skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How To Make Money From Home ...The Quick Fire way
Reports show that on the internet over 800000 people make either part time or full time incomes from using quickfire profits. These methods vary dramatically from online businesses selling physical products, affiliate marketing (where you get paid a commission on sales, from visitors you send to the merchants website) and various other online money making opportunities. The internet has opened the door for just about everybody that can get online to take advantage of these opportunities.
No worries. I was just amused at how rapidly the case of the 'H' oscillated. (Judging from my comment's current score, apparently I was the only one; I think that including some actual working code should make comments downmod-proof.)

My list of examples was meant to show that you are in very good company; major publications get this sort of thing wrong all the time. Keep up the good blogging!
The precise definition is at http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm

Either you are, or you are not. There is no paperwork or exam (is that constitutional to seggregate based on wealth?)

For most individuals, the requirement is:

a natural person with income exceeding $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with a spouse exceeding $300,000

or

a natural person who has individual net worth, or joint net worth with the person’s spouse, that exceeds $1 million
Yes. The sudden discovery of an easily-mined gold supply has the same function under a gold standard economy as the central bank expanding the monetary base in a fiat economy.

In practice, gold supplies tend to be more predictable than central banks.
I haven't seen it since it was in the cinemas but I remember at the time it made a big impact on me. For some reason, I always link it with Angel Heart, in terms of that impact.
The original version of Sleuth (Michael Caine and Sir Laurence Olivier) should be on the list.
Google brings basic spreadsheet editing to phones. Very, very basic editing.
Facebook Launching New Pages Product This Month
About 90% of the variance in metabolism is based on muscle mass.

The hoary myth that metabolism differences are to blame for obesity have been pretty thoroughly debunked:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/sn/humanbody/trutha...
Man, now I absolutely have to see the original HGTTG. Was that the radio one or the TV bit?

I also haven't seen 12 Monkeys, unfortunately. My experience with movies is sadly lacking, and the sheer number makes picking a good starting point paralyzing. (I still haven't seen Citizen Kane, which has been on my computer forever.)
I like The Matrix as a guilty pleasure: it's so fun listening to the pontificating. I haven't seen Dark City either - looks like I have a lot of watching ahead of me.
You can't really rely on VC money forever, at some point someone will actually want a business model.

IMHO I'd be really surprised if anyone buys twitter, but who knows. If someone does, it'll probably be another VC backed site with no business model either.
It's not very cool to watch Camino stagnate.
Is Twitter actually just money burning machine?
http://twitter.com/keithkay
The Owner-Free Filing system
Research, shopping, gaming, news, movies, tv, downloading, and of course porn.
Twitter is growing significantly and will continue to grow in order to reach mainstream usage, but that requires expanding their infrastructure and hiring more employees - hard to do without additional funding.
To follow up... According to their crunchbase page they have raised $55M. Their website says they have 33 employees (more then I thought).
But that piece is completely wrong. Asimov claims that the talented craftsmen that he's known throughout his life would have scored poorly on IQ tests. His evidence is entirely anecdotal.

In fact, when people have studied this, they've found strong correlations between IQ and all sorts of job performance: Hunter, J. E. and Hunter, R. F. (1984). Validity and utility of alternative predictors of job performance. Psychological Bulletin, 96, 72–98.

Please don't confuse armchair reasoning about IQ with actual science about IQ.
That kind of attack won't work on a website that does a 301 redirect from all non-canonical URLs to the canonical ones.
Explicit is better, but you can tell a lot about someone by tracking their page views and click throughs. I remember seeing an article/presentation, "How to tell I'm a girl", but I cant find the reference. Some of it is pretty simple. If they are reading the sports page, they might be interested in sports. There is a bit of a problem with single computer households, but not huge.

The main thing is get engagement first; ask for the registration later.
NYT Article Skimmer: Recreate the Sunday Morning Paper in Your Browser
I've been using Twitter in bursts.

http://twitter.com/NotoriousBRK
There is also a full-text search system for Tokyo Cabinet called Tokyo Dystopia (http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/dystopiadoc/)..Has anyone written Ruby API for this?

Was wondering whether it be a superior option for Rails search ahead of Xapian and Sphinx.
Hoover's First Real Threat? Shamwow.
I think that's what FriendFeed is for.
About 15% less than they had before this round.
Good for him. It sounds like he really had a rough go of it before he released iShoot. Stories like this always inspire me.
Twitter is susceptible to spam now, and may be always, so the idea that it is better because you can get product reviews from real people is a bit silly. Presently there is no way to tell a bot account from a human.
- Analyze what calculations your users are doing and serve related ads. Example, for someone doing compounding interest 12 times, you show books related to investments. Or someone using some mathematician work, a link to his biography book;

- Contact a company and ask if they want to sponsor a contest. The first 5 users to complete some math problems will earn whatever the company is offering (essentially that's an advertising campaign for the company);

- Run a contest between your users. They pay 5 bucks to enter, and the winner gets the money (after your share ;). A tournament perhaps?;
As far as your chording concerns, the Ubiquity-inspired linguistic CLI approach has a shot at having all the transparency of emacs commands, without all that wrist damage. I do hope they integrate it with Ubiquity as a whole, though.
Isn't the constant dribbling of e-mail distracting?

Yes, it is. There's a reason why Knuth answers regular mail as a batch process (once every few months), for example. A common productivity tip is to limit yourself to checking email only a few times a day. The productivity harm caused be frequent context switching has been well-documented, especially if you're doing something context-intensive like programming.
The problem I find with it is that if you follow more than a handful of active tweeters, then there are too many tweets to read in a reasonable amount of time. That said, I find I get useful information from people with similar (work-related) interests to mine, and a way to 'get to know' people, which can lead to more in-depth conversations when you have something you want to converse about. (twitter.com/billroberts)
I got the invitation a couple of days ago.
Sounds like some great geek stuff... thanks.
In 2015 we can celebrate 01010101010101010101010101010101 day.

(Bonus karma if you can calculate the exact day and time.)
How Microsoft's retail stores will differ from Apple's
Perhaps you should read this article, "How Singapore Rigs its Elections." It's only showing up in Google Cache right now, and I have to wonder why. The rest of Knife Tricks is still up. http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:xcGwQS3twnsJ:knifetricks...

People should not have to live in fear of criticizing their government.
Thanks for the info. No, I am not very good at the meet and greet stuff :). Our team is made of 3 people, on in DC, one in CA and one in Minnesota :). I will probably be the only one who makes it there.

I think if I can get a ticket for a couple of hundred and just fly back the same day, then it is not too expensive.
Right, mis-tagging is a process problem, not a software one. At least, I can't think of a software way right now to solve that.

...Although, like you mention above, being able to find documents quickly can make it much easier to handle. For example, the UI should give you the ability to show all documents modified in the last N days, by user X, etc.
What would an "explanation" be? An explanation with lower Kolmogorov complexity than the operation itself. That system of equations is probably all the "reason" you're going to get, since it's hard to get simpler than that.

If you're looking for something more humanly profound, how about this: "Arbitrary operations on integers can yield arbitrary results." That's actually profound (in the Zen-like way a tautology can still be profound) in the context of "human understanding" and how people argue with numbers, but it would take a long time to explain why, if you don't already know.
I know a handful of people that have reasonably high IQ's (above 130 or so). Many of them also have infantile senses of humor, short attention spans, and live with their parents well into their late 20's.

It's been said a few times already, but raw processing power doesn't necessarily say anything about a person's maturity, rationality, or interests.

What could work, however, is a Maturity Captcha! When a user submits a story, (s)he's presented with a series of snarky headlines and/or lolcats and asked "Do you think this headline is funny?" or "Isn't the kitty clever?". Or maybe word problems: "Jack wants to buy a Wii, but he only has enough to pay his rent. Should Jack buy the Wii anyway?". An answer of "yes" to any of those would have some negative repercussion (instant user ban, posting ban, lower karma, public humiliation, etc).

Getting past the captcha would be ridiculously easy for 14-year-old geniuses, but at least there will be a constant reminder of exactly what's unwelcome.

On the other hand, aggressive censorship could take care of the chaff pretty effectively. After all, the problem is, generally: "how does a small ruling-class of individuals shape the growth of an entire community". There no sense in deceiving ourselves about what that means: elitism, exclusivism and in some senses, totalitarianism.

But hey, if it's YOUR community, do whatever you want!
The statement as juanpaulo gives it has no hidden dependence on bases. It is all spelled out by the conditions. The symbols a b c d stand for any values, not the "actual digits" 0-9, which are also merely placeholders for values with no "true meaning" of their own.
Above The Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing
When I took freshman philosophy, our professor told us about induction ("it's always been this way, so it will continue to") and anti-induction ("it hasn't been this way yet, so it probaby will soon"). He then explained that the argument for induction was that it's always worked before, so it probably will in the future, and the argument for anti-induction was that since it's never worked in the past, it's bound to this time. :)
>"I suspect that they had an equal chance of ending up like Thailand, or urban Malaysia, or other countries in the area; and it's not clear to me that aggressively persecuting Communists made a civil war less rather than more likely."

The Thais and Maylays were with Singapore in taking aggressive anti-communist actions in the 1960s. None of the countries that escaped communism approached the Western liberal ideal of political freedom. They were bare-knuckled pragmatists. They were all scared of what happened in China and wary of the imperial ambitions of the Soviets.

However, only Singapore pursued a transparent, capitalistic society with strong property rights and rule of law. The difference in outcomes is telling.

>"Have you moved to Singapore yet? You seem to be pretty enthusiastic about it."

If I were a resident of Southeast Asia, Singapore would be my #1 place to live. As is, I like the United States just fine.

>"As far as per-capita GDP goes, Singapore has the major advantage that it's 100% urban."

This was a huge disadvantage in the early years. Singapore had no raw materials, little farmland, and a per capita GDP of about $500. They had to import everything and often ran into hostility from neighboring countries that tried to prevent them from using trade routes, or even accessing water supplies.

A unique combination of shrewd leadership and aggressive capitalism grew their economy to the point that they had leverage in negotiations with their neighbors. Their destiny as the business hub of Southeast Asia was never a given.

>"From the quotes you put around the phrase 'human rights', am I to understand that you don't think human rights really exist, or that they aren't rights, or something?"

I put quotes around "human rights" because I don't think they are as easily defined as some people assume. I also don't think they are the end-all of politics, as Western liberals often suppose. I would certainly be willing to trade small infringements on human rights for large increases in the standard of living.

This is the point where many people would call me a "fascist" and run away.

I would be willing to bet that the average Singaporean is happy that their government made the choice to restrict press freedoms and prevent a communist revolution in the early years, considering how things have turned out.
I talked to ethan a few times on twitter.. sounds like a cool fellow.. mad props to him.
Yup.. i twitter; @shergill if you want to follow my exciting life. :)
A few months ago the so called "iphone dev team" posted a video starring Woz on their blog where he talked about iphone hacking and whatnot. The video can be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7741472.s... -- gives you another POV on iphone "hacking". I loved his enthusiasm.
Three Lessons For Managers From President Obama
I would echo that advice. I have written a commercial editor/word processor. It's fun, but involves man years of work to get a good product. My advice is to find a good open source editor that you like and contribute to it. Someone mention scite. I looked into it years ago as a language front end and I liked it.

A good editor can be a good user interface to all kinds of interesting things, like language and compiler development.
Fri, 15 May 2015 02:09:25 GMT
The reason to take sell equity in your company for capital is that you believe that your company requires that captial (usually to expand capacity or acquire resources), and that equity is the cheapest way to get that capital.

That's almost certainly true of Twitter right now.
It's safe to say there's some reasonable replacements already, and there are some smart guys working on better ones.

http://www.pauldix.net/2009/01/ruby-http-client-library-perf...

But, if you didn't know better, yes, Net:HTTP is going to negate the amazing speed of Tokyo *.
To jdoliner:

Please add some information to your profile so I can place your comment in some kind of reference. I love that you write clearly and to my untrained, therefore naive, eyes your arguments seem valid. But without an understanding of where you are coming from, I do not want to necessarily accept what you say on face value.

I mean no insult, I just want more information.

Cordially,

Shamiq
I like the question about the Wii. Here is another maturity filter question which might sound familiar to many folks: "Does it make more sense to you to: (a.) buy a semi-dorky used car and pay off your student loans, or (b.) buy a brand-new car and take on 5 years of car payments and allow your student loans to chase you well into your thirties?"
Citizen Kane is absolutely one of the most justifiably hyped movies of all time.
http://twitter.com/greghos
Did you mean 3x^2?
Scary.

I flew into Buffalo last night and landed perhaps 20 minutes before the crash. It never would have occurred to me that ice could have been an issue. There was some light snow, but otherwise it looked like a fine night. It wasn't even cold -- the ground was too warm for any snow to stick.
I'm reposting my comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459211) from the previous submission on this topic :http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459017

Note that this article compares the costs of printing all copies of the New York Times to sending only subscribers free Kindles.

I started this post expecting to explain how this made the NYT's printing costs sound a bit more reasonable. Then I found that according to Wikipedia, which cites a 2007 release by the paper itself, the daily circulation of the New York Times is 1,000,665 Daily and 1,438,585 on Sundays. I am honestly quite surprised that the number of papers sold at newsstands and vending machines is therefore under 200K on weekdays. Using these figures and building off of SAI's estimates, the cost of printing copies just for subscribers is probably about $503 million, or still enough for just under 1.7 kindles per subscriber.

Note also that neither bandwidth costs nor the costs of delivering papers is counted. I presume factoring this in would make the print newspaper look even worse.

As a reply, Kaizyn pointed out that people are more likely to share copies of the paper NYT than their Kindle. I think that's a good point, but I'm not sure how to account for it at all.
Yay! It has happened!
An additional reason in favor of making the punishment for this harsher than for murder is that as I understand it it's often the case that the severity of a sentence is related to the chance of getting caught. I bet it's a lot easier to catch a murderer than a corrupt judge, so to deter the judge, we need a longer sentence. I've heard this as an explanation for why arson has such stiff sentences--most arsonists aren't caught.
I take it back, the music and explosions were fine!
Rails Maturity Model...Let's boil it down
I wonder if he gets a lot of support email.

Anyone on HN have an iPhone app out there with a low price point? It already takes a lot of time working on a desktop app and answering support emails. I'm wondering if it takes even more time with a low price product and tons of customers.
This isn't a craftsman. This is a mechanic. You don't need a high IQ to do manual labor. At the same time, it requires a great deal of efficiency at a single task, both physically and mentally.

Obviously, IQ isn't going to be wholly useless. Somebody who's bright at something won't be entirely dull everywhere else, so yeah, IQ is going to give some measure of mental capacity. Asimov's argument is that IQ isn't everything, and that it's not a good way to justify "intelligence" per se, and with that I wholly agree.
IVP’s Chaffee: Why I Invested In Twitter
Summary: Thre Owner-Free Filing system (OFF) is a proposal for a distributed P2P file system with the claim that people can use it to share unauthorised copies of copyrighted works without breaking the law.

OFF does this, by not actually storing the copyrighted works themselves, but by storing two separate files from which the copyrighted work can be re-created, e.g. by addition or XOR.

This is not a new idea. However it is unlikely to work. The best refutation is the essay What Colour are your bits? -- http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php
so...does anyone else see the smart phone as a reboot for consoles?
all these games doing well are the kind of games that could have been run on an NES. As we get more and more powerful smart phones will we see the same things?
Siftables, the toy blocks that think
Not for the same reasons - Digg does it for people gaming the system. Here, that kind of thing is exceedingly rare, and HN doesn't ban most of the accounts, it just auto-kills their submissions. HN takes a unique approach to why accounts are banned. If you troll or get into flamefests, pg very often takes time to tell you you're doing poorly (that happened to me last summer). If you keep doing after that, then you get disabled - I think.

It's a system that's very hands-on and it's kept this place scaling really nicely.
Awesome, awesome movie. Not for the faint of heart, though.

Let's hope that Will Smith and Steven Spielberg don't actually go ahead with remaking it (http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0615340/). What a travesty that would be.
How are the random deposits of a heavy metal in the earth's crust more predictable then central banks?
I'm using Twitter to keep a record of interesting URLs, along with a couple of hashtags and a brief description. I've been trying this with Delicious for the first time, too, but so far I prefer Twitter, probably because more people use it, and it's easier for my friends to peruse.

It's just links, mostly to technical-, math- or education-related things. I try to keep the off-topic stuff to a minimum (I think there are maybe 4 or 5 tweets total out of a few hundred that don't follow the formula.)

http://twitter.com/dhess

I do have a couple of concerns about using Twitter for this purpose:

* according to the Twitter API docs, they only keep 3200 tweets "online" at a time for any given account.

* the dependency on the TinyURL service.

* Twitter has historically spotty reliability.

So I'm working on an archiving solution, which I hope to make available soon. If you're the hacker type, it might appeal to you, too. I'll give a pointer to it on my Twitter feed when it's ready for testing.
But still enough to get rich...again.
Correct. If you've got Mobipocket, you can convert pretty much any PDF, Lit, or Doc file and edit metadata to your liking.
The real time reporting of news is a very interesting thing, as well as their real time search results. There are multiple ways a company like Google could use that.

There is also the communication aspect, etc. that lots of companies would be interested in (i.e. communicating with users for web companies).

If you don't see business models for Twitter, you're not thinking hard enough. There are plenty of ways for them to make money.
One thing I don't understand:

> After getting off his shift as an engineer at Sun Microsystems, he worked on iShoot eight hours a day, cradling his 1-year-old son in one hand and coding with the other. He didn't have the money to buy books to learn how to write an iPhone app, so he taught himself by reading websites.

I think there's one or 2 main books on writing iPhone apps(both by OReilly) and they're like $35 at Borders(so probably cheaper online). If you're an engineer at Sun, and spending 8 hours a day on this app, how could $35 be stopping you from buying a book?
From the more reasonable Venture Capital to the Unified Cloud of Modular Innovation
Now that it's known, it will be arbitraged away. The guy who discovered this should have kept it a secret ;).
Like this game--iShoot, is basically ScorchedEarth which came out for DOS in like 1994 (or that's when I first played it anyway).

It is fun though--I bought one.
> From what I can see, the problem of "overly-rule-bound developers" is nowhere near the magnitude of the problem of "developer's who don't really have a clue."

The deeper problem is that developers who don't have a clue are immune to rules. Throwing a book of rules at a sucky programmer just creates a sucky programmer with a bruise where the book bounced off their head.

So, who, exactly are we writing these rules for, again?
Actually. Most lotteries become good bets when the jackpots get large enough. Assuming you don't split a pot with someone else, of course.

Avoid 12345, geometric progressions, etc.
AZW is just a slightly modified version of .mobi, which is an open(ish) format and well understood.

You can get gobs of free Project Gutenberg books formatted for the Kindle as AZW files (and in many other formats) at http://manybooks.net/