skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm happy that somebody recognized this :) It was a huge pain to mold the contenteditable element into a polished wiki editor, but I'm pretty proud of the results.
Google awards $60,000 prize for Chrome hack
>Teachers should be getting paid at least double what they are now

Why? Teachers everywhere have a very hard time getting a job because the supply vastly outstrips the demand. Why should teachers make more when it's clear supply is overpopulated?
No. Source: http://www.apple.com/ios/maps/ (also, the iPhone 4 sitting two feet from me).

Maps has had driving directions since 1.0, but only the latest and greatest maps app on the 4S and 5 (and the latest two iPads) do turn by turn.
Whoops, I forgot that Mises is the only source of knowledge about economics. Silly me.

If you don't like my reading suggestions, then perhaps try a Milton Friedman youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmzZ8lCLhlk
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What matters is the median, not the average. Advertising analysts have their own special circle in marketing hell.
Hong Kong (and maybe Singapore) might be examples where colonialism was better enclave against some brutal forces or economically advantageous because of a more multi-cultural society.

Overall, though, it's a pretty dismal record.
It's different for different kinds of content. The US has always been pretty friendly to most porn, at least in 9th circuit land and especially California. (obviously there's 2257 requirements in excess of just "no child porn", and some other more extreme content is questionable, as Max Little found out...), although the real risk there is particular state/local jurisdictions, not federal. The US is also an excellent place for religious materials, (neo-)nazi stuff, and anything which falls under the general realm of political or religious speech. Also, horrible for gambling ("gaming").

The US is generally a bad place for commercially infringing content, though.

For something like Megaupload, I'd probably go with HK, China, and Russia. Some European countries have been good for certain kinds of things in the past.

Dodgy porn, NL or Denmark or Eastern Europe tend to be the best. (even "porn which would be otherwise legal but doesn't have 2257 documentation").

Spam and spam-related things seem to be "non iso-latin1 lands", like China and Russia.

Gambling, getting a license and going through Costa Rica or British Crown areas seems to be what most people do, although this is fairly specific to the licensee, and I haven't kept up with it. There was an interesting loophole with the Mohawk nation up in Canada for a while, not sure how that is doing now. The big crackdown seems to be on payment processing for gaming, now.
I'm absolutely with you; I would love to see more data on this.

That said, while we definitely exist in a "hits" driven culture, I expect such hits would be boundary crossing, and I see no reason to presume a middle class can't exist in any given boundary. (Or, maybe, it could grow toward that.) I'm reminded of the recent post on Pandora talking about "middle class musicians".

My point being you're right. We need more data.
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Hey, thanks for adding this comment to the debate. Too bad you didn't include this information in the original comment.

This is awesome, thanks.
Yes, its like 3 days before his accident, the man was perfectly happy. Although, in this case, replace accident with losing his job/livlihood. And the handwriting was on the wall, for the executives, as of 9/08 and what happened to Lehman. And from there the shit flows downstream...
I think that you are missing the heart of the matter. That is that the only piece of data that you have is popularity. Given that, how can you determine how well Romney was what he tries to seem? To put this into the context of your restaurant example, how can you differentiate between a restaurant that is unpopular otherwise but has a movie star and a restaurant with the same level of popularity but no movie star (with the movie star being analogous to Romney being what he tries to seem)?

I'm sorry if you do not like these kinds of arguments as I try to involve as much base logic as I can. I think that base logic is to arguments what functions are to algorithms. Furthermore, sticking to logic results in an argument at least on the level of DH4 in your essay "How to Disagree."
Google 10-inch tablet would push display tech envelope
Get ready for plug-in free browsing
It's now at the point where you can stand up a datacenter for $100-200k and provide the same cloud API to there as to anywhere else. You can then write off that infrastructure entirely if you get raided. Obviously you don't stick around, you have it set up by contractors who may or may not know you, etc.

As long as your content in a given country is only slightly annoying to the US (which is really the only global power that matters; within regions, there are other countries which are important regional powers though), it won't warrant a $10-100mm effort to shut it down. The US isn't going to invade Somalia for Adobe or Universal, and the Somaliland government doesn't care much for the Transitional Government down in Mogadishu. Paying $100k/yr in local "taxes" would make you the most fifth most profitable industry in the country (after remittances, international aid (small to Somaliland, mainly from Islamic or Diaspora charities), the ~4 cell providers, the airport).
"agitprop" ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agitprop

Agitprop, I've never heard that word before. Are you Russian or Eastern European?
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But if you don't raise the salary you're not going to attract better people. I bet if you doubled the pay you would have far better people to select from.
The parent is obviously wrong about power law (like e^x). It's not even e^(e^x), it's something that grows more rapidly, like x^x, or x factorial. I'm too lazy to figure it out.
Google Street View upgrade, new Google Maps app for iOS 6 coming?
What do you really expect from them? Being vague isn't helping the situation.

- If you just want attribution and an apology, ask for that.

- If they dont know what you want, they may just remain silent.

It was probably a lower-level mixup, some programmer was in a hurry, had too many tickets under his name, and rushed out a solution. The company was probably unaware.

Making veiled references to some action you might take just means they will refer it to a lawyer, who will say, "Just keep quiet and dont change anything right away. It's unlikely he has an Oracle-vs-Google sized budget to make a case, and anything you say or do might work against you. Rewrite it as soon as you can think of another justification, and be sure to create an email trail for that."
Oh yes. Give me what you just described, integrated into a typesetting system that can produce scientific papers of LaTex quality (or, simply, a LaTex editor like Kile) and make citations to those sidebar infos drag & droppable, with links to the fulltext PDF (might need integrated Login handling for the electronic publishers).

Second idea: Scratch that and integrate it into a PDF reader instead and instead of drag & drop give me the citations as plaintext popups (this way it would be useful for other purposes, even book reading).
If you're in Philly, there is a co-working space for parents and children that will be called Juice Box coming soon: http://coworkingforparents.com/
At least Australia has a good excuse - they have to pull wires underwater for many miles to get any connectivity, so there's some scarcity there. The U.S. is the hub of the internet, the costs must be the lowest.
Shouldn't you always tink of counter arguments when you are reading something? Even (or especially) if you agree with it?
ComScore: Google’s Search Engine Market Share Increased In September
"Why the downvote?" I think I can answer part of that. Some people think that if a person owns a TV, mobile phone, fridge, etc. then they must by definition not be poor. After all, 50 years these were considered luxury goods, or for the case of mobile phone, only available as operator assisted radio phones.

They don't know that poverty is defined by a different measure; the Orshansky poverty thresholds. This is a relatively absolute measure based not on what one owns but on access to food and housing. And as you say, there are many Americans who own a car, and a CD player, and a personal computer, yet do not know if they'll have enough money to be able to eat for the month.
>Somehow this has become received wisdom for the press, but not only is it false, it's very false.

So too with student/teacher ratios.

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d11/tables/dt11_069.asp
I love the aesthetic and the semantics. Nice job!

However, I'm not seeing any responsiveness to the grid; it renders the same when I resize the browser or view in mobile.
Nice work - it's always good to see new CSS frameworks coming out
Google Officially Speeds Up Web Page Loads
I'm generally pretty phlegmatic, but this provoked a strong reaction from me. This seems thoroughly vacuous, good for only communicating shallow marketing double-speak.
What? We can't accept that things that might be true might be true, because you might cut yourself with that argument?
That is pretty interesting, although it still pales when you compare it with email.
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I think you are creating a storm in a tea cup. I agree that there has been some copy pasting of code blocks. But that's life and the nature of writing.
That which interests you and your thoughts about it are your unique unifying theme. Please write more.
I was just testing it using other top news on HN, like this one: Roy Bates's death.

It seems there is a bug when I enter this line:

"Roy Bates died on"

Paddy Roy Bates's wiki page keeps getting added to the right column continuously.
Lessons That Startups Can Learn From Facebook’s Failed Credits Experiment
I think I remember reading about some of the kids (in the original study) who hollowed out the marshmallow and ate the insides, then left the shell on the plate to trick the adults.
I think you misunderstand the implication. Using 'agitprop' here implies that the views of Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty are ideologically similar to the highly politicized arguments of leftists in support of Communism. I think it's a fancy equivalent for calling the authors 'pinkos.'
You fill out a form to register for the challenge and you get $25 free credit to build a start up on their platform.

The actual process for how it all works is here

http://aws.amazon.com/startupchallenge/rules/
> My assumption is these bot accounts are used for selling Likes/Follows on Facebook, and they Like everything in sight so that the paid Likes blend in.

New Turing test: your only means of communication with the testees is that you can make Facebook postings and see which ones they like.
Yeah, but it became SUCH a pain in the ass later on that it's entirely understandable that people would later on not want to be associated with it.
google docs also has an integrated information sidebar this days
It's pleasant to the eyes but :

- "Free" is not the kind of license I trust (there's a guy talking about his stealed code on HN this sunday, just check)

- Not responsive ? Come on we're in 2012

- It would be better if it was hosted on github (or bitbucket). So everyone could improve it (but again what's the license ?) There's a lot of competition in this field and at this stage I don't see any valid reason to use this one, rather than say Bootstrap, Foundation or Skeleton.
No, but if it wasn't I would obfuscate my JS... ?
A Founder’s Guide To Replacing Yourself: A Few Weeks Ago I Fired Myself
>(Sidenote: Ah ok. So that's how to reply on HN once a comment thread has reached a certain depth: click link then reply.)

I don't think it's about depth; you can't reply to very new comments (presumably to give people a chance to delete mistakes?) but if you refresh the page a minute or two later the reply link will be there as normal.
I'm in the exact same position like you. My bootstrapped company pays a bit more than if I were employed somewhere (but with waaaay less time I need to spend on it), but I also don't feel entitled to write a book about making money.

It'd feel fake for me. I was also lucky with my business.

Anyways, since I've got some time now, I'll try to build another business by following a specific process I think is right. Maybe, once I'm done with this second business (or a 3rd) and I can claim that my process/experience helps other people to also start their businesses, I'll write a book about it.

One more aspect: If I talk to friends (being employeed somewhere) or people who try to get started in bootstrapping a business, I'm quite surprised that I know much more than I used to know and that my advice might even help a bit here and there.
Although you still get copyright protection without it, a comment at the top of every source file with your name and the license makes it very easy for people to figure out who owns what. You didn't have any license, you didn't have any authorship or copyright headers in your source code, and then you asked the company that "stole" your code to take a look and share the code with others.

The problem is that you're communicating in a very vague manner: you should be explicit about all of your expectations and intentions so others interacting with you don't have to guess what you're thinking.

Imagine how this interaction would have gone if your source file started with:

# Copyright (c) 2012 My Consulting Firm

# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

And you emailed them saying:

"Hello. I've created a gem that's licensed under the GPLv3 for interacting with your service. Please feel free to link to it or redistribute it on your website under the same terms."

My guess is: this problem would have never occurred.
The OP pointed out a number of good things about Amazon. I took you to imply that these reasons are sellouts, and ethical issues are on a different plane than commercial considerations.

My take on this is that it's early in the conversation to downplay these wins as small (after all, why do people die of starvation today? Not shortages or money: distribution, which is a keystone problem for Amazon).

I also hope we will think of improving commerce as a moral issue. Assuming that it boils down to worthless materialism or Mammon is not a fair picture.
There are literal kids (teenagers) making 6 figures a month from their Youtube channels with absolute 0 production costs. The best example would be a guy called Pewdiepie[1], he makes gaming videos and does something like 5 million views per day (which is probably around $10k revenue assuming he has a good deal...). He isn't alone, there's quite a few others approaching his level of success.

Something a lot of people seem to forget too is for every video they put out their old videos still get views. It's like investments, the money they make compounds over time because for every new video that's more and more views. So as their viewership grows, so does their previous video views and so do their potential views for the future. Even if someone "only" does 10,000,000 views from new videos in a month they can still be doing substantial revenue from old videos. This is how some of the bigger channels work, they produce incredibly popular videos every couple of months and fill the time with smaller videos.

A good example of that would be Captain Sparklez [2], a guy that makes video game music and commentaries, his music videos can do anywhere from 10 million to 70 million views and he then produces game play commentaries between his bigger hits.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/pewdiepie
[2] http://www.youtube.com/user/CaptainSparklez/videos?sort=p...
> At earth parties, $10,000 gets you a lot of drugs/alcohol. At space parties, it gets you a tub of ice cream.

Which you get to eat in space.
Each language has been created in different context, trying to solve problem by using different approach.

Sure, they all need basic IF-ELSE, WHILE... But it is really helpful not to focus on too detail of technical side at the beginning. At high level, understand why author needs to create this language? Why the author did not select existing solutions at that time? This kind of "culture" background will help you understand language much deeper and avoid a lot of confusions.

I hope this will help.
The normal rule is actually to assume that all rights are reserved.
I would like to see the ability to drag and drop the text directly into the editor... and an ability to choose the sources for obtaining information (Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia etc). Also, if you could highlight individual results and run a lookup against them you could drill down even further making the information more relevant... and as a sidenote, I be would inclined to target the student market whom could use this as a study tool (or lifesaver for last minute assignments)
Not a ‘new JS’ with ‘better’ syntax, but convenient means for developers to define their own JS with the syntax most suitable for the problem at hand. Reminded me of “You're solving the wrong problem” post[0].

For good or bad, it appears to be limited, with macros you probably can't, for example, make curly braces optional.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3561397
Great job! I encourage you to continue improving it.

I pasted a Paul Graham essay and the results were telling:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp1.png

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp2.png

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp3.png

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp4.png

In short, the results aren't relevant at all -- either to the author or to his audience. (The third screenshot is particularly conspicuous.)

I can think of some domains where this could be pretty handy -- you should try feeding your algorithm a stream of tweets and see what happens.

All in all, this hasn't been done before and was presented quite nicely. Well done.
Isn't node.js for building apps, than being used as a static file server and reverse-proxy?
Additionally - I've added a chat box to the website (olark) if anyone wants to catch up.
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Rank can be considered linear or logarithmic. It can be argued that the difference between being 1st or 10th is orders of magnitude bigger than the difference between being 100th and 110th.

In fact I think a log scale for rank usually makes the most sense, especially when starting from 1st.
Nice headline but in HN you need to talk in median terms - people here aren't that stupid
I can't stress enough the importance of making yourself replaceable and interchangeable. Two very important reasons: (1) it enables you to move on to more interesting things, (2) you can develop a greater sense of having a life and take more fun and daring risks.
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The least upper bound can be thought of as a virtual node consisting of the set of static constants (and the set of all inputs) fed into the rest of the lattice. The greatest lower bound is a virtual node consisting of the set of final output values that are "used" (written to an output file or database). If an intermediate value is computed but is not referenced anywhere, the data dependency DAG has a local lower bound node that is not connected to the greatest lower bound since the value is not written anywhere. If these unused nodes are pruned away, the result is a lattice.
So sad to see AMD suck hard; I remember the day when AMD was the preferred gamer/hacker/tinkerer solution, and now where are they?
An interesting idea, but it comes up with really, really useless suggestion -- I don't think anybody needs to be told what don't is, west may be a cardinal direction but 'in the west we enjoy' does not refer to particular side of a compass.

Also for some reason it blinks with 1. AD is a year (I did write the word one, but it really shouldn't blink).
It's kind of funny. The article is pro entrepreneurship, pro capitalist and pro free market. So many here are taking it as an attack on success or the rich. Theres a huge misreading of the article and a lot of attacks on minor points and statements and nobody addressing the basic premise.
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Some good ideas -- have you looked at Dryad?
"... I think you misunderstand the implication. ..."

Yes I have. Pinkos, why not say that then?
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There is also the fact that this is only ad revenue. I would wager that people with good marketing skills make much more from side gigs than from direct ad revenue.
Yes, you are absolutely right about license. Even i was reading that article (Tax_Cloud one right?).
Vice is awesome
I pre-ordered a Nokia 5630 XpressMusic (S60) in April 2009 and recieved it late May.

It was awesome! Great camera-recording, WiFi, 3.5mm audio plug, good looking, slim. Maybe not a competitor to the iPhone 3g but I felt it was on par with Android devices at the time, and available at only ~260€ without contract.

This feeling lasted for 5 minutes, then it crashed. And it crashed again. And again. 20-30 times that night as I tried different features, before I just gave up. I started to regret my purchase.

It got better over the following year with updates but it never fully stopped to crash. Often it would crash while playing music, which really sucks for a phone sold to me as THE music smartphone. By June 2010 I had switched to a HTC Desire (which I'm still happy with, now with a custom ROM).

It is interesting to read in this post-mortem that 'Testability' was really hard on Symbian, and that problems or bad choices on how e.g. email polling should work, that must have been caught by engineering, somehow slipped through the cracks into the hands of customers.

If testability had been easy and quality the highest prio at Nokia, then the 5630 could have been the phone I still use, and I would have recommended it to friends back then instead of saying 'Stay clear!'. I might even have considered buying another Nokia phone. Things could have been different.
nice movie
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/09/act-of-valor-2012-bluray-...
Ask HN: Wide 'out of focus' landing page images?
Does anyone know of a good resource to get those 'out of focus' wide 2.0 landing page images?

i.e. like these images:
http://www.datameer.com/
http://programming.com/
What software do you use to keep it? How do you access from multiple machines?
seo is dead. it's pay for play
This article is fairly myopic and overly congratulatory about the history of the US. Phrases such as:

"The history of the United States can be read as one such virtuous circle."

"Historically, the United States has enjoyed higher social mobility than Europe"

"IN the early 19th century, the United States was one of the most egalitarian societies on the planet."

"For Jefferson, this equality was at the heart of American exceptionalism: “Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?”

Would seem to completely ignore the history and even the existence of African Americans and their experiences in this supposedly classless society.