skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just buy enough life insurance to cover a burial and a year's salary. Your wife is a teacher. She has a professional job and presumably a college degree. She has summer's off so she can get part time work if she needs to. Life insurance is a relic of when the wife would stay home and take care of the kids while the husband worked. The fact that you are considering pursuing android/iphone game development tells me you are pretty comfortable on her salary anyway.
Needs a breadcrumb path and/or an intuitive way to go up a level, but otherwise that is pretty cool. :)
As a friendly reminder, you can click 'flag' for posts that aren't germane to Hacker News discussions. (Though I don't know why there isn't a flag link for this post.)
When TPB had to be blocked in the Netherlands and they switched to recommending magnet links instead of torrents (pretty close after each other), I thought someone would have done this sooner. But it's here now, and proxies do their job just fine ^^. (I couldn't load the page directly as it's blocked here.)
This actually implies that they don't really care about the money, only about the relative 'score'. Which means that they would not be disincentivized by heavy taxes, since their before-tax score is what matters to them.
I think they get to track all pages you visit, time spent per page, which parts of the page are in the viewport, for how long, where on the page you click, etc.

Not just a stream of what Google pages you visit.
On the other hand, how often in Star Trek do you see Earth, and even San Francisco, get attacked? The whole planet almost gets assimilated twice, attacked up by the Xindi and the Dominion, menaced by the whale probe...OK, Earth is probably still safer than any given Galaxy class ship.
Everyone seems to be approaching this deal from a strange angle. I understand that it is kind of funny for Google to paying people for their Chrome browsing data, but this just seems to be standard operating procedure for research, market or any other kind. In my university/ramen days, I would do this kind of thing a lot. Nominal fees, often dispensed via gift card, as incentive for your time/contribution. I suspect the Knowledge Networks/Google partnership in this case is much more Knowledge Networks than Google.
Well, detailed doesn't necessarily mean advanced :), but I'm planning on releasing advanced content too.
I think you mean "make your words as bold as your actions." :)
But which mistake?

I assume that you are not ware of the FTC fine involved if they kept the data, right?

Its almost as bad was Zynga pulled its first year in operations
I have full confidence in SpaceX having safety at the fore-front of their manned spaceflight program. If they have a fatal mishap and loose the crew, the consequence is that they would effectively be out of business. They would go Bankrupt.

Loosing 7 lives is a tragedy. For the CEO, knowing loosing those lives will cost the company everything, they are going to pay more attention to safety, than a government bureaucracy.
Moreover, how on earth did you think the "Add Friends" feature worked?

Unless all their userbase is composed of programmers or at least IT people, it's completely unreasonable to expect them to know that. I think they should, for their own sake, but as a app developer you can't assume they do.
Why does it seem every patent troll case takes place in Texas?
Perhaps I'm too cynical but as I subvocalized this, I added "now" to the end of every sentence.
Advanced Data Structures  MIT
Videos and lectures notes on the advanced data structures course (spring '12; graduate course) at MIT.

Prof. Erik Demaine (youngest MIT professor ever) is one of the most respected researchers in the field.

Topics include: persistent data structures, dynamic graphs, succinct d.s., dynamic optimality, geometry, integers, memory hierarchy, hashing and strings.

Lectures are twice a week (tue, thurs), videos uploaded on the same day.
I would prefer generic credit card processing.
And they were still about the crew, not about civilians.
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Yea, the founding team is important. Seems like most dev talent has been accounted for by the funded startups?
Believe it or not, there's a novel that combines pretty much all these things: Charles Stross's "The Atrocity Archives." If you're into sci-fi, you need to check this out. It's a bizarre but hilarious mashup of James Bond, Slashdot, Office Space, and H. P. Lovecraft.
With the recent news, I'm confident they'll do just that in the next iteration. I also submitted a bug report to http://bugreporter.apple.com/, because I really believe it's the way it should be (even though it restricts me as a developer).

I also submitted another bug report (15th time, I believe) about iOS 5's stupid lack of support for audiobook chapters and podcasts...
As an employee yes, but as a contractor no. I'm Canadian, and working for an American corp. It was actually easier for them to get me working, rather than an employee.
I'm not sure if it is still the case, but HypeMachine used to have their default avatar be an angry looking picture of Dick Cheney.

I can only imagine the number of people rushing to upload their own image in place of our former veep.
If I email you my report, you can ignore it. If I hand you a pad locked on the report till you acknowledge that you read it, your attention has been put to the task at hand. If I were putting together the social organization scheme for running a space ship, I might take advantage of that. In TOS, pads were first used by the captains for reviewing and acknowledging that they had seen various reports.
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> Worse, the proposed solution when this happens is to add caching.
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> No, the thing to do would be to add a .html file to your webserver.

Isn't adding an html file the same as caching? Only with different tools? I see no difference between writing a blog article in an html editor -> saving it to a html file -> uploading it to the server, and writing a blog article in a blog software -> save it to the database -> publish it as html file.
I'd say it's introductory, up to the chapter it discusses SVMs. Than it becomes incomprehensible, unless you have prior knowledge of SVMs and kernel methods.
Some features I've wanted to see in mass transit apps:

* Notify the user when they are about to reach their destination (so that you know to get off). I think there are ways to do this now but it isn't integrated into the maps app.

* Give me mass transit directions to a destination knowing that I am already on a train/bus.
I'm willing to bet that would work out to FAR less than $25.
I don't think that you should assume that they are sorry that they "misused your phone contacts". This, like a lot of companies' efforts, is emblematic of their efforts to find out what people's (ever-expanding) comfort zone is when it comes to giving up their privacy. They (Path) are not looking at this as a philosophical failure (which would be cause for the apology you put forth)...they simply see it as an A/B test result ('sorry about making you uncomfortable').
How do you ensure Youtube does not run ads against the videos? Is there a paid version or something?
how do you know they actually deleted all? I'm not saying they did not, but at some point, I expected you to say "pics or it didn't really happen"
Many people are getting emotionally attached with companies, apps etc. so that it hinders their ability to even think about whether there is evidence or not.
I was under the impression that the 15 seconds timeout for php was if a page took longer than that to load, apache would kill it. I thought the worker processes would be available to serve content immediatly after its done serving a page.
As others have said, you need to more clearly define and say what exactly you do.

From a quick look at the projects and ideas you currently have, it appears to me that this is a really slow way to go about building products and may even lead people down the wrong path. Couple of things stood out for me:

Spending days on logo design and "testing" - you really can't afford to do that. It is better instead to build something and put it out. You can get 10 people to use a bad product, but literally no one will use your logo. This must be against lean, no?

Testing assumptions such as "People are comfortable dating within their extended friend group" - that's taking things too far. It's good to be skeptical of one's beliefs but you can't completely throw gut feeling and common sense out the window.

Doing such things may give one the illusion of progress but it is a waste of time.

I'm also wondering who the project founders test their assumptions with. If it's not with the intended users of the final product, then it's worthless.

Everyone loves giving product advice (hi!), but you can safely ignore most of it if their answer to the question, "Will you use this?" is No.

Making new products is hard. But you can't change that by asking everything to the users. You do have to trust your gut and build stuff. Regardless of what people say, their actions don't follow.

Making decisions with more than 75% of the information is by definition hesitation. - Josh James
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Four questions that determine whether an accelerator should accept you
I would think even placebos provide value...

Like a rough economic cycle, picking up a new skill, or learning to program, sometimes I have to slog through something difficult that does not seem to be getting me anywhere before the light bulb goes on and I realize "oh, THAT'S why this whatever is done that way."

What's that other adage? Fake it till you make it?
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Someone could use the exact same technique to write something and have it be attributed to someone else.

Say you use an n-gram analysis at the word level. I can just build a tool that processes a corpus, and then as I type, suggests the most probable next word for me. I can simply accept those words when appropriate and look like a different person.
What's the difference between personality and personality disorder? Is there anyone who is not mentally ill?

Ultimately, everyone has their foibles. It's what makes humans human. Only when someone become Internet Famous, though, do we start diagnosing them with illnesses. Why is that? Why can't we say, "wow, this guy has chosen a pretty worthless hobby. too bad he can't use his time to build model trains or something"?
running about 25% on a 2.6GHz laptop i7 here. gnome/firefox
Well they didn't really say sorry, not for what they actually did:

"We are deeply sorry if you were uncomfortable with how our application used your phone contacts."

Should have been:

"We are deeply sorry that we appropriated your personal contact information and uploaded it to our servers without authorization or consent"

No real admission of wrongdoing or responsibility, only a fool would go back to trusting this company.
That would be the best system. 95% of all revenue generated through use of the data, with transparent accounting of every use of the data. Some of that can be hard to quantify, but Google has already run these numbers. They wouldn't float a program like this if they didn't already know that a persons browsing history for a year can be used by them to bring in several thousand times more revenue than it will cost.

(As to how I got 95%.. I figured 10% is the centuries-old standard "finder's fee" people collect when they hook up a buyer and a seller. Google isn't even doing this. They're doing more the equivalent of 'let us harvest all the wheat from your field, and we'll go sell it'. Google can't grow the wheat, so they have to buy it from someone else. You could sell it directly, but it would be a minor pain in the ass. So they're likely entitled to about half of the standard finder's fee.)
That only works though if you have both Jack & Sam's phone books (and they have each other in their books) so the hit rate would go down, possibly significantly.
I always hate the argument that phone costs don't matter because carrier costs are so high. You have to pay the carrier cost anyway. Service is a fixed cost, the phone is the variable cost. The only time carrier costs should be added into the equation is when you have to buy an "iPhone" plan that costs more or less than the comparable "smartphone" plan.

If your choice of smartphone doesn't change the cost paid to the carrier over the term of a contract, the data point is useless.
They could, but then they'd lose a large chunk of users who don't want to be even remotely associated with such a site.
Well that raises another interesting question, what is the worst? Is it selling it? Is it publishing your browsing history with your name on a blog?
There was a great discussion about hashing strategies as an alternative to storing all of this contact info. Did any specific code/examples follow?

It'd be great to see a new "best practice" emerge from this discovery. If it's easy to use, everyone building an app will just default to comparing hashes vs. matching phone numbers.
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"This is a ridiculous statement. You attempt to defend "business as success" by arguing success is never guaranteed."

I thought I was pointing out the obvious, but I guess not. Are you one of those people that believes that if you go to college you automatically get a job at the end? It's not guaranteed, but I would still recommend it because it will help you get a job. You are the one being ridiculous here.

The guy I was replying somehow thinks that the book is a guidebook and a guarantee at success. It's not. I was pointing that out.

"While being a silly argument, more importantly you seem to completely miss what your parent was talking about- he was not discussing how your business might not be successful, but that for many people, success in business != success in life. In the same way that money != happy."

Really? His parents were not successful at business so how can that even be used as an example?

If he was really trying to point something like this out, give me an example of someone that is successful at business but not at life.

From my personal experience, once you figure out what it takes to be successful at business, you will be successful at many other things in life.
That sounds great. Would you want someone putting restrictions on what factors you're allowed to consider when you're deciding whether to lend someone an enormous sum of money?
I would perhaps not infer too much about Tom Eliot's feelings towards his day job from a few letters to a worried mother an ocean away and a polite resignation letter. Even Eliot's letter to Ezra Pound, which expresses quite a different view of his work at the bank ("Of course I want to leave the Bank..."), must be read with some suspicion because of Pound's, shall we say, strong opinions about banking and finance.

I would be surprised, actually, if no dissertations have in fact been written on this topic. The Pound connection alone makes that unlikely.
I would bold it too. That's at the heart of how sorry they really are. If they didn't delete the info, it would be PR blah.
Unfortunately that isn't possible in a lot of cities because the mass transit is underground- if you can't get a GPS lock, you don't know where the user is.
The combination of 1 and 3 can be found in 'The Illuminatus! Trilogy'[1]. Lake Vostok isn't involved in the story, but there is a portion based on the same rumors of the Nazi secret base. The current time period is set about 40 years ago.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy
Why entrepreneurs shouldn't talk about failure
Wow, an actual scientific approach. Very cool.
$25/month
The article would have been approximately 88 times better if the writer had bothered to mention what the hell the Elevation Dock does, why anyone is interested in it at all, etc. As it is, it just leaves the reader saying 'what the hell does it DO? Are the people interested in it mad?'
I doubt IBM would have given away any engineering stories about this unless the Germans won.
It's possible to make real estate income passively. The rub is that you either have to have lots and lots of money or lots of friends with lots of money. Either way, you need lots and lots of money to pull it off.

Many years ago, I worked for a property management company who's sole client was a partnership of about 30 people. Between the partners, only two were active partners. The rest did nothing more than show up during the first week of the month to get their disbursement check. This was before direct deposit was widespread.

Of course, the holdings were all commercial, were valued collectively at ~80 million, from initial investments of around ~15 mil (adjusted).

The main problem with "passive" income is that margins on passive income are so low that you need a huge amount of investment to make anything meaningful. You have to keep developing streams of income to replace ones that have burnt out. And you have to keep shoveling your profits back into the venture.

It's a long, hard slog.
Do you sell to VCs or customers?
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Or, more likely, people don't believe that actions on the internet do/should have any consequences.

I'm somewhat inclined to agree, especially when it's something a simple as a website comment that can be permanently erased with a single click.

It's like the people who play games like League of Legends and then help the other team or team kill or generally just play to tick folks off. There was a Wired article about this some time ago that had one line which stuck out in my mind: "They're playing the same game you are.. they are just playing to a different objective".

Personally, while I agree that trolling an obituary page is in >>incredibly<< poor taste and someone should probably clout the guy on the back of the head , invoking the government to do it is a step down a road that nobody wants to go down.

Kill the comment, report the loser, and move on. That's how you deal with idiots on the internet. Any of the other solutions mentioned here are below optimal for a number of reasons.
Great news, though the headline is kind of weird.

GPS-only RNAV STARs (Standard Terminal Arrival Routes) have been in use for some time.

The "next gen" technologies referred to in the article involve a lot more than just GPS improvements (such as WAAS and publishing more RNAV GPS approaches annually). They include new ground radar for automated taxi operations, a replacement of traditional transponder-based aircraft separation, redesigning ATIS and weather reporting, and an overall push to standardize all ATC data -- ultimately getting more real-time data into cockpit avionics.
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Where or when do you guys find your most genius idea(s) for your startup?
Is it while browsing this forum? While attending a conference? While hiking in the morning? After you lost your job? You tell me! I'd love to hear some of your stories.
Well it depends how you want to get there.

Running the numbers, you need at least 1 MJ/kg to get past the 100km limit into what's officially considered "outer space". That's only factoring in Earth's gravity.

If we could do it with purely electrical motors, then assuming you pay 20 cents per kilowatt hour and only have a conversion efficiency of 10% into actual lifting power, it would only cost you $0.60/kg energy-wise to get up there. Assuming that you'd need to take an environment of, say, 10,000 kg with you, the marginal cost would still only be about $6,000. That's something of an ideal case, the "space elevator" proposal.

Solid rocket fuel, the numbers are a little harder to come by. It sounds like the active ingredient is usually aluminum. One page on Wikipedia suggests that aluminum has an energy density of 31 MJ/kg (and my calculations based on Wikipedia's "aluminum oxide" page agree) and that only 16% of solid rocket fuel is aluminum. So that's 5 MJ/kg. Or roughly 4 MJ/kg if you take into account that the fuel more or less has to push its own way up with you. (Not all the way, of course, but I'm too lazy to do the calculation properly and there's wind resistance anyway.) The first rocketry site on Google says that they'll sell you 20 pounds of the stuff (9 kg) for something like 200 bucks, or $22/kg. With the conversion factor of (4 MJ/kg fuel)/(1 MJ/kg lifted) = 4 kg lifted / kg fuel, the equivalent number is about 10 times higher -- you $6 per kg that you want to send into space, so the marginal cost is presumably then something like $60,000.

Can we do better by bulk? Google says people sell the main ingredient -- ammonium perchlorate -- at $3,000 per metric ton. Aluminum is a bit pricier, but I can find people selling large chunks at about $500/50kg, adding about $1,500 to the above. Adding in the cost of the plastic binding, the raw fuel components might cost $5/kg. So you're not going to get cheaper with rocket fuel than around $15,000 per flight.

Of course, the spacecraft is going to be the more expensive bit, I'm sure. But that's more complicated because maybe you can share that cost over five successful runs before it accidentally kills someone dramatically and no one buys it. I'm just saying that, even without that, based on fuel alone, it's still going to be an order of magnitude more expensive than a trip to a far-off land.

But these balloonists have the right idea. If you could instead send up a camera, you could potentially get up there at a fraction of the cost, something that hobbyists can do. "You know where this hat has been?" you could say: "OUTER SPACE."

(Incidentally, getting to the height mentioned in the above article requires only about 0.3 MJ/kg, so divide all the costs by 3. The 100km distance is where you're officially in outer space as internationally recognized.)
But the data is no longer tied to me as it leaves the VPN-service.
Did you know there are professional property management companies that do much of that work for you?
Its very surprising that no one who was involved with the implementation of the feature thought that they were doing something wrong.

Only when someone caught them "in a compromising position" they said sorry.

Its like Bill Belichick saying "I misinterpreted the rule" :)
Problematic it may be, but I wouldn't call it "bizarre". The fact that the iPhone has a single line of hardware evolution, a single line of software evolution, and an extremely straightforward product line at any given time is a very deliberate branding and marketing decision by Apple, aimed at avoiding exactly the situation we see in the rest of the phone market: The marketplace is a confusing zoo in which the available mix of models changes every five minutes and nobody knows what they're buying unless they have the data sheet sitting open in front of them.
Yes, I refuse to buy anything from a site that only offers paypal, a situation I have run into a few times. My preferred method is generic credit card processing.
After I'm frustrated, when the frustration is a result of a need that is badly served by the industry.
He started as a lawyer to an insurance company. To say that he "sold insurance" is a bit of poetic license.
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They lost me with this: Skip those extra GBs on your iPhone. An additional 8GB of hard drive costs you an extra $100 upfront but only adds $10 to the resale value of your phone. The secondary market doesn't value extra hard drive space on an iPhone, so get the one with the smallest amount of disk space.

Hey fellas - there is more to a phone than resale value. If you're only thinking about how much you can sell it for at the end of possession, then I think I'll give your review a skip.
The issues are that they sent address books in plain text without opt in. Two fundamental, I'd-sack-him-if-I-employed-him mistakes.
But now you've got a period in the middle of your sentence.
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