skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this ignore network effects? I am pretty silent about my politics, but at least 25 people were aware that I voted early (friends, coworkers, family members). Did this affect their decision to vote and therefore the value of my vote?

If a candidate does a great job getting out the vote compared to their opponent, the result of the election will not reflect popular opinion. Instead it will be biased toward that candidate. Those that voted for the candidate will see more value from their vote.

That still may not outweigh the hour spent in line.
The only modification I'd make to this is, where you wrote, "deduce the extent of the VM", I'd write, "deduce enough of the extent of the VM to play a subset of disks". There's no evidence that Doom9 has taken a lead over Slysoft, and even less evidence that Doom9 has a "class break" of all of BD+.

It is notable though that this is an open source effort. I'm not sure who to cheer for. =)
Its a pdf file. Save it to your computer, print it out.
Apache 2.2.10 Released to address XSS Vulnerability
xss gone wild
I'm thinking that suggesting that Eastern Europeans care about the cost of an OS license is a really weak argument.

Malware authors care about exactly one number: the ratio of the dollars it takes to put a malware program out in the field over the dollars collected by that malware program. That ratio is good for Windows, and extraordinarily crappy for Linux. If my mom (and all moms like her) switched to Ubuntu, the ratio would get better.
For me, the key to understanding was to realize that reality is only a figment of your imagination ;)

On a more serious note, it was understanding the Axiom of Choice, or that our "intuitive" notions of reality aren't really consistent with themselves:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonmeasurable_set
I would buy one if the offer from T-Mobile Germany was better. But prices for mobile internet are falling quickly, and in 24 months I would definitely feel like a fool if I was still paying the T-Mobile rates.

Come on, Apple, unlock it already.
I, for one, appreciate you referring to it as a theorem and not a paradox.
AFAIK, one of the browsers (probably IE), ignores query parameters on css and js files and will not refresh foo.css?v=2 if it has foo.css?v=1 in its cache.
i think that the short answer is because silicon valley and major tech luminaries have raised hell about it, and things that are news for SV and the bigger fish are at least vicariously news for the rest of the industry.
a summer spent playing with pattern language and cellular automata

if they had followed that route, the game would probably have been a lot more fun to play. games should really be
done in an exploratory way, since what comes out is a universe of ideas, closed over itself.
Google execs killed YouTube's live streaming project too. They were afraid that it would chew through a lot of bandwidth and live video is very hard to monetize. I guess they have their hands full with current inventory...
3 Billion Photos on Flickr
why would you hope to save circuit city? that store's about as much of a scam as compUSA.
Indeed. Not only hard to monetize, but hard to moderate. I remember talking to one of my Y! friends who worked over there during the Y! Live launch. Imagine their horror when the first Live! masturbator streamed to the masses.
I'm glad there's actually a mass media outlet that would post something like this. They are focusing heavily on the numbers though, rather than the system - and it's the system that's the problem.

I don't vote because my single vote carries no weight, as the article demonstrates. However, if proportional representation were used, I would vote because my vote would count for something even if very little. With First Past The Post, my vote is more like buying a lottery ticket.. if I vote for the loser then it counts for zero - which is why we end up with two party systems.
Giving in on something like this means you will be victimised again later on. Once you start paying the danegeld it's hard to get rid of the dane.
Yahoo kills live streaming service
Illicit filesharing: don’t legislate, innovate
I bought mine just over a year ago with the eco packaging. This was in the UK though. Both options were available.
I think stealth mode is (99% of the time) bullshit. I think most of the time you should talk about your product to anyone who will listen. Here are a few things you can't easily get in stealth mode:

- A partner/co-founder: The idea makes all the difference for people who might consider diving in with you. Potential partners don't have time to meet with all the stealth-monkies to sign their NDA and hear about their (usually uninteresting to them) idea.

- A customer: In stealth mode, you'll never meet anyone who will say, "Holy crap that's cool. Can I sign up to be a pilot customer?"

- Wisdom about how to talk about your product: Every time you pitch your product to ANYONE, you get better at knowing what people want, how to talk about it, and where they get confused.

- A random referral: In stealth mode, you'll never hear "Oh! You know who'd be the perfect co-founder/investor/employee/pilot customer for you?!"

- A great idea that makes your idea BETTER. Of course, a lot of stealth moders have serious idea-hubris, so they probably couldn't imagine their idea getting any better.

- An investor. No investor will sign an NDA. Most would punt you if you even asked.

- SEO benefit. Backlinks and site age both effect rankings. Start building now.

On the other side of the coin, would your competition REALLY change their execution if they knew you existed? "Oh no! Two guys armed with Ruby on Rails! We're DOOOOMED!"
There's exactly zero chance that store shelves will contain boxes similar to ones that Amazon is using here. Therefore, there will always be two kinds: 1) The displayable kind, and 2) The shipping kind.

In the short term, sure. But the world changes a lot more than we think, over time. The Walmart shopping experience, as it is today, would be unfathomable to someone from even the 1970s.

Consider the success of "no frills" groceries over the last 10 years (a success that is increasing due to the credit crunch). Many who wouldn't leave their chosen brands for certain products are migrating to cheaper alternatives with incredibly dull packaging. It's a bit of a conceptual jump for toys to be the same, but I suspect it'll happen when we realize how superficial the 90s and 00s "were" (speaking from a, say, 2020s perspective).
For what it's worth, T-Mobile USA does pretty well in the Consumer Reports recommendations (worse than Verizon, better than AT&T and Sprint). I find it a little funny that another comment in this thread lauds Apple for focusing on every detail of the user experience, and yet Apple chose to partner exclusively with AT&T, which Consumer Reports describes as "Home of the iPhone but trails the better carriers in almost all respects."

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/electronics-computers/pho...
I didn't vote in 2000, because it was too much trouble. I spent the next four years regretting it, and 2004 rolled around and I had another chance. Somehow I wasn't able to register in time, and missed it, and spent another 4 years feeling bad.

This time I registered plenty early, and voted early, too. Now no matter what happens, I can feel good about doing my part for the next four years. I'd say that was time well spent.
3.99$ might be deceptive, but it's deceptive in a very standard way that everyone expects and understands.
depends on the nature of the app. while probably a 'bad thing', i don't think that someone maliciously gaining control of your anyvite account will ruin you, so a convenience like this might be acceptable in the eyes of the engineers.
i sure would like to flay the idiots that are trying to ram this through. as if we don't have bigger problems to freaking worry about.

i may just be male pmsing today or something, but i'm irritated that something like this has actually invaded my airspace at all. i feel like a jehovah's witness has just visited me at 7am saturday morning...
Black paint does this too. Absorption is not the goal of a solar panel. It's a shame they don't say anything about conversion. I suspect if it helped with that, there would have been numbers to support it.
supposedly not needing a box cutter to open these new boxes is part of the plan. From their site "It's designed to be opened without the use of a box cutter or knife..."
As many as 10,000 corrupt government officials have fled China with $100 billion
It makes something that most people are unable (or unwilling to take the time) to do a simple matter of mouse clicks. And it does so pretty nicely.

Sure, most people on HN can create pretty slick sites that just are not possible with Weebly. But then again, most of society isn't on HN.
Conduit Labs (Cambridge startup) hosting Election Party in Boston
well, i'm on the other coast, so my understanding might be limited, but from what i've gathered, in california, the general public can tack on ballot propositions that have the power to amend the state constitution/legislation.

so here we have a big enough group of people who want to push this (confusingly worded) thing through.

so, on the bright side, its not tax dollars being wasted.
I've worked at a true bigco (you've used their products) that ran acres of Microsoft desktops. Angostura is correct. Just because bigco mgmt found Windows to be the most suitable desktop for them, doesn't mean they'll use Microsoft products anywhere else.

We used several databases, but none from Microsoft. We used several programming languages, but none from Microsoft. Suggesting either would get you laughed out of the room even quicker than suggesting a free software solution (and in fact, we did use free software for several things like this, which mgmt saw as its fortes).

Managers at bigco want to minimize risk. (We used Windows 2000 until about 2006, i.e., it took a while to trust Microsoft at the one thing we thought they were good at.) When (not if) something goes wrong, they don't want the finger pointed at them. They're risk-averse to an extreme (which drives us programmers nuts), but they're not that stupid -- they know a PC OS is vastly different from a cloud platform. A brand new service from a company not known for this type of service is not minimizing risk.

If they got the itch to try cloud computing, they probably would have started by calling up Oracle.
Title is in error. The article is about RMS refusing to use his OLPC since it is capable of running Windows. He has switched to an inferior machine with a MIPS processor that won't have this flaw.
I don't think I can do it tomorrow because the election isn't close enough. But yeah, I think it's pretty exploitable when they are.

People say that stock markets are efficient, but then the last couple months show that the money there is just as prone to groupthink as anywhere else. The same is true of Intrade. More true probably due to betting/deposit limitations.
Open Source Alarm Clock Transcends the Nightstand
If you buy Motorola's new $2000 phone, you're not allowed to resell it.
"Virtual money" always annoys me. I have to have Wii points to buy a Wii game. I have to have Microsoft points to buy an Xbox game. I don't want to keep my money tied up in these useless virtual currencies. Just charge my credit card $5 when I download a game and be done with it.

Same for Facebook. Just charge me what the "item" "costs". Making it difficult to buy a worthless item is not a good way to make money. Making it easy is.
Right, but that's only for third party stuff that uses Amazon's boxing system. I just want the normal Amazon packages I've been getting for a decade to not suck, since that's near 100% of them now.
Thanks for the link, I will have to look over it in more detail. My intent was to have more of a focus on brands then individual products, although products could be added to the brand pages.
The idea is to make it easy for this guy to be arrested, not to make a habit of sending random people money.

I don't buy things advertised in spam, but I keep getting it anyway.

This sort of scam is like spam. It is easy to perpetrate the scam and hard to be penalized for it, so it isn't going to go away. Send a few emails and you have a chance of someone mailing you $2000 and probably not getting caught. Not a bad deal for the criminal.
Although this is true for the presidential election.

When people go to the polls tommorow they will be voting for many offices besides president like senate, congress, and local elections where your vote does have equal weight. And those offices will probably affect you a lot more than President will.

And the notion of popular vote mandate is important. If someone wins a commanding popular vote margin, their ideas and proposals have a greater chance of getting put into place.
It is rather hard to tell how big the market would be since its hard to find the designers (hence the idea). But I think a lot of designers could use it as a marketing platform and to market beyond their geographic location, which is what a lot of them have to do.

Now I just have to learn to code it hehe. I know, I'm on HN but I don't code
Make sure to click on every yes on 8 ad you see. It's pay-per-click after all. Let's make hate expensive.
If you don't vote, I could care less about your political opinion.
Drop by and meet some cool people from the Boston/Cambridge startup scene, drink some beer, celebrate (or mourn), maybe find yourself a co-founder or a job..
Yea the real idea is to help people find hidden gems and from there find similar gems. The music scene is already pretty crazy though with last.fm and pandora and the millions of other sites trying to help people discover new music
How would you know you'll actually get the domain back if you pay the $2000? I doubt the hacker would be willing to use escrow or anything like that.
In a very limited way. Re-read those papers.
There is an OS X Look & Feel.
You could, but it would be a hedge fund rather than a tech company.
Voting is an aggregate activity. When you think of it as an individualist activity, as an economist would, you fail to see it for what it is -- an aggregate.

Imagine if you are in a line of people passing bricks from a collapsed building to another location. If you looked at this activity from an individual's perspective you'd said, "Passing this brick to that other person isn't clearing the rubble."

And you'd be right. It's not. But then you are not the activity in entirety; you are only part of the activity. And because this activity is social, it depends on human behavior.

This attitude, then, falls under the category of the fallacy of composition: what's rational for one actor is not rational if everyone does the same. Voting is not an individual activity, it's a group activity and looking at it as if it's a individual activity belies that.

When you analyze group activities as if they're individual activities you get erroneous conclusions. I can see why Taleb gets annoyed with economists now.
Those elections are single mandate as well.

Your vote only counts if the election is decided by 1 vote, which is never the case.

On an unrelated note, I'm so tired of Freakonomics.
Yahoo Dead?
Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco—in a world where only one company sells tobacco

No wonder Microsoft offers the first dose to children at a low price.

neat.
First Reactions from Salesforce Expo
iPhone Development Podcast - An Interview with Dr Nic Williams
Absolutely nothing like the proposition that god exists, and I wag my finger at you for associating the concrete facts of mathematics with superstitious claims backed up by hearsay.
Link is dead. Found a version on the FSF website: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/can-we-rescue-olpc-from-windows
Not everything should be looked at from an economist's point of view.

If an old lady in front of you drops her purse, there is no economical reason for you to help her out. It is a waste of your time and she can pick it up herself. If she can't pick it up herself, someone else walking the street will help her out. No need to trouble yourself.

However, most people here would help her out because its just the right thing to do.
Local DFW Startup Nectar Launches : Fort Worth Startup Blog
Not sure if that's the same article. Somebody on reddit, copy and pasted it before the original link went down:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7b25e/richard_s...
I found my cofounder when he tried to hire me. :-)
I really like my Chumby. As soon as I tear open my eyes in the morning, I get a quick look at Google news top stories, NYTimes, my facebook updates and weather. Totally eliminated the need to turn on my laptop in the mornings.
I can get a free cup of coffee from starbucks and extra credit in my classes if I vote so that justifies why I am voting. The opportunity cost for me not voting is too high for me.
Ask HN: Best place to learn about Mobile Development
I'm really interested in learning about development for Windows Mobile. I have Visual Studio 08 and an HTC Touch running Windows Mobile 6.1.

Up until this point I've been purely a web dev guy.. Mostly PHP, a little bit of ruby and python. What resources would you suggest?
Here's one of my favorite reasons to vote: Your vote does have an impact on the vote count.

I like to check out the vote tallies when the election is over -- and when it says "324,879" instead of "324,878" or whatever, I think, "Hey, that's me!" This also works whether you live in a swing state like Ohio or a forgone conclusion like California.

And in all seriousness, vote count does matter, even if the outcome is a "sure thing." The size of a victory plays a very big role in giving a mandate for the winner to get things done.

So hackers...seriously, get out there and vote, even if it only makes a 1/305,563,000 difference.
it's up again by now.
tsa, tsa, tsa, operating on cpu quota limit.
Yes, we definitely have bigger issues to worry about, such as resource shortage and overpopulation. That's exactly my point. And I wish I would have better content to provide for the day, but the ad was blatantly everywhere on the web, I just could not ignore.

In fact, ignoring it actually benefit the people who do try to spam our culture with such pointless issues.

You may be smart enough to see through the bullshit, but not everyone else have that kind of rationale.
yes, its BS.
i go to the hackers+founders meetup in sunnyvale and we bounce ideas of one another. its a real conversational killer if someone wont talk about what their doing.
The "[scribd]" part of the headline is actually a separate link pointing to Scribd. The headline title points to the original PDF.
Maybe it does but you can also argue it has an inverse effect. If I know someone else voted I may just say "Well they voted so I don't have to."
The message is a bit vague, but we chose that wording because it conveys the point more succinctly than a complete explanation.

If someone forwards an email to a friend, that friend will be able to RSVP and comment on behalf of the forwarding user, but they won't be able to create/edit/cancel the event. All of the admin controls still require the admin to login.

We chose this as a matter of convenience since most people will refuse to RSVP anyway and if we required them to fill out a registration form first, we wouldn't be any better than evite. As noodle mentioned, if someone can RSVP on your behalf for a single event, it probably isn't the end of the world. It's completely depending on the security requirements of your app.
I smell an ignoble prize winner.
But that's because you place value on telling the truth. Not everyone is like that.
I've never seen this behavior anywhere.
interesting idea, but the "flavors" available aren't very robust in design. i think i will give it another look once they get some more "traction" and i can see just how customizable the templates they give are. <-- yes i know that's bad grammar...
How about tags for gists?

That would make it quite a bit easier to find a specific algorithm or code snippet.
CSRF attacks against OAuth
pic http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/120/onemillion.png
thanks for calming me down :D
A vote for the loser does not count for nothing. It makes you an active political entity worth courting.

Do you know why social security is inviolate, and no one from either party will ever do anything to stop payments? Because old people vote. If you (and people like you) don't vote, you don't count, and no one will ever listen to you.

Voting increases the strength of your demographic, and then shifts the political allegiance of that demographic very slightly towards your views.
And it's not like we all act rationally anyways.
If possible, could you edit your post title to include "Windows" before "Mobile"? People might think to post iPhone related resources here (which is what I was going to do) and you seem to make it clear that's not what you want ;-)
That's not true; he spends several grafs talking about quirky inputs, bad battery life, and a less effective Google Maps interface than on the iPod Touch or his old Nokia phone.
"if only", "maybe i could", "well i would but"...
No idea regarding the accuracy of your calculations, but when you're talking conversion rates for a million users, 1.5% or 2% or heck, 1.1%, could be considered "well over" 1%.
How would screening the app store have solved any of his problems? (In fact, what problems does the average user have from an unscreened app store?)
I'm guessing that this is the laptop he uses now:

http://www.lemote.com/english/yeeloong.html

The world's first fully open hardware/software. All system source(BIOS, kernel, drivers etc.) are open source, no close firmware needed.

CPU:	STLS 2F(Loongson 2F) 900MHz, with integrated DDR2 controller and PCI controller
Okay :) Just for the record, I am not a Java or any other verbose language programmer either.
I was a sweeper at a theme park and I would see people drop things or leave things on benches(cameras, wallets, keys etc) and then run to pick them up. I would say 50% of the time they would thank me and give me a tip. Usually about an hours pay.
Or, the top 5 things I'm glad OS X doesn't do.
It would probably be a good idea to modify the title to indicate that only
apache servers running with the mod_proxy_ftp module are affected.
Reasons not to vote:

Voting for federal candidates is an affirmation of the legitimacy of the power of the government, which you may reject. Your vote will make you complicit in the next federal campaign to blow up foreigners, or the current campaign to imprison millions of Americans for victimless crimes. I assure you Obama WILL blow up innocent foreigners; every president finds some excuse to do it at some point.

A vote for "none of the above" IS a vote. The politicians NEED sufficiently high turnout to legitimize their power.

Elections are about as genuine as pro-wrestling. They never have anything to do with how government actually proceeds after the race. Rhetoric has consistently contradicted actions in my lifetime. Pretending you participated in an informed decision making process is delusional.

You're stuck choosing between coke and pepsi when you really want a glass of milk. The republican and democratic parties have locked up the racket for themselves. They are different brands of the same corporatocracy and mostly create the illusion of choice with careful marketing. Every couple years they push the right buttons to get their brand's simpletons whipped into a sufficient frenzy to trek to the polls. Then they proceed with business as usual.

Voting, emotional investment in the political process, and keeping informed about the political process are distractions from far more socially productive activities. If every campaign volunteer had resolved not to vote or really care about the election, and instead spent their time doing something of value on their block, the aggregate outcome would far surpass the positive difference in outcomes between any pair of candidates.

Lastly, your vote really doesn't matter, statistically speaking.
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