skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding 3 - why would you want to make it smaller? It can easily be held with 1 hand as they were doing in the demo. It weighs under 3lbs (maybe a couple oz' less when they make it smaller/remove stuff) - I can comfortably hold my MacBook Air with 1 hand while I type with the other and it weighs 3lbs.
Large enterprises may forbid employees from using Yammer for any business-related communication due to security and legal concerns. Yammer may have more luck focusing on small enterprises, non-profits, and universities.
As I remember, there was only one major player who realised it. I think this is the definition of non-obvious.

If it was so obvious that is was artificial, then you would have taken the bet.
I can say that from our own personal experience at Picwing that getting into hardware is no easy task. Like many in this thread have commented, it is a very messy, expensive, time consuming ordeal. So if you can at all avoid doing it, then you should. If you can find a ready-to-use alternative, or something that might be close to an alternative, then I would suggest going with that.

With that said, we got into hardware because we didn't really find anything quite like what we wanted to make for the price that we wanted. So we went ahead and started building something custom for ourselves. That's not to say we really underestimated the time and effort involved in doing so. We spent more time on the hardware than we would have liked...time that we could have spent improving software.

Regarding the other questions, our device is designed to run arbitrary flash 10 code (within reasonable constraints), but does not run arbitrary AIR code. We develop and test our software on regular PCs, and then test again on the Picwing. The environments are close enough that we don't need to have an emulator.
I don't see how there would be slavery. The only people living on a seastead would be those who wanted to. I don't know how they would get slaves to come with them.

And yeah, if you don't like laissez-faire, you don't have to join a seastead that practices it. That's the whole point -- choosing your system of government.
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Seems to be a lot of people here who have a sound and rational knowledge of this game as the OP imagined there would be. I have a question and would be very grateful if someone could answer.

I have a good reason to believe that a relatively small Chinese company will be bought over by a massive US company this year. being a total newb, would it be feasible for me to buy shares in this company easily so that I can profit from them when it is bought? someone suggested sharebuilder.com. Anyone ever use them?
No, not utopia. Just government with the incentive to govern well because its citizens' exit costs are dramatically reduced. See Patri's original post on the theory of Dynamic Geography here:

http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/new_pages/dynamic_geogra...

Patri also blogs and puts in frequent appearances on the Distributed Republic blog, where I also write.

It should be noted that Dynamic Geography is not explicitly libertarian. Rather, it is meant to align the interest of government more closely with those of its people. Since libertarians started the Dynamic Geography movement, they believe that most seasteads will be libertarian since those policies are believed to be best for the welfare of its residents. But if there were a large demand for non-libertarian societies, the market would meet this demand.

If you think Dynamic Geography is interesting, you also might be interested in Moldbug's Neocameralism, which seeks to replace land governments with for-profit corporations:

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/11/patchwo...

A few weeks ago, I explored several of these ideas on the Distributed Republic, which I dubbed as "structural libertarian" ideas:

http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2008/12/24/down-with...
I don't see how there would be slavery. The only people living on a seastead would be those who wanted to. I don't know how they would get slaves to come with them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Trafficking
Sounds like a profitable business to me.
Completely agree that the team is very important in getting funded, but so are connections.

Yammer is Founders Fund backed. 3 of the 4 partners from the Founders Fund are PayPal cofounders (Peter Thiel is the big name, but there's also Ken Howery and Luke Nosek) - Yammer's CEO David Sacks was the COO at PayPal before its acquisition.
offtopic:

you were going to post about spending $1000 for advertising http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=420300

How is it coming along? :-)
IRC? AIM? Gtalk? Chatterous? Campfire? iChat (it has video!!1)?

I recently invented a cylindrical device which may be moved by being pushed or rotated via a center axis. It's not a true cylinder; I added some bumps to it so as to make it less efficient, but I have a feeling it's going to become way more popular than these "wheel" things everybody is using now.
I think it's important also to note that the article's author highlights one of the primary issues being "dueling knols" where instead of collaborating (as in a wiki) knol authors compete for the primary knol on a subject.
It sounds like your friends tried to beat the market, so their experience is not applicable to my advice. Nor is the need to spend your time looking at stock quotes on LCD screens.
Watch this summer for the launch of Falcon9 from the Cape.

Pretty pics of Falcon9 on the launch pad for testing earlier this month: http://spacex.com/updates.php
Looked interesting - but, 14 pages - seems a bit excessive.
I think most people have realised that there's no security at large corporations.

For recent proof, look at the thousands laid off at many large corporations (google, yahoo, ms, etc).
Would you consider startups not based in the US?
The Impact of Virtualization on Network Security
There are various types of virtualization from a technical standpoint, but the one discussed in this paper is known as server or full virtualization, which is the most prevalent type used for production.
David,

I don't know what your definition of "beating the market" is. What my friends did was to try to find undervalued small caps by looking at the fundamentals. In that sense, what they were doing was more "investing" than "trading". It worked really well for a while, then one of the companies failed to bring a product to the market on time and the stock took a nose dive. Well, the lesson to learn is that due diligence is a wonderful thing. In the arrogance of youth, these guys thought that looking at P/E ratios and other such figures would make them rich. They lost some money, but they're wiser now ;-)
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I agree. I would like to work on a hardware startup, but I wouldn't focus on consumer hardware like TechCrunch is. Once you start concentrating on the average Joe, the costs go way up. Industrial hardware is better for a garage startup environment.
Like the segway, I can hardly remember life before Google Knol. Strange to think it's only been six months.
Knol is "me too" in the same way Wikipedia is "me too" for Encyclopedia Britannica: it is based on a very different production process. I don't know if the competition model will eventually work for them (it does work for Youtube or the Web as a whole, for example), but there is nothing inherently wrong with it from my limited perspective. Everyone can write knols, it is up to authors to establish reputation or transfer it from the real world.
I got internship and full time SWE jobs at Google. They're competitive. About the same as Microsoft (though, they have better insurance and different tax situation), I'd say pay is comparable (I am getting quite a bit of income out of the food lets say). All in the last two years.
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From books, Obama found his voice
Obama has said that he wrote "very bad poetry" in college and his biographer David Mendell suggests that he once "harbored some thoughts of writing fiction as an avocation." For that matter, "Dreams From My Father" evinces an instinctive storytelling talent (which would later serve the author well on the campaign trail) and that odd combination of empathy and detachment gifted novelists possess. In that memoir, Obama seamlessly managed to convey points of view different from his own (a harbinger, perhaps, of his promises to bridge partisan divides and his ability to channel voters' hopes and dreams) while conjuring the many places he lived during his peripatetic childhood. He is at once the solitary outsider who learns to stop pressing his nose to the glass and the coolly omniscient observer providing us with a choral view of his past.
Does Python have an equivalent to HAML?
hoodie people are pround citizens of the Obama Nation
Anyone remember the IBM "Deathstar" drive issues? Think that all but killed their consumer drive sales.
Word, I love web.py's flexibility as you have stated you can fit the entire app into one file. Or you can break it down to many pieces. I tend to favor the latter as it allows me to structure the app the way I want.
" It's clear to me that there's no logical reason that one answer is correct."

Exactly. Can't count the number of times I have seen an endless comment thread to a yes/no question where the answer is that it depends.

In the linked case for instance, for some people being told that the price of an item has changed is just noise, while for others it is meaningful information. The percentage shift a price can take without a person caring at all is a function of that specific individual (their wealth, wealth history, family upbringing, etc).
Love this as well:

"Well I've got bad news for you. I'm not that rich and I'm not that successful. But I have been around successful people. You see I'm a journalist. If you go to a stadium and you see the crowd doing the wave, there are some people who just sit there watching. Those people are journalists. We lead boring lives while hanging around people who lead interesting lives.

And I've observed a few things about the few really great people I've had a chance to meet and cover. First, they tend to have really big heads. As someone once said, what they have doesn't look like a head. It looks like a container for a head. They also can't sit still. They need to be around people. You and I require sleep. They require people."
I'm doing some IRC stats for langpop.com, and if you want technical help, someplace like Freenode is still the place to be. Where can you get Ruby help on IM?
Both.

If you do anything in Java, people will ask for Eclipse integration. Clearly the market has spoken in Java-world ;)

Emacs is good because people who are "good at Emacs" are good at text-editing in general. The tool is more general, but that means they can maintain the majority of their output speed in a new language, or a language where things like automated refactoring are tricky or impossible to reliably do (say, Ruby)

BTW: I'd say "easily installed, strong, consistent" applies more to text editors than IDEs. Emacs has a windows binary thats pretty reasonably sized, whereas Eclipse is in the hundred megabyte range and Visual Studio (insert chuckle here).
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Ask HN: Resources for IT Newbies -- OR -- Scarecrows at the Black Gate of IT
tl;dr version: Can someone point me to resources designed to help someone understand IT basics?

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I've got an acquaintance in her early twenties who is unhappy at her current job (customer support for Verizon) and is interested in IT because she's heard there are lots of jobs with good salaries.

She sent me a message explaining that she was considering a tech college. It's going to cost her $12k for a 46-week program, which has me concerned.

More than the college itself, though, the problem is that she's not a geek -- not by any stretch of the imagination. Not that being a nerd is a solid IT prerequisite, but in college she actually tried majoring in computer graphics technology and dropped out after only a few months.

I figure the best way to approach it is to say "listen, there are free/cheap resources out there -- read this, this, and this, and if you're still interested then you're probably capable of teaching yourself everything you need to know, so keep your $12k and start ordering books from Amazon instead".

I could use some help pointing her to some beginner resources, though. Besides having no serious IT background, part of my difficulty stems from the fact that "IT" is pretty difficult to Google.
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You can't win the argument, because millions of people are still using it, and it's growing...

I assume your startup failed. Perhaps that's tainted your view a tad.
By beating the market, I mean trying to outperform, say, the S&P 500 by identifying underpriced stocks and buying them (and also, by implication, staying away from overpriced stocks).
Someone needs to do a parody of Wired Magazine. Here's my attempt at an article that would be contained therein:

A solar powered sea colony, built entirely out of carbon nanotubes, whose building plans are open source, Creative Commons share-alike licensed. The construction was crowd-sourced, and the colony profits from the issuance of virtual currency used in transactions involving a Long Tail of virtual goods. It is scheduled to go IPO next year in China.
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I quite enjoyed that. It really does amaze me how far computer graphics software/hardware has come since those days. I'd love to know what the guys who worked on that bit of kit went on to do.
As did I. In my case, the problem was running it on a VPS that had no user-visible swap, no way to add swap space and possibly some other memory-related oddities that I don't remember. The workaround ended up being to limit SBCL's memory usage with --dynamic-space-size.
It's amazing how much time and money people will spend to avoid buying Oracle :-P
It definitely seems like an overly harsh review. It almost sounds like you bruised his ego because he was only rated 90/100, and that's why it's so negative. I mean come on, 99% of the facebook apps I see are way more useless than this one.
Yeah, that struck me as odd too. This is supposed to be an automated job from what I heard.
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Zappos' support staff have a very good reputation.

Slicehost too, but I don't think they do phone support.
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Summary: all scientists think all other scientists have vested interests the opposite to their own.
I have to agree. I know CL quite well, and decided to have a look at scheme last week. I wrote a small (but useful) program with PLT and was rather impressed by the amount of library code available. Distributing the program as a small stand-alone executable to a friend was also incredibly simple. Also, I particularly liked the module system and wish CL had something similar.
I like doing things on the cheap so I think you should prototype your software on something of comparable size to the device you want and see if it's even usable before you dive into a bunch of hardware.

If you want to work with something you might have sitting around, you can do stuff with a Linksys Router. It won't have a touchscreen, but you could mock up some web pages for what you want and get a pretty good idea if it's going to work.

Here's a link with some info:
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3562391

Here's some other page that had some source code:
http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

The source there had a README that said I needed this:
ftp://ftp.linksys.com/opensourcecode/wrt54gl/4.30.11/WRT54GL_v4.30.11_11_US.tgz
Clojure can be as fast as Java on benchmark-type code using type hints, Java interop and unchecked math. Idiomatic Clojure code will be slower on benchmarks. Operations on persistent data structures are slower than mutation. Reflection takes time.

Back in the real world, Clojure actually does pretty well for itself. As an example, it seems to be fairly common to generate collections of various types and then only use part of them. In Clojure, most of the time those collections would be lazy, saving computations every time the whole thing isn't needed. Also, using clojure.parallel, many operations can be parallelized trivially. I got a 50% speedup running a genetic algorithm on a dual-core machine just by changing a sort to psort.

Of course, hand-optimized Java may still be faster, but Clojure makes it easier.
Although Java puts everything in an class, not everything in Java is an object. For instance, you can't write:

Package p = java.lang;
Class x = p.String;
x y = "Hello";
Method z = y.substring;
w = z(0, 5);
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Accurate summary: He likes his MacBook that is not a MacBook Air.
> Every time a new chunk of radio spectrum becomes available, Google argues it should be opened to the public. Sounds great—except to telcos that have wanted it for themselves and broadcasters that worry new devices will mess with their transmissions.

> Google's insatiable hunger for data scares even some of its allies. Now its business rivals have launched a privacy crusade to drum up fears that Big Brother lives in Mountain View.

Google wants to compete on a landscape that favors innovation but the old guard (which apparently includes wired) is doing everything they can to stop them.
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A friend of mine was kicked off google ads. Now he can't find anyone else to replace them with.

Monopoly.
Yet another data-point in the long, slow tabloidization of the BBC.
How I switched to the Mac
It would be good to see some more competition here. Sun, Dell, HP, IBM, they each have interesting strengths. But Cisco does have a chance to shake things up.
PostalMethods have great SOAP XML (and HTTP POST) Web Services which would make enable you to quickly complete the integration development and focus on your website.

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Good luck.
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Congrats for squeezing all that hype Wired has published recently in one single paragraph. Am I the only one who thinks that the average quality of Wired's content has decreased abruptly in recent years?
Hm, I was originally buying exclusively Seagate due to their excellent warranty policy. Well, I thought it was excellent until I had to RMA a drive. They expected me to ship it to them in my own packaging where as WD sent me a box+foam first for free, with no questions asked. Seagate wanted $20 for their "+1" package that sent you a new drive first and asked you to send you the old one in the packaging they used.
By your logic, you could have outsourced the design as well.
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I can't recommend Taleb enough
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Not to mention Hacker News...
An IPO does not guarantee an exit.

In the UK - typically founders will be explicitly locked in to 2 years service before they can sell any shares - and even then they will only be allowed to sell through the company's main broker and not directly to the market.

At the top of a market you may get away with selling some shares during the IPO itself but in leaner times this is seen as a negative action and discouraged.
Effort management, part 2. (Comparison of Mac to-do managers)
well, both technologies are interesting on their own. but comparing them is a stretch.

Instead of bringing seaside to ruby, can we bring a merb-like framework in smalltalk? seaside's continuations are very cool. But I do not need them for most interactions, just the more complex ones.
Drop down box on this page is a flash back to pre-Google times
Building your own fax-to-email gateway with HylaFAX, Asterisk, and IAXmodem.
They have the 40 minutes rule for reasons of efficiency, the policy is clearly stated so I don't see why you were upset - you should arrive earlier. As for the fog, not much Ryanair can do about that I'm afraid.
Amazon Web Services meetup Amsterdam
Once again this proves that the biggest security risk by far is users.

Maybe the security industry should start hiring people with a psychology background to try and alleviate the problem?
Of course real money doesn't "mitigate the random process in some way." You're just more likely to switch to real money if you seem to be doing well as opposed to poorly, and I'm saying that the appearance of doing well is misplaced.
I just started reading Andrew Tobias's book, "The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need", and so far it looks like it will be good.

End of the first chapter:

"There are, in fact, very few ways to get rich quick. Fewer sill that are legal. Here's one: Take $5000 (borrow it if you have to), place it on 22 at the nearest roulette table, and win $175,000. Don't laugh. Many complicated schemes, if they were stripped of their trappings and somehow reduced to their underlying odds, would not be much less risky. It's the trappings - the story, the pitch - that obscure the odds and persuade people to ante up the $5000 they'd never dream of betting at roulette."

He talks about how the book is about seeing the forest through the trees. You can learn all you want about a certain type of investment, but what you really need to know is whether you should be involved in that investment in the first place.

"For example: It is a fact that 90% or more of the people who play the commodities game get burned. I submit that you have now read all you need ever read about commodities."
Something about having proper page numbers and type setting makes going through a book easier. Like having a small, virtual progress bar as you go along.
Just like you argue that the "old guard" are fighting to keep the status quo of how they make money, Google is fighting to make the competitive landscape favor its business model. Neither are evil or good. It's just business.

Calling Google's landscape as favoring innovation is just sugar coating it. At the end of the day Google does not like anything that may disrupt its business; the Wired article is a great example: Google did all it can to stop MS from buying out Yahoo! and succeeded only to find out later that the war was never about Yahoo!.

There is a lot of "wrong" things about Google just as there are a lot of "wrong" things with MS and the "old guard". So please, put down that Google Kool Aid (beta) cup and see the world for what it is: hard nosed business as usual. Google is no angel and it shouldn't be.
The Principality of Sealand even has its own website!
http://www.sealandgov.org

In 2000, Wired wrote a cool article on Sealand:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/haven.html
How about taking the approach of Steve Blanks 'Customer development' about which, there was a thread a few days ago to figure out where one stands?
They would have had fewer issues with sbcl on linux.