skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if they manipulate the market downwards my investment. is worth less. I'd buy a stock long term for dividends. But since dividends are apparently rare these days (something about the evil of double taxing), we're forced to invest in the hopes that somebody will believe it's worth more later. What used to give stocks some worth was they value of the dividend, that you'd reinvest, to compound over the long term.

Without dividends, I think you should just invest in currencies. It's just as volatile, and you don't have to lie to people about the nature of the marketplace.
John Backus: Entrepreneur First, VC Second
> People pirate media because they don't want to pay for it.

>>> People pirate media because they understand they shouldn't have to pay for it. We pay for services rendered (Netflix) or goods delivered (DVD's). Everything else is either tax or extortion.

I guess I just come at this from a different angle. I never really felt that I was entitled to media that I didn't produce myself. And that if I wanted that media, there is a price to pay for it. And that if you don't want the media, you don't pay a price for it.

Am I missing something here?
Study Looks Inside the Fake Twitter, Facebook Account Marketplace
They're not making a Twitter clone, they're just cloning some of the features of networks like Twitter and Facebook.
We have got numerous case studies on the checkout page http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/case-studies.php

Some of the common tactics that have worked for our customers:

- Providing a summary of what they have ordered and making sure there are no hidden surprises (extra taxes or shipping charges)

- Adding trust indicators like Verisign seal (yes, they really work!)

- Not requiring them to create an account just to checkout

- Adding phone number and physical address that customers can reach out in case they need help

- Good looking design (people subconsciously associate good design with higher trust. If you have an odd color, or a grammatical mistake, or a dangling element, it tells how careless you are at designing the most critical page, so you would be careless with their money as well)
A little more about the East Coast startup scene, with a focus on my Washington, DC backyard.
An animated javascript marker clustering library for Leaflet maps
Leaflet is a promising framework so it's great to see open source add-ons for it. This clustering library has an impressive and comprehensive set of features: configurable look and feel, clusters with counts, hover shows the convex hull of clustered points, zooming shows a transition as the clusters split apart, coincident points are differentiated with a spiral layout.
Nah, I think it looks and functions as much like iOS keyboards as it does my G1's physical keys: http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/files/2008/09/android-open.jp...

Maybe even the G1 took hints from iOS, but I'd be dubious to believe Apple created or holds any merits over much of their design(s). Does Samsung lift Apple designs? I think so. Does Apple own much of the designs they have legal documents over? I think not.

I don't believe this is about confusing customers; I think it is about closing the gap with customer awareness. I'd love for most of these interfaces to share common grounds; I think it is a large reason to why Windows, OSX, and GNU/Linux <insert GUI> are so fragmented and unfamiliar to those that have to or are looking to move between platforms.
My justification, from just a few days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4330336
It sounds more like he was hoping to get $95k than that he was playing a practical joke. As if banks have senses of humor. And after the bank and media noticed the situation, he was probably enjoying the attention in addition to holding out hope that he'd still get to keep the money somehow. It's sleazy how he tries to spin it as if he had some moral high ground.
There were no environmental issues in the Americas before "Land Ownership".

That was before the industrial revolution and consumerism. That's why America was so pristine and clean.

The deforestation was due to farming not necessarily land ownership. Go to maps.google.com and look up any eastern US state. You'll find that almost all the deforestation is due to farming fields. Deforestation and farming happens even in communal lands. And that happens because people need food (either to eat or to export to others who want to eat). Deforestation will happen with or without land ownership.

"Living natively didn't cause the land grab. Other people's notions of land ownership is what caused the land grab."

That's like saying "Living without an army didn't cause a country to lose the war. Other people's notions of invade & conquer is what caused the war." Well of course. When the whole world operates on the notions of land ownership and great countries are built on those rules, not having it screws a country. My argument has some flaws because with or without land ownership humans are reckless. They're just more likely to be punished or motivated when they own something. But you seem to be unable to make the connection between Africa's lack of growth, lack of investment, and extreme poverty and the inability to own land. Do people really think Africa is going to get somewhere like this?! This defies all historical examples of nation and empire building. It ignores history. As if tribal lands are really going to give birth to a wealthy, healthy nation. This is just Ludicrous.

"Being behind" and "Building wealth" sound like nonsense that [African's] deliberately want no parts of. Their state is not something they're trying to get away from. It is desired." & "[African's] will-power is why they live traditionally, not land ownership."

I honestly cannot believe you uttered that statement. At this point, there's no reason to debate with someone that ignores so much history, so much suffering, so many problems, and so much struggle, and writes it off as simply "they don't mind it at all, they like it". This is why we need better world history in American classrooms.
If I understand and remember it correctly, HiRISE doesn't have an FPS in the traditional sense. It's best to think of the detector as a one-dimensional array of pixels. The motion of the satellite in its orbit then sweeps this array over the ground, allowing two-dimensional images to be made - one of the dimensions is time, but when something is moving, time becomes a spatial dimension.
Congrats on shipping!

A couple thoughts:

* It looks very iOS'y. I'd be much more aggressive about embracing a 'native' Android look and feel.

* CRM integration is a must, but it's hard to say which ones are most important. I'd put the equivalent of a SaaS MVP landing page into the app that shows the logos for the top 5 (or whatever) CRM systems and records which ones users click on.
You can't charge a fee to the customer. But the retailer still has to pay a fee whenever you use any type of credit card.

Which is why I feel like a dick if I ever have to use my credit card for a sub 30kr ($5ish) purchase in a small business.
Looks like there was quite a lot of time for taking pictures[1], 172 second to be exact between parachute deployment and touchdown.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/672880main_martin_mur-1-4...
Yup - gordon@shephard.org has been going to Google Apps for at least 4+ years @$50/year - My break point is about $10/month (or $120/year) - particularly as I get the fairly awesome 2-factor auth from Google.
I love the one line install. The solution certainly won't be perfect for everyone but having such a pain-free way to test it out is awesome.
Actually, I was wondering the same thing last week. I happened to accidentally land on their site while searching for something and was greeted with the nginx msg. As per their Wikipedia article, they sent an email sometime last month notifying about the shut down.
Yes, he's objecting to the idea that intellectual property is valid, and there's a good case to be made for that.

People instinctively feel paying for property and services is justified, but not for information and intellectual property is just a way of trying to make people think information is property. If I steal something from you, I must have deprived you of it; copying is not stealing.
This needs to be done.
Groklaw would be awesome as a summary that average people can read and understand... if it wasn't for the spin.

Thing like excusing being late to file "Do you know how late Samsung was in the three instances I found? Two days late on two occasions, and one month late on another". Meanwhile if you are late by even one day paying a fee for a vehicle offense your license is suspended (at least in my state). Or try being just 1 hour late for jury duty and see how forgiving the judge is. Nobody else can get away with missing a court date.

There must be something not quite right about the case because the judge is following the rules. What?!
I assume that it got shut down due to inactivity. The few times I checked it, there were only a handful of posts from months ago.
Interesting, its like "scanning" not a shutter "clicking". That being said it was much more likely given the MRO's orbit that it would be able to scan Mars and have Curiosity in that scan path. You can even correlate the angle of the photo to the location of the MRO: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/672880main_martin_mur-1-4...
Fine.

Then stop whining that "ohmahgawdz I can't find talent!!!11!!1"
2012 London Olympics: The First 9 Days
is there one without the white box?
I agree, what a bad headline but what a fine story well told.
Beware, Tech Abandoners. People Without Facebook Accounts Are 'Suspicious.'
Make more friends :)
The conversation was about Apple removing built-in hardware from their computers when making new models, not about Apple blocking third-party software.
The simple truth is that people will willingly pay good money for a product they value.

The biggest pirates I knew would shell out a lot of money for broadband internet access, before there was much reason to have such a thing - unless you were into torrents. Clearly they were willing to pay money to get the content they want. They're morality just wasn't very integrated with their consumption habits.
There is the option of GoCardless (https://gocardless.com/) in the UK, however they use the Direct Debit system rather than card processing which does somewhat limit you geographically.
Dear Mozilla Mirrors – Thank You (Mozilla's CDN test results)
It's hard to give others advice that will help them. You know what you wish you knew 5 years ago, but much of that may be inapplicable to others in a similar position now.

Take the list posted here. It could be terrible advice to a different start-up founder with similar goals if that person already knows how to code, and is working on a product that is more complicated than a 2 week prototype can cover.
There's probably a radiation issue that wouldn't make it suitable for close to human contact. I wonder how much energy the rover needs to move around since the gravity there is considerably weaker.
With enough (and the right kind of) clients a "Centralized" service could be seen as distributor to independent nodes. From there, with the right archiving / sharing features of those "clients" those independent nodes can start to become a decentralized service. The internet itself relies on centralized DNS standards organization & servers. To me, App.net (and their commitment to users being customers instead of a product) represents a move in this direction.
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Yeah, thanks for the answer. I was being facetious, because our micromanager would divert the meetings to be daily 25 minute meetings! Daily.
I had a quick look at his SSToolkit framework which he published on github. I reviewed he source code because he said he is doing iOS code reviews for $1000/hour. After five minutes or so I stopped taking him serious. In my opinion his code is good but really far from brilliant. There are even some serious flaws in his code - at least in my opinion. Here is a short and imcomplete summary of his code ( https://github.com/samsoffes/sstoolkit ):

The method -randomObject (NSArray+SSToolkitAdditions) is supposed to return a random object but when he is generating a random number he is generating non-uniform random numbers.

In general his category methods are not prefixed. This will definitely break something sooner or later.

He is not using the designated initializer or NSDate - although it would make sense in -dateValue (NSNumber-SSToolkitAdditions)

He is drawing patterns in -drawRect: where he could simply set the background image to a pattern color.

He is not using the shortcut functions for handling CGRects.

He has a file containing utility drawing functions (SSDrawingUtilities). This file contains functions like CGRectSetWidth, CGRectSetOrigin and so on which pollute the CG namespace which is owned by Apple...
I highly recommend EncFS. It's easy to set up and simple to use. The main downside I know of is that is doesn't keep the number of files or their sizes private but, really, who cares?
How does wasting 60 minutes in a meeting cancel out 2 minutes saved elsewhere? I'm not sure I follow that logic. You still got 2 more minutes of labor from that programmer than you would have otherwise.
could it just be his audience, I'm incredibly against adding my credit card on any site.
Well it's not that simple because you have to take under consideration that MRO also moves. So basically you have two objects moving at some thousand kilometers per hour in different trajectories and you have an open window of a few seconds to take the picture.
Non developers like my mom can extend Firefox to fix a better UI for downloads – and that's and argument for Firefox not to have great defaults?
“The good thing about automation is that you don’t have to involve real people to make decisions. The bad thing about automation is that you don’t have to involve real people to make decisions.”

Indeed and this is what scares from relying completely on Google's services.
Ask HN: Anyone know what the Svbtle CMS looks like (screenshot)?
Not really. The MRO is moving fast and at a relatively low orbit.

"If HiRISE took the image one second before or one second after, we probably would be looking at an empty Martian landscape," said Sarah Milkovich, HiRISE investigation scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "When you consider that we have been working on this sequence since March and had to upload commands to the spacecraft about 72 hours prior to the image being taken, you begin to realize how challenging this picture was to obtain."[1]

[1]: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20120806b.html
Ok, I didn't understand that part because the ATM here, in France, actually scan the notes.

You deposit the notes and the machine scans and count everything you deposited and gives you the number. If you agree, your account is credited.

I guess you could design fake notes that pass just the ATM...
By hours, I assume you mean months. It took me just shy of two months to get my merchant account set up a couple years back.

In theory, you could do it in less time, but only if you already have your business licensed, registered and a business bank account set up in exactly the right way.

But since that's part of the list of things you need to do to get a traditional payment provider set up that Stripe doesn't require, it's a little disingenuous to pretend that setup times are in any way comparable.

I set up Stripe for two of my products recently. In both cases, it was a matter of minutes to get the account verified and processing real charges from real credit cards and having them sent to my bank account.
The JPL coding standards (http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf) linked in one of the comments seems surprisingly flexible. I would have expected more limitations.
Show HN: Pylocation - An IP address geolocation wrapper written in Python.
I don't know why this is getting down voted. Stripe is close to my most hated company right now because they're not available in the UK :) It's really annoying.
This argument always comes up and it never makes any sense.

The GNU is exactly the opposite of normal copyright. The fact that it is based on copyright law is just an implementation detail because the FSF does not have enough clout to pass actual laws. It's a clever hack of the legal system, not an ideological reaffirmation of copyright.

The idea behind normal copyright--what some people here do not like--is to limit others' access to information. The whole point is that you cannot copy something without the right-owner's permission.

The GPL is the opposite. The core idea there is that you are not only allowed to make a copy of something, but you are also allowed to access the source code. In practical terms, this is just as important as being able to copy a program because the only meaningful way to make modifications is with access to the source code. Moreover, the license ensures that anybody using the licensed program keeps it free in the same way.

Essentially, where normal copyright keeps you from using the information, the GPL keeps you from using copyright law to keep others from using the information. In a very practical sense, something under the GPL is more free than something in the public domain--I could ship you something containing public domain code and not give you the source code or even let you modify it. I could not do that with the GPL.

Another way to look at it is that normal copyright gives rights to the "rights-holder" over the consumer. The GPL gives rights to the consumer (like access to source code) rather than to the rights-holder. The "restrictions" it places are the sort of restrictions any system based around rights has to have--you have the right to do almost anything as long as you do not infringe others' rights. In this context it means you can do anything you want (including selling the software) as long as you do not stop others from modifying and redistributing it.

In short: the GPL is the opposite of copyright and it gives the consumer more freedom. The only thing it stops you from doing is taking away others' freedom. The only reason it uses copyright is because copyright effectively allows you to write your own laws (but limited to whatever works you've copyrighted) without going through the legislature. In a perfect world, it would be unnecessary--all software would just be free as in freedom.
But at the same time the USA spends more money on space programs than all other countries combined.
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Again...this is why you never ever consent to a search. You have nothing to gain from consenting to a search or talking to a police officer. There is no way any person can be aware of all federal and local regulations. It is best to avoid possible self incrimination at all costs.
"Apart from some tiny areas where cleaning is mandatory (e.g. our own orbit"

Very true, and may I add this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14763668

Basically, we're going to have a lot of cleanup problems in the very near future with Earth's orbit.
Ok, who wants to play a game? Where was MRO in this picture: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/672880main_martin_mur-1-4... when it took this picture: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/62081000/jpg/_62081182... Height of the parachute is 50m while the width is 16m. GO!
Re CDs - that's precisely why I'm trying to download albums that I bought from Amazon. I feel much safer when I have access to my media locally, on my terms, with software I choose.
Sometimes used in earth-based applications too. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen....
I'd rather not focus on this because the video showed off some great features, but when the keyboard first came up I honestly thought it was an iPad keyboard (this coming from someone who doesn't own a single Apple product). Maybe it was the colors, or maybe it was the positioning of the punctuation, but this is just an invitation for more lawsuits. I really wish they would have kept the stock Android keyboard.

Sadly, the resemblance of the keyboard is going to be what generates the most discussion, not the new (and very impressive) features.
My anecdote: I bought two albums as one-click purchases from Amazon and downloaded them to my phone before they realized my credit card info was no longer valid. I was too scared not to buy them again!
Exorcising the Demon(oid): Ukrainians raid massive BitTorrent tracker
Do Startups Have to Start in Big Cities?
> It's not about copyright, it's about respect for other human beings, respect for the people that create the content you consume.

Respect is a two way street. I think the lack of respect you are noticing is a reactive response to infinite copyright and other heavy handed tactics.
This piece has been written so as to maximally dramatize the experience of receiving a drug conviction in Florida (it's Reason, after all), but the core of the story can be summed up as:

* Man mistakenly allows police to search vehicle and is discovered to be carrying Oxy

* He pleads no-contest and as a result loses a lucrative job as a Merrill stock broker

* He receives probation, which includes a curfew (and pointless Narcotics Anonymous meetings)

* Record of the no-contest pleading hits his background checks and makes it harder to get a job

The details of watching movies in Narcotics Anonymous meetings, or of the scheduling of his nighttime MBA courses, seem besides the point (he continued going to class).

Stripped to its core, this is not a particularly compelling story about drug laws ruining (or "almost ruining") people's lives. I was surprised that the protagonist was so unsympathetic; a Reason story about Oxy is more likely to be about doctors being locked up for helping people in intractable pain. Those people (or at least the ones who it doesn't turn out are running illegal narcotic dealerships) are having their lives ruined by drug laws. This guy got a slap on the wrist, and had a job that won't tolerate even that.
Everything hard, or not well understood by the programmer is now branded a pre-optimization and hand-waved into the "we'll fix it when it becomes a problem" category.
A nonparametric model for anomaly detection, classification, and prediction in timeseries. It observes the trajectory of some measurement over time and compares it to tons of historical trajectories to see if it looks like anything that has happened before. Based on what it looks like, you can predict where it will go next, classify it (if the historical trajectories are labeled), or detect anomalies (if it doesn't look sufficiently like anything seen so far).
E-Commerce Data Confirms Red and Blue State Stereotypes
Well... as much as I like RTGs and even fission reactors there is a little bit of justification there. Of necessity an RTG pretty much needs to contain hazardous radioisotopes. Putting that into the hands of every joe blow is probably not the best idea at present.
This is a whole new frontier though... It requires constant capital, sustenance, help, support, and funding from money back home. This would be the equivalent of living off your parents and telling them you're independent and don't have to follow their rules.
It's also incredibly impressive that cake and lein were competing, and decided to join forces to bring the advantages of both to lein. We're not on lein2 yet, but it looks pretty compelling.
How  You Don't Realize Movies Are Controlling Your Brain