skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People get angry when they themeselves aren’t sure.
What is this Automata Computing?
I have a feeling that Prezi connects more with people who want to passively watch something explained to them, not very different from watching a youtube video.
1980, Steve Jobs talks about Apple
Ask HN: please review my project TownPortal.net
Hello I'm Fred Brach, the maker of townportal.

I would like to talk to you here more about my plan for the gold system.

On TownPortal, the creators don't choose the price of the play/view for his/her creation. People do. People do in the sense that more and more an entertainment get views, more it will cost to a subsequent user to play it. The only thing that a creator can do is stopping the price growth at a certain point - of course.

So what does it give.

First, in the absolute, you can have a play for free as you might had noted, and got to wait around 60 minutes for a next play - ie megaupload.

Also, at the beginning - right after the creators has published his/her creation, the price of a play is around 1c (cent). It is mainly for two things:
1) no way we pay more than 1c for craps and this is the biggest problem in entertainment.
2) we want mass-entertainment, we are in 2012.

If the entertainment is good, it gets views and its price growth - please note again that the creator can choose to stop this growth at the current point - so in a sense he/she is fixing the price of its entertainment, only if it is good enough to do so :) Again, two things:
1) supporting creators and creations at their beginning is cheaper and it's a good thing
2) we all like big productions unless their are craps and with this system, we can have big productions.

And, why paying per play? Because acquiering has not any sense today. Just an example of how nonsense it is: when you get a game, you play it either 3 plays or 3 years...
In addition, acquiering requiere in the end a higher price. So I think the best is to pay according to the rate we truly consume, not more, not less.

Why do the creators can't choose the price and the business model? Because I think entertainment takes a business-free system. Also, I would like a competition based on quality, not on business skills. In the other side, most creators are not able to setup a free-to-play, freemium, subscription-crap, blabla, business model.
Today, creators have to make something free or they have to work on entertainment factories - as I call them.

I want creators to get the most of their money back on townportal. I mean, there is no way a distribution system keep a 30% fees.
I've fixed the fees to 10% for the moment. This is a bit to high I think. Ideally, I would like it at around 5%. The thing is I don't know what could be the charge of such website. I will make my possible to push them down at maximum and why not - in fact, I hope! - reach the 5% (if townportal.net live of course).
So for the moment, you get 450 gold for $5 and, for the moment, you can play to each entry for 1 gold.

If you like this project, it's cool because I like it too. You can email me at: fredbrach@townportal.net (skype:fredbrach)
One big problem with voting (as seen in the last couple of contested elections (everywhere)) is that we mostly witness how people vote in big cities, leaving small towns unattended, where most of the fraud occurs.

Fraudsters will leave big cities untouched so people's choice win by close margin and therefore they can't complain about the voting system, inflating ballots everywhere else, sometimes seeing statistically improbable 80% or 90% votes favoring the surprisingly elected incumbent candidate.

Happens in both sides of the pond...
Hello I'm Fred Brach, the maker of townportal. :)

I would like to talk to you here more about my plan for the gold system.

On TownPortal, the creators don't choose the price of the play/view of his/her creation. People do. People do in the sense that more and more an entertainment get views, more it will cost to a subsequent user to play it. The only thing that a creator can do is stopping the price growth at a certain point - of course.

So what does it give.

First, in the absolute, you can have a play for free as you might had noted, and got to wait around 60 minutes for a next play - ie megaupload.

Also, at the beginning - right after the creators has published his/her creation, the price of a play is around 1c (cent). It is mainly for two things:
1) no way we pay more than 1c for craps and this is the biggest problem in entertainment.
2) we want mass-entertainment, we are in 2012.

If the entertainment is good, it gets views and its price growth - please note again that the creator can choose to stop this growth at the current point - so in a sense he/she is fixing the price of its entertainment, only if it is good enough to do so :) Again, two things:
1) supporting creators and creations at their beginning is cheaper and it's a good thing
2) we all like big productions unless their are craps and with this system, we can have big productions.

And, why paying per play? Because acquiering has not any sense today. Just an example of how nonsense it is: when you get a game, you play it either 3 plays or 3 years...
In addition, acquiering requiere in the end a higher price. So I think the best is to pay according to the rate we truly consume, not more, not less.

Why do the creators can't choose the price and the business model? Because I think entertainment takes a business-free system. Also, I would like a competition based on quality, not on business skills. In the other side, most creators are not able to setup a free-to-play, freemium, subscription-crap, blabla, business model.
Today, creators have to make something free or they have to work on entertainment factories - as I call them.

I want creators to get the most of their money back on townportal. I mean, there is no way a distribution system keep a 30% fees.
I've fixed the fees to 10% for the moment. This is a bit to high I think. Ideally, I would like it at around 5%. The thing is I don't know what could be the charge of such website. I will make my possible to push them down at maximum and why not - in fact, I hope! - reach the 5% (if townportal.net live of course).
So for the moment, you get 450 gold for $5 and, for the moment, you can play to each entry for 1 gold.

If you like this project, it's cool because I like it too. You can email me at: fredbrach@townportal.net (skype:fredbrach)

Feedbacks are welcome and precious to me :)
Ugh, as a driver I'd prefer not to have all my actions recorded regardless of whether it's beneficial to me. This reeks of invasion of my privacy and possibly opens me up to prosecution if the camera were subpoenaed in a criminal proceeding for something unrelated to the car's function. Same reason I don't leave a GPS trail everywhere by choice.
I found it quite annoying that the FOOM/MOOF acronyms didn't seem to be explained anywhere on the page...
There's a ton of babysitting services that do work the way you'd never be willing to accept, so clearly not nearly all parents are as concerned about it...
I used to think: C is a horrible language for beginners, they should learn python due to its simplicity. This will allow them to learn about control structures and program flow in a simple and easy to read environment. But the more I think about it, the more I like C. It gives you the best understanding of what computations are actually being done by your processor; the mental exercises involved with fulling understanding pointers is valuable at the collegiate level (much less so if your learning to program on your own, I believe college is a time to increase your analytical abilities rather than just learn raw facts); It also has the simplest syntax to learn (for a procedural language).

You dont have to explain argv, argc or the details of scanf to beginners. Thats like saying python is complex because you need to explain iterators and generators. You don't need to dig that deep into the language as a beginner, you just need to be able to understand the structure, control flow and be able to get your programs working.
For a peak into a future with 'ongoing diagnosis' see the very cool Greg Egan short story Yeyuka:

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/yeyuka.htm

"So why did you go into medicine?"

"Family expectations. It was either that or the law. Medicine seemed less arbitrary; nothing in the body can be overturned by an appeal to the High Court. What about you?"

I said, "I wanted to be in on the revolution. The one that was going to banish all disease."

"Ah, that one."

"I picked the wrong job, of course. I should have been a molecular biologist."

"Or a software engineer."
Labour cost might be small for companies like Dyson and Apple, who have very high margins. It may not be true for lower level products and components, where a small increase/decrease in cost (labour or not), will affect margin significantly.
Let me clarify something. I fully respect the effort Sam and you guys put into Loopt to make it something. I just guess I am quite frustrated on your behalf that although you pioneered (at least in my eyes) location, you did not benefit from it.

From outside,it was obvious what was wrong. From outside,it always is.
>> Why Unix? Mac OS X is Unix under the hood: the Darwin kernel

Just beeing pedantic but I think Darwin is the operating system, not the kernel. The kernel is Mach 3.
Car companies. Google certainly wasn't the first to be working on self-driving cars, they just got a lot of time in the tech press for it. The big car companies have been working on it for years. I can't find any details but I remember hearing about some companies working on it about 8-10 years ago. More recently BMW have been working on it: http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1072117_on-the-road-with-...
Never Negotiate Piecemeal. Here’s Why
TLDR: author starts out by comparing the human being to mythical cyber-creatures that never feel pain or hunger, then continues to exploit the comparison by supposing if you do enough coke you can live forever. Finally, humans are described as anarchistic, self-destructive babies in grown up bodies that repeatedly crap themselves without noticing, while inadvertently performing genocide on the whole humanity at once.
Shipping flash is a net security positive? I'd suggest that removing flash would be a net security positive. Flash will be gone from mobile within a year, and gone from the desktop within two-three years, so anything the vendors can do to expedite this process will be appreciated by the community at large and make us all more secure.
About $12/hr. I did that once upon a time as a temporary job in San Antonio. Or maybe it was Austin. I forget the name of the company, but it was mostly small-batch PCBs carrying a hefty price tag. Throughput was probably 1 board a minute if you include loading, screening, letting the machine do it's thing, moving to the baking machine (I forget the name, but you know, the conveyor oven thing that melts the solder) and passing along to the test/QA benches.

I think these were mostly for Telecom vendors, but it was just small batch PCB production for hire stuff.

I've got to believe the labor costs were a small fraction of the overall business costs. Just one component could be $50, so the inevitable loss of the occasional part, or a PCB that didn't pass QA would cost 10X more than the labor costs for the entire hour it was produced in.
PG mentioned cancer 6 times in:

7. Ongoing Diagnosis

This is a real problem hackers could solve: early detection of health problems which leads to preventative treatments.

Although I lack any type of expertise outside of building a health startup I think this is probably one of the biggest ways we could reduce the impact of cancer on society... given the technology we have right now.

It's not a matter of medical break-through though, but about building the right monitoring tools, creating meaning out of data, getting people to use them and the greatest challenge for startups: dealing with significant government regulation.
Very interesting, although he does indeed say:

> The extensive class library is however quite daunting. It appears there's a class for almost everything, and much of "programming in Java" seems to consist of "searching for the right class". Even after two years I find I cannot do much in Java without constant reference to the documentation.
> But the more I think about it, the more I like C. It gives you the best understanding of what computations are actually being done by your processor

Yes, because C is exactly how computers work inside! SO CLOSE TO THE METAL

> the mental exercises involved with fulling understanding pointers is valuable at the collegiate level

I have learnt about mappings in mathematics in kindergarten. Literally. Then in university we have had exactly one sentence to flesh out the idea in ZFC. You really think C is so mind bending?
Great shoutout to a Montreal hacker called Jeff Preshing http://preshing.com/
Even though I'm not a Wordpress fan, I recently adapted their plugin system for one of our projects. I really like the simplicity of it.
Instead of making choices that benefit others, make choices that benefit yourself.

I have a problem with this statement. I think of all the people that have put in hard, boring work so that you can write that blog on an open-source powered internet, so that I can type this response on my unix powered mac, so that we can go to Wikipedia and gain knowledge only the exceedingly wealthy could have had 200 years ago.

Other than that, I'm really at a loss for words.

EDIT: seriously, am I missing something? Even when that one guy was trying to talk about how some child prodigy who had died wasn't very smart, and pg talked about how embarassed he was for hackernes, I don't know if I've ever seen something I disagree with so profoundly. Did the author only mean 'make those choices some of the time'? It seems to me that the natural conclusion to that statement is pretty disgusting.
We covered this yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3684624
"What happened, happened. It's difficult to understand the big picture when our lives are mere brush strokes on the canvas of reality. Trusting that it all fits together to form something beautiful is the purest form of faith. Anything else is a dangerous distraction. No contracts with God, no expectations of reward, just trust."

It has been a principle of mine for the longest time - "Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. There is no reason to vie for a better unknown. Act for here, act for NOW. I can, maybe hope to leave behind a memory for my loved ones to cherish, and if I am fortunate, maybe a legacy for others to look up to."

Thank you for the sentiment, and for sharing. I have not lost anyone close but your words struck a chord with me.

RIP Stephen.
Ok, in that regard I think your post was very informative. Raising awareness of this language detail is very important, because it can lead to bugs which are very hard to detect.

The two most valuable advices from your post is directly the first line (but I have to admit that I overread it the first time I looked at the post). And second to use some tooling like the Eclipse code checker or findbugs (which was mentioned in another comment) to make implicit conversions visible to the programmer.

The only point I still disagree, though this is only a minor point, is that even with your explanation the possible solution of creating seperate instances is really no help. My point beeing that either you know that autoboxing occurs at a point and one can handle it correctly, or one doesn't know and in that case you also can't create seperate integer instances. This is from the point of view of someone who worked most of his career with Java and that line just makes my eyes bleed. But I can also understand if this looks like nitpicking to others ;)
For a very good extended historical view on how this kind of mess-up kept on happening in communism, also see the book Red Plenty. ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Plenty-Francis-Spufford/dp/05712... )
Well if we're being pedants about it, then the kernel is XNU ( http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1699.24.23/ )
>When ALL your component manufacturers are located in Asia

The reason all component manufacture are in Asia is because labor costs make up a much larger percentage of the total cost for smaller lower margin components.

The final labor cost for a Dyson is much higher than just what they pay for assembly, you have to add all the wages for each part up the chain.
I don't know about java being unpopular according to this site (first i could find in google) -> http://www.statowl.com/plugin_overview.php it has 75% of market share, second to flash with 95%. if you have some other numbers I would like to hear it.
Try oDesk, had luck there. Prices of course vary, but for $10 / hour you will definitely find someone.
I have often thought that life is self limiting. For example, yeast is a living thing, it consumes sugars and it's waste is ehtanol and eventually they all kill themselves off by drowning in their own waste (which, I guess later over a meal I will be enjoying a glass of yeast pee, but I digress). From a molecular perspective, human DNA is not that different from yeast, and at a macro view our behaviour is not that different either it seems. Perhaps all sentient life is destine to the same fate, perhaps it is a law of nature. I recall reading about an argument that Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne have regarding time travel. Stephen Hawking argues against time travel because we have never met any time travellers from our future. Maybe time travel is theoretically possible, but like yeast, we do not as a species survive long enough to develop the necessary technology. ugh, sorry to bring everyone down, might as well have a glass of yeast pee.
10 VC Blog Posts A Founder Can't Miss
(I forget the name, but you know, the conveyor oven thing
that melts the solder)

Reflow oven.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflow_soldering
Retirees Are Using Education to Exercise an Aging Brain
Yep, you're talking about today. I assume you understand the revolution going on in robotics right now; from the software, to the materials to the process intelligence to the motors and fine manipulation. We're at warp 1 about to accelerate to warp 10.

Today's factory robots are absolutely nothing like what's in the lab today, and what's coming this decade.
Windows 8 will allow employees to bring their own devices to work
Yes I read the article and yes I think americans are not using enough pressure to get things done in developing nations.
I think life is about doing. Success equals not giving up. If piling up money is important, then do things in that direction. For some people money isn't that important.
This list still exists and is maintained? Amazing. I looked at it 10 years ago the last time.
The right shift key is covered only by the pinky finger of your right hand. The ring finger has the forward slash. If you give it a try make sure to send your comments over via bitbucket or something :)
To be quite honest with you, I would not hire an American web developer. The reason being is the same as why I generally don't recommend American companies outsourcing to other cultures, unless they have the capabilities in house to manage it. IT projects are hard enough and introducing cultural and time barriers to a project is a recipe for disaster. You should find a developer who knows your culture as their is cultural knowledge that you will have to spell out for an American developer. The only time I would advise differently is if you are primarily targeting a US market with this web site, in which case, you should hire an experienced US developer and listen to all of his recommendations.
What’s the Most Effective Way to Ask Question on Quora?
>If you can proof to yourself after the election that your correct vote went into the system, you can proof this to other people too.

The receipt doesn't prove who you voted for, just that the associated vote was counted.

>every person is able to fully understand what is happening. Additionally you do not need to have a strong trust in the implementation of the cryptography

Are you sure you fully understand what is happening with paper based systems? You don't know which people looked at your vote, who they reported to, how the votes were summed up locally, how the information was transmitted to be centralized, who handled this info and how they made their decisions etc. It's actually much easier to understand and trust an open-source computer system than the mesh of social institutions, obscure regulations and personal idiosyncrasies that make the paper systems run. And you do trust your entire wealth to cryptography each time you make an online purchase, you know.

>For a large scale attack on computer based voting, you would need to bribe way less people

No amount of bribes will break cryptography, and proof that the system worked correctly is easy to supply by opening up the machines and software for public inspection. By contrast, we'll never know what, for instance, half a dozen election officials may have discussed in a tiny room (Florida 2000, Iowa 2012) and how they arrived at their decisions.
Programming Perl 4th Edition
Just look at the participant list for the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge competitions; http://archive.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/teamlist.asp though you also need to look past some of the university affiliations to see the partner companies (VW for the Stanford team, for example.)
Debian 5.0.10 released
It's really easy to create PDFs from Apple's built-in Quartz 2D drawing engine (of the Core Graphics framework). That probably has a lot to do with it.
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http://mushahda.com/ar/10-03-2012/306.html
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مشاهدة مباراة ريال مدريد ريال بيتيس مباشر
Reminiscent of Eliyahu Goldratt's excellent book, The Goal. Bottom line is that unless you incentivize on profit, you are incentivizing loss.
Nice! I recently added ethernet to my C64, and finally bought the 1581 (3.5" disk drive) that I always wanted as a kid. After 25 years, I can finally have all my GEOS apps and data on one disk without having to swap them. :)
Creator of Pink Ribbon, Evelyn Lauder, Dies from Ovarian Cancer
But do we really need to submit beginners to things like segmentation faults, arrays without bound checks and the lack of a reasonable string datatype?

There is no reason to use C as a first language when you can just as well teach all the basic ideas in a more friendly environment and then go through all of K&R in 2 weeks or so.
I don't think it's really that important to have the logo designed exactly the way you want it. The most important step is the 'word mark' or 'standard character mark' the name itself. You probably don't want to spend $300 for each class of good in the short-run, but minimally get the main one down, so you have some grounds to work from. The most important step is adding the TM to the name and logo being used in commerce. This helps protect the name ahead of time.

You can file the trademark yourself. I would look at all the competitors in the space through trademark searches, see how they define the trademark and the define your own balancing being really broad vs. very exact. If there is a problem in your filing, the attorney at the trademark office will help you out and you don't need to pay anything. They can't advise you on how to protect the name, but they will ensure the wording in form is correct. Actually, I was quite impressed at their customer service!

This is all just my opinion, I am no expert in trademarks. But I love the process of building a name brand. Trademarks are pretty important to avoid complications that you have encountered. Good Luck! Sorry for the woes and I hope you find a really cool name. Luckily .coms are loosing some ground as the ONLY name to get these days.