skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds a lot like Rainbow's End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End

I agree - make it happen.
You can also set Chrome so that plugin-requiring content is click-to-play, which I find a bit more convenient than block-all.
People who want to change stuff after the fact won't post hashes.
I think so far there are only assemblers, not C compilers (or any high level languages)?
I have the same problem. Seem to comment and the karma doesn't increase except when the points surpass my average commenting threshold. Maybe this is the new karma system.
If you look at the implementations, they didn't include that it's the square root of the formula that must be less than or equal to the radius in the initial math overview, but did it right in the code.
> Also, I added the Hacker News circle on G+, and all of the sudden I have 1704395784390582430 contacts in gchat. mother eff.

While it's semi-annoying that people in your G+ circles get added to gchat by default, you can easily disable this. https://plus.google.com -> click the arrow by your name in contact list -> privacy settings -> change to "custom" and disable any/all circles you don't want on your gchat list.
Well, it's proportional to volume of displaced air, which should scale more or less linearly with the empty weight of an airplane.
I wonder how well we will handle the adverse conditions when we have been letting the car do all the work in fair weather scenarios?
"Google wants me to drive in this weather? I haven't driven for 2 years! Now let me see - where is that indicator stalk?"
Sure, but if not provably correct then they need to be detectably incorrect. That's still a higher bar than a valid C implementation needs to pass.
That's the line I heard from a previous PM I had too.
Describing this as not easy is a bit of an understatement; there has been a lot of research into speculative threading and communication overhead between cores almost always kills it.
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Any chance this was done by some "intrapreneurs" from the Mint going outside the normal channels to test the waters?

It could also be a ploy by Square or Payfirma for recruiting employees among the contest applicants.
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And the only thing a CDN will help you with in this case, is offloading CSS, images and JS. You can't put that much streaming content up unless you host it yourself or want to spend every penny you have.

This is utter nonsense.

It is the nature of YouPorn's UX that the vast majority of requests are for the first couple pages of data. You don't have to put all the content on the CDN, only the part that represents 80-90% of your traffic. If you have a pull-based CDN you don't even need to plan it; the CDN automatically populates itself with what it considers a reasonable working set.

Updated: I should add, I designed Kink.com's modern porn-serving architecture back in 2007. Prior, it ran off of 20 apache httpd boxes at 365 Main. Now it runs off of a handful of appservers, a couple MySQL boxes, and a lot of CDN capacity... on vastly more traffic. Believe me when I say there's no reason that the bulk of YouPorn's traffic couldn't be served off of one or more CDNs.
Thanks. I've been muckin around the settings in gmail a little, and was able to fix it a bit, but this seems a much more complete solution.
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Freemium for facebook would be kind of ingenious, but it would almost certainly lead to the 'premium' accounts getting higher visibility in viewers feeds.

Is your aunt glenda passing away going to make your feed? Nope, because Coca Cola wants to tell you that they've got a limited edition coke bottle out for the 2012 Olympics.
>(What follows is a brilliant analogy where I was expecting total insanity.) You know. I think I'm going to use that in the future. Thanks.

Thanks! I hope you can revisit what I said in the grandparent post with this in mind. :)
Why are you pissed off? That quote seems basically accurate, although we can quibble about how far back we have to go for it it apply and what exactly qualifies as the "common man".

Through much of history, hard work and budgeting where not the road to riches--they were the road to not starving or, in good times, to being reasonably well off. The path to being rich was often blocked by ethnic background, religious background, or social class.

Yes, some people were able to break through those barriers, but that usually took more than just hard work and budgeting. They needed luck or brilliance.
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This is why government regulation can be healthy.
Ideally, ad replacement like what you described would be illegal.
In a purely capitalist world it would be encouraged.

Apologies for getting political. But you paint an all-too-possible picture that's worryingly dystopic.
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(I realise that you are joking)

Won't matter. As long as one language exist, one can write a compiler for any other language in that language. Hopefully something other than Maelbolge will be the surviving language.
For most people this is a negative.
I just saw a jogger this sunday, who had an acoustical feedback of his pulse. Zurich, Switzerland.
Might be an immediate solution to your problem.
The truth is that FB can probably make far more money from the advertising than they could ever make by having fee-paying users.

If that's true then there isn't the economic incentive to bother with any paid accounts.
They've also been going backwards, with their missing favicon icon.

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/890741 http://techlogon.com/2011/11/16/website-icons-missing-after-... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702730

If they don't get this fixed I don't have much hope for them making it pretty.
It's funny how RICH is defined in a monetary value. I live a very rich life (including kids, those of you who don't have them yet: you'll get it when you have them), can afford everything I need and most of the stuff I want. I never got the lavish spending of the wealthy, why on earth would someone buy a Ferrari or 50,000 dollar pool table? What I'm trying to say is money is just the means to fulfilling a desire.

I knew an old lady who saved every penny in her life to amass 10.000 euros, it was her dream. She did accomplish it, but never had any fun in her life because she'd always save her money. When she died she had the desired amount on the bank. Her children inherited the money, but only after they paid 40% tax.

How to get rich? Live your life to the fullest and have fun. And yes, raise a family at some point. I promise you that all the money in the world can't buy you what you get from your that!
No; there is no code that can do that. There's a lot of code for ignoring voting rings though. That's probably what's happening.
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It would definitely change things in a big way - especially for services that rely on acquiring user data in order to be profitable, as you mention.

However, I don't agree that Privly would necessarily end the current set-up entirely. It might result in a little more bargaining power for users who, up until now, haven't had any leverage in the user-host relationship.

One outcome that doesn't mean the end of user data-based businesses is where they modify their 'terms of use' to restrict or ban the use of this service. In this case, it's not clear how users could wrest back much control over their information, however.
Of course, but after that part...
Conversely, the tendency to filter out important signals as noise is a severe disadvantage...
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Just imagine the comedic possibilities created by this device.

Especially the voice activated picture-taking part.
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Whups, that did not even occur to me. But shouldn't you make an attempt to talk about your common interests? ;)
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chorded keyboard for wearable computers aren't new.
I normally like Jolie's articles, but it doesn't seem like this article was thought through very well at all. It pooh-poohs the First Amendment angle — y'know, the thing that a journalist like her depends on for their livelihood — by pointing out that owners of websites have a right to censor visitors. That's true, but it has nothing to do with the case at hand — this law applies whether or not the website is your own, as long as Arizona feels like it has jurisdiction (and in practice, what government doesn't believe it has jurisdiction over the Internet?).
Carrying around your life savings in your wallet or memory doesn't really make it more secure, it just increases your odds of suffering bodily harm.
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The only thing that needs agreement is the protocol. There are two choices IMO. SAML, or WS-Federation. SAML2 is pretty good but limits implementers to the passive requestor profile (it relies on the browser for the HTTP 3xx redirects) and means you can't use services[1]. It also doesn't do attribute provisioning (something U-Prove can do). The SAML protocol also mandates use of SAML tokens. WS-Federation on the other hand lets you use any token you like. And it supports services.

[1] TBH I haven't looked at SAML for a long time. It may well have come along by now.
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It doesn't need to be an active system. Google could monetize the hell out of it just by showing advertisers how effective their billboards, posters, and audio commercials are in the environment through passive collection.
Google has a competitive edge in search because of it's data. All their other so-called successes are based directly off that (either in user share or because they have the big bucks to bankroll it).

Take a look at other tech companies, they've created fortunes based on almost nothing

* apple, consumer electronics that anyone could do

* amazon, selling stuff online that anyone could do

* oracle, selling databases when their competition includes ibm and even free software

Youtube should have been itunes, amazon instant, netflix, hulu all rolled in one. But they're not, because they don't actually know how to do business - one hit wonder.

Another example, google, until recently, had no lobbyists - why on earth would you do that? (when you have enough piles of cash to buy ountries). Investors should be filing lawsuits for this reason alone.

Another example of business cluelessness, they're not flexing their patent muscles.

Android ubiquity - linux is ubiquitous too, far more so - hint, it's FREE. Not very hard to give away free stuff.
With an additional feature of blocking real-life ads on billboards & stuff :). I'd die to get that one.
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FB could make deals with advertisers (like Coke) regardless of premium accounts. Twitter already does what you describe with their sponsored tweets.
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It's also a product for which there's a considerable sampling bias in making safety assumptions.

The more so as it's adversely selecting hazardous conditions for the human driver.

My own stats, space travel excepted, are about a quarter million miles driven. Three parking scrapes (insufficient clearance / hitting unseen object), twice rear-ended (neither major damage) both times by a trailing car driving too close, too fast.

Touch wood.
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Take them off when speaking to someone. No eye contact no respect.

*Exceptions apply. At the beach is fine.
I don't think blaming it all on good choices/bad choices is any more reasonable than blaming it entirely on "The System". They both play a role in where someone will end up.
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Thanks a lot for the info. Do you know what is typical for an EU startup in terms of issuing stock? What types of stock are available, which type is usually issued to the founders, investors, etc?
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Also, a Django version of Railscasts?
Thanks PG. Admittedly, I've previously asked a few friends to upvote a couple of my blog posts. My mistake.

It's great that you have a system in place to keep everything on an even playing field.
At the risk of being annoying, virtually all the research done in linguistics departments anywhere in the world is research in the cognitive science of language, so a social science, not a humanity. This certainly includes Berkeley around 1970 or so (assuming that's when Wall was there).
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We've been nominated for just about every award known to man, including, yes, the Nobel (physics). We've already booked our tickets to Stockholm for the award ceremony.

The right person can be on that stage with us, drinking in the revelry that comes with world-class particle acceleration and, yes, grocery deals.

What we do when not in the physics lab making like Francis Wheeler Loomis: We are disrupting the way grocery manufacturers’ market their brands. We sell grocery items at a discount, on our site, and then load them to customers' loyalty cards. We give food manufacturers the ability to target, track and follow up on their deals. In short, the business of marketing food is a big one ($35b+) and we do it better than anybody else.

We launched in August. We have landed deals with a dozen major food companies, including General Mills, Kellogg's, Conagra, Unilever, Pepsico and Starbucks. We need to add to this deal funnel and you will be a big part of that.

You will be one of the first 10 employees at Aisle50 and will be offered a competitive salary along with serious equity and a full slate of benefits including health insurance and a 401k. We have a Killerspin ping pong table and an employee who can beat you on one leg. For the ping pong spectators, we stock the finest beer in Chicago.

The job is in Chicago. We don't care what your degree is in -- we just want people interested in startups and building a company that, as we mentioned, can get us in that grocery hall of fame. New college graduates (2011 and 2012) are welcome to apply.

You will be expected to travel, sell, call, run, jump and blast through walls. This is what startups do.

Reach out to us with your resume and a short (two sentence) pitch at gaussian@aisle50.com
Where is the energy spent inside my app? Energy Accounting on Smartphones
Letting the clients handle the simulation would have a lot of problems for a MMO. Extra problems if you were doing the work for other players as well.

I think part of the point of it being a special emulated CPU set at a certain speed is to make it fair for each player, rather than the player having more processing power just because they have a better computer.

The easiest way to secure all that is to run it on the server. Anything going to the client or trusted coming from the client eventually gets hacked if there's much interest in doing so.
I don't know about that. Can I:

- click a button on my desktop web browser and have the current page appear on my phone

- flash a totally new ROM onto my phone

- give apps root access and let them directly access hardware

etc. etc. I agree that iOS has far more app capability, but Android has far more OS-level capability to take advantage of.
I own a car, I own a nice flat in a popular beach town and earn a very good wage. This may sound cliche, but I woke up a year and a half ago and realised I had so many things I wanted to do but just never did. So I wrote a bucket list of activities, things to learn, places to travel to / general life goals and through going out and doing these I am so much more happy. In the last year Ive taken up Spanish, learnt to surf, sailed the whitsundays, camped on Fraser Island, visited a Damien Hirst exhibition, partied in Ibiza, in the next few months I'm going to my first festival, to the European Football Championships, a number of Olympics events and La Tomatina festival in Bunol, added to that I've just planned my next trip to Central & S.America for 3 months in September.

I suppose the moral of my point is not to be fixated on attaining a net worth, enjoy each day for what it is and get out and do the things you want to do. In a few years do you want to sit back and look at your bank balance or think back to the life you've led. Either way I'm not judging but moreso hoping some others don't fall into the millionaire pursuit.
If you own a business the lease is tax deductible, which knocks about 33% of the cost out of the picture.
5 way video chat == Google hangouts?
>do you really think that a bunch of citizens with handguns will make any difference against the largest and most high-tech military in the world?

Considering the difficulty our armed services are having against even less sophisticated resistance in the middle east, i think you seriously underestimate the average american and overestimate the average soldier.

>the rational conclusion must be that making guns illegal across the board is not in fact "punishing law-abiding citizens" but rather saving them from unnecessary crime.

Save for that whole pesky second amendment thing, which affirms the right to keep and bear arms, "rationality" be damned.
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Do you have in mind a particular integration with the real world that is language-specific, but where DrScheme would not help a professional programmer ramp up familiarity with a Schemey way of doing it?

I think I disagree with you, but have to understand what you're arguing to be sure.
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As with any disruptive technology, the "your enhacement ruins our business model" is really your problem, not mine.

The per-user profit of Facebook (in very fuzzy numbers) is on the order of $1-$2. Presuming there would be some feasible way of capturing this or its equivalent revenue by non-advertising means, a subscription-based service is feasible.

The real problem is that most users are subscription-averse, which has a knock-on effect of making it difficult to attain sufficient network size (and network effect value) while charging fees. Advertising has been the low-friction means to do this for the past decade or so.

An alternative model is to find a sufficient subset of users who are willing and able to pay for a service to underwrite both the remainder and the network growth effects. Craigslist would be the prime example of this. A small fraction of advertising in a small fraction of markets underwrites the remainder of the firm's activities.
Time until hacked by some authoritarian government looking to suppress dissent, T-minus...
That would be a hell of a hack if Notch ran the backend on a handful of high-speed gate arrays.
The site doesn't mention Bitcoin -- that was editorializing by the submitter.
Failed ideas?
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We originally launched an app called "Can'tWait!" and we ended up having a really hard time iterating fast on the product after it was launched. Little-by-little over the course of several months, we ended up building all of this syncing and hybrid-integration stuff to help us iterate faster. At some point we realized we had gotten so much faster with these tools, that we had to make them available to everyone. Clutch.io is our MVP for bringing those tools to the world.
> "I think Privly is best viewed as an argument in code. It's an attempt to expand the philosophical and technical terrain on which the privacy debate is playing out."

I think debates on privacy (and even what it means to have a digital identity) are important and things like privly help push this forward.

I'm not convinced by the implementation but I'm glad they made something.
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You've not heard of lifelogging? It was mentioned up/down thread. It's hardly common at the moment but the privacy concerns are older than Google as a company.
> Before G+, people made fun of Google for not doing social

Google did 'social' before Google+, it was called Buzz (leaving Orkut, my dear Google Reader and Google Wave alone).

And people "made fun", if we want to call it that way, because of Google Buzz's lack of buzz.

> despite all the hate from the Valley folk and HNers

I don't think that's true.
It'd be funny to see the first programs running in the game to make the same mistake. Maybe the inconsistency in notch's spec is purposeful.
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"Today we are restructuring Yahoo!" A pretty lousy way to stay optimistic. Too bad history repeats itself.
If you've never worked with Joe, this is the kind of nonsense he does in his sleep.

I first worked with Joe four years ago. He joined the team knowing no Ruby. What did he do his first week? Diagnose and patch a pretty big bug in MRI's threading implementation.

His blog is equally intense: http://timetobleed.com
You certainly can do #1 - there are apps for that. (e.g. Handoff - which I use sometimes)

2 and 3 are theoretical ways to let software do more that are no more available to Android end-users than Jailbreaking is available to iOS users.

You've basically confirmed my point. Android's ability to 'do more' is theoretical.

Given that there are lots of things that everyday users want to do that come to Android much later, I just don't see a valid argument here.

"App Capacity" is what lets people do things.
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