skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also http://physics.aps.org/story/v17/st15 for a bit more on photon orbital angular momentum.
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Yes it is if you lose a laptop on a train or in a taxi your fucked - chrome still exposes passwords en clair FS amateur night or what.

Of course unless you want to play the oldest trick in the book the "lost despatches trick" (see operation mincemeat for a ww2 example) it might be an advatage :-)
It's just capitalism pure and simple.

I personally think it's distasteful to rip off a website design directly, but if they can launch a proven business model in Europe quicker than the American originators (or because the American company can't/won't go international), why not? Imitation is the greatest form of flattery and all that.
I don't get this attitude toward SO. Most of the people who go there get the answers they seek, including experts with questions outside their domain of expertise.

I hear all sorts of people fretting about how to give back to the community to make their lives more meaningful. Isn't this an ideal win/win?
As an American living in Berlin for the time being, I find it remarkable how often the Samwer brothers are cursed by startup founders. But, I agree: invent your own businesses :)
XMPP is the way to go. We use AIM at my current workplace, so the hosting isn't even a problem for us.
SO has recently been flooded by people who create an account and post questions in the "fix my problem" style, often also pasting a bunch of their defunct code. There are also questions that would be more appropriate for rent-a-coder.

All in all, I'm getting annoyed and considering to leave the community.
With all due respect, but it feels like you're railing against those political priorities because they don't suit you, not because they are wrong.

I would love to have a startup hub somewhere in Europe (C'mon London, kick it up a notch!) but there are tons of other ways for governments to create jobs and further the economy.

We shouldn't automatically assume that fostering tech startups is macroeconomically superior to, say, creating an environment that's enticing to big multinationals.
Just imagine that BitCoin is like having cash in your wallet, because that's more or less its intended model. There are a lot of 'anti-counterfeiting' measures because computers are very good at copying, and you don't want people to be able to copy BitCoins the way they can copy music -- and when you ask "what is BitCoin?" people basically start to tell you about the anticounterfeiting technology, and the limits on printing uncontrollable amounts of money. But it's essentially stamped paper in your wallet in any other sense, worth whatever people using it on the Internet will pay for it, not backed by anything in particular but its usefulness.

Basically a lot of people were renting storage rooms in an apartment complex run by Linode, you get your own key to enter the door and retrieve and store things -- whatever. Some people left their wallets inside these buildings, with cash therein. Someone else used some unidentified systematic security flaw, but we don't yet know what it was. Maybe there is a ventilation system which is easily navigable once you know how to get in; or maybe all of the rooms have unlocked windows for no good reason; we haven't been told yet. (There are some suggestions that they stole a key from one of the janitors who cleans these rooms up.)

What we have been told is that some burglar stole eight wallets, and that "All activity by the intruder was limited to a total of eight customers, all of which had references to 'bitcoin'." That suggests that the burglar did indeed peek in the windows beforehand somehow, to find out that these 8 rooms had wallets inside. Otherwise, presumably they would say something like, "The intruder broke into many of our customers' accounts but didn't actually do anything in 99% of cases." In that sense I think the scary bit isn't that he accessed the 8 accounts, it is the fact that he identified them in the first place.

Amortizing the loss across many points of failure may be a good idea, but it wouldn't seem to solve the central problem. Suppose I put $20 in two accounts with 5% chance of compromise, rather than $40 in one account with 5% chance of compromise -- either way, I should expect to lose $2. What I've changed is that I am more likely to lose some of my money (9.75%), but I am less likely to lose all of my money (0.25%). This may appeal more to risk-averse people but it is not fundamentally changing the situation.

Perhaps a better approach is to keep a BitCoin wallet encrypted, since that's pretty simple to do in day-to-day life. This is something that you can't do with your wallet -- you cannot turn your wallet into a steel vault with two-foot-thick walls.
Well, check the article again. You had that win/win situation with experts-exchange too.

Then they baited and switched upon their users, putting up a paywall.
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That would be my guess too, especially as two crossed yagis are a well known way to receive circular polarized signals:

http://www.qsl.net/dk7zb/Cross-Yagi/crossyagi.htm
EE always had a dubious way of trying to game Google search results: have a huge advert at the top making the content you're after look blocked, followed by tonnes of filler content, then if you scrolled a looooong way to the bottom there's the content in tiny text. So Google sees the content but most humans don't. That always annoyed me sufficiently to block all EE results from search and just use SO. SO have always stated they're trying to be helpful to searchers and make the internet better. IMO it's no wonder they thoroughly beat EE and I'd think twice about trying to bring anything like EE back...
Hey Peter!

Thanks for reading that huge ugly block of text, HN isn't the best way to post lists like that :)

That's cool you run HTML5 weekly, I just subscribed! And it's great that someone like you has already heard of us. If you ever want to ask more questions about us or what we do please feel free to drop me an email at any time (tom at our website domain dot com).

Interesting to know we look bigger to you than we are!

Twitter is important to us, already with our meagre presence it's one of our top referrers so we definitely need to pay it more attention. I'll have a dig through Guy Kawasaki's account and see if I can learn anything.

With accounting we made sure we got a good chartered one from a trustworthy referral. I generally read up a fair amount of detail for everything so I get a general picture of what's going on, including VAT. I was ambitious at first, buying a thick textbook on it and doing some exercises but it wasn't long before I realised my attention and time was being diverted away from the more important things. Ignoring any money they save you because they are more skilled, the time they save in my opinion is worth every penny even if you're cash strapped. Also the risk of making a mistake sounds like it could be an expensive one from what I read.

With .NET it stemmed from a blog post I wrote about issues using MP3 in HTML5. Here's the original post (note that following blog posts correct a couple of errors in regards to Flash):
http://www.scirra.com/blog/64/why-you-shouldnt-use-mp3-in-yo...

I then noticed that .NET did a small snippet on their website about that article:
http://www.netmagazine.com/news/startup-argues-dont-use-mp3-...

So I saw this as an opportunity to contact them by email and tell them about our startup. Didn't hear anything back but then a couple of months later a reporter got in touch with us saying the editorial team sent him an email mentioning us as a possible product to review. (Ashley also has a 3 page article coming out regarding HTML5 audio in the next issue as well which we are excited about!)

This is one of the unexpected connections I mentioned in the original post that stem from popular blog posts.

Thanks again for your comments really appreciate it! We're incredibly excited about HTML5 and think our timing is pretty good to position ourselves nicely.
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jlarocco, I'm like you. I work for the money. If money were no object, I'd be spending my time skiing, rock climbing, and snorkeling in interesting spots all around the world.

I do wonder if the "vast majority of people" are this way, though. I've read that a lot of people derive great satisfaction from the social interactions they have at work, and that their work gives them meaning; when removed from work via retirement they just can't think of anything else to do with themselves.

Other people have the happy coincidence that they love doing exactly what they can be paid for (e.g. software development). It would be super nice if I could just get paid to go skiing every day, but alas that is not the way the world works.
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I think the investment was a bet that the Stack Overflow model could be replicated in many verticals. If they're able to achieve being the de facto QA site for other professions like they are for programming, I think there are several revenue models that would be possible.
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Dude, the author and you are so far out of the loop on SO it's strange. How long have you been in the SO and HN communities?

Joel and Jeff setup SO because EE sucked so bad, from the beginning they've said 'we're not going to end up like the site with the hyphen'.

And now you're saying they're going to go against their entire raison d'etre? They have been upfront about everything, they made the posts all CC (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creativ...) so the old experts-exchange and IMDB bait and switch can't happen to SO.

Go listen to their old podcasts and read their original blogs.
That has been disabled in their build. As have various other things such as incognito window, autofill, sign in, extensions...
This is the key difference. Stack Overflow has said all along that it would always be free and the CC license helps ensure this.

If Stack Overflow decides to put up a paywall anyone could simply put up the all existing content, perhaps using one of the existing open source SO clones [1]. Also, a lot of the current Google traffic would instead go to one of the sites which currently legitimately repost all of SO's content [2].

[1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-...
[2] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24611/is-it-legal-to...
Yes and Yes. We use async tasks at 99designs for all kinds of background tasks. It's a surprisingly useful and versatile system for a variety of things. It's a long list. :-)

Our rule of thumb is basically anything that's going to take more than ~100ms we definitely don't want our users waiting for it in their page load time.
Co-founder of Stack Overflow, here.

A lot of the people who were involved in some way in Experts-Exchange don't understand Stack Overflow.

The basic value flow of EE is that "experts" provide valuable "answers" for novices with questions. In that equation there's one person asking a question and one person writing an answer.

Stack Overflow recognizes that for every person who asks a question, 100 - 10,000 people will type that same question into Google and find an answer that has already been written. In our equation, we are a community of people writing answers that will be read by hundreds or thousands of people. Ours is a project more like wikipedia -- collaboratively creating a resource for the Internet at large.

Because that resource is provided by the community, it belongs to the community. That's why our data is freely available and licensed under creative commons. We did this specifically because of the negative experience we had with EE taking a community-generated resource and deciding to slap a paywall around it.

The attitude of many EE contributors, like Greg Young who calculates that he "worked" for half a year for free, is not shared by the 60,000 people who write answers on SO every month. When you talk to them you realize that on Stack Overflow, answering questions is about learning. It's about creating a permanent artifact to make the Internet better. It's about helping someone solve a problem in five minutes that would have taken them hours to solve on their own. It's not about working for free.

As soon as EE introduced the concept of money they forced everybody to think of their work on EE as just that -- work.
Stackoverflow is not a community, it's a business, and their business is reselling that sense of community to third parties.

I've no quarrel with Stackoverflow, it's a very nice site and a useful project. I do have a quarrel with people whose brains seem to turn off once anything 'Web2.0' is involved. Just because it's on the web doesn't mean that the laws of economics and common sense no longer apply.
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"Fix my code" questions are considered "too localized" and should be closed as such.
> The idea of the business model is to pay people in imaginary currency and sell what they do for real currency.

That "imaginary" currency has paid off for me. I got my most recent job through Stack Overflow.
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The challenge is not to create jobs. That is relatively easy.

The challenge is to create businesses that can sustain themselves and thus help grow the economy.

What do you mean with "they don't suit you" how wouldn't growth of danish economy suit me if that was the case?
I guess the reason for Google to start contributing to Clang and using it for their tools is the availability of the frontend. As far as I know the GCC developers made it extra hard to separate the frontend from the compiler because they feared that people would use it on proprietary backends. But this really left us in a situation were for decades people couldn't work on creating amazing static analysis, autocompletion, refactoring tools for C and C++. In the end this decision probably did more damage to the free software movement. GCC now comes with a plugin interface and with the Clang frontend available I hope that this will change quickly.
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Definitely agree. Belgium has a similar culture to Germany and despite mucking around quite a bit, none of my friends or family has ever made a disparaging remark about my entrepreneurial vagabondry. They probably think it's weird for me not to just go work for BigCorp, and it's not like I get a ton of support from them, but they do try to be encouraging even in the face of failure and they certainly don't frown upon it.

There's probably a kernel of truth to the idea that Americans are more entrepreneurial and less judgmental than your average European, but the idea that, in Europe, failure turns you into a pariah seems like a nasty myth that becomes real simply through repeated mentions.
phased arrays etc CAN point the antenna, electronically
Did you report that? It seems you should rather discuss that on the gcc mailinglists with the gcc developers.
About RESTful API, if you have many applications working together, do you build an API and use it in every application or is the API only for applications you don't control and you use the same code that you use for the API in every application you control?
They actually changed this recently. The default is now PHP5, with an option to select PHP4.
I think one of the most common ideas found in posts like Greg's is a gross misunderstanding of Stack Overflow's business model[1] which leads one to speculate that the only way to make a site like SO profitable would be to charge for access to answers. I've been a huge fan of SO for a few years and am happy to see you guys figured out a way to make the site profitable without resorting to a paywall.

[1]http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/79435/what-is-stack-...
Actually, I managed to change my girlfriend a bit in that respect. I think the biggest problem of SciFi is that its mostly associated with Star Wars and Star Trek, the first is a geekfest for nerds and the second is a very special facet (both not bad, but hey) and also associated as "boy things" already.

We actually watched more thoughtful things like Blade Runner and discussed the film afterwards. Half-SciFIs like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind which have a more subtle use of SciFI-topics are also good. Its best if you can say "hey, you just watched a SciFI movie" without her realizing that at first. Firefly is also good, because there is not spaceship-shooting-at-things stuff.
As my girlfriend is a suspense fan, Alien will be up next :).

And yes, I know half of the story of DA because my girlfriend is far ahead of me :).
jpablo -- the seasons are produced by the tilt of the earth axis because the earth rotates around the sun. (The earth's axis always points in the same direction relative to the distant stars, so the planet's tilt changes relative to the sun as the planet orbits it.)

The article is correct.
Nature has a clearer report.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110222/full/news.2011.114.ht...

It bears a similarity to MIMO, in that MIMO initially promised "infinite" capacity. MIMO did give an improvement in capacity, but it wasn't infinite, the limit being related to the volume occupied by the antenna array (see papers by Leif Hanlen). One has to think that this technology will turn out to have a similar limit on fuller analysis. In fact one has to wonder whether the limit will turn out to be exactly the same, and whether it turns out to be a form of space-time coding? After all, one could presumably emulate the "slotted parabolic dish" antenna mentioned by using a suitably coded antenna array?
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Not sure that this is new. It is known that channel capacity can be scaled up linearly with the number of receive/transmit antennas by properly de-mixing the signal at the receiver (or pre-coding it properly at the sender).

This is known as MIMO transmission, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMO for details (also has the capacity formula).

What these people call "vortex wave", is just precoding/decoding done in a fixed way using fixed antennas. But with non-line-of sight channels and moving sender/receiver you will need dynamic MIMO coding anyways. This is already implemented in LTE (2 antennas in the handset, 4 at the base station, AFAIR).
This is actually something which the infographic gets wrong as well. At the very least the sysadmin at Site.com should have the line "Tor" when you're using Tor, and probably also the Lawyer and the Police (assuming that the sysadmin logs IP addresses for requests, which is not too uncommon).
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This is roughly analogous to claiming that the iPad won't work because resistive touch tablets didn't take off.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why the resistance to returning a "meaningful" content type in a response? It's just a name for the structure you have outlined there.
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Umm...isn't "flash mob" just a polite euphemism for "spam the hell out of Pinterest"?

I have a hard time seeing how this benefits anyone.
Here's a rather less paranoid article that's (partly) about SO.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/02/29/Undocument...

Seriously, given that the data is freely available and for as long as it remains so, "OMG you're making money from my knowledge how dare you you cad" is about as valid a complaint as it would be if levelled at any of the ISPs in days of yore that ran Usenet servers. And it's definitely saved me more time (a factor of 100 - 10,000? I have no idea) than I've ever given back to it
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> The challenge is to create businesses that can sustain themselves and thus help grow the economy.

Again, what evidence is there that tech startups achieve this goal more easily than any alternative?

> how wouldn't growth of danish economy suit me if that was the case?

You'd appreciate any kind of economic growth, I suppose, but wouldn't you prefer it if, in the process, you got a vibrant startup scene out of it, rather than if it happened all through education and clean tech? Nothing wrong with that, it's just that, say, your average student or blue collar worker would have a different perspective. The government's job is to figure out what would make most people happy, not what would make techies happy.
It's a webkit bug:

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On the iphone, you can use a two-finger drag to scroll.
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Gavin King and negative attitude do not a community make.
Me, too thinks that this is just (a subset of) MIMO in disguise. The advantage of the antenna array you mention is, that it can precode/decode with any channel matrix, while these antennas implement one fixed matrix.