skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Next Generation Intel Core i7 Processor Family
There are lots of teams on the leaderboard that are actually metateams. My favorite is "When Gravity and Dinosaurs Unite."

http://www.netflixprize.com/leaderboard

They actually do one better than your suggestion, which is that they use machine learning to figure out how to weight one team's results vs. the other.
You don't need to worry too much...unless they manage to get it under 254 pounds and qualify it as an ultralight, the FAA will still be the last word on the requirements to fly it.
More than 80,000 jobs cut in just five days
When people start talking about gay marriage, all of this gets instantly forgotten.

What a strange sentiment.

You know, I and my wife aren't together romantically, don't live together, don't share money, and don't have any offspring. Since we're amicably separated, and that amicability is protected by a post-nuptial agreement, and we have no intention of marrying anyone else, we haven't seen the point of going through a divorce.

A friend of mine has lived with his partner for 15 years. They're happy, share money, live together, and love each other in a very romantic way. I wouldn't be surprised if they adopted a kid.

So, who's REALLY destroying the so-called "institution of marriage"?
I've been thinking about setting up a raw test run from EC2 hitting a couchdb instance several hundred times a second, just to see what happens. It won't be the best data for real-world performance, but I think it would still be valuable as a raw performance baseline.
The government could just print the money that they need to operate, thus there would be no redistribution! But that probably isn't a great idea!

I meant the explicit redistribution where the government takes money from one group, and then gives it to another, versus the government taxing in a fair a simple way (See the Fair Tax) and then spends the money the way the Constitution intended.

In other words, they spend money on 1) Paying Debts of the United States, 2) Provide for the Common Defense, 3) Promote the General Welfare (General meaning that it does not promote the welfare of individuals, or corporations, but promotes the welfare of the entire nation; also notice the word, 'promote', not 'provide') Article 1, Section 8.

As Jefferson said, it is "...the most sacred of the duties of a government, to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens. To this a single observation shall yet be added. To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, 'the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it." (Note in Political Economy , p. 464-66)
IANAL, but can't they just stop renewing the franchise contracts? It would take a few years, but eventually they would be off the hook at ~zero cost.

Another option might be to simply stop updating the models of a given brand. Dealers survive for a few years servicing the currently existing models until they eventually switch to other brands.
Good post, but what is a "radiator motor?" Do you mean simply the engine?
People often suggest this sort of thing as if it was some sort of magical protection. If you're running something that's illegal in the US and are a resident in the US, it doesn't matter one bit for the lawsuit (other than it being more annoying to collect evidence) if the servers are in another country.
Agreed, but do they not show the cursor?

Also, do they have a "more users, fewer minutes" option? I know I'd rather have 15 users for one minute each, or seven for two minutes each. After that, most users will have decided to stay or flee any ways. It would be good to get a sense of that early decision-making, especially across a statistically-reliable sample.
This airplane looks like it will be awesome. However, as someone who has grown up around aviation and is always looking at what's available and the new companies that are launching, this seems like another vaporware project. A big warning sign to me is the amount of press and publicity they're going after, but almost all their promotional images are CG mockups. If they're planning on mass-producing this thing in 2010, they should have flying models right now. Not saying it'll never happen, but don't be surprised if the price point and delivery date both change. I hope I'm wrong.
You are right, it's a compile time argument checking for type equality.
Is SaaS Cheaper Than Licensed Software?
The whole point of DRM to to remove people's freedom; therefore Apple clearly are taking people's freedom away.

No, it's not. Apple don't use DRM because they're anti-freedom. Is this really what you're suggesting? That Apple looked at DRM and thought, "Hey, what a great way we can take away some freedom, let's do that!"? They do it to protect their interests against competitors, pirates, etc. Perhaps they don't need to take all the measures they do, and opening things up a bit more wouldn't harm them. But they're perfectly entitled to try to stop people from doing these things.
Then the people that bought it would have complained that Apple let them pay for a feature that came out for a free a couple of months later.

That's the problem with secret roadmaps.
this is great news for Apache. It's good for them to have projects that aren't just purely Java based.
Recommmended reading: Feynman's classic QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.

http://www.amazon.com/QED-Strange-Theory-Light-Matter/dp/069...

If you don't really understand what this article is talking about, Feynman can help you.
Ok, I'm out of the way. Catch you later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge
http://www.airlinesafety.com/faq/faq9.htm
Laconi.ca - a decentralised twitter
make sure your domain is not with godaddy

Can you elaborate?

References?

Personal experiences?
That has got to be the dumbest law I've ever heard of. Anyone understand the details of why it was implemented? It sounds like a knee-jerk reaction to the stock market crash...
I am a couple hours east of Portland, but I don't think you can go wrong with either. You'll definitely find a larger number of hackers, startups, and larger tech cos in Seattle.

I've been to both plenty and both seem to have a good culture. If I had to pick one, it would probably be Seattle.
What about Toyota, Honda, or Mazda? Volkswagon/Audi? I'm just wondering. Are you basing your entire assessment on these brush motors?
Man Shoots Girlfriend’s Computer After Installing Windows Vista
"McDonald's exemplifies the role of small businesses in Americans' upward mobility. The company is largely a confederation of small businesses: 85 percent of its U.S. restaurants -- average annual sales, $2.2 million -- are owned by franchisees. McDonald's has made more millionaires, and especially black and Hispanic millionaires, than any other economic entity ever, anywhere."

-- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12...
Poker is to entrepreneurial training as swim class is to diving.
Yeah, I do. Suicide is a cry for attention, and as such usually begins with other (often directly related) cries. I'd say that most people who start talking about it live on webcam are going to attempt it at some point if they're not helped. Just conjecture on my part.
http://nodaddy.com/
You can't put a Buick logo on a premium car like a Cadillac. First, a Cadillac costs more to make than people are willing to spend on a Buick. Second, doing that would reduce the demand for Cadillacs (since nobody wants something that is the "same as a Buick").

For non-premimum brands, GM and other manufacturers already do sell the same car with different names--even across coompanies. Most obviously, the Eagle Talon is/was the same as the Mitsubishi Eclipse except for the spoiler, and the Chevy Camero and the Pontiac Firebird were the same car with different body trim for a long time. Similarly, the Ford Taurus and the Mercury Sable are the same car except for some body styling. Toyota Corolla is the same as the Geo Prism, the Toyota Matrix is the same as the Pontiac Vibe, Ford Focus is sold under three different brands.

Doing this keeps the prices of the good brands high while selling cars for a discount when necessary. If you bargain the price of a Ford Taurus down far enough, the dealer will tell you that you can't have the Taurus for that price, but you can have the equivalent Sable.
Ask HN: Review our app's subscription plans/page
There has been some really good discussions here lately about subscription pricing and sign-up page layout for SaaS startups.

I thought perhaps some of you kind folks would like to review our plans/pricing page and offer suggestions for improvement.

Background: NextProof is an e-commerce app that let's pro photographers create galleries for selling prints, digital negatives, and other products. It's primarily targeted at the wedding and portrait photography market.

We launched in May and currently have a strong user base and are growing at a nice clip. I would, of course, like to improve it if possible. One idea we had is to try and attract more part-time photographers/hobbyists who want to earn some extra income shooting events, selling fine art, etc.

Any, all feedback on the pricing page is welcome, but I'm especially curious about:

- Should our free plan be more prominent?

- Should we consider a plan between free and basic ($9 or $12/mo)?

http://www.nextproof.com/pricing/

Thanks so much.
I wonder if it was true? Flurry of blog-ish posts in July 2007. No "real" article since.

This article contains a small collection of similar shooting incidents.

http://shekel.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-dont-condone-this-but-i...

[[Fullish disclosure: I did crush a horrid little Gateway server with an intermittent problem into a tiny ball of metal and debris with a rented excavator. I can see where these people come from, I've been in the neighborhood.]]
"... I currently live in the Midwest, and the entrepreneurial and hacker culture is practically non existent out here ..."

Midwest of where?

"Hacker culture in the northwest" - northwest of where? To me north west is the Kimberleys ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberley_region_of_Western_Aus... inhabited for 40,000 years but hardly a hacker hotspot.

But you raise a good point. In "Founders at Work", Evan Williams faced the same problem moving from Nebraska, west to Cal. (Ch8, p111) ~ http://www.scribd.com/doc/7753680/Founders-at-Work-Stories-o... The move meant he worked at O'Reilly which turned out passed a word on to some people who Williams raised money from. Connections.

So your geography problem is not yours alone. I live at the "artichoke end of the Startup world" and what bought this home to me was a visit by the creator of Majordomo (his first Perl program), Brent Chapman ~ http://www.greatcircle.com/gca/staff/brent.html at a local Perl Monger meeting while he was doing his MBA in Melbourne. The key point Chapman made about the difference b/w Silicon Valley and other Hacker hotspots was the ability to get things done, faster. Want a high speed connection? Next day, done. Need some legal work on IP? There is a higher concentration of people specialised and able to do the job. Proximity to connections translates to speed.

"... but what about the culture? ..."

Read this article ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html and see what signals Portland and Seattle send off.
I assume you mean EC2?
i feel enlightened
Netflix: an interesting Machine Learning game, but is it good science?
I would classify those all as Indie mainstream, stuff that is popular with the scenester, psuedo-intellectual, pretentious crowd.
i would suggest calibrating the transaction fee % to make it end up being a moderately more expensive option if someone were to use it heavily (dunno if 9% is optimum for that or not), and then make the free one more prominent. that way, its a solid income generator if people don't want to pay upfront. this way, not like its losing you any money or an inconsistent revenue stream like it would be if it were ad-based. (also, i don't like the basecamp model where the free version is unobvious).

i think you would be the best judge on the needing another tier. i think, though, that if you take the previous suggestion i made, you're probably fine. make the free tier enough more expensive that its useful to use on a trial basis or on a non-professional basis, but if you want to start making some serious transactions, you'll want to have a paid sub.

/$0.02
In situations like these, people often run to the "humor helps people cope with death" excuse. Except in these situations, nobody involved is actually doing any coping, because they never had a relationship with the deceased, not even of the Princess Di sort where the relationship is one-way. Nor is the turn to humor nearly this quick among those who are genuinely coping.

Instead, these situations are almost always instances of the peanut gallery instinct run amok. We've come to naturally jeer a lot of the things we see on television (which is why MST3K was a success), and it doesn't take much to go from jeering a bad TV show to jeering the content of the news. Hence, we get the Darwin Awards, which nobody in their right mind could mistake as a coping measure. Instead, it's the death of real people used for our entertainment.

I strongly recommend reading Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business to get a handle on how warped our sense of reality has become in the age of television.

I'm not about to persecute tdavis for his original comment, but I also think a lot of the counter-reaction here oversteps the mark. If one is going to react to events like these at all, so soon after the event itself, they should do so with a measure of respect. Tragic events like death are considered tragic for a reason, and any attempt to sidestep that fact makes us a little less human. We've seen what happened to Rome, after all.

The apology was appropriate, and that's about all that needs to be said.
The DMCA has certain requirements about taking stuff down in response to a claim. There is also a provision for restoring content in the event of a counterclaim. All of this was designed in the context of copyright infringement by a third party, while you are have an (alleged) circumvention device and are self-hosting, so I'm not sure how that would apply.

In any event, you should consider taking content down (including wiki history etc) until you have received legal advice. It would suck if you were ultimately in a position to prevail, but ended up in trouble over procedural technicalities.

IANAL (or even in the US!), etc.
Companies list on the TSX and the AIM for this reason, but you don't escape all the US regulations; google for "Regulation S". Among other things, you can't market stock on a foreign exchange to US buyers.
Apple’s Advertising Budget: Revealed
hello? there is a video with a prototype flying?
There have been studies showing that users don't care about keeping their passwords secret, e.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=password%20chocolate

And if Twitter can't be bothered to implement OAuth, then obviously they don't care either. :-)
It was very interesting to me. Our start up is a dating site an I did not allow gay couples. It is not a moral thing, it just seemed that it made the database design very complicated. The article describes several approaches that may be useful to me.
Good stuff, thanks. I actually just ran a report and was surprised by the amount of transactions free accounts were processing. I figured most free accounts were just for messing around–but people are actually selling stuff with them. And the average transaction amount was only slightly lower for free accounts.

I'll consider that–most of our competitors have much higher trans. fees so we have some room to move that up.
Yeah, what he said:

http://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/nod/onderzoek/OND127...
I do now =)
I'm guessing Microsoft won't include this guy in their "I'm a PC" ad campaign...
My question would be: how deterministic is this algorithm? On a large corpus the program outputs something in the "style" of the composer. (This happens to human composers too, sometimes: late in life they start turning out self-parodies.) But given a single piece, can the EMI algorithms (without jiggering) produce the same piece, or a piece indistinguishable from it? Unless it could do that, I don't see in what way it replaces or replicates the composer.
which law? the original one, or the one that facebook got an exemption from?
How I learned to stop worrying and love the Death Star
I would imagine that this is primarily helpful for facebook because they don't want the market to figure out what they are really worth. People still half believe the $15B figure, or even the $4B market cap that facebook has acheived. I think the market would value them very differently. As long as facebook can continue having hires believe that it is worth 15 or even 4, it is in a much better spot for hiring.

Google on the other hand, really didn't want to go public. They knew that they would be highly valued, but didn't want the quarterly treadmill. They honestly had nothing to hide, they also probably had some idea that their stock would skyrocket, and I think they still didn't care they wanted to build a company for the long haul
I saw an informal study on the economics of prizes. Apparently, the monetary value of the effort that is put into solving the, the media publicity, etc. added together exceeds the value of the prize itself by anywhere between a factor of 10 and 50, depending on the prize.
The Higgs field creates mass out of the quantum vacuum too, in the form of virtual Higgs bosons. So if the LHC confirms that the Higgs exists, it will mean all reality is virtual.

Oh god. This is what I get for reading new scientist...
Sport pilots are allowed to fly Light Sport planes. Light Sport planes can weigh up to 1320 lbs.
If you are interested in flying read some of Phillip Greenspun's stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-sport_aircraft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_certification_in_the_Unit...
I've actually been looking for a decent domain service to transfer my 50 or so godaddy domains to.. Any suggestions guys?
Excuse me, this was by no means an 'advertising spam'. I found the approach rather interesting.
Why have plans at all?

In all seriousness, Amazon Web Services seems to have done well with usage-based pricing, and I haven't had any complaints about the fact that tarsnap doesn't have "plans". Quite to the contrary -- people seem to love telling their friends that they're paying a fraction of a cent per month.
Not being inside the Ruby community, I felt like I missed a lot. Was it really a dis?
:) happens. I am sure everyone on HN appreciate Tom's move to apologize and your gesture too.
Users Face Serious iPhone OS 2.2 Problems
Can anybody share a video session that they themselves commissioned? I'd like to see how the quality of feedback compares with the "official" demo of tripadvisor.

P.S. Somebody else mentioned eye tracking - I think commercial solutions for this are pretty expensive, but I've seen a few hobbyists roll their own using low cost webcams, though I'm not sure how they fair in terms of accuracy.

P.P.S. And somebody else mentioned just embedding a screen grabber directly onto your website - I'm sure it's achievable but with a browser extension, i.e. Mozilla. I'll have a play around and see what I can come up with.
NVScene 2008 Videos (demoscene programming)
Off the top of my head, I would say it's because Amazon web services (and possibly tarsnap) is aimed at hackers/developers/sys admins.

Our service really isn't.
Thank you for the quick reply.

I'm from Lawrence Kansas. It's the home of the Django web framework, but that doesn't really show. I go to the University here, but no one in engineering here has much ambition.

By Northwest, I mean Oregon and Washington area. I think I'll be a million times better off if I'm at least in a large city, and I'm leaning towards Seattle.

Thanks for the article and the advice
Don't forget it was pretty much required by the music labels to get the songs into the ITMS in the first place. I don't doubt that there was a benefit analysis related to limiting people sharing around downloaded songs, but I think that the music labels bear the majority of the blame in this situation.
Sometimes I wonder how much of quantum mechanics' notorious difficulty is that it is truly hard to understand, and how much is simply that it is hard to understand in English.

People hear "virtual particle" and have no clue what that means and associate it with other "virtual" things. Or, more directly connected to the title of this story, hear that matter is "merely" "vacuum fluctuations", which, thanks in no small part to Star Trek, we think has connotations of instability or transientness.

No. Matter is matter. Matter is stable on a cosmological scale, and no amount of fiddling with English words shall add or remove one iota of stability. Matter may consist of vacuum fluctuations (where you probably know neither what is meant by vacuum nor what is meant by fluctuations), matter may consist of the infinite love of fuzzy puppies, matter may be divine farting, but matter is matter, it is what it is, and there is nothing more or less "real" about it today than there was yesterday.

I hate the pattern of:

1. In your ignorance, define X as Y. (Example: "My soul is a material thing that houses my consciousness and leaves my body when I die.")

2. Find out Y isn't real. ("We have weighed the body between life and death, and the mass is the same. Y does not exist.")

3. Declare that X isn't real. Usually with a whole lot of "aHA! Got you!" thrown in for good measure. ("Therefore, nothing like the soul exists and you religious people are morons for believing in anything supernatural!" If you can't see the logical flaw in that argument, look harder...)

We get this pattern in crappy articles about QM all the time. Consciousness too.
I love Joker personally. I can't speak to their resistance to corporate pressure, but they've been a great company to deal with.
See my post here on how to get $7.75 domain names without hassle:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=340826

EDIT: Here's a link that will give me about 70 cents of your first order (I've been recommending them here for almost a year, so I'm curious to see if people will sign up, etc.) http://www.dynadot.com/?s7h8k6z57v36m8e
By radiator motor did you mean electric radiator fan.

Were you the engineer who designed radiator shrouds, fans, and motors?
Official Google Blog: Sorting 1PB with MapReduce
Officials: Teen commits suicide on webcam as others watch via Justin.tv
Why the universe may be teeming with aliens
I'm not disagreeing with you, but what about F1. F1 is the most expensive form of motorsport, yet every year, every team builds a completely new chassis, and models to compete in the next season. F1 cars have to go through destructive crash testing too. It costs anywhere from $60M to $400M a year to run an F1 team. They are building highly complex machines with carbon fiber and exotic metals. If they can do it efficiently on smaller budgets (look at the smaller teams especially, Force India, Williams, Scaudro Toro Rosso, Super Aguri), how different would it be to build a car prototype out of metal using conventional construction?
"IANAL, but can't they just stop renewing the franchise contracts?" - which will cause the dealers to revolt. And as the article says, collectively they have the states in their pockets.

There's no way for GM to strip the dealers of their franchises without the dealers fighting back. Without the big stick of Chapter 11, GM doesn't stand a chance.