skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It hasn't deepend to that point yet tough. It's still trial&error genetics and medicine. Being smarter than nature is a tall order.

I'd say the long term success (Millions of years) of humankind is still not sure. Does not seem very stable at the moment, climate change and the potential destruction via nuclear bombs and so on...
Cheat Code, activated: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/99_Bottles_of_Beer
Hey, me too! Half-finished game concepts, crappy little tools I never ironed the bugs out of, random ideas that never even got as far as compiling...

You've got way more unfinished projects than me, but they sure do pile up quicker than you think.
A while ago, the madvertise SDK had a bug which resulted in ads not being scaled. This resulted in very small ads that were clicked by accident almost all the time. After a while, this bug was fixed. When looking at the conversion rate for my house ads, it was totally obvious that the non-accidental clicks resulted in a respectable conversion while the accidental clicks had almost no positive effect. I think the google AdSense for mobile do a good jobs here because the user has to click them twice before anything happens.
I remember when filters first appeared and UK secondary schools were forced to employ them.
The filters work(ed) by filtering out anything on the www that contains so called offensive words, such as sex in particular.

Following this, the universities of Essex and Sussex suffered a mysterious but nevertheless catastrophic drop in applications, as their websites became invisible to secondary school applicants and nobody knew what happened.
I think perhaps what is novel is having _only_ the next important things up front and center. The rolling todo list was a new term for me. Our start-up chizzl.com offers almost exactly this rolling todo list. I offer anyone to try it out who thinks this type of todo list could work.
Your comment is contradictory. You start by saying that an apology implies regret. Then, you say that Dell's apology does not imply regret. Why not? If they're apologizing for offending people, then according to your first claim they must regret offending people, which means they would choose to not offend people if they were transported back in time. I'm not sure what more you want from Dell.
> Calling people morons and having a negative attitude won't make you many friends.

This only matters if you want or need friends.

While most people do, there are some that don't.
At 22usd/hour for a janitor? Yeah.
The title should read: The most dangerous opinion the forbes author tells himself.

What is it with the war and danger redderick? You either succeed or fail with anything you do. Either way you learn something. (period)
Insults drive people who can't handle them away. By experience, those people will worry about meaningless things and make a fuss about nothing. Insults are a filter, just deal with it. If you don't like someone because they talk harshly just don't deal with them, you're free to do as you please.
The point is that even tho you are logging to facebook, you are not paying them as much as those buying fords.
Linus's persona aside, I think one of the issues with software is that what we do is intensely structurally cooperative (rather than competitive). What I mean is that we benefit immensely from other engineers being more competent, not less.

Why are so many more jobs posted for Java than functional languages? Why do software engineers get little respect in most organizations? Because the average programmer just isn't very competent, and those of us who are a lot better (and over 10 times as effective, if given the right tools and environment) get held back by the culture the average ones create.

The problem is that most of these mediocre developers aren't "morons". They're people of reasonable talent who, for whatever reason, did not improve as programmers but who remained in the industry. We suffer a lot because of them, but calling them idiots isn't going to make the situation better. It's just being a dickhead. It'd be much better to actually solve the problem, but that's a lot harder than calling people stupid.
Is there a market to help startups manage/setup social for their products? 
Currently, I'm working in a non-tech role for a startup that can't afford to pay me FT (yet). I'm not applying for FT roles because I like the company and want to see what happens during this round of funding (if they offer me a FT job/if they raise enough funds, etc...). Since I have spare time, I'd rather spend it improving my social media/community mgmt skills than making lattes.

I was talking about this with my g/f, who's an engineer, and she suggested that I market my social services to startups. Her reasoning: the engineering types usually don't have the time or know-how for social and many (unless they're a social co.) don't realize it's important and neglect it.

What do you guys think?
No, oversleeping messes with the body cycles and mental stimulation. Understomulation causes boredom which causes lerhargyn
Did the term become bastardized by US? I wouldn't be surprised. Being a conservative doesn't mean what it used to mean either, and it has been taken over by "neo-conservatives".
madvertise only fills in some european countries. In case madvertise doesn't fill, I use AdMob. For madvertise I use a 30 seconds refresh rate, for AdMob 60 seconds. This explains the differences.

Best regards
Johannes
Does this remind anyone else of Good Will Hunting?
I'm glad you like it. There's no ad free version available at the moment though.
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Make no mistake - of those 8% at least half are protest voters who will vote for whatever new party they see as anti-establishment. The pirates will lose those when they first become part of a government and have to do compromises, or when a newer anti-establishment party appears, whichever happens first. The pirates may still grow a little, but then they will see a sharp drop in votes, unless they can achieve some truly spectacular successes. How the deal with that drop will determine whether they have long term viability.
I was gearing up for a rant about how this hurts the open internet, but after watching the video, it seems fairly well reasoned.

I guess it all pivots around how effective the review panel is at unblocking access to sites that have been miscategorised and how easy it is to enable and disable the filtering.
Wow, great concept. I can see just how addicting this site can become. Sidenote, this is my favourite chain so far: http://doodleordie.com/c/1qp-p7-YK
VintageJS: vintage and retro images with HTML5 canvas
So far, RT seems to be the only source of US News with which the US propaganda machine hasn't been able to infiltrate. I miss the Al-Jazeera English of years yonder.

Unfamiliar with RT? Watch Live and decide for yourself:

https://rt.com/on-air/
Facebook’s delicate balance between profits and privacy
Nix is a package manager in the same sense as apt and yum. It resolves dependencies, it doesn't just install software.
I agree 100%, but I think that's only the short view-- the extant governments aren't going to be around forever, and in the long run we need smart people to spend time thinking about how to structure a government that's learned from our mistakes.

Of course we won't see Congress outlaw lobbying, but there's definitely an opportunity today to try some of these concepts in an organization, community, or even willing local government.
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I didn't mean it in a frivolous way.

What I'm saying is it's not a basic value equation. Buying an asset does not create wealth. It's the application of that asset.

It's not simply Facebook has a book-value of X -- It's
The market thinks Facebook can build more wealth with their $ than Ford.
Exactly. My semi serious view is that laws should be written in Prolog.
Did Yahoo sow the seeds of its own demise with Hadoop?
Hi soup10,

I totally agree. My intentions were more research driven than by greediness. Please see my comment at the top for more details.

Best regards
Johannes
And the reason they're allowed to earn money is that their capital produces more value than it's worth. The only way that can happen in an efficient market is by taking risk. If you don't want any risk don't invest in the stock market.
next question, VNC clients for Windows 3.1?
This a terrible move. It's been a long time coming but what surprised me reading the article is that they are also blocking gambling and violent images. So they've already crossed the line.

How do they determine what is a violent image? What if I'm reading a news story that includes an image of a crime? Will the filter block me from playing poker games with free 'pretend' chips?

The worst part is that the media is branding it as a porn filter. What if a person wants to gamble but has no intention of using porn? They might feel uncomfortable asking for the content filter to be turned off and as a result end up with a restricted, censored internet service.

Edit:

Why can't ISP's/or the government partner with a software company that provides filtering software (or develop their own), and give that out for free to all new customers? Seems like that would completely solve the problem. It would also enable parents to only activate the software when their children are accessing the internet, allowing the parent full, unregulated access.
RT is just a different propaganda.
chizzl.com is a rolling todo list piece of software, and it was conceived if for no other reason than to address the problem that a notepad won't meet the needs of prioritizing. Priority to tasks is a ever-constant part of a good todo list and re-ordering what the next important task via pen and paper really can't be done very efficiently. I'm happy to say that chizzl.com is dead-simple, so perhaps it's a decent middle-way solution!?
Thank you for your original advice. It's definitely useful. But it's not relevant today.

I don't wish to link the Bitcoinica fiasco with my leave because I sold Bitcoinica a few months ago. And I lost my control in January. Basically everything didn't go as I planned. (I'm VERY conservative about wallet security.)

I wanted to build an independent exchange system to replace hedging, so that most funds can stay offline. But the new owner didn't like the idea.

I know it failed like predicted, but my involvement in the failure is highly limited. I sold the site for the same reasons: What if someday I'm hacked, or caught? (The valuation (P/E) was less than 1!)

I'm a web developer, not a security expert. I know how to protect the API keys but I'm not good at encrypting a wallet.dat. That's all I thought since day one.
There's Thomas (http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php). Bill text is available in PDF, XML and a printer-friendly HTML.

The question is how up-to-date the bill texts are. I doubt it can tracks in real time with changes/amendments voted on, etc. but then again any system bolted on the process as opposed to being fundamentally integrated into the process wouldn't be.
Thank all you guys for the great discussion!
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It's not, on the long run. Higher ROI attracts repeat customers.
I know that IBM sells a punch card emulator.
except you cannot unblock sites you never get to see in the first place, and thus remain ingnorant about their very existence
Learning never stops unless the individual decides it stops. Congratulations to Mr Filipaj for overcoming obstacles and challenges.
Anyone with any idea what kind of technology the must be using? Any clue?
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Anyone have insights on how they ported a JVM game to Xbox 360?
Yes I can't see how that would be sustainable in the current economic state. Perhaps the retirement age would have to increase in line with the years added to the average lifespan.

Obviously the economic/social impact would be enormous and would require many difficult decisions but difficult != impossible. These are challenges that would surely be worth overcoming?
How will you know if someone have read "How to Win Friends and Influence People"? They'll tell you.
Yes. Investors believe Facebook's value perception will catch up with its reality, since they are currently out of whack. They believe the current imbalance is in their favor. It's the only way to make money investing.
Square is neither a bank nor an ISO bit a "Payment Service Provider" or "Master Merchant" and is in fact likely on the hook for most or all losses.
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Valuation lower than assets means you get eaten by corporate raiders, unless you're as big as Ford or the majority of the stock is held by a single family. That just shows how unhealthy Ford is.
This is awful, but mobile broadband have had filters on for ages. T-Mobile has something called content lock. O2 has another adults-only lock. You have to go into a shop with proof of age to get them turned off.

There's no granularity - it's either on or off and a bunch of stuff gets blocked that shouldn't and a bunch of stuff gets through that (if the filters were working) shouldn't.

I didn't try a proxy, but I guess that's a trivial way to defeat the filters. Looks like boom time for those bittorrent vpn providers.
By fixing it, I assume they mean removing this backdoor and put in a new one? If they remove it altogether, there's not much reason to have it there in the first place.
Unfortunately, I haven't encountered a single strong hacker (in terms of web).

All my 3-year Rails experience was sufficient to prevent the most direct web attacks: Injection, CSRF, XSS, etc.

The rest is simple, keep wallet.dat securely. It's just everything the hacker wants.

So, the experience isn't very applicable to other startups, I think.
In addition to this being first and foremost a political/people problem as many have pointed out, the technical challenges of applying standard CMS and document management solutions to legislation environments are pretty much unknown or underestimated by most of us. For those interested, Sean McGrath has posted a series of posts addressing some of these challenges: http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com/2010/05/xml-in-legislaturepa...
whatever happened to "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all"?

sure, that's absolutist and not always the best response, but not feeding trolls is a tenet of most successful online communities.
...if only the United States weren't $15 trillion in debt.
They can offer better service because they a) have incentive to do so (pirates - not really, good enough works for them), and b) they can haz cooperation from the makers of the content.
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The latest New Yorker also has an interesting article on drones:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/05/14/120514fa_fact_...
"In kind" does not mean "kindly". It means "in the same way".
It's totally backwards thinking. "We must save the children from porn and bad things!" say the politicians and tabloid rags like the Daily Mail (while at the same time publishing pictures of scantily clad women). "We must block it so they cannot be accessed!"

The correct way of thinking is, "what can we do to educate parents about the internet, and the responsible usage of it?" If their kids start downloading porn in their teens, so be it. Kids always find ways to look at that sort of stuff when they hit puberty.

And while sensational, this sort of info (account has porn enabled) can easily be used by the UK's dreadful tabloid press quite to your disadvantage. Like the spy Gareth Williams, who had his S&M proclivities (discovered through looking at the sites he visited) used to discredit him as some crazy bondage afficionado. Imagine being accused of paedophilia and having an ISP confirm that, yes, this guy does have porn enabled on his account.
At my last work I was just finishing rewriting a database to get out of OS9.

Another person I help is in the newspaper business and does his layout with PageMaker on OS9, Iv'e been trying to get him over to InDesign but Adobe left behind a lot of the keyboard shortcuts he relies upon and its been a unsuccessful venture so far... As each year goes by its getting harder to find compatible hardware and currently the internet needs to be done on OSX... Would do it in classic mode on OSX but some of Adobe's rendering routines don't particularly like OS9. Talking with him about it many other papers still use OS9, mainly because like the OP said - "it just works" and I can understand their dilemma, when we have tried transitioning things, stuff doesn't "just work" anymore.
True, but the option to disable filtering remains with the customer, which is pretty important. And, from what I gather from the video, unblocking is between the content owner and TalkTalk, not the user. That said, it'd be a good idea to build some kind of request portal for users to request a website be unblocked too.
It was a full rewrite
36/75. I honestly had no idea I knew of so many languages.
Now there's a real accomplishment, Thompson is gone.
What does this solve? Pretty much nothing. It's unclear to me why anyone thinks a hedge fund manager sitting in Manhattan is going to be able to solve Yahoo's problems, when pretty much no one else has or has been given enough chance to.
If it were just about him lying, everything else would have remained the same except for him leaving. But it's obviously not, as Loeb gets to appoint board members, who have media connections - but remember how having a media mogul run the company turned out last time? http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/18/news/companies/yahoo_semel/

And where are the manhattan bankers and hedge fund managers calling for Jamie Dimon's resignation after the disasterous 2 billion loss at JP?

Yahoo! had somewhat of a chance of making it, but now most likely it will be cut up and sold off in pieces. That's kinda sad.
A blog post from a startup guy, saying the number one thing to do for press coverage is blog, posted to yc by that guy himself.
Amazing...truly amazing.

Startups are inspiring, but this is one of my favorite success stories of the decade.
To go to an analogy, architecture or civil engineering. Not everybody can be a Frank Lloyd Wright, and more importantly there are lots more schools, mass produced suburban houses apartment complexes, highway overpasses and public restrooms that need to be designed than world class museums.

They don't need to be done with huge flourish or be terribly forward looking. They just need to be designed and built competently, not fall over and not have a leaky roof. There's nothing wrong with this state of affairs. Civilizations are largely built out of boring run-of-the-mill stuff.

Likewise, average developers don't need to build operating systems, or complex thread schedulers. They need to build the 30 foot boring overpass or utility box of the software world. And in many ways that's more important.
Why git? Why not a Wiki?
Most people in Germany aren't directly affected by the financial crisis and certainly not like the people in Greece. They have no reason to vote for an alternative party.
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It's the start of a very slippery slope. Where is the line drawn?

The irony, of course - it's incredibly easy to find porn on Twitter (and I suspect Facebook) - but they're never going to be blocked.

Parents could, of course, put the children's computer in a communal room...
Why do you think seller has rights to force fine print on buyer? Hint: in most jurisdictions on most goods, they can't and trying to do so make them liable.
This is a potential problem, but I think in practice backwards compatible updates and patches for Nix could work very similarly compared to a distro like Debian. For example, when openssl releases a security fix, Debian uses its large, mostly automated test suite [1] to verify that this new update does not break compile and (to a lesser extent) runtime compatibility and correctness.

Instead of an implicit promise of compatibility, a Nix continuous build and testing system[2] could explicitly mark openssl-dependent packages as compatible by bumping their versions. The end user would need to update a lot more packages, but these cost could be reduced by binary diffing old and new packages, which should be almost identical with the exception of dependency metadata.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aoDjW1bjxo
[2] http://nixos.org/hydra/
Yeah - I guess it's really unlikely that this will be solved by Government. Perhaps rightfully so this shouldn't be at the top of their agenda.

I think it will be non profits (http://www.sens.org/)
or private companies (http://halcyonmolecular.com/) that lead the way.
Or understand the URLs the page accesses, and make something similar for older browsers (if it's probably just a post with a badge number it's simple, if there is a login step it may be more difficult)

Having said that I have to say I have absolutely no experience reverse engineering protocols used by clock systems and that I never did a Linux version of a Windows only system.
There are a lot of vertical markets that could do with innovation.

Match up industrial chassis, with low power PCs, really good electrical noise filtering, really good air filtering, a locked down environment and good firewalls etc, and then offer to quote for interfacing it to existing machines. (Which is mostly just finding the right interface boards and connectors and software.)
> It looks like there is an existing project
> called Legal-RDF that was created to add
> semantic data to digital legal documents,
> but it’s XML and therefore not very readable.

RDF has several other formats besides XML (turtle being one of the more human readable formats).
FYI, there are a few yum options you can use to tweak this behaviour to how you want it to be, including 'protected_packages' and 'installonly_limit', described in yum.conf(5).
Also note that the Feynman method is rooted in this. In his book "Indiscrete Thoughts", the mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota said:

"Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on
how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your
favorite problems constantly present in your mind,
although by and large they will lay in a dormant state.
Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result,
test it against each of your twelve problems to see
whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a
hit, and people will say, 'How did he do it? He must be a
genius!'" (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FeynmanAlgorithm).
see, you didn't really garner my friendship with that comment. nothing lost, but nothing gained
Great post. I particularly liked the strategies regarding generalists, specialists and hacker-entrepreneurs.
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With rules like that, this plane is going to be vapourware for a long time!
Is this a recent trend in peoples mind ? Distributed versionning brings out the need to understand laws I guess.
I know a machine running MS_DOS 5.x being used for camera vision on a solder-paste silk screen machine.

The surface mount pick and place machine runs dos 6.x and win for workgroups 3.1x

God only knows what the oven runs.

It is weird, but then again it all works.
Well then you get other problems such as dirty oil (unless you have a good seal). The biggest problem I see is that it lasts as long as the shortest lifespan of all the components then you get to go through buying a new one or the mess of replacing that part.
I can definitely believe that, though to be fair I'm not really aware of any major news outlet that gives sensible coverage to Anonymous.

Nobody is perfect I suppose. I mostly stick to getting world news from AJE/BBC type sources and try to get closer to the horses mouth for anything tech related in the slightest.
This is the Dot.com era all over again

The "dot-dot-com" era?
Thanks for injecting some sanity.
Which is disappointing. People only seem to react when their very own house is on fire.
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The number of downvotes you received shows that this joke went way over most people's heads...