skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that the 10-20 seconds latency that was mentioned is not even close to covering the next planet, much less the entire solar system. Yes, you can send off a bunch of heat-seeking missiles, but, as I mentioned in my original post way up this thread, these missiles are routinely defeated by counter-measures even when seconds away from the target. So, in the absence of strong AI, it's vastly more efficient to actually have a few humans on board the ships.
You can argue this over in your head a lot, but it's really quite simple in my mind.

If we assume space travel becomes relatively easy (that is to say it is used for more than initial colonization) there will be interstellar commerce. If there is unprotected commerce, there will be pirates. Any time there are pirates, protection will develop. Let us call these peace-keepers the Navy.

If you engage in commerce and you have a powerful Navy, you can influence or even control commerce.

Do you see where I'm going? Most wars are about resources. Commerce is about resources. Anywhere you have commerce, you are liable to develop conflict.
Via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden#Early_life_and_educat...

"He went on to receive his Juris Doctor from Syracuse University's College of Law in 1968,[19] where by his own description he found it to be "the biggest bore in the world" and pulled many all-nighters to get by.[15][20] During his first year there, he was accused of having plagiarized 5 of 15 pages of a law review article. Biden said it was inadvertent due to his not knowing the proper rules of citation, and he was permitted to retake the course after receiving a grade of F, which was subsequently dropped from his record.[20] He was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1969.[19]"
Ask NH: how would you calculate traffic costs for your startup?
Say we are launching a new genius web-project which is doomed to become a new Facebook and Google simultaneously and rule the world. But what about the few firsts month after launching: are there any kind of practical advice how to correctly estimate hosting/traffic costs?
What are the most common errors, under/over-estimations here?
Should we use Amazon Cloud or not and why?
Are there any statistics available, e.g. what Dropbox, Groupon, Netflix traffic/resource usage, what do they pay for it, how it evolved in time from the beginning?
Do you have your own good/bad experience in calculating future resources costs for you startup?
That seems entirely reasonable. Drunk Driving (and possibly other) fines in the UK take income into account so if it works for people, it should certainly work for corporations.
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The evidence points to illiteracy.
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Those numbers sound great, but they don't really mean anything unless those users are contributing content and establishing a community within Google+. It takes all of 10 seconds to become a member, but Google+ needs a better way of encouraging new users to complete their profile information, make posts, and add their friends.
Using GoDaddy for DNS is one of the biggest hosting mistakes you can make (short of using GoDaddy for web hosting).
Thanks. Though my recollection is that in theory people do not wake up from night terrors. They are asleep while sitting up screaming. I might run it past my son sometime and see what he remembers, even though he was quite young.
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick -- Fascinating to have some insight into Dick's thinking and attempts to understand his experiences. The book isn't really something to just sit down and read cover to cover, but more to explore and move around in, but if you love Philip K. Dick it's awesome.
Biden was knocked out of contention for the Democratic Nomination in 1988 because he copied a speech delivered by British Politician a year earlier (and even went so far as to fudge his own familly history a bit to make the copied lines work)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_presidential_campaign...
It's a fairly easy puzzle, for an average programmer it should take at most half an hour. Give it a shot :)
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I don't know Wikipedia's donor requirements; how do they avoid that same conflict of interest via donations? Is there some maximum donation per individual, reporting requirement, etc. that prevents corruption any more than using an automated ad network like AdSense would?
How about only showing the ads until each month's (or the year's) costs are met?

That way there's no temptation to try to derive a profit from it, and at worst you end up with ads on Wikipedia for a couple of months out of the year (kind of like you get now).
New update from Gabe: http://penny-arcade.com/2011/12/26/an-update1

"When these assholes threaten me or Penny Arcade I just laugh. I will personally burn everything I’ve made to the fucking ground if I think I can catch them in the flames."
When I read an article linked from Hacker News, then read some comments that are generally not tearing it to pieces, I assume the author must have some credibility and therefore is not throwing out conclusions for fun. Also, I have a minor in inferring existence of fascinating undetected evidence.
I think not only Tor, but many other encryption/anonymizing tools will face risk of being outlawed. I can imagine many situations in which the work of intelligence agencies will become more difficult.

Along with that a conundrum will be created, since such tools are used by Chinese citizens to bypass their governmental firewalls, by people in the middle east to bypass similar types of blockages among others, etc.
This seems like Silicon Valley echo-chamber thinking at it's finest. If your definition of a scalable business is based on the number of VC rounds raised, or which prestigious incubator it comes from, then no, I suppose it's not a scalable business.
Here is a direct link to the App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/commit/id473527073?mt=8
Yup, your script should receive the path to a single file, not a wildcard. I'll take a look at the logs. :)
Thanks for your feedback.
Reminds me of a time I saw Craig of Craig's List on a forum in the mid 2000s. People asked him why he didn't put ads on the Craigs List. With negligible effort his company could profit hugely.

He politely pointed out that most of the companies that tried to maximize profit that way went bankrupt in the recession. Meanwhile his company was chugging along, free to do what it wanted, delivering a product its customers loved to a global audience with minimal staff, costs, or conflicts of interest.

People don't give you money for nothing.

Note to the original blogger, statements like "Capitalism won, try it," when referring to one of the most successful projects on the net, don't make them look bad. They make you look like you missed something. But that's just my perspective.
People have been making the argument that war makes no economic sense, and therefore won't happen, since at least 1898:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Gotlib_Bloch#Research_and_a...

Sixteen years later, they had the first world war.
Well yes, otherwise what incentive do they have to get it right the first time?

If and when the manufacturer dumps these guys and issues a public apology for their behavior, we certainly should forgive them. But it's still justifiable to place part of the responsibility on them for what happened.
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I suppose you're right, but the psychology of donations versus purchases is very powerful. Plus there's the issue of customer vs. product that someone else mentioned.
That's valuing my time at $10 an hour. No grazie:-)
Signed up... will review in a few days :)
Ask HN: Now that so many of you are off GoDaddy, where'd you guys go?
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Sounds like the pendulum has officially swung too far the other way. Lunches, Aeron chairs, top of the line computers, free employee shipping... all used to be provided for free.

That went away with the dot-com bust, and despite their current success, they didn't bring the useful components back (I never minded not having my own door-desk).
"""One of the best things about wikipedia, some might argue the best thing, is that it is free from all the conflicts of interest invited in by money changing hands in exchange for services."""

As an organization, maybe, as an encyclopedia, not so true.

For one, we have a lot of examples of people working within companies to add content that they like. A lot where exposed, but others surely are not.

Especially in non technical issues (politics, history, etc), I find Wikipedia to be an assortment of western media biases. It's only natural, of course, given the majority of content editors origin, training, the selection bias inherent in wanting to contribute to such an effort, etc. I wouldn't give it any more worth on such subjects than I give to the CIA World Factbook.
Biden plagiarized a speech in an earlier campaign: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_presidential_campaign....
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A good reminder to always pay attention to who/what is actually the product.
The product site is getting hammered. You and I, and many more.
Who will vote for him then? I am honestly curious. My impression was that young voters (users of the internet) were the key to Obama's success last time. Are the other republican candidates so weak that Obama can just scoop up a bunch of their voters?
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I disagree with others making the conflict of interest argument. I don't see how it would create a conflict of interest if they applied a hands-off, self-serve (call it laissez-faire if you must) advertising strategy -- in fact this would create much less of a conflict of interest than accepting direct donors.

But that point is moot. The true risk you run is alienating contributors. The beautiy of Wikipedia is that they have (almost) completely eliminated the influence that Wikipedia itself has on the content. It set up the rules and lets the crowd do the work, and lets the crowd be incentivized by the contribution it is making to society, like most other crowd sourced projects. It has created (or is striving to create) an autonomous encyclopedia.

If Wikipedia were to have ads, even if it weren't a for-profit company, it feels like contributors should receive something in return, a la BleacherReport.

Bottom line: It's not about conflict of interest, if Wikipedia accepts advertising it starts to feel like a business, and the incentive of contributors to keep contributing is greatly lessened.
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I appreciate you linking to this article but I wonder what you were doing browsing the archives of Esquire. To be honest, I did not see much of a conclusion from the article, but I enjoyed reading it. Also, I thought I would let you know that I am writing this comment to get up-voted, so that I can increase my karma. If I increase my karma, people may remember my username, and later up-vote the articles I submit about my company. That will increase traffic to my website. Eventually, the result of this will be that I become rich and famous.
What's the most difficult decision you had to make in 2011? 
I decided to leave school to pursue my startup aspirations, despite my friends and family calling me crazy. What about you?
I'm curious, what are all the ways in which you find it superior? I agree that circles are better than Facebook friend lists, but G+ seems to lack some features that others find essential on Facebook, like event creation. I've heard a lot of people say that's the biggest reason they have a Facebook account. Also, there's no direct messaging system, at least that I'm aware of. FB messaging has basically replaced email for a lot of people. I suppose I could put someone into their own circle, but that seems rather inelegant.

My biggest issue with it is the lag, which is ironic for a product by Google. Sometimes it takes 30+ seconds for images to load. This significantly affects the user experience, since I usually don't wait, I just move onto something else.
While we have GoDaddy's attention
Most women are ignorant about computer science. It's a fact, not an assumption.

If you want the hard numbers check the number of ungraduates/graduates in CS/IT, for males and females.

I'm saying that women are not capable of grasping IT (hell, the very first programmer was a woman, mrs. Lovelace). I'm saying that in actual, real life, they statistically don't want/care/attempt to.

Maybe they are just smarter and go where the big money are these days (biology), as well as the better hours.
Sure in this case you better send them the 5$, nevertheless please share this with friends or colleagues that may want to give their contribution while having fun for half an hour.

By the way, if you're an experienced programmer the solution is quite obvious, it should take less than 15 minutes. :)
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This feels like the modern day equivalent of the secret to alchemy being found in some musty trunk in the attic. Does any of this actually advance the field?
It isn't easy to be honest but I think that it's dangerous to do this sort of thing. Just because it's wrong to lie doesn't mean every truth should be voiced; knowing when to hold your tongue is an important skill. It might have been honest for him to tell his nanny that he was attracted to her or to tell the editor of Rachel Ray he was looking down her shirt but what good did it do? From the sound of it it only served to make them uncomfortable. The fact that it made him feel like an asshole seems to imply it wasn't making him a happier person anyway. I think it's good to strive toward total honesty, but total honesty doesn't mean saying every stupid thought that crosses your mind. Thoughts are transitory things. By voicing some of the darker ones you risk making a larger issue out of something that you might otherwise quickly forget ever crossed your mind. Just because it's true doesn't mean it's beneficial to speak.
Also, please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that this use falls within the fair use exception under US copyright law.
>>> You mention arguments. In PHP, for example, you have `mkdir`, and `rmdir`, and all that. You supply the file or directory string as the first argument, and a limited subset of options as the rest.

http://linux.die.net/man/2/mkdir

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mkdir.php

... they look similar enough to me. The PHP function has some additional tricks, such as creating all parent directories up to the specified path.

http://linux.die.net/man/2/rmdir

http://php.net/manual/en/function.rmdir.php

In this case, the POSIX/C function accepts only one argument. So does PHP, for common usage.

>>> In Unix you have `mkdir`, but you supply the flags before the name of the directory to create.

I think you might be confusing the programs mkdir and rmdir (which don't care much about argument order) with the functions mkdir and rmdir (which, similar to filer.js functions, are part of the API).
This argument doesn't make sense since Craigslist is already a vehicle for advertisement. People pay for advertisements placed on Craigslist. They don't pay their operating costs through donations, they pay by having people give them money to provide a service (in this case, advertising).
I started out thinking you were funny and hip for writing the comment, and then I realized you were only honest to be upvoted, and you are probably not as honest in real life and I got angry that I did not think about this first. Also, I would like to write like Hemingway.
Well, if you take out the collateralized-loan portion of the business, both Craigslist and eBay fit the bill.
Using Wikipedia and using it as a reference are two very different things. I use it as a place to find great references and to get a synopsis on a topic, like an encyclopedia was meant to be used. Having lived in the former USSR and reading a lot of encyclopedias produced by the former USSR, I would never trust an encyclopedia alone, no matter who wrote it, without sources.
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Excellent point; I can even imagine some point in the distant future where a conversation along the lines of the following takes place:

"Oh you never want to use GoDaddy."
"Why?"
"They suck, use Ghandi or NameCheap"
"Right... but WHY... ?"
"There was this thing a few years back... they just suck."
"Oh ok."

How many times do you think a conversation like that took place during the early years of the iPod before it was so mainstream?

Or Ford vs Toyota... or McDonalds vs. In-and-Out... or DirecTV vs Cable back in the day.

You forget the details of the conflict, but you file away the conclusion: "XYZ sucks!" and that is how people will remember GoDaddy until they make an active effort to redefine themselves as a customer-focused company.

Which I doubt they will; they don't know how to run that company and it would be a very expensive transition.

Instead they will just fade into the future until someone else steps in and redefines them and takes them to the next level (e.g. cloud hosting / SaaS offerings) or they dry up and die.
My wife is the only person I'm nearly totally honest with. I won't say completely honest, but it's pretty close. Far more than I see most people be with their opposites.

Sometimes it hurts her, sometimes I say something and wonder if I should have lied instead, but ultimately I think it makes everything so much healthier between us. If I'm in the middle of something and she's telling me a boring story about shopping for clothes, I'll tell her right out, I'm busy and I don't really care about your clothes shopping. She'll be annoyed but she'll also listen, and doesn't harbor any long-term resentment over it. I don't know that this would work for everyone, but I think it's a good thing to do.

I don't think I have the courage to do this with everyone, though.
What are you disagreeing against?

I find it... weird when someone said something in HN and somebody else has to agree or disagree. It's like a blog post that requires a rebuttal or something.

Some people want to read about Steve Jobs, some don't...

And FYI, I'm not sure if reading a book on X and consider it as a recipe for your business is a good thing anyway. Nobody has replicated 37Signals success so far.

Whatever you thought about Steve, most people probably already knew that from the numerous books, articles, and whatnot written about him. And if this book exposed 10-30% more about him... well.. some people may not bother to know more...

It's not like we all must read the book or something...
You're both just trying to be clever by aping the article without putting any thought into what it means.
Start asking around, and find out how many people (outside your circle of informed technical friends) even know that SOPA/PIPA are happening (just their existence/names, not to mention what they are about). (Hint: Not many, in my experience.)
http://dd0t.com/static/hnstats.html

I'll leave this up for the next week or so and publish the results next week (if there's enough interest, of course).
It can't be this bad. Is it this bad?
I think you're looking at this with a 20th century viewpoint. There doesn't seem like there'd be a lot of physical matter that an advanced civilisation might want to pirate. Perhaps some form of exotic matter, like a black hole, might fit the bill, but that would be particularly hard to steal because everyone could see where you were taking it.
I appreciate you writing this comment. I resent the fact that you wrote it first before I could think of it. I hope I don't get down voted for continuing a thread in this reddit-esque manner. Although I try not to be attached, I check my karma every time I log in, with the hopes that my opinions have been validated and accepted.
That's a good question, and I'm not entirely sure of the answer. I'm pretty sure my uncle believed it did, but I'm not sure how in touch he was with the state of the art, as he didn't use the internet. His idea of research was photocopying articles (and whole books, in particular I remember vol 2 of Knuth's TAOCP) from the British library.

My plan is to get some of these algorithms running and compare running times with the other open source ones available.
What a mess, original marketing firm The HAND Media claims to have dumped n-control. And Ocean Marketing is using old HAND Media email addresses at n-control domains.

http://kotaku.com/5871400/cut-paul-oceanmarketting-christofo...
That makes me feel better about those investments. Thanks for sharing that
Do you support DNSSEC? If I transferred my .com domain to you, would I be able to use your service to update the com zone with new DS records for my domain? Or should I just stick with GKG.net?
I love this Heather Peters. She's one clever lady that just hacked the judiciary procedures in a novel way. Impressive

EDIT: I see many other claims that could go through the small claims, one thing that does come to mind however, is it possible to go through small claims when you buy online and you don't get what you want? (Avenger controller for example)
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Until you can fabricate matter in your MrFusion6000, material resources in some form or another will continue to be valuable.

Once you CAN fabricate, Einstein tells us you will need a TON of energy to do so. So, even if that day comes, you will still need to acquire energy.
How was it legal?
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https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1eQiXRyStqCVVlp6cMuc...
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You make a good point, but a distinction should be made between fleeting (intrusive) thoughts (like you meet someone and want to punch him for no reason, or yell fire in a theater for no reason) and things you really think, but don't say. Like that you don't like marzipan, which your in-laws think you like.

In some cultures (e.g. some European countries) people are very frank with each other, and that sometimes helps to clear up miscommunications more quickly.

What I dislike is people who praise themselves a lot. It might be true, but I was brought up to be modest, and I feel at a disadvantage when I am with people who toot their own horn a lot. And it annoys me.
"It's become my social media platform of choice, in fact."

Diaspora is my social media platform of choice for the freedom it provides. When it's easy I don't mind posting to other platforms through Diaspora, which I can with Facebook and Twitter.

If someone created a way to post to Google+ from Diaspora, I would post to it from Diaspora also. (If such a way already exists, I'd love to hear of it).
Google did it. Aside fom the normal skeptics, your average person trusts the organic results to be truly organic.
What about Leo Apotheker (HP), Carol Bartz (Yahoo), and Jim Balsillie/Michael Lazaridis (RIM)? I would take Reed Hastings over all of them any day.
I think we succeeded, and you are just jealous.
Your TOS says rhinonames.com still, everywhere.

The ajax domain search seems pretty nice (still playing around with it before registering a domain).
The interface is really fast (uses ajax/js without loading on contextswitches) and clutter-free. A nice change from other registrars!
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