skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been advocating (to friends) the need/inevitability of this kind of system.

One possible marketing phrase that's been thrown around is "data asymmetry", as in "TheMux aims to rectify the massive data asymmetries that give Facebook and Google orders of magnitude more power than their users."

Even better would be the development of a completely peer-to-peer version of Facebook (which Diaspora isn't).
The role of the 501 Developer is something that we should be striving to automate or abstract away.

I think that the craft of solving real world problems with computers has reached a plateau, through lack of the right tools, programming languages, methodologies, sociological systems, etc.

That 501 Developers are needed to intermediate between the technology and the solution stakeholders or customers seems like an indicator of stagnation or inefficiency in the current approach to software development.
Keep in mind that is $800 million over 8 years. So the Space X budget is about 0.6% of NASA's.
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Not a big thing, but I've seen double entries on HN.
I don't get it. How are those "better" and "best" people you describe not self-important jerks? There are already too many stupidly arrogant people in most companies; they are immune to criticism and extremely difficult to work with. Shouldn't facts matter more than ego?

"I call 'em as I see 'em." is an attitude I can work with, because it lends itself to meaningful discussion and, maybe, some kind of understanding. "They aren't anything until I call 'em." on the other hand is useless wankery in my opinion.

On the other hand, I agree with you that "I am a <501 or xxx> developer." is a somewhat weak statement, but for other reasons than you. I think 501 and others are overly broad labels and philosophies. Most people who are capable of having their own opinions would probably agree or disagree on some of the 501 points, but not subscribe to all of them as a package.
> Of course it’s data! That’s what variables contain! That’s all they ever contain. It’s like if you were packing up your belongings in moving boxes, and on the side you labeled the box “matter.”

Nope, if he goes with that analogy that data contains data, the box should be labeled with box, imho.
Facebook does consume roughly one and a half percent of Americans' waking hours. ( highly rough estimate based on http://mashable.com/2011/09/30/wasting-time-on-facebook/ )

These various things aren't directly commensurate, but it shows a certain level of relevance to Americans. (And, though I shudder to admit it, there are other countries in the world.)
Looking forward to the new gestures and voice control. It's really fun to use!
Their webpages end in .aspx and that means they are using ASP.NET Web forms.

So I wouldn't expect them to be very cutting edge in terms of modern browser practices. Sad but true.
This is the process that I am leaning towards. Changing my pricing means that it affects all users when all I want to "fix" is the few that impact my bottom line in a negative way. I think I've come up with a rolling average of "over use" which will then cause a polite email to be delivered to them indicating the issue and how we can remedy the situation.
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> He also told The Guardian that his habits on his computer indicate his health and places he's been.

Technology can definitely make a difference.

Last week you sat on the bus next to someone who has been diagnosed with Avian flu - would you like me to schedule a doctor's appointment for you?
Couldn't the federal government amend that law (the one cited as covering physical goods, etc) to include computer code?
Ultimately.... https://github.com/github
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This is similar to what I'm doing. I want to add, that there is always a rule - there are no strict rules.
Digging up bags of buried fiat money is exactly the same as digging more gold out of a mine. You seem to want to mock Keynes by picking on him as advocating "valueless work", but what you don't understand is that Keynes picked that example to parody the classical economists who - like you - advocated doing nothing in the face of economic collapse.

Digging up money is an obvious waste of time. In suggesting it, Keynes was making fun of people like Andrew Carnegie who advocated letting market forces "liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate... [and] purge the rottenness out of the system". Under market forces, deflation would have increased the value of gold, pushing the private sector to increase gold production and bring the economy back into equilibrium by paying people to... dig holes in the ground and produce more money.

The point of the parable may be less obvious today since no-one seriously advocates the restoration of the gold standard anymore, but the core insight Keynes had remains as valid today as it was then: when you are in a liquidity trap marked by deflation and insufficient demand, there is a huge free lunch to be had simply by printing money and spending it to direct unemployed labor into productive activities. This brings the economy back into equilibrium and is the reason austerity is welfare reducing. Because you advocate forcing the private sector to undertake a senseless course of painful adjustment that could be avoided simply by printing enough money to avert deflation. And whatever you spent your newly-printed money building would be a net positive, and ideally something with practical economic value driving long-term growth: a high-speed national rail-line, new schools, hospitals, etc.

Put more simply, Keynes' point was that the most senseless economic act you can imagine (paying people to dig holes in the ground) was still at worst merely equivalent to what the liquidationists were proposing in the 1930s.
if i could program, i would make startup based on the star in every address bar. when you click it, the page is bookmarked as unsorted and it turns yellow. So then if you could get people to export and upload their bookmarks they would have a way to display their favorite bookmarks for the week, they would have a back up, they could tag pages easily (double click the star). this is a good idea because the star is in millions of peoples browsers and never used.
Not that there couldn't be inefficiencies at nasa, but they have many other programs going on which account for its budget.
You can embed images. They will get transformed into data URLs. The final product is a single stand-alone HTML file. The only caveat is that the image has to already be on the web somewhere. Haven't tried videos yet. Might be better off with just a link to YouTube for those.
Nice! You should do a blog post explaining how you built it. That's what HN loves the most!
Thanks for the comment - this was the question I most wanted to understand. I realize that durations are on a continuous scale. I personally know people who operate across the full range of durations.

But it's still far from clear to me that grandmothers (aka entrepreneurs) see any liquidity benefit from folks with short holding periods. I'm not saying it's a problem if grandmothers like me dont see a liquidity benefit from HFT. I'm just asking if it exists.
And iTunes/winamp should probably be broken down into

* purchased from Amazon/iTunes
* ripped from physical CD
* free download
* streaming audio
* totally not the pirate bay, i promise
Landslide does have some themes that come with it, but more can be created. One of the features I am contemplating doing is to add the ability to modify themes, host your own, choose pre-existing ones, etc.
It sounds like you're assuming that those 40 million users weren't already Facebook users which I highly doubt. I could be wrong though, but really, what are the chances of that? It sounds more like they wanted to keep Google from getting Instagram which would have made sense for them to get those 40 million users on G+.
The wikipedia entry states viaweb was partially written in lisp .. would be interesting to know what part lisp played .. is pg in the house?
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Curious; would it have been theft if the code had been copyrighted?
The Mars missions suggest we're close to having the tech to get robots onto asteroids, some of which might have a fuel source that can sustain an unmanned operation that launches minerals along trajectories back toward .. the moon perhaps. It seems infeasible to ferry the minerals back and forth, although the value of the minerals might be high enough to justify it.

I wonder what the timeframe is for starting something? Space X has gone from start to regular orbital missions in 10 years and $800 million. Would it be so far-fetched to think of a 20 year timeframe for asteroid mining?
If true and feasible with technology soon...

Cool for a couple of reasons:

- Asteroid tracking... Resource companies will track nearly all asteroids within reach and help provide awareness of threats.

- Robots! The technology advancement/innovation for bots and long range communications would be intense.

- Space exploration will be a boon if resources are involved (as we all know every game is about asteroid mining in the future).

- May bring back some sort of life form (It may end up taking over like Cloverfield then Cameron can later make a movie about it and Carmack the game).

Possible problems:

- We get really good at manipulating asteroids routes (some sort of harvesters that bring them closer to us to mine) and it becomes weaponized.
Also I think sometimes it depends quite a lot on how you word your post.

It's quite tempting to think - "I spent a lot of time on this, it speaks for itself" where as you need to pique the interest of the crowd.

Even go as so far to give a run down of how and why you built it and what you learned! We're suckers for a great backstory and a few data points.
This has little to do with the contents of the article, but I found it interesting.

"For development, each engineer runs her own instance of Fake S3 where she can put gigabytes of images and video to develop and test against, and her setup will work offline because it is all local."

Is spool a team of all women engineers? (I'm just curious as to whether or not that's true because it's so rare. I don't want to turn this into a weird opposite day version of the sexism in computer science debate.)
I use different .Xdefaults for my shell "styling" and are incredibly happy with it. Changing to another theme is just one xrdb -merge away.
Heck, at this point I'd accept a particular enterprise software company shipping a one click update program instead of 10 pages of instructions and 720,621 lines of PL/SQL that I need to run against the Oracle database.

// that is the exact line count from "wc -l" - I am not joking
Probably not in any meaningful way. The clones never seemed to grab much traction in the rankings, where my app did. Though I guess I'll never know for sure. If anything, I'm losing out to the real competition that took their own approaches to solving the problem and didn't just clone what I did.

Out of curiosity, I just had a look at the ones I do consider clones, and the one that took my name and added "Pro" to the end doesn't even appear to be on sale anymore though their website is still active. I can't find the other, so it may not be either.
Something else to consider is how fast and how steep the price drops on a Kindle have been. From Wikipedia: "On July 8, 2009, Amazon reduced price of the Kindle 2 from the original $359 to $299. On October 7, 2009, Amazon further reduced the price of the Kindle 2 to $259. On June 21, 2010, hours after Barnes & Noble lowered the price of its Nook, Amazon lowered the price of the Kindle 2 to $189." Now it's down to $99 for the ad version.

So, is someone who paid $250+ for a Kindle just two years ago really going to sell it for $50 or so, when the new models aren't much different?
Are there good examples of this kind of coding? I'm excited about the idea of using the same language and maybe some of the same models on the client and the server, but the idea of just writing one application and having pieces of it execute on the server and pieces of it execute on the client is not clicking for me yet. Is it a good idea to abstract away the communication between the client and the server? It seems to me that designing that is one of the important parts of writing a good client/server app. How does that work when you are running the same code on both sides?
The code became copyrighted the moment it was written, but I guess it would only be considered copyright infringement and not theft.
> If someone wants to go out of town to see a concert or take the kids to Disneyland for a few days, we talk about it.

I don't want to talk about it. If I'm going on vacation, I probably need that vacation. I would be pretty offended by coworkers (especially managers!) prying into the details of where I'm going, or trying to have a conversation about whether I should bring a laptop. Fuck that sincerely.

Personal time wins, and work can wait, always. I don't work at NASA. We're not going to miss a close approach of Mars if we ship a couple of days later.

Yeah I'm probably a 501 developer.
Scroll down to their diagram and click on "Block Storage" on the left. It mentions the choice of SSDs or SATA drives.
A New Asteroid Mining Operation supported by Google Execs and James Cameron
How about Cameron announcing a fleet of miniature mining robots running off a 16-bit processor? We can use 0x10c to crowdsource space exploration.

But seriously, this would be a great development in human exploration. We finally might have a chance of surpassing the achievements of the Apollo program if we establish a viable economic reason for regularly journeying into space.
I do not want my data as much as I want to be able to delete everything from mm/dd/year to mm/dd/year. And I mean delete and truly forget. Tracking is the much bigger issue, my tweets out of twitter are worthless. Pictures posted are low res versions too.
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> This is a clear case of American innovation trumping lower overseas labor rates.

As much as I admire Elon Musk, this is a short-sighted, exceptionalist dogma. It may apply in some cases - for the time being - but do people really think that non-Americans are incapable of innovation?

SpaceX have had a headstart, since NASA and their gigantic budget have decided to take advantage of free enterprise. It's only a matter of time before Asian and European governments begin to do the same.
Those are supplied if you source the aliases that ship with the Homebrew formula: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/7bbe7e9311ce95a141bf5f...
You can make some estimations by rankings, but I guess that's a fair question. Also, I spent several months on the project, so even a week of work per year isn't going to get you far.

It was a fun project, but a failed business.
I gave up trying to correct treehugger after they featured the concept shower that would be heated from electricity generated from piezos capturing vibration from the flow of water pumped through the pipes.
You wouldn't think Starbucks would really be the typical use case for a style guide. Like I would think all their content would come out of a single web shop in HQ.

Style guides are usually created when content is generated by separate groups on their own with no central coordination, and the style guide is to try and get them to all look the same.
Larry Page: Android isn't critical, it's a delivery vehicle for Google services
You can use the OpenCore 6502 as a start. Cut-and-paste!

http://opencores.org/project,6502vhdl
I'm not really sure what you mean... unless I'm missing something mapv is the same as (into [] (map ...)), and based on the source that appears to be exactly what it is. reduce-kv is a bit more complicated but it's not really a huge leap from reduce. Nice additions, to be sure, but are either really design patterns that indicate some lack in Clojure 1.3?
Please try to post a link to the original article. It is more informative and rewards people that actually break the story. (Even if in this case the story is just a press release.) See below.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3859631
While I appreciate the sentiment, it's not exactly a fair comparison. The first government rocket launches surely had cost overruns. But were the most recent shuttle launches vastly over-budget?

Launching a satellite these days is a relatively known quantity whereas many horrifically over-budget government projects are doing things no one has ever done before.
The initial grc command aliases commands like 'ping' to a modified command that processes the output[1].

[1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/7bbe7e9311ce95a141bf5f...
Having an opinion isn't worth anything unless it corresponds with the truth. Maybe this does correspond with the truth (i.e. grandparent wants to work with team players rather than people who only do what's fun). Seems pretty straightforward to me.

Value of writing about it? Very few of the comments on HN are valuable. People write for their own pleasure primarily, and if communication occurs that's icing on the cake. What's the "value" of you writing your rebuttal questioning the gp post's value?

TL;DR: don't really understand your question.
Does anyone know where they got that awesome debug panel?
All creative works, including code, are protected by copyright the moment they are created. The protections of copyrighting are limited though, and at the time he was caught Mr. Aleynikov had not done anything other than copy the code. There was no distribution to other parties and no sale of the code, which meant there were limited damages. In other words, if they went after just copyright then there was no real difference between this guy stealing a font or stealing the software itself- the punishment would have been minimal at best. Because of this the focus was placed on trade secrets, and of course that failed to work due to the reasons the article addressed.
Sure, but they can't make past actions a crime only future ones.
Right, but all you are really saying there is "NASA would be cheaper if it was better at project management" which is tautological.
I kind of hope that people start dumping tons and tons of money into this kind of stuff. Right now, we don't need it, but I want us to be good at it when we do.
I would actually contest for the majority of Facebook users the current download is what most users think of when they here "download your data." It is blob-like, but after unzipping you can actually start just clicking and opening files. CSV, &c are nice for programmers, but not the general public.
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This is pretty nice!

I think it would be pretty cool if when you selected a track the beautiful picture that accompanies the audio goes to full screen. Maybe the black instruction bar could display until the track loads and just fade leaving the photo and a pause/close window icon somewhere discreet like in the top right hand corner!

Listens to the waves
On the contrary. When one straight up owns a controlling interest in the BOD, one gets to do whatever the fuck one wants.
The funny thing about the manifesto that it is proclaiming a particular point of view (while neglecting the fact that most things on the list aren't mutually exclusive), while condemning another.

Dude, it's a personal choice for you to be okay with being average, but don't try condemn people who want to excel. I know that mediocrity loves company but geez.
I just love the title. It basically amounts to "stealing isn't theft". But anyway, this is a toughie. I'm not sure if that was a good decision. The law may not see it as theft but realistically, it seems like it to me. I agree about the part of the ruling that says that it isn't considered theft because it was never sold but I'd ask if it was used. They use the example of the formula for Coca-Cola. Well, if I stole it and even made it publicly available but no one actually used it then that's not theft though in reality it'd be a scary prospect if I owned Coke as I'm sure someone would use that recipe.

Putting the law aside for a moment, doesn't it make sense that simply obtaining source code without permission is unethical but shouldn't be illegal so long as its never used without permission? The funny thing about code is that it falls into the area of ideas more than products but at the same time once it's used it does become property in a way. It's a tool but there are a lot of different ways to create any given tool as far as code is concerned.

It's like language. You can't own words but you can definitely steal the ideas conveyed by words from someone else and that shouldn't be okay. It's like writing books. Two people can write the same story using different words/word combinations and one couldn't say the other plagiarized as its not like two people never had the same idea before. But in cases like this, you just know it when you see it and I don't know if the law will ever be able to adequately deal with these kinds of situations because of the nature of them.
Do you know if these advisors advise multiple other startups or entrepreneurs? When you meet with them individually, is it usually something fresh from each of them or do they repeat the the same things over?
Yes, I've now pledged at the $50 level now that he added beta access to that.
Being able to take that data and move it to another service?
Great point. Apologies for missing that. Good news is that Windows version is in the works too!
It's always watching. It's kind of sensitive right now, with not enough of a "lockout" between stopping and starting (sometimes as i lower my hand from pausing/playing it'll play/pause, a bit annoying)

Also, maybe my face looks like a palm, but sometimes it'll just pause.
Except you can't start a space company without a lot of your own money much like Musk did. You need the big capital first to launch a company that requires hundreds of millions in capital.
> For example, say my phone needs to grab some data from my laptop, but rather than have the laptop send all the raw data to my phone and have my phone process it, the system figures out that it would be more efficient for my phone to send code to my laptop, have the laptop process the data locally, then send the processed data back to my phone.

I've been romanticizing this kind of dynamic client-hopping execution in my head for a long time, and I even tried to implement it once. The biggest problem is that it's a provably impossible problem to solve! If your language is Turing-complete, it reduces to the halting problem.

You can make guesses (as Opa does) and cover the simple cases with code analysis, but in practice such attempts have devolved into inefficiency and synchronization problems once you start implementing nontrivial systems over fallible interfaces such as the web. It all brings to mind FGCS[1], and how that just didn't work.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer
Sounds reasonable! Also if these are the folks that are using your service the most, it might be good to hit them up for feedback.

That 8% may be your die-hard fans!
Not exactly. Non-recurring engineering is often cost plus. You simply can't scope that out very well. Purchasing more units of an already developed item is generally fixed price.

However, even with cost plus there are incentives to come in faster/better/cheaper. If you run a company and have the choice between '1 project scheduled for 18 months, stretched to 2 years and collect the extra' or '2 projects scheduled for 18 months, each finished in a year, and collect all the extra bonuses', you typically choose the second plan.
This is how a CEO gets engineers to want to work for his company.
Was Earth a migratory planet?
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