skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the physical benefit of normalization is related to sharing the representation of repeated values, then perhaps this reduces the physical benefit of normalization, because shared values are automatically captured just once.
Sure, because you can fit six characters in 32 bits. But still... those constraints are no longer with us, and there's a limited amount of historical cruft people learning a language today should have to deal with.
The Right to Anonymity is a Matter of Privacy
Here's an easy way to get started networking in your local area:

http://blog.asmartbear.com/cold-calling.html

Basically the gist of it is to offer people something simple for free, to build relationships.
The reason FTP is still so pervasive is that FTP clients use a similar interface to the file browser on a computer. Your average person has no idea that the command line even exists. Yes, FTP isn't a very good protocol, but the interface is identical for SFTP.
These marketplaces share a lot of core business similarities to that of the daily deal market as early as four year ago, no? At scale (depending upon which niche you choose for your site) will require money in to make "money out". No one in this thread seems to be highlighting this with the exception of those sites listed, little VC dollars have been invested thus far.

It's a serious question and one that's not secret sauce, I'd argue. The execution of your business and that of any sticky viral hooks you can build in will leave you at the winner's circle years from now.
I guess Tim doesn't really comprehend the definitively Orwellian future that Google has in store for their users, and anyone who accesses any of their services. Centralized sharing and data storage, centralized application servers, centralized everything. All your data, email, communications, everything flowing through Google, and no hope of ever escaping their ads and related data analysis systems.

Google appears to really believe that people are going to sit around like sheep and let them rape every aspect of their online lives, and I can guarantee you this is not how it will play out. This is not the future I want. And Google will one day find out the hard way how wrong they are about their vision.
My impression is that all the laptop manufacturers have their hardware assembled by the likes of foxconn. With which company did you go?
I would absolutely fund a kickstarter project for this.
With the rampant abuse of market power by the drug companies with Ritalin and anti depressants, I wonder if homeopathy could be a helpful competitor. Magic water can't cause harm and takes some money away from you so you can't use it for something harmful.

I don't remember the names, but a whole generation of anti depressants was shown to be completely useless and harmful. The initial studies were fabricated and/or got into journals unethically. The various decade long studies on Ritalin also show it to be largely useless and harmful.

Homeopathy is offensive to people who respect science, but it's a noble lie in the current market conditions.
How do you mean, SFTP is a hack that suffers from all the same problems? SFTP is a new protocol, it's not the same as FTP. It doesn't concern itself with data port nonsense, and while it doesn't offer authentication or secure transfers in itself, there is - at least to my knowledge - no SFTP solution available that doesn't perform SFTP via an underlying mechanism for secure auth/transfer.
>Although Apple has amazing hardware, I had to decide if I was willing to support their practices or possibly use a machine that offered less CPUs/dollar.

That new laptop you bought was manufactured at the exact same factory where they manufactured Apple products. Good job.
I attempted to start freelancing full-time about 2 years ago but had to call it quits. I had an okay portfolio... more than it sounds like you have, but nothing spectacular. It was enough to allay doubts about my expertise.

My problem was my network. I had only one regular client, a small web consultancy that gave me a couple projects. But they weren't very profitable themselves and so didn't want to pay me much, and were slow to pay even then. Beyond that I had to get work from freelancing job boards, which are a poor way to get good-paying work.

After about 6 months of trying to set up a sustainable business, only getting the occasional small gig and going into debt for the trouble, I had to call it quits. I now work at a consulting firm. I like it because it's a similar experience, but other people bring the work to me :)

My point is that having a network of people who respect your work is important. Ideally, starting out this alone should be enough for you to break even (net of living expenses). From there you can nurture those clients (they're your lifeblood) and try to expand. You should only resort to job boards as an act of desperation to keep your pipeline from drying up.

Good luck!
Tony - Send me your resume and I'll be happy to review it. I might see something sticking out like a sore thumb.
I can never resist... From a recruiter I know:

"A doctor, a lawyer and an Accountant with 30 years experience is probably a semi-reitred millionaire. A software engineer with 30 years experience is probably out of work." Or doing an hourly contract to keep some money coming in.
Morality clashes with business priorities. Every single company under the sun deals with this fundamental conflict.

The myopic lens of online discourse is currently focused on Apple, presumably because it got the This American Life treatment, and because it is the most successful company of our time – but there isn't a single business out there that doesn't have something to answer for.
Paul Krugman talked about the "Apple is evil" side of the argument many years ago.

http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/smokey.html
http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/ricardo.htm

Key quote: "At best, forcing developing countries to adhere to our labor standards would create a privileged labor aristocracy, leaving the poor majority no better off. And it might not even do that. [...] A policy of good jobs in principle, but no jobs in practice, might assuage our consciences, but it is no favor to its alleged beneficiaries."

Is he wrong? (Please don't downvote me just because you disagree with Krugman.)
Idea: Code Reading App
I regularly give up caffeine for extended periods (months) and then get back on the wagon again for similar long periods of time.

Recently during one of the transitional periods I found that caffeine negatively impacts my ability to play chess. Which is to say that I have relatively well developed (for an amateur) intuition about what moves superficially look good, but at the level I play at, extended periods of concentration are required to actually play better.

Caffeine doesn't help me concentrate, it makes me more impatient, bored faster. So I'm more likely to jump at a move which at first blush looks good. Caffeine actually makes it harder to concentrate for extended periods of time. I know that isn't the conventional wisdom, but I am convinced that the conventional wisdom is pretty much exactly wrong in this regard.

In addition, I have read that caffeine take a long time to get out of the bloodstream (a 'half-life' of ~6 hours) so the effects of large amounts of caffeine during the day translate directly into poorer quality sleep or reduced quantities of sleep at night, which creates a vicious cycle, hence when I get back on the caffeine it quickly ramps up to the multiple cups per day levels.
If you read some self-blinding studies for things like modafinil et al. you'll see this isn't always the case. (They get surprised when they find out at the end of the experiment cycle that a particular pill on a particular day was just a sugar pill.) Placebo effects are weird. In any case while the plural of anecdotes is not "data" I still think anecdotes are valuable.
I can't wait until I can buy an American made Android phone. Oh wait.

These arguments based on dichotomous binary are pointless. Nothing is as simple as "good" an "evil".

Nor is Apple to blame on their own for the China conditions. No more than Google is by benefiting from it.

It makes good headlines. That's it.
Slight correction: nature doesn't care about the number of copies of a gene. All that matters is existence/survival.

I have to verify your other numbers sometime, because I am pretty sure I have heard of cases where mutations took hold faster (lactose tolerance perhaps?)
Douglas Hofstadter (sp?) in Godel Escher Bach postulates a link between music and maths (and hence programming - though perhaps that should be 'certain kinds of programming')
What this really needs is some simple example code for Use Cases :)
For many use-cases rsync and scp are not adequate. For example neither can provide a file-listing or interactively walk a tree, which is essential for a wide range of push-based or fileserver-style applications.
Truth is that the majority of people are in fact sheep when it comes to online privacy, and aren't really concerned enough to the point that they would stop using Google's services.
Rape? Really?

There's some impedance mismatch in communication here that I don't quite understand.
the part about "don't upload in the first place" is interesting - i wonder if quality/quantity of sharing on facebook changes because people will (consciously or subconsciously) be thinking about the Timeline and how this post will fit in their "lifestream"
Maybe we should be concerned with the perceptions of the future. The younger generation is already accepting the idea of unforgettability and I think this could push us to accepting the idea that our past acts, thoughts, and words have relevance to the future.
Evil is perhaps too strong a word, but their cynical and disingenuous defense of their real names policy on G+ made it impossible for me to trust them to do the right thing with my information in the long term.
Ask HN: Who do you follow on Twitter?
I am somewhat new to twitter and got on basically because I heard there was some great advice and other information being shared by neat people.

Who do you get the most out of following?
tl;dr - Google: based on our definition of 'is,' Google is not evil and Apple is.
The Five Stages of Hosting
Apple is a client of FoxConn like all of these companies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Major_customers

FoxConn has almost 1 million employees, and they aren't all working on Apple products. If we're going to call out companies, shouldn't we be calling out them all?
A blog post about how my Android games are doing on Amazon (surprisingly well)
Collecting this much personal data across this many domains of the users' lives means you will never know if Google has done something evil with your data or not.

By removing the walls between the silos, Google's centralized data has become immensely more valuable for them and a huge vulnerability for its users.
Indian Laptop Company Stole Our Entire Site
I guess the 37 signals fiasco isn't an uncommon occurrence. I was checking our analytics this morning when I noticed we've been getting some strange traffic regarding "Laptop Repair In Cochin." Well I dug around and found a site that copied and pasted our codebase outright, HTML / JS & CSS - then tweaked a couple CSS variables.
I built the Wordpress theme from scratch about a year and a half ago and never released it for sale. This laptop repair site doesn't appear to be using Wordpress. Our site was featured on several design galleries at the time (it's in desperate need of an upgrade now, we just don't have the time) which, I'm sure, is how they found it to rip-off.

Check it out: Our Site: http://www.tinyfactory.co Their Site: http://www.laptoprepairkerala.com

I suppose imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - and a great reminder that it's time to upgrade our site ;)
"But should a nation like China decide it doesn't want uncensored Internet streaming to its shores from space, there's nothing really stopping it from blasting the satellites out of the sky either."

After the recent events, I wouldn't be completely surprised if the US decided to claim them to be "a threat to national security" (which translates to enabling copyright infringement) as well, in a not too distant future. It may sound too extreme today, but so did SOPA ten years ago.
Twitter spam is the best kind
Exactly. With recent privacy changes we're reminded of what we've known all along but have been ignoring; that we have next-to-nothing protecting us.

We love all those free services and we're sort of OK with ever more targeted ads but we want to keep our illusion that Google are the good guys.

Unfortunately its an inevitable consequence of Google facing a competitor - Facebook - who is willing to step over limits in sacrificing our privacy, in the name of creating a more competitive ad network. Google has to follow suit or risk losing their business.

The question is where is the bottom of that race? Profiling people with tendency to get hooked on games and pushing them Zynga products seems pretty much like evil to me and I think we're already there.
Remember: Real science and medicine don't happen in newspaper op-eds.
Non-profit organizations are registered as so to the IRS in the United States:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization
The problem with your opinion is people not only will sit back and allow this they are activally enabling this. Do you think facebook doesn't keep track of people _view_ their Like™ button. Do you think apple doesn't track specifics of app usage and amazon is just enabling cloud rendering for a nifty tech demo ? The world is connected. Google can adapt to the market place stay relevent and continue to push the industry towards better pratices like they have a history doing, or they can watch their markets be moved towards more nefarious companies and slowly fade into irrelevance.

Like Tim said its not evil what they are doing , but your are expressing that one day it _might_ be easier to be really evil. Its a risk you take living in a world where you can get free search , Email and Social Networks.
Google develops Android which runs on many devices made in similar or worse conditions. They could change the license under which Android is distributed under to include a clause that it cannot be used on devices that aren't made under certain minimum labour standards. They don't. Are they evil too then? It's really a lot more complex than good vs. evil. There are many fine religious books that tackle that subject. This is an economic issue not a religious issue.
Why do you think it's a Russian company? Cochin is a city in Kerala, India.

In any case, you can definitely have some fun with them by changing some server settings or file names to get their site to just say "This was stolen from www.tinyfactory.co"

There was a post of a guy doing something like that on here a while back but I can't dig it up.
Often you are right, and that article points out some of that. And many people do write badly on purpose, or do not write well by not thinking about it. But simplified English is not going to catch on with English speakers, we enjoy our words too much. The fact that English has more words than any other language is due to constant borrowing from other languages and also constant invention nd reinvention. It is not just educated words, it is full of street words, dialect words, all sorts. And they do convey extra nuances. Look at Shakespeare or A Clockwork Orange for word invention. Of course though there is too much simply bad writing too...
While you're definitely right that the other manufacturers are playing the same game, i think it makes perfect sense to focus on The Most Successful Company of Our Time, just like the adbusters/anti-sweatshop movement did with Nike in the nineties.
Would you be willing to pay a few hundred dollars a month for that privilege? Their model is sustainable if they charge a heavy premium for the physical bookstore experience.
Why is this a surprise. Reading is sequential. The primary way is which we consume information is not. Our eyes capture a bit of everything, left and right, up and down, then our brain gives it a meaning. Reading requires us to follow a specific path, and I am forced to believe it is harder on the brain.
I was diagnosed with ADD. I'm not sure that was the problem, exactly, because there were some other things going on, but I was talking Adderall for almost two years, along with Wellbutrin. I quit cold-turkey and went through a long period of being almost totally exhausted both physically and mentally.

As I slowly recovered, I was more strict about my diet, got a lot more exercise, and started meditating. I found that vipassana-style meditation was a tremendous help.

This is speculation on my part, but I think that meditation really strengthens some of the areas that I'm weak in due to ADD. I think sitting still forces me to develop "inhibition" skills that are typically rather weak in people with ADD. Also, mindfulness develops memory skills that I've been having a lot of trouble with lately. Also, paying close attention to direct sensations and thoughts makes it a lot easier to relax, so I tend not to build up anywhere near as much stress through the day. The bottom line is that I have more energy and focus, and just seem to function a lot better when I meditate regularly.

I'd bet that you will get a lot of the same benefits from yoga, alone. But I'd like to suggest that you look into vipassana and see if it works well for you, too. I don't think you will have any trouble finding resources on the internet, but please let me know if you'd like some recommendations.
Plan 9's 9P is a nice file protocol: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html.

A client implementation has been available for Linux since version 2.6 (http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/v9fs/index.html).
An important difference is that one cannot effectively opt out of Google's data collection when using the internet, while one can avoid using Apple's products.

Google is high-fructose corn syrup, Apple is McDonald's.
I feel like one of the major changes in a Steve Jobs-less Apple is going to be an increased emphasis on the corporate market. This was historically one of the major differences between Apple (focused on end-users) and Microsoft (primarily focused on corporate enterprises--Paul Allen has a lot to say about this in his recent biography). To see Apple succeeding in this market is pretty exciting for them.
I think these films can be made with smaller budgets If there were smaller budgets across the industry. Sure there are fixed costs (which are ever falling) to produce but wages are held high because of the big budgets. I think the majority of big movie stars would still be acting on movies for a much smaller amount if that was the best they could get.
His argument might have had some merit if he'd talked about the posh working conditions at Nexus factories. For all we know those are made at Foxconn as well.

And don't just blow off people's concerns about data mishandling. "We haven't done anything bad yet, so people shouldn't be worried." Go ahead and whistle past the graveyard, Tim.
Actually, writing code that can be called directly from a prompt is the essence of using a REPL. The fact that Java, and OO programming generally, makes that so hard is a major weakness.
Have used tftp for net booting, those legacy bioses cant do anything else, as it really is trivial...
We've got a writeup about how much fun it was implementing a FUSE based filesystem that transports with FTP [ExpanDrive]

http://blog.expandrive.com/2009/02/02/ftp-considered-harmful...
tl;dr: Zynga uses zookeeper.

I was extremely disappointed with this blog post. It reads like a ninth grade composition assignment, and is extremely lacking in details.
This is a cultural, social and political issue first. economics is secondary.

As a foreign-owned corporation Microsoft, Amazon, Dell, HP, Sony, Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Apple do not have the authority, leverage or government support to change something that is so fundamental to China's culture and politics. This is the responsibility of Foxconn and the Chinese Government.

Are we forgetting something? This is China we're talking about. Foreigners do not have any say in this.
I've been using stimulants for almost five years (age 20 now). The last year or so I reached a point where like the article said — the effects of the drugs tapered off — and there was really nothing I could do about it. As a kid I exemplified the most extreme kind of inattention, behavioral, and regulatory problems that classify ADD, but once I began taking the meds I went through an equally extreme transformation, so I'm skeptical of any article that derides the use of stimulants. I'm also reminded of what the late Christopher Hitchens said in defense of his heavy drinking and smoking:

“Writing is what’s important to me, and anything that helps me do that—or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation—is worth it to me.”

I recently met someone who has tourette's syndrome, which means he has increased production of dopamine. In other words — the inverse of ADD. The drugs he took induced a state of ADD that was identical to what I what I experienced sans-stimulants. It's crucial for those of us with the kind of dramatic impairment that comes with ADD to get by with as much help as possible from competent practitioners (of which there seems to be a very short supply of).
FTP is platform agnostic. As uncool as it may be it's the only realistic choice for companies to share sensitive data.
That's actually the standard European order. Testing the Russian locale might be a scary proposition, but certainly not for this specific reason.
The story (blog article) refers to this short essay:

http://download.cell.com/images/edimages/CurrentBiology/home...

which mentions "The long-lasting effects of TDCS, which can persist for up to 2 months" with a reference to this paper:

http://neuro.cjb.net/content/29/22/7271.full.pdf

This last paper is quite interesting, as arguments can (will...) be based off of it posing that tDCS does provide a long-term benefit. Unfortunately, the gain (in response time and accuracy) over a sham tDCS (e.g., placebo) is quite modest -- 15% with an error bar of 10% for response time, and 5% with an error bar of 5% for accuracy... Check the Figure 4 on page 5.
Star Trek was a meritocratic socialist economy with a World Government, of which we really only see the military/starfleet aspect of everything. There was a hierarchy of jobs based on performance, and there was never any mention of genetic discrimination as far as I know.
The problem is that even real live humans can't always tell if something will halt. For instance, you tell me if this loop ends:

n = 4;
goldbach = true;
while(goldbach) {
goldbach = isSumOfTwoPrimes(n);
n += 2;

You just have to prove the Goldbach Conjecture. :-)
Ideas:

* Speed testing and connectivity testing.

* Throw in reverse DNS data for getting info on their ISP.

* Add ad-blocker detection.

* Add silverlight detection.