to other activities, such as government, education, and science, where there is no such thing as source code, and where criteria for software licensing are simply not pertinent. The only thing these activities have in common is that they somehow invite people to participate. They stretch the term so far that it only means “participatory”."

I don't accept that the other meanings have completely fallen out of use.

Edit: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...
As mentioned by another poster:

>The revenue per employee at GOOG is $1.2M in a very high margin business.

$250k/year is not a lot compared to that.
Good to know. Was going to hack up a set of these post-Christmas, and was under the impression that order of the LEDs needed to be maintained -- as if the addresses we're hardwired.

Thanks for the post.
My point wasn't to use the word "perfect" to "diminish what [Jobs] had done". At the end of the day there's a reason I prefer Apple to Microsoft and it has nothing to do with who innovated and everything to do with who perfected. I don't like Apple products because they do something new -- if they do, awesome, I just don't care. I like Apple products because they work well.

I just don't see how that was diminishing what Jobs did?
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Personally, I can't stand working in a dark room. My partner, on the other hand, prefers it very dark in every room. I suspect he grew up in a house where the electricity bill was monitored very closely every month.
Microsoft's total revenue in the quarter that just ended was $17.4B.

I don't have the server and tools breakout, but $4.5B is less than 26%.

$4.5B is a large number, it's even large enough to be significant to microsoft (however, it wouldn't be significant for walmart), but it's not essential.
Zynga revenue jumps, but costs pull profits
There isn't one. The only difference is who's ego you stroke ESR(Open Source), or RMS(Free Software).

From the history of the OSI:

The conferees decided it was time to dump the moralizing and confrontational attitude that had been associated with "free software" in the past and sell the idea strictly on the same pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape.

The only difference is marketing not substance.
Putting food on the table is a metaphor that goes beyond food. Here are some statistics on Americans counted as poor:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/09/understandi...

We have moved beyond subsistence farming and free food - "food on the table" means a lot more, including many scarce goods.
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Because the tax problem is a common adversary in order to everybody, you will find simple methods to eliminate it. The main problem everybody faces may be the wherewithal to pay the federal government what is truly their own.
This is not a slight against what you've done here - but damn, this does not make my ADD easier to deal with.
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it's arguably never been less disruptive to switch from DST to EST. the only clock in my life that doesn't auto-sync to some global standard is the timex on my wrist.
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And people tend to be more productive in natural daylight.
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He's right for values of "open source" defined by the OSI.

However, you need to do more than they have done if you want to clearly and unambiguously define a phrase, especially one that has legal and commercial implications. You need to make everyone in the world agree on the definition and refrain from using it in any other way. That hasn't happened yet, except perhaps for those within the industry.

As Richard Stallman says:

"However, the obvious meaning for the expression “open source software”—and the one most people seem to think it means—is “You can look at the source code.” That criterion is much weaker than the free software definition, much weaker also than the official definition of open source. It includes many programs that are neither free nor open source."

"The term “open source” has been further stretched by its application to other activities, such as government, education, and science, where there is no such thing as source code, and where criteria for software licensing are simply not pertinent. The only thing these activities have in common is that they somehow invite people to participate. They stretch the term so far that it only means “participatory”."

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...

If he doesn't agree with the OSI definition, I think that we can agree that it is not universally accepted.
But there are international treaties relating to Patents - none for privacy.
For the tax question:

If that's earned income (rather than from investment income, say) you'll pay federal payroll taxes of 7.65%, and, if you don't have anything but the standard deductions, federal income tax of a bit over $2500, so you'll have about $16,500 after federal taxes.

Then you'll pay somewhere between $0 and $1000 in state income tax, depending on your state. So a range of ~$15,500 to ~$16,500 post-tax.

That's probably enough to live on frugally, but it really depends on being able to find cheap housing, which will probably dominate the expenses. If you're somewhere like Pittsburgh, that'll be no problem; plenty of $500-600/mo apartments. If you're in NYC, it will take more searching, even in the outer boroughs.

Food costs, if you eat cheaply and cook, aren't a huge deal relative to rent. Health insurance might be a problem if you aren't young/healthy or employer-covered (individually purchased insurance, if you have any blemish on your health record or are older, gets expensive quickly). A yearly transit pass will be around $800-$1200/yr in most places, if you can get by without a car.
Timely! I'm just in the process of uploading 32 million objects to S3 :-)

The parallel upload code I'm using is written in Python, using the multiprocessing and boto libraries and is here:

http://github.com/twpayne/s3-parallel-put

It has some nice features, like reading values directly from uncompressed tar files - this means your disk heads will scan linearly rather than seeking around. It can also gzip and set Content-Encoding, restart interrupted transfers from its own log files, and do a MD5 sum check to avoid putting keys that are already set.

Comments and feedback welcome.
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No, just that there's an upside to their risky design philosophy.

I like Mongo because of its documentation. It's really really great. And good documentation = widespread adoption, and a team who actually cares about user's needs. What they really need is a lengthy tutorial on backups (which they already have written), linked from every page in their documentation. Because their reliability not something they should be hiding.
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Open source philosophy:

- If you are given the binaries, you are also given the source.

- You may modify the source to your liking.

- You may distribute the source or a compiled version of it at will.

Note it says nothing about licensing of mods and even the distribution. Each license is actually tackling how modifications and dependencies are treated.

Nothing in the philosophy says you cannot sell it. At all. Nor in any os license.

Remember the first analogy Stalman says: Free software: "Think Free as in Free Speech, not Free as in Free Beer."
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This kind of problems are quite common with new aircraft models. The most dangerous are those which are not as obvious as the landing gear( flight modes bugs and unexpected behaviours)
If you remember 1937 you are getting up there for sure. Were you having too much fun in the 70s to remember Led Zeppelin?

On a serious note you could make the same argument about any vehicle. Cars, trucks, airplanes, buildings, bodies of water, you name it and someone, somewhere will be able to associate something bad with that thing. If you try to anticipate every possible negative association you will never decide on a logo or name, and will waste a lot of time and energy in the process. I think startups have better things to do.

(John Siracusa talked about this on Hypercritical[1] just the other day.)

[1] http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/41
While reading the blog post, I was thinking about steganographically inserting data into printed documents. It might be more difficult in this age of grammar and spell checkers, but sounds fun to play with.

It just occurred to me that stego could be applied at the word level to get around spelling and grammar corrections.
I don't believe so. If I walk into a store in New York and tell them I'm from the UK, they won't suddenly become subject to UK/EU law if they choose to serve me. I'm the one subjecting myself to US law if I shop there, not vice versa.

Further, even if they were subject to EU law on this, how would any action for a breach be enforced?
No. I'm hiring people to research & write. I'm funding this and contributing, but not doing it all myself.

Anyone interested, please email me.
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Ask HN: What comes after Reddit/Digg? HN a model?
I would like to brainstorm some ideas with people regarding what might come after Reddit/Digg as far as topic-based content discovery and discussions go.

Is there something where you see Reddit/Digg a lacking that could be implemented better or revolutionized in a completely different way?

Could HN - niche site for one area - be a good example of where curation-based content discovery goes? Or could it be more about automated content discovery and analysis based on Twitter/FB/Google+ datasets with curation, voting and community aspects built on top of it?

While Reddit/Digg for sure have their own audiences, my feeling is as the quantity of content out there grows, there are still many opportunities for innovation in the content discovery and topic-based communities area. The question is what might come next?

Thanks in advance!
> So now assume that you have algorithms that can serve you content that you absolutely love with 99% accuracy - 99 out of 100 HN stories you're like "OMFG THIS IS AMAZING".

It's unclear that that is possible. (Perfect face recogniton isn't possible and it's an easier problem.) However, even if it is

> The system then subtly, and incrementally introduces catered content designed to facilitate that transition.

doesn't follow because that would require "perfect content" that also is changing a world view.
I wrote BozoCrack to show why plain MD5 is a horrible way to hash passwords.
The rational thing to do is look at compensation to you. What are you going to get out of the startup? Comparable salary? Then it's probably ok. Experience that will allow you to make your own company (assuming you want to)? That's worth something.

I just wouldn't figure the stock grant/options for any value at all. The odds are strongly against them being worth anything.
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When I clicked the link with Firefox, Google provided the following advisory:

What is the current listing status for newstatesman.com/blogs?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 4 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 80 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 7 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2011-11-07, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2011-11-07.

Malicious software includes 7 scripting exploit(s), 6 exploit(s), 2 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 6 new process(es) on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 2 domain(s), including vcxbdddvv.ce.ms/, uetur.coom.in/.

1 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including vertadnet.com/.

This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS44009 (SLEEK).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, newstatesman.com/blogs did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?

In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.
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You are saying that strong AI (with at least human-level intelligence) is impossible. We don't run on magic, though. Many tasks we do, we made machines that do them better. I see no reason why that couldn't apply to programming itself. (In principle, at least. I could understand that we're not smart enough to achieve this in practice.)