skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly the higher taxes will in part be used to raise the standard of education which will result in a more dynamic and entrepreneurial work force, which will in turn result in more business owners looking for employees. He simply sounds mad because he'll be making a few dollars less.

He's using a straw man argument to cover for his personal greed and ideology. Randian indeed.
Why does it make worse? You've said yourself, places where you want the security to be higher, they monitor on the spot. It's not like you're saying it doesn't work, right? Wrong?
The Chia Pet is still selling. The Pet Rock isn't.
Ask HN: Where to find a potential co-founder?
I know that this might seem like the wrong question to ask. You are supposed to know your co-founder very well by the time you start a company together. But most of the people whom I know from college are not willing to take the risk of starting a company on their own. It's hard to persuade a risk-averse person to become an entrepreneur, and even if I am able to persuade him, some months down the road when the going gets tough, he might be tempted to chicken out.

So what are some of the events and groups in the Bay Area that provide good opportunities for meeting potential co-founders? Thanks.
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> Is that belief that the United States is better, or just different?

Let's go with the one that bothers you. Why do you care?
[I didn't get to the edit in time.]

The federal govt is now paid for by a smaller fraction of the population than it was during the Clinton years. During the Clinton years, it was paid for by a smaller fraction of the population than it was during the 80s, and so on.

Is it good for most folks to not have a significant stake in paying for govt services?
Tony Hsieh is awesome. I can't wait to read this book. Zappos is a company to be looked up to.

If all companies were this fanatical about customer service, the world would be a much better place.
Except for the greater percentage of males who are on low tail of the intelligence curves or are in jail. Then it's just deserts.
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It is the theorem from a dead-tree math-textbook where it is used as a step in a Banach-Tarski Paradox proving.

The textbook is not in English. Here's a translation of the theorem:

An orbit O [1] can be decomposed into 4 sets: A, B, C, D. Using rotation these sets can be combined into 2 orbits:

A ∪ aB = O; C ∪ bD = O

Proof:

A = H(a)x; B = H(a')x; C = H(b)x; D = H(b')x

The theorem statement follows from the fact that the free group H can be decomposed into 4 parts:

H(a),H(a'),H(b),H(b')

and doubled by rotations:

H = aH(a') ∪ H(a); H = bH(b') ∪ H(b)

∎

__ [1]: The term `orbit` is used in the same sense as in [2]. `H` is a free group similar to the one from the step 3 in [2], and `a`, `b` are rotations defined similar to Step 2 in [2] i.e., they are generators of H:

H = {e}∪H(a)∪H(a')∪H(b)∪H(b')

, where `e` is the unit of the group H:

aa' = e; bb' = e

__ [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach–Tarski_paradox
Perhaps you can be more specific about why you need a co-founder? Can you build the product yourself? If you cannot what value do you bring to any venture?

I'd suggest you put yourself in a position of strength by executing and other people will want to work with you. If you cannot clearly articulate why you are seeking/need a co-founder, you should not be looking for one.
This is a reblog(?) of a book that Kevin Kelly wrote in 1998. It says that GM is junk and Microsoft is on top of the world, but won't be in 40 years. Glad to know that.
Polywell is a scam. There is a lot of claims that it works but zero evidence and no computer models which would be a great place to start if funding is an issue.
At some point, a man, regardless of his convictions, has to stop getting into arguments with reality.

Bread and circuses it is, then.
> Google's official founding date was September 7, 1998, two months after the patent application was filed. I doubt they were in any position to search all of the patents applied for

The "publish one year after application" rule for US patent applications is fairly recent. (I don't think that it was retroactive when it was introduced.)

So, even if Google wanted to search for patents back then, they couldn't have.
Copyright give the copyright holder the right to prevent others from copying their ideas even if they have independent origin. Just like patents.

PS: Having already listed your above comment I clam copyright over it and insist that you delete it. (kidding.)
If they pay for it within those fifteen minutes, that is all that matters.
I work with folks who are genuinely shocked when I tell them that I bought a game. They come from a culture where pretty much everybody pirates, all the time, regardless of cost or income.

It's pretty funny, since they're game developers, and some of them dream of becoming indies.
This is a strange objection. Why would an advocate for a cause promote the opposing viewpoint, except possibly to rebut it?

I'm not saying I agree with RMS. However, if he is rational I would expect him to agree with his own (current) writings. I would also expect that on an issue where he disagrees with others, he would disagree with their writings.
"Or, do mashups in a moderate way so that you are only providing limited quotes of the originating site and providing attribution?"

That's the civil way.

"It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission." -- Grace Hopper
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion is a classic.
So is Scientific Advertising.
Prolixity much?
I was talking about the specific plan to monetarily support such a place. Seems like it would be a time suck to engage in this kind of place a lot -- and therefore the self interest it takes to get people to "buy in" and help isn't there.

Your comment, it doesn't address anything I've said. I'm well aware that relationships take work and that is central to my point: sometimes that work isn't worth it.

Consider the "Grandma" in your life, the person you love to help set up their computer, come over to troubleshoot, etc. What a sweet lady.

Now imagine there are ten of these people in your life. Now imagine they start loving computers and tell you all about the cool new stuff they found, etc. Now imagine you have no other relation to them other than these conversations. And they love starting such conversations.
found it here:

http://www.cennydd.co.uk/2008/can-we-avoid-redesign-backlash...

"In a nutshell, a meaningless background was removed from a seller page. Pandemonium. After strong resistance the background was reinstated, to everyone’s satisfaction. In fact, the rebellious users were so placated that they failed to notice the designers slowly adjusting the background’s hex values over the next few months. The background got lighter and lighter until one day—pop!—it was gone."
GameTech lecture: Designing and Evaluating Reusable Components
The one that bothers me is "better". The reason it bothers me is because that type of American exceptionalism is very close to nationalism, which, in turn, works to build mental walls of ethnocentrism and classism.
what's wrong with snubbing Facebook?
Ask HN: How do you manage work/life balance?
I tried searching HN but couldn't see this discussion anywhere...
Wanted to know how you guys, particularly founders, manage work/life balance? In an ideal world, only people who actually successfully manage it respond...
9 to 8 work

8 to 2 life

2 to 9 sleep

Monday through Saturday, with Sundays off.

Sure if there is some emergency all bets are off, but I find that this gives me the most productivity, w/o really doing any damage to my personal life.
It reminds me of a story (how to apply for a job to teach a mule to speak):

Before ten years pass, I die, the mule dies or the sultan dies... </quote> http://nasredin.blogspot.com/2007/11/ibn-khaldouns-mule.html
instead we buy and set up an entirely new set of servers

What property do you work on? How is it more efficient to buy or reallocate entirely new servers than update your old ones?

How many times per year do you even update your application? The cost of getting the servers ready and installing packages would be prohibitive if you had to roll out, say, an urgent security fix.
Metaphors are like business plans. When they take too long to explain, it's time to get a new one.
How do you know these sites are not retrieving content using RSS feeds? In this case the "social contract" says that the content owner consent to syndication.

In reality any reproduction of content is a violation of copyright law- no if, ands, or buts about it. Even Google's act of displaying text from web pages in their search results is infringement but of course they are safe because they are so useful and the web would be nothing without search engines. But there is no implicit permission being given.

The same rule likely applies to mashups (although I do not know of any that have been taken to court.) Why litigate if an app helps users consume your content (there are exceptions of course. For example, if page views on your actual site decrease and you lose money as a result.)
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I disagree entirely. If I was pessimistic I wouldn't have met and talked to anyone. It was instead the opposite situation.

Eventually I couldn't attend all my usual spots to get any work done because there were too many relationships there (both the good and the toxic).
I would like to add another dimension to this question, how do you pre-founders manage work life balance? (Pre-founders being those who are still working their day jobs, hacking away at nights/weekends)
I don't know who you are, so I hope you don't mind if I decline to introduce you. Besides, the only people I know are website programmers and helpdesk people. If you are serious about your proposals you will find some way to contact the business side of the org.

Lucky for you, by law they have to post their mailing address (and, for what it's worth, these are the real offices.)

http://www.kink.com/2257statement.php
I don't bring my work home with me. Under any circumstance.

Period.
Ask HN: How do we bring about world peace?
Recent events got me thinking about how when I was little everything year, this is going to sound so cliche, I wished for World Peace. For all the amazing things human kind is capable of, it's amazing we can't just get along. I mean is it really that hard to observe the golden rule?

Recent developments on top of everything else that has fallen a part this year got me thinking. I know there is no solution, no answer. The real problems are never that simple. But debate and discussion is important. And this is a great platform and a great community for it.

Can we all promise not to kill each other and try to be nice? To try to develop business in ways that encourage the best of humanity and not the contrary?
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I was raised in China, so these inventions (the major ones) were as ingrained as the founding fathers for Americans.

Much of the Chinese pride was rooted in such golden eras of the Chinese history. Sadly, in the modern days, this pride has become a nationalistic tool and is used to brainwash people into believing that the Chinese way has been and will always be superior to the other countries', when in fact there is so much the culture can learn from the rest of the world. (I suppose you can say that about any country.)

Things are changing however, hopefully for the better.
I suppose each user has his own preferred torture-test search terms. For mine, Cuil has recently (but NOT at launch) returned a better set of results that does Live.com. But neither wows me enough to pull me away from Google.
Why not start the weekend on Wednesday?
I'm sorry, but the cost of a piece of software has nothing to do with the cost of delivery of that software. The point of selling software is for a company to make money and survive. Just because there is 0 cost involved to deliver a piece of software doesn't mean that there is no value associated with a pirated license. Frankly, the cost to the company should have absolutely nothing to do with the cost the consumer pays, other than the fact that the consumer should pay more than the cost to the company.

The idea that people have that just because something costs a company a small amount or nothing to deliver somehow gives them the right to steal it is mind boggling. It doesn't matter how much it costs the company, it's none of your business. What is of import is what the company says the item costs.

Taking that for free without paying is stealing, no matter how you attempt to justify it.
Pre-founder: 9 to 5 work, 5 to 8/9 part-time startup, 8/9 to 1 life. Mon-Sat., usually Sundays are full-life.

Full-time founder: 9:30 to 11 work/coffee/eat, 11:30 to 3 work, 3 to 4 gym, 5 to 8 work, 8-11 eat/life, 11-1 work. Mon-Sat with Sunday usually being the most life and most relaxed.

You read that right... technically, I work the same or slightly less hours than with a full-time job and part-time founder responsibilities. Either way, it's about 60-70 hours a week.
Heh,I didn't even feel like finishing the quote.

I really need to get a handle on that.
7am to 3pm, school.

3pm to 12am, founder stuff.

12am panic about homework
On the topic, one of the best reddit comments of all time: Cuils as a unit of measure.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7da5i/police_raid...
PG suggested Hardware/Software hybrids...here's a good one.
In his list of ideas (#27) for YC PG recently suggested combining hardware with software to create a compelling product that's mostly software anyway. Flip did that.
William Boltz has a very interesting book

https://www.eisenbrauns.com/ECOM/_2JN00T3AO.HTM

about an invention that China didn't adopt when it could have (as shown by recently uncovered archeological evidence): a written system based on the consistent sound-indicating principle relatively easy for the masses to learn. That might have made for a radical change in Chinese history, coupled with the subsequent inventions of paper and of movable-type printing.

See

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go2081/is_/ai_n2867916...

for an overview of Boltz's argument.
Mashups are not all one thing. Sometimes it's a lone hacker modifying their own data, so licenses are not an issue. Sometimes it's data that the authors intended to be shared. And sometimes people are just retards and they steal or misuse other peoples' stuff.

Flickr is all about sharing and it tries pretty hard to give the users tools to control access to data and to express their licensing intent. For example, as much as is possible, there is simply no trace of private data in searches that don't have proper authorization. For public data, it is not a given that you can republish or modify the work. So the atom feeds have links to the licenses for each photo or video, and the API has similar features when obtaining photo info.

Users are able to grant a mashup app access to their private data in a formalized way (and to revoke it later). Finally, Flickr is also able to revoke the rights of any particular app to download data or simply throttle them to a reasonable amount per day.

All sites that offer RSS or an API should do these sorts of things. (The oAuth standard is a formalization of some of the techniques that sites like Flickr use.)
Artisan System PHP Framework 0.2 Release
Very excited about this release. It should be pretty stable and contains a lot of new updates:
New database model, totally rewritten to be very easy to use and very fast,
New model-view controller layout to be more user friendly and faster,
New focus as an e-commerce framework,
Lots of new documentation in the Wiki,
New bug database with Mantis,
First piece of software, Artisan Blog, written with it.
I am not a lawyer but isn't it just like comedians cant be sued for copying something and giving it a spin? These are service sites, not content sites, so they are preforming a task upon the content and thus it's okay to do what ever. right?
No, I don't have to back up it up. That's the whole point.
Selective neglect: My closet is a mess. So is my basement. I spend time with my wife and kids.

Efficiency: I keep my priority list in front of me so I'm always coding the most important things. I use a Lisp dialect so that I can make effective use of short coding sessions. A lot of my progress in the past few years has been during 35-minute train rides.
The bumper sticker answer is, "If you want peace, work for justice." And that's not too bad as a first approximation. It's very rare for two countries with genuine democracy and protection of civil liberties for all inhabitants and free enterprise economies to go to war with each other. It's rare for such countries even to have much internal strife that leads to bloodshed. Promoting freedom promotes peace.

Of course, I haven't answered the question here that instantly arises: how does one promote freedom? (And, especially, how does one do that through peaceful means?) That's an interesting topic to discuss. I have lived through one country's (Taiwan's) transformation from one-party dictatorship with political assassinations at home and abroad to multiparty democracy with a vigorous free press and largely independent judiciary. I'd like to see some other countries make the same transition, as that would make the world a safer and more peaceful place.
Let me rephrase this question because I have the exact same problem:

Granted that I do not have enough time to start a start up myself, or seek out VCs for money, since I NEED my 9-5 job to feed myself and family (literally), I am naturally seeking for one or few people to start the company with so that we have enough time/brainpower between the X of us to actually make the startup work at least while we are actually paying in peanuts.

Now my unfortunate problem is that I don't have a friend I am willing to do this with. So is there a methodology people here use to find someone to start the startup with?

Now it's either that OR I am forced to wait until my wife graduates with her masters and gets a higher-paying job than me. In which case I guess I can quit work and focus on the startup. Is this the better alternative than looking for someone?
I very rarely did homework at home during high school... therefore my panic time was reduced to schooltime as I frantically tried to do the homework during other classes.
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"Amid Iceland's euphoria, there were warnings. In 2006, analysts at Danske Bank wrote a paper titled "Geyser Crisis" saying that Iceland's banks had grown too much, and the country was dangerously reliant on the willingness of foreigners to keep sending money.

"Hedge funds attacked the Icelandic krona. The banks weathered the assault, and the krona bounced back. Fatally, Iceland viewed its successful defense as proof of the banks' resilience.

"But the Danske Bank team wasn't wrong, just early."
"The Banach-Tarski Gyroscope is an intricate mechanism believed to have been constructed using the Axiom of Choice. On each complete rotation counterclockwise, the Banach-Tarski Gyroscope doubles in volume while maintaining its shape and density; on rotating clockwise, the volume is halved. When first discovered, fortunately in the midst of interstellar space, the Banach-Tarski Gyroscope was tragically mistaken for an ordinary desk ornament. Subsequently it required a significant portion of the available energy of the contemporary galactic civilization to reverse the rotation before nearby star systems were endangered; fortunately, the Banach-Tarski Gyroscope still obeys lightspeed limitations on rotation rates, and cannot grow rapidly once expanding past planetary size. After the subsequent investigation, the Banach-Tarski Gyroscope was spun clockwise and left spinning."
Computing can't be compared to the car industry.

The car is just one industry that is (was?) part of the Industrial Revolution. And the Industrial Revolution isn't even over; it's still going on in places like China.

Computing is more like the whole Industrial Revolution. It's not just a new kind of gadget, it's a whole new set of principles. Business models will come and go but I don't see any end to rapid change for at least the next 50 years.

Even if we hit a limit to Moore's Law tomorrow, the world would take a long time to even come to grips with the technology we already have, but isn't widely distributed yet. Consider that Facebook doesn't rely on any technology that wasn't available in 1997. And yet it took until 2007 for the economies of scale and the changes in society to make Facebook possible.
For the quick summary, go to 42:00 on the audio, and slide 43.
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Be careful, friends... digging too deep into set theory is one of the surest ways to go insane. You quickly reach the edge of what you consciousness can handle.
Scrapy: New Python web crawling & scraping framework (built on Twisted)
I actually got into programming in high school, when I needed tools for my math class, e.g. simplifying radicals, finding roots, etc.

Well, I wanted to program games too, but they just seemed too far fetch at the time, and I had no idea where to start.
Certainly not Ayn Rand; she thought it would be here yesterday.
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The NYTimes.com loves GeoDjango
Here's a couple of interesting videos, obviously very specific to the particular apps:

"Developing Erlang at Yahoo" http://bayfp.blip.tv/file/1281369/ - Talks about the transition of Delicious from Perl to Erlang, including live migrations of the DB.

"Taking Large-Scale Applications Offline" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cePFlJ8sGj4 - in particular, the section on "Versioning and phased rollouts: what to do when you can't assume all servers have the same code"
SMS is a cash cow. It's the only thing that really makes money for some carriers. After voice, it's generally the biggest contributor to ARPU (average revenue per user) -- more than selling ring tones or 3G service.

This isn't really a big secret; read any quarterly report from a carrier or, heck, read the press release about the report.
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Coming to agree with each other that it is not a cliche to ask terribly important questions is probably a very good start.

Maybe there is hope for the geek of the earth after all!

A modest contribution to chew on:

* Peace is not only the absence of overt violence.
First look at Windows 7 beta 1 (build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400)
Awesome! A good insight into the complexities of writing reusable libraries. While he talks about game development, the problem seen in GD is much more intense than things seen in application development. However the same concepts apply and this definitely helps with the problems I've been having at work with API designs.

If you plan on writing a framework of any sort, listen to this :)
It was leaked via a torrent. Article detailing that found here:

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/27/windows-7-beta-iso-l...
I work when I feel like it. I don't work when I feel like it.

I don't have a separate office and I haven't been able to stick to any schedule more concrete than that.

Its probably not an ideal situation, but it seems to be working out pretty well so far.
On a more general note, a few hard rules like this are important. They do wonders.

For example, I'm off liquor until the PhD's finished. Permanently: no delivered pizza, and nothing but regular coffee or espresso from coffee shops (specifically, no mochas, which I take like liquid crack).

I can ignore the rules for special occasions, which helps keep me in moderation even when I'm in these unusual circumstances.
Tweetree doing exactly what Twitter should be - providing more context and metadata