skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks anigbrowl... your comment is very inspiring!

Re Biz model: priority one is getting enough of a user base so we have a ticket to the dance. After that there are several possibilities, some of which are implemented already, but not activated:

1. N free scan per month, in app purchase for more for some $. or $/year.
2. some non-obnoxious ads, esp for compliant companies that honor unsubscribe requests
3. PK is really about mailbox management: get what you want & only what you want -- and push as much as possible toward digital versions. eg: I love Costco. But i don't want receive their catalog & kill trees. I rather PK -- with my explicit permission/opt in -- sign me up to receive E-coupons or a digital version of the Cotsco Shopper. At the end of the month when I visit Costco I just grab my E-coupons or read their catalog on my iPad... In summary: we save Costco printing/delivery costs & provide them with an opt-in customer & charge Costco: win/win.

Ideally we'd like to push for #3 & keep the app free.

Hope this helps!

s
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Yes, it's code for a source who is "on background" or of similar attribution status. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_sourcing under "Speaking terms."
Thx lucaspiller: some info in this thread + blog post at:
http://www.paperkarma.com/blog

Sadly US only for now. Where do you live & is there a junk mail problem there if i may ask?
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Well, like Putin & Co owning/controlling most of Russian enterprises larger than a certain threshold? Oil, machinery, aviation - you name it, they have it. Like not being able to get health care beyond the very basics without spending a fortune in bribes. Like having a price tag on signagures of everyone in parliament/government, or on becoming an MP or the like. Corruption can really be bigger problem than it is in the US, and when quality of life is so low, it becomes a problem of surviving it rather than it being an abstract long term threat to development or something.
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"This item cannot be installed in your device's country." :<
Not to mention vast swathes of the Disney canon is ripped whole-cloth from folk stories.
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Yes. The main purpose of going public is to raise money.
Your complaints can be addressed by waiting to ask for permission the first time the app needs it, as opposed to a list of permissions to give at install time, and making the 'yes' answer sticky as opposed to prompting constantly.
Copy Links on site and post on Facebook. The image will display just like a video. Its a great new way to interact with friends on Facebook. Let me know what you guys think, Its about 2 weeks into the project.
I agree with the "tax" idea, but I think the small fee needs to be much higher, to get serious buyers and sellers. As a buyer, I would be more concerned about the job being done quickly and correctly, than trying to save some pennies. As a seller, I would be more inclined to participate in the system on a regular basis, if I could generate a reasonable income from it.
No where in the post does it actually say "all" which is a rather important detail...
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What would be the best way to get access to a web dev, without paying ludicrous amounts of money? Would a college/grad developer come and work for a start-up for the experience?

What are your thoughts?
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As opposed to people who produce food, or oil, or anything else ? But giving them artificial monopolies is bad - right ?

People who wrote Linux found a model that works without forcing other people to pay for it. They do rely on copyright to prevent "free riders" but even without it the financial model is the same, eg. FreeBSD, or any other non copy-left licensed opensource project that has a commercial story. It turns out that without software, hardware is pretty much useless, so even if you can't profit on software directly, you can expect things like OS development to be driven by hardware manufacturers.

Money they could earn if they had monopolies on OS kernels would be extremely higher - but market isn't about creating profit for the producers - it's about creating value for the consumer, and consumer would get the value even if he didn't pay for it - so they are getting screwed by rent seeking.
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Anyone interested in a rental marketplace.
We are creating a new way for people to rent anything with anyone!!<p>We are all a little low on cash at the moment given the current economic climate globally so why buy when you can rent. This revolutionary new market is coming in 2012.<p>We are looking to see if there is interest in this as we are quietly building away in a vacum so to speak. We have our launch rock page and have had some traction and sign ups but not enough to justify development as yet. What do you guys think?

site is at www.rntanything.com
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Some or many were expecting a profit and in fact the main reason for the loss was extraordinary overseas taxes which will not happen in the same manner going forward.

You can hate Groupon but that doesn't change that it is a huge, fast growing, profitable (expected in Q1) business.
A thesis on anonymous p2p networks that fails to mention basically any of the notable anonymous p2p networks (e.g. freenet, Share, Perfect Dark, ...) or protocols (WASTE).
I wish this would be actioned on. The comments are pretty unreadable in this thread as-is.

Alternatively, HN needs to implement a single-comment-only break somehow.
This is why I love HN. Great advice & to the point :). We actually experimented with various msgs & lots of people resonated with the Environmental angle. Here are some mind numbing stats:

1. Over 100,000,000,000 pieces of junk mail per year sent in the US

2. 18 pieces of junk mail for 1 that you actually care about

3. Several -months- of your life spent processing junk mail (!)

4. 100s of thousands of dollars spent by cities (ie, your tax money) on post processing, landfills, etc.

& Nevermind the carbon footprint from manufacturing, processing & delivery of junk mail...

re Description: check!

Cheers,

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>> ... recall playing with punch cards in the 1960s ...

And I recall still using/seeing them in the early 1980s here in UK!

They were still heavily used at that time in the Market Research industry for recording data entry (of surveys). In fact the term punching is still used in the industry to this day in reference to data entry.
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Let us be clear - this is not about Apple.

As written in the post: "...if a BMW car implements H.264 or UMTS, they will want 2.25% of the price of the car, even if it means a per-unit royalty in the thousands of euros".

Are you saying that it is fair or reasonable on Google's part to demand that? After committing to FRAND terms for the patent in question?
To continue the Star Wars analogy, the great thing about technological advancement is that as sooner or later some unknown farm boy shows up out of nowhere and bulls-eyes the fucking exhaust port and then, sha-boom, everything changes. And the powers that be never see it coming.

Now please excuse me, I have a movie to watch.
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yes, its a great idea. A description of how you do would be helpful.
> But giving them artificial monopolies is bad - right ?

No, not in and of itself. It's a messy compromise. Things like software patents are pretty much just bad. Copyright, in a limited form, seems to be good. Patents on things like medicines can be good in that they pay for research. All of them should be more limited than they currently are, most likely.

Linux works, but who's to say it's 'optimal'? Given the huge amount of value it creates, I think relatively little filters back into the development of the system.

> consumer would get the value even if he didn't pay for it

If no one pays for it, the consumer will not get the value because the developer will have to do something else to make money, and will therefore not produce the code. Luckily, in the case of Linux, some money is funneled back into development, so it's not impossible, it's just much, much more complex than with "intellectual property".
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Can you make the "Available on the App Store" clickable? I kept pressing that with my finger till I saw the "Download App Here" link ...

Great idea. And if it works - you guys are awesome and I will let my facebook peeps know !
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I see it as "We made a wrong decision"
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Would be interesting to hear how you scale a semi-automated business like that?
As an European, I seem to have a different stance on the morality of customers.

So your first user buys the link. Say to a mp3 or a pdf. Now has the link in plain text.

What's stopping the user from posting that very link all over twitter, facebook, etc? "omg check out kanye's new single!1!!"

Seriously at a loss on how this will work in real life, with real customers.
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I'm always amazed when I see the "Show Steps" button. You can learn a ton of things by just looking through the steps WA took to arrive at the result of a complicated derivative or integral.

I personally use it for tasks involving Linear Algebra, too, e.g. calculating eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors.

I also installed the Wolfram Alpha Chrome extension, which I use quite often and always comes in quite handy: http://www.wolframalpha.com/downloads.html
This always seemed like the next logical step for me, and I'm surprised it wasn't implemented in various browsers earlier on.
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On a tangential note, I'm wary of relying on the job creation argument to validate new technology. The reason being that new technology can kill jobs. Particularly as programmers, one of our main goals is to automate things that previously required warm bodies. I don't feel guilty about this because I would never want to do those jobs, but on the same token, not everyone wants to be a programmer. And in the long term if we ever achieve AI then we're on the path to making programmers obsolete as well, which is a bit scary on a personal level (though I'm not really worried about this happening in my lifetime). At a societal level this is not necessarily good or bad, it's just the direction we are currently moving in. I do worry that our biology is not well-suited to an automated environment, but there's nothing to do but confront the problem when we come to it I guess.
Actually it will.

The reason why iraq was a cakewalk was because the iraqi army was in shambles. At least 10-15 years too old.

Iran is a different matter
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Thats going to be a problem for advertising networks I bet.
Do you not remember the absurd scenario about 5 years about with click-to-activate Active X controls. MS found a way round it, but eventually caved to licensing because it was such a mess.
They just hit the 400k target in 8-9 hours. For comparison the elevation iphone dock was at 375k after 7 full days.

I've been following it all evening and can't help but feel I just witnessed a landmark event.
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There goes my 3G bandwidth without even asking...

Not a good feature if you ask me.
Some serious bandwidth usage if you're on a mobile connection - Windows 8 will be able to detect this, I'm not sure if Linux or OSX can do it in a nice way. In the meantime you can disable it here: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&...
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Not sure we've got the same laws in the UK that make a provision for you to contact individual companies requesting removal from their lists. Can't you just ask Royal Mail to stop it?
Sorry about this folks - we'll make it more explicit :(. Also would love to find out which countries you're from & how bad the junk mail problem is over there. thx.
For those who missed it: discussion of the minutes of the recent W3C meeting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3561950
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I wonder if Google Analytics will count those preloads as page views / unique visits. Anyone has an idea? Edit: Since GA works mostly with Javascript, I assume it won't have any significant effect.
It repeatedly toggles the CPU away from a low power state rather than just doing a single chunk of computation and then letting it sleep.
CDR reconciliation is still this comedic mess, btw. Including the silly business with calls that cross midnight being sometimes split and sometimes not, and weird rounding behaviour, and so on. And on top of this, calls would be reported to be reconciled with arbitrary delays; just because they weren't going to report a January 1st call until January 20th doesn't mean they weren't going to bill for it on January 14th!

Indeed, the systems for generating the dollar value on our invoice were almost entirely separate from the systems for generating the line-items on our invoices, and they never did agree, and our upstream provider didn't even see that as a problem.

My boss at one point, if I understood him correctly, claimed that (in 2009 or 2010), the process for the telco to know how much to bill us involved human operators exporting to a reel of magnetic tape, moving the magnetic tape reel across the room, and importing it into a different database. He wasn't much of a one for leg-pulling, but I dunno.
I just double-checked with him about this: The prison library no longer accepts book donations of any kind. And the Inter Library Loan program has been shut down. He told me not to try to make any sense of it.
Poland is often at the forefront. Not too distant memory:

http://index.hu/gal/?dir=0502/tech/szofszabtun/
How much would the car be worth without the UMTS radio? How much would a phone be worth without a UMTS radio? There's actually some research on the bad affects of patents that suggests when you have large numbers of people who have been given veto rights over a technology via patents, they will all rationally overvalue their own contribution since they all hold veto power. This then leads to a gridlock sitution in which technology is underutilized due to prices rising above the price anyone would pay. (see The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives by Michael Heller)

Don't get me wrong, I don't think there should be any royalties on standards, either everyone is forced to use it by network effects, or you have to pay but not both. It just leads to organizations stuffing standards with irrelevant patents to the detriment of the technology rather than improving out of patent term technology. (You can see the same happen with patent medicines).

Though it's interesting that Google/Motorola can apparently ask for thousands of dollars to use H.264, after they've spent hundreds of millions on VP8 to offer a competing codec to everyone for free, and the owners of the FRAND patents on H.264 have been threatening to put them out of the codec business since apparently only they own the rights to competitive encoding technology. Does that sound Fair, Reasonable or Non-Discriminatory?

But it appears "committing to FRAND terms" doesn't actually mean anything, so either all these big companies are idiots to agree to a wishy-washy non-agreement, or they all thought they could screw other people to their own advantage by keeping things vague.
Have you checked out Catalog Choice? They have something similar called MailStop... https://www.catalogchoice.org/mailstop
But that's not the same thing, value is by definition subjective, and price does not express my valuation or your valuation of the items traded, it just expresses the intersection of supply/demand curve. Value provided by antibiotics is enormous and yet antibiotics are cheap. If we created a law saying that I have a legal monopoly on all antibiotics sales for the next 20 years, the price of antibiotics would go up but it's value/utility wouldn't have to change - we don't need to quantify that statement to evaluate it. It's still very high on your marginal utility list, so you pay more. And the GDP was "increased" (assuming the money spent was from savings/loan that wouldn't be spent in the time measured otherwise) but you aren't any richer, only the producer is, and he got rewarded for monopolistic pricing. Profit is a good incentive when the producer corrected the resource allocation to take capital to a more productive use under the market rules, but it can be perverted if you don't have competition putting pressure, have rent seeking or don't account for negative externalities.
I haven't checked Chrome 17 yet, but they've had this feature for a while in chrome://flags/ and you can probably still turn it off.

On Chrome for Android they use this feature, too, but it's on default for "Wi-Fi only". I guess they could make a similar setting for laptops that use 3G connections, too.
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But they are still not complying. They are allowing people to opt-in on behalf of their friends which strictly speaking is against the rules.
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Aversion doesn't necessarily have to reflect an underlying natural law. In the case of killing, indiscriminate attempts to kill would threaten personal fitness, because there is a good chance the attacker could be killed in turn. This risk becomes more prevalent as tribes and societies develop to increase the fitness of their members. Indiscriminate killing within ones tribe would threaten group fitness, and so a viable groups members would need to kill the indiscriminate killer to increase chances of their own survival. Groups that do not act in this way suffer a big fitness penalty, and would not last very long.

Fit humans will not kill others of their tribe, but one merely has to look at the vast history of warfare to realize that there is no similar aversion or restriction on killing outside of one's tribe.
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Yup. We've been in open beta for a long time (contacted some of the same folks/ppl that they do)... wondering if we inspired them ;). Flattered if so. We like CC - they're good people.
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I'm huge WebKit fan (been since KDE 2), but I agree with the author that the current situation is problematic. (Although the case with IE6 was orders of magnitude worse and largely different in nature.)

Luckily nice tools exist to automatize the boring prefixing (even for us who don't use LESS/SASS style preprocessors):

$ pip install cssprefixer

There is also a client-side solution, which I find suboptimal as a technique, but YMMV: http://leaverou.github.com/prefixfree/
I completely agree that Firefox must not accept -webkit-* prefixes. A better approach would be to contact the sites in question and socially bombard them into changing.
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Any time I set up a new website, I use WordPress with a theme from WooThemes. It's just the easiest thing to set up and make beautiful. A thousands times easier than using static html to make sites.

And ease of initial deployment is the only thing that matters to most of the population. The fact that this configuration may theoretically break one day? Who cares, as long as it takes me 3 hours to get it up and it's fixable.
I don't really understand the point of fusion trees.
log log N is a constant from the practical perspective.
So, O(logN/loglogN) is simply O(logN).
What was the point?
Do you have any data to back this up? I have compiled kernels on an ARMv5 device off a (I believe PCI-e-hosted) 7200rpm SATA hard disk, and it _is_ slow.
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You're confusing use-value (the intrinsic value of something) with exchange-value (what the thing can be exchanged for - aka price).

Much of mainstream economics reduces the broad philosophical concept of value to the narrow economic concept of exchange-value or price.

And it's not warm and fuzzy: what's the "value" of an unpolluted atmosphere? What's the value of good health? These things generally defy attempts to be priced (though what attempts have been made are risible), yet are fundamental - perhaps even more so than money - to a decent human existence.
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It's unnecessary to try to "reinvent" the phone address book now. VOIP and IM's are already doing that.