skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how can you call them that when you are not allowed to install your own software on those devices? Calling them computers is something I refuse and I suppose hacker news people understand why.
I can't think of any.

PS: Assuming native american cultures are included as part of the US.
> They were just acting in the socially accepted manner.

Yes, I'm guessing that this sort of thing is very common at Harvard (and, to be fair, in all colleges). They reasoned that the risk of getting caught was low enough to justify the cheating.

And they got caught. They lost their bet. So now they should pay the price.
How shall I put this - just as A people hire other A people, twenty-somethins hire other twenty-somethigs.

One of the things as a guy starting up in his 40s
I know how much even a brilliant graduate must be taught and trained and mentored. Whereas a person with 15 or more years under thier belt just needs to be inspired

this is not to say there are not exceptions, but the younger the founder the younger the median age under him/her tends to be, based at least on personal experience.

I am pleased HN has opened up entrepreneurship to people otherwise would have taken the corporate path. Now let's see if we can push the only glass ceiling that lies behind us
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Expected projects duration 3-6 mths, this is not full time, expected weekly load 1-2 days max.

Web

- devops - Linode VPS+AWS / Ubuntu / nginx - despite small start need to ensure excellent security and integrity of data, so extended experience is a plus

- back-end - Django / Python / std libs / various helper apps (scraping, email, REST, multitenant, queues, etc) - multisite/multilang - can do almost everything with Python

- db - main PostgreSQL, for specific use cases possibly Mongo and a bit of Redis

- front-end - nothing fancy, Bootstrap is fine, but need good custom colors and clean look, ability to implement designs/mock-ups in HTML/CSS fast

- might need extra help on specific functionality - chat, video chat (Flash), js charts/graphs (d3, raphael, processing)

Only one skill set is ok, two is even better :-)

Mobile - iOS, Android

On mobile projects I expect to start next couple of months, so seeking potential contacts in advance.

Simple iPhone[native]/Android app with several pages, IAP, notifications, feedback from users, multilang, a bit of crypto experience is a plus. Might need design help.

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Edit: formatting
With current schemes you are only "penalized" for capital gains when you actually have them. If you buy an item for $100, and sell it ten years later for $110 then you pay taxes on the difference. With your scheme you would have spent $40 in taxes in the mean time.

Additionally with current schemes you can balance losses against gains (rules vary by country) and you aren't penalized for investing: eg money put into a factory doesn't incur taxes until it starts producing returns.
Ask HN: Do you focus all your efforts on one project or are you project A.D.D.?
I find it personally very difficult to be a "Steve Jobs" and focus decades of my life into one single project.
In retrospect, I believe I would be way more successful today if I had stuck to one project.

What styles defines you most and how has it influenced your success so far?
You are right about not being able to account for behaviour. I would love to sit down and model the macroeconomic possibilities, as well as the potential behavioural implications.

In response to some of your points, if you have little considerable wealth, the 3% income tax is an incredible incentive to earn.

But let's assume you have considerable wealth and will have a larger tax liability than you currently have (which is an incredibly small proportion of people - I have to work it out, but estimating that it is 3% of the population).

So you are part of the (estimated) 3% that will pay more tax. If you put those assets to work, then they earn an income to pay tax (which is what those who work have no choice in).

If you are sitting on your assets, then this encourages you to participate in the economy.

For those who are poorest, we have this problem in the UK where you have to earn £20,000 per annum to have the same lifestyle as being on social benefits. Why? Because of high income taxes. Those who are poorest will benefit from a massive increase in take-home-pay. That is the key aim of this proposal: encourage/reward people to work.

And yes, the spreadsheet is simplistic and implementing this would be much more complex. For example, economic assets like factories would have to be ringfenced as disposal of those would be detrimental to the economy.

Clarifications: wealth would be net (i.e. less debt)

When you say saving, do you mean sticking cash under the mattress or in a bank? Inflation is higher than interest rates right now; why is no one telling the US/UK governments to stop printing cash?

Investment in business yields a much better return than the stock market (which by the way is not investment - the investment happened when the shares were originally issued; if you buy shares on the stock market, you aren't an investor).
maybe not major, but the ones i've found so far that don't do it are

http://wikiloopr.com/home
http://wikiloopr.com/chopsticks
http://wikiloopr.com/monty%20python
This again.

>We need to do all we can to encourage girls in match/science/CS. //

Why is sex so important to math/science/CS that you must, presumably, aim for a population that is directly representative of the proportions in the wider population.

Presumably you're also concerned that there is an under-representation of men in, oh I don't know, 'family and consumer science'? If not, why not?
Apple doesn't use PDMI.

PDMI standard was developed in 2007. Apple introduced its 30 pin connector in 2001. PDMI was an attempt by industry players to standardize Apple's connector without Apple's input.
But you can earn... surely you would earn and pay taxes, as you do now? The idea is to discourage those few who horde assets and do not participate in the economy.

There is a chance that some vulnerable people may be disadvantaged (like when losing a job).
Apparently this update broke the branch that contained any authentication/authorization code.

The lack of focus on security is hilariously bad.
also, anything that leads to marriage
http://wikiloopr.com/dating
This is awesome, but he should support WASD too.
It stays still until someone removes them. If it's a cab it's more than likely to simply call for help.
Programmers ought to have a lot less hubris about their subject. The difference in difficulty between imperative languages is not as large as you think - and changes depending on the problem domain.

Networking enables the Internet in much the same way the internal combustion engine enabled modern transportation. Yet apparently only one of these topics is considered reasonable for a 14-year-old to study?

I find it baffling.
Interesting.

Would you also not have suffered massive real loss from inflation over ten years eroding your return?
Maybe you can't copy-paste it and replace part of its insides as with other apps, but it's still useful if learning and testing on local, I guess.
you get + 100 karma for posting that. I can't believe I didn't come up with something similar in all these years
Can you pick a sentence and refute it?

YouTube is the dominant, almost monopoly provider of short video hosting/viewing. It would not, by its terms of use policies, let a competing subscription service reuse its videos.

Google's strategic priority is improving its marketing targeting capabilities. This is widely understood by Google observers, and sometimes explicitly stated by Google itself, as the motivation behind the deep "Google+" integration across all services, and requirements like the 'real names' policies.

Google has a de facto monopoly in search and search-linked advertising: the largest index, the largest audience, the largest physical plant in a industry which has returns to scale, the largest broker position in the two-sided advertising auction markets. This gives them super-normal margins in that core business. Profits from that core business are used to subsidize lots of other adjacent businesses at a loss.

None of this accuses them of evil motives or actions. Their strategy has generally been legal and effective; other competent managers would be doing much the same thing provided with the same starting conditions and competencies.

Still, we should be able to honestly recognize their market power and strategies for what they are. Google's overwhemingly dominant position and preference for advertising/"sell-the-audience" models are facts about the terrain. These facts enable certain opportunities and preclude others. Projecting some sort of Manichean good/evil dimension onto the situation clouds rather than helps business analysis.
I think the feature most folks miss is a userbase.
that's because every executive knows that 3D graphs (especially pie charts!) contain more meaningful information!
And thank you for the considered response.
And while it is still, it is now an obstacle for other empty self driving cars. Soon the troll has blocked an entire intersection or freeway using a combination of empty boxes and other trapped self-driving cars.

You underestimate the effort a good troll would be willing to put into this.
They were NYU students. if you don't know NYU, that means they were overwhelmingly likely to be fucking loaded. But I don't know them so one can't say for sure.
No such love for us Nook users. I checked Atwood's site for maybe a posting pointing to a free epub version, no go there either. Sad panda.
the real test of driverless cars comes shortly after they start to become widely used. A driverless car will be forced into a trolley problem situation. That is, it will have to choose between hitting two things without the option to hit neither. Expect extreme scrutiny in the ensuing legal case.
something about this page crashes my Chrome (Mac, 21.0.1180.82). Anyone else? A link to the text?
I was going to write exactly this but thought I'd scan the thread to see if somebody had a similar thought. I'm glad I wasn't alone.

And if at some point she does sees a Tickle-me-Elmo ad that makes her go nag her parents to buy her a Tickle-me-Elmo doll is that the end of the world?

It's always astounded me that in America (I am just assuming that the blog author is American) you have people who feel that non-essential services (like internet video distribution or email) should be ubiquitously free and available but at the same time you have people that feel health-care for everyone should not be a basic human right.
Of course, after Sweden extradites him to the US, the horror quotient may vary somewhat.
Something like this:

var people = dotcloud.sync.synchronize('people');
people.observe(function(type, change) {
// Update template here
});

There's a live demo here: http://jsfiddle.net/q2q8b/31/
I'm more concerned with rising mean global temperatures rendering areas surrounding the equator uninhabitable, when the average temperature gets up near 40c. You won't be able to grow crops anymore, and it will drive people away. If you move the human habitable zone away from the equator, you have less and less land, and even less flatland for ariable farming. So besides the slash and burn land quality loss, you are potentially losing degrees of latitude of ariable space.
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So currently £340bn of tax is taken from people. At the moment it is all in the form of income taxes.

With my proposal, we allow people to keep vastly more income (and therefore spend more).

The intention is:

Low-middle class pay much less tax

Upper middle class pay about the same

HNWI pay more (which is universally accepted as more fair, but never instigated with effective policy)
For sure, everywhere has culture if your definition of culture is sufficiently malleable.

To me moving from California to New York for culture makes sense, for a lot of locations in California. Perhaps instead of saying you can't beat New York for culture, I should say I can't beat New York for culture!
Imagine one of these payloads landing on someone's head. Wolfram Alpha offers up "2.4x impulse force acting on a baseball being hit by a bat" as a comparison when you plug in "5 lbs * 30 mph".

I like the idea, but there probably needs to be more development in safety systems before anyone could reasonably consider allowing that.
Why didn't I know about this. My evening has been forfeited for my Randallicious overlord.
It also precludes it from being free software, as defined by the FSF.
Right. You say "We have laws against 'copyright infringement', a wonky idea that essentially nobody understands or cares about, but not against plagiarism, which is what most people actually are against and will work to combat."

Plagiarism does not have a legal definition. It is based on moral/ethical principles which are specific to a field of endeavor. For example, academia has very strict rules against plagiarism while in artistic fields ... well, to quote Picasso, "Good artists copy, great artists steal." People are against plagiarism in the same way that they are against bad art, excessive noise, and foul manners - because by definition plagiarism is something people are against.

"So that's what the law should prohibit, now isn't it?" My point isn't tossed away so lightly. Current copyright law says that my scenario is illegal. Let's suppose then that we change the law. Can you tell me in a non-wonky way what that new law might be?

Under this moral law, can I take the text of Harry Potter, replace "Harry" with "Henry", and redistribute the modified text? (Crediting Rowling, of course). Why or why not? Can I translate Harry Potter into another language? What about fan-subs? Make my own MST3K-like version of the movie? Replace Potter's head with my own? Project the movie onto my garage for my neighbors to watch? And charge them money for it? There are people who would say "yes" to all of those. And people who would say "no." What is your guiding principle?

How would it affect the decision in Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.? Do you consider Dastar guilty of some sort of moral right which is punishable under the law? If so, then what is your view on Scalia, writing for the 8-0 Court: "A video of the MGM film Carmen Jones, after its copyright has expired, would presumably require attribution not just to MGM, but to Oscar Hammerstein II (who wrote the musical on which the film was based), to Georges Bizet (who wrote the opera on which the musical was based), and to Prosper Mérimée (who wrote the novel on which the opera was based). In many cases, figuring out who is in the line of “origin” would be no simple task." When does one give up figuring out the line of origin?

I think anything you come up with will be as wonky as copyright law.

Do you realize that the GNU GPL is based on strong copyright law, and that removing it means the free software movement, who can enforces freedom through the GPL, would be almost powerless under your proposal? Does that affect your thoughts?
Amazon.com redirects to the UK homepage when you click "Continue shopping on Amazon UK" for some bizarre reason.
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Take a look at that list of features. Every single point is a "what to do", not a "how to do it". That's not what patents are (or rather, should be) about.

Seriously, who is "they" in the title, Apple or Samsung?
Yes, you're right that this is shift of tax burden on the wealthy.

But wrong on the avoidance... how would you avoid property ownership?
Price and variety. That’s the reason why more Android than iOS devices are selling.

Most certainly not Apple’s App Store policies.
I've experienced something similar from the other point of view. I was one of the 15 guys in class and sat next to the only girl in the class. I remember the teacher giving us exercises and I would type up the code in few minutes, while she would struggle for half hour. She kept telling me how much smarter I was and how she didn't get it, and I would help her through it.

What she never realized was that I've already implemented a 90% similar code twice in the last month in my spare time. Or that after she got off the school to hang out with her friends, I went to the library to do some reading, or write the next module of the awesome game I was developing.

What I'm trying to say is that in my experience the smarter ones is a lazy way of saying "the ones that had more interest and spent much more time on it already than you did". And of course, the argument isn't unique to girls and applies just as well to other guy friends. But in the end, in my experience it has always traced back to raw interest in the topic. So I've always said that girls are not different in any mystical raw Mathematical intelligence way, it's just that for some reason they tend to have less interest in these topics, on average. And why is that? Upbringing and early biases is my best guess - The mother who pulls away the rocket ship from a girls hands and puts in a Barbie is at fault. (But realistically, it is probably only one of the factors.) Worst of all, there is a positive feedback loop involved where if someone thinks they are not good at something, they will only become less and less interested.
Yep, that's the point. Now, I'm just a nobody and that's a bit of a joke but if that project were to take off (which is a very relative thing to judge but I'll know it when I see it) then I'll absolutely take that down and actually try to legitimately get featured in those places (except the app store because I will have an app there so it'll be true).

It's one thing for a nobody like me to do that but for a somewhat well known and popular service to blatantly lie without even giving a hint to the deceit is pretty low rent. I've got 13 people signed up to test a beta, 50 users from the original version which was a quick weekend project but if I saw those numbers grow at a rate that told me my project could attract a few hundred to a few thousand users I'd take those logos down so fast your head would spin.

ButI got the idea from others who have done the same thing with the heading saying something like "Soon to be featured on". Anyway, my whole point is that at a certain point it's not even okay to do that sort of thing jokingly and to fabricate a quote when you've got backing and so much visibility is dangerous because eventually someone will catch you like the OP did here.
wow let's be more self entitled. it's actually the channel owners that decide to put ads on their channels. so people spend hours, days maybe months creating content and ask users to watch a small ad in return. If the end user then subscription and pay to watch should be a successful model but it's been proven that it doesn't work
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pcxnrl6vyl73i80/SelfControl.txt

I haven't updated Chrome in the last 3 days - and now I wont :-D (MacBook Air late 2010, Snow Leopard)
Just because people didn't like something doesn't make it "non obvious".

It's not like the iPhone was the first phone with a software keyboard, I remember people using the XDA years before that. In many ways the iPad essentially is a "giant iPod" , just turns out there was a market for a giant iPod.

Edit:

Actually now I think about it I remember a conversation I had with a friend who is a big Apple fan at around the time that the iPhone/iPod touch came out. Something like this:

"Hey, this iPod touch is cool. Now you can watch movies on the go!"

"Yea, but the screen is kinda small, I don't want to watch a movie on a 4" screen. If they brought out a bigger version of this that I could stuff in my briefcase I might be interested."

"Don't be ridiculous, nobody would want to buy that!"

I also remember him trying to explain to me how GPRS/Edge was superior to 3G..
Currently Amazon and Google earn a lot of money in the UK. Yet they pay almost no tax, because only profits are taxed.

Under this system, both corporates will pay 3% on all UK based revenue, so that they pay the same proportion as everyone else.

More tax from the wealthy, and a reasonable proportion from those who are currently on the poverty line (which is many million people).
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If the world’s population lived in one city
When a politician or a political party does something very bad, the main problem is almost always one of awareness. Before anything, people need to know what he actually did. I bet 99% of people don't know about all the drone strikes going on.
Is there any evidence to believe that anyone would have known of or cared about the app if it had been accepted? It seems likely that most people have only heard of it because of the rejection, first on "technical grounds", and then for the cowardly admission that they thought that people would find the content objectionable.

Apple certainly can run their store any way they want to. At the same time it's worth noting that compared, say, to standards set by bookstores and libraries which often contain material that many people would find offensive, Apple is acting, well, rather gutlessly.

One might have thought that the brand that they wanted to protect would have been that of a company that is not afraid to "think different" and that worked to ensure that "1984 is not like 1984". Evidently they'd rather throw away that brand equity and become as inoffensive as the local Walmart. Fine, noted.
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Frankly, were I in his shoes I would be very tempted to simply serve my sentence in Sweden. The prison system and amenities are (by American standards) very modern, and I would think the healthcare is superior to that in Cambodia as well.

This of course becomes moot if there's any real risk whatsoever of him being extradited to the US as some posters have pointed out. Is there any basis for this claim, or is it purely speculative?
Software is protected by free speech guarantees. Apple isn't the US government, and therefore isn't beholden to the First Amendment. I think that Apple using its position to suppress political speech is bad, but they're certainly well within their rights to do so.
Ask HN: Which startup provides sales support to other startups?
I'm looking for the name of the startup that provides sales and business development services to other startups. If someone knows the name, please do tell.
Personally, I think the IOC is missing a trick by not offering to partner up with the BBC and letting people pay, say, 50 gbp, or the equivalent USD or EUR to watch the streams online.

Plenty would pay just to avoid the hassle of setting up and/or the occasional proxy timeouts/pauses.
http://nreduce.com/ is pretty awesome.