skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea about this.. but I can speculate that maintaining the DRM system indefinitely after the initial sale represents an ongoing cost whose net present value needs to be considered in contrast with a DRM-free book.
Maybe it's because you feel the need to use holier-than-thou language like "No food for your thick sarcasm." and "It is somehow nice to "suffer" for truth."
Volume drives the incremental cost towards marginal cost.
If the owner of the file makes his living by selling copies of the works he created, taking a copy and putting it on the web (where they can be had for free) reduces the value of his works. In other words, the owner is deprived of the use of his works because you've diluted their value.

The argument that "you still have the original so you are undamaged" is false. If the startup you work for dilutes your 5%=100shares of equity down to 0.0001% and the value of your stock is reduced to near zero, I can asure you, you won't feel comforted by the fact that you still have 100 shares.
The UPS and the Airplane luggage guys though will only 30 kilos (65lbs), though because of insurance/workplace comp. They wont let them lug more. at 200 kilos (440lba) you are talking splitting the pack up into 6 or 7 parts (and still be laboriously removed) or having a somewhat major operation on your car (ie, you need an Engine Hoist for the thing in one part) to change the battery. Then a forklift or something to put them on a "rack". Seems logistically like a nightmare.

That being said, the actual cells themselves are only a couple of pounds each. Would be interesting if this could be engineered to just take out something like the 100 micro-cells (at 4 lbs each), and toss em in a shopping cart. Maybe have a robot then sort and charge them in a special room full of charging racks. (like automated library book retrieval). But they would need to be built up in a certain way, and put in a housing, etc to go back in the car OK.
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Your project looks cool. Did you implement it from scratch or are you using any iOS web framework ?
none of the examples allow you to select text within the input field. (Chrome 22.0.1229.94 on OS X 10.6.8)
Haven't heard something more stupid in a long, long time.
I wish the convicted a speedy and successful appeal and hope they take comfort in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8yEnu9_SGc
I've read enough of the half-baked opinions here, including my own. To paraphrase Wikipedia, [citation definitely needed]. +1.
Project to put moveable gardens in unused lots in SF
I can't believe cost would be the dominant factor in the price difference.

More likely, someone who has invested in a kindle will pay a higher price to obtain the convenience of the ebook and justify that investment. Publisher is just maximizing profit by setting price higher.
A Tech Apprenticeship to Rival Peter Thiel's?
Downtime is inevitable for most companies. The only question is how much work you want to put in to achieve the standard up time.
The Kobo Touch or the new Sony Reader are excellent. The Kobo has a hard time reading O'Reilly books, but you can process the O'Reilly books to make them usable (unzip, remove core.css, repackage) with Calibre.

The old Sony Reader has a glossy, beveled bezel, which catches any available light. The newer model has a curved, matte bezel, making it far easier to read on.

Both use the same eInk Pearl display as the Kindle WiFi, quite readable. The Sony has a beefier processor, and doesn't have problems rendering O'Reilly books out of the box.

The Kobo is the friendliest reader I have used. The UX is simple, as if written by a Mac person. The Sony seems to be written by a Windows person: the layout and abundance of widgets and physical buttons makes the UX a little frustrating at times.

The Kobo's library is trivially easy to maintain: connect with USB cable, drag books to KOBO EREADER volume.

Buy your books from DRM-free retailers, see this (old) list: http://blog.threepress.org/2009/11/10/list-of-drm-free-publi...
The audience for your corporate name is most likely: investors, bankers, family members, and people who know nothing about you.

In light of this, a perfect company name is easy to say over the phone, memorable, and suggestive in roughly that order of importance. A perfect example is "3D Robotics".

Your company name is the only chance you have to verbally communicate everything there is to know about your business in a split second. Your corporate name != your app name, and your app name != your URL.
I considered resin for a recent project, but abandoned the idea after learning that resin breaks down after long-term exposure to UV light. Since I was making something that would be exposed to the sun daily, I ended up hand-shaping acrylic on a router instead.

FIY.
I beg your pardon, but unfortunately this is not my field, so I tend to look for the abstract/intro/conclusion and presume the intermediate parts are correct.. :-)

If I gather the gist of your essay correctly, current research demonstrates no strong connection between IQ and particular genetic influences.
Is this surprising? I'd expect the possibility of this sort of behavior from any system that was vaguely Map-Reduce-y and operated on the scale of data that Google's indexing does.
When Drones Go Rogue (Homeland Security Mag)
Article in Homeland Security Today entitled, When Drones Go Rogue: "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are providing new capabilities for homeland security and law enforcement. But as with any technology, there’s a dark side too.”
I love it so much! Great job.
Did he ever find out why the library was deleted in the first place?
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You make it sound as if that trivializes the process. But I agree that there's something to be written there. It sometimes seems to me that democratic processes around the world struggle (or fail) to scale to the number of people represented. Maybe 300k is just a good size for many of the decisions made by a legislature.

On an unrelated note, Athens during the golden age hat around 300k inhabitants. Of course, nearly half of them were slaves, and less than 10% of them got to vote.
Yep. Was a fun place to work, not so much anymore.
They could own 1/10th of that and still be profitable based on a single company, and it's extremely unusual to see 90% dilution.

So while you're technically correct that they don't own 7%, it's unlikely to matter in this example.
Barely.

Nothing has changed in the stack. Robert has discovered and eliminated a series of bottlenecks, causing performance to oscillate about tolerable. Finding bottlenecks is not trivial, because Arc has zilch in the way of profiling, but fortunately Robert is good at this sort of thing.
>> Of course stripping the labour cost out is only possible
>> if you can do it yourself :)

Or assign value to your time.
My eBay account was closed because someone disputed a purchase from a family member, and my previous address was the same as theirs.

Now it would take 99 other HNers who haven't had accounts closed to cancel me out and keep the ratio at 1%.
If it is in an ePub, the Kobo or Sony can reproduce it. Just remember that the screen is 6" diagonal, with 600x800 pixels, though the display engine will resize and dither to greyscale in order to suit the eInk display.

My O'Reilly books render code with monospaced fonts on both the Kobo Touch and the Sony Reader.
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Ask HN: Creating the best possible Mobile experience for craigslist users
We spent close to five months on this project and created something that is stunningly beautiful and responsive. I want to create some pre-launch buzz to make sure we have a decent shot at good Appstore rankings. Here is the landing page, would love your feedback

http://craigslist.mokriya.com

P.S: We are licensing the data from Craigslist
Not wanting to shill for Google, but we've been very happy with Appengine's reliability - particularly since moving to the HR datastore. Have other Appengine users had any significant downtime apart from MS datastore issues?
I do this, but not with rsync. I put PDFs and books that I want to read into my Dropbox during the day. When I get home I bidirectionally sync to my kindle dx with Unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/). I wouldn't trust my books with Amazon, ever.
Braintree is named after the town in Massachusetts, because the founder liked John Adams: https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/whats-in-a-name-custo...
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's plan to make Las Vegas more like Brooklyn
I, for one, applaud this ruling. There's no reason why scientists should be above the law. It's funny how often they complain of not being taken seriously enough, but then when they are, and something bad happens as a result, they're quick to deny responsibility. Are seismologists serious scientists? If they are, they must accept the consequences. If not, we don't need them. It's as simple as that.
If there is a group of companies that you would like to work for, you could learn the programming language that those companies use. That could be less risky in order to get a job with them.

Another option for getting job experience as a beginner would be to do small freelance work available from a site like freelance.com or odesk.com (or a similar European site). The barrier to entry may be lower as someone doesn't have to hire you for a full-time position to do some paid programming. You could learn a programming language that matches the needs of jobs available on those sites that you are interested in.
Shame half of the list is obscured on my 13" thanks to a massive fixed header.
Used in conjunction with other platforms is a far cry of being cumulatively more valuable then everything else put together. But I digress.

Agreed Mono does offer a lot of value, it's improved leaps and bounds since Xamarin's split from Novell, they're now well staffed and more focused on delivering their leading best-of-class products. I've witnessed tonnes of improvements to MonoDevelop since their focus on MonoTouch and OSX. From what I've seen at MonkeySpace Xamarin's got plenty more exciting announcements up their sleeve for next year.

With that said, it's making a lot more sense to depend on well supported Mono-compatible libraries so you always have an easy escape option out of the expensive Windows-only cloud provider lock-ins. You'll also have the option to use any of the exciting Linux cloud initiatives on the horizons like: Google Compute Engine / OpenStack.
"... but the TSA has not confirmed which ones" and "No study comparing the two machines' effectiveness has been released. The TSA says its own results are classified."

... who do these people work for?
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We came up with a way to get better reliability than AWS, and for less money. We list the 3 providers we combined to get it at http://go.windward.net/TLWAugust8_BasicWebinarFormLP.html

Thanks Dave
We ended up promoting a slave to master, and moving forward from there. Our master eventually returned to service, and we'll promote him tomorrow after things settle down.

Interesting to note that we issued a reboot on our Master and it went away and didn't return for over 45 minutes - we thought for sure it would have to be terminated. API calls and console access was severely restricted, so even launching in new AZ's was problematic.
I saw on the news in Seattle some interviews with people on both sides of Washington's marijuana initiative, which is basically a full legalization initiative.

There was strong opposition from a group I had not expected to be against it: medical marijuana advocates. They had two interesting arguments against full legalization.

1. They believe that it is going to raise prices compared to current medical marijuana prices, and

2. They are worried that the limit it sets for blood THC levels for DUI is below the level found in the blood of medical marijuana users. Many medical users would basically be unable to legally drive. (I've read that when one is using marijuana medically, the intoxicating effects of a given dose or much lower than when it is used by a healthy person, and so medical users driving while on medical marijuana are not actually driving intoxicated, but the proposed law does not recognize the distinction).
>Given the tax implications, I would also bet the 110v plug-ins will be made illegal for electric cars for "safety" reason ("safety of a state's road tax revenue").

Meh, I don't think they'll need to. Somewhere on the Tesla website there is a cute little calculator that will tell you how long it takes to fully charge the Model S with the various charging adapters. As I recall, the 110V / 12A outlet takes something like 4 or 5 days. That's fast enough that most people could probably keep their drive-to-work car at a mid-range SoC by charging all night and while at work. But that doesn't leave any room to really use the car for any errands. I have a feeling that very few owners would consider that a viable option for long-term ownership.
It's all from scratch. The canvas implementation initially had some bugs, but it should be pretty close to the spec right now.
Thanks. Here's my tool for visualizing the effect of luck. Replace it with "being alive". Or "not being born in Afghanistan". Or even consider this.

How many sperm cells were present during one's conception?

Answer: 200-500 million.

Compound this with the fact that over 125 billion people have lived on this planet since we first evolved. Only 7 billion are alive today.

That's pretty darn lucky. Or more humorously: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvpbzRf99-8

Being rich does wonders for your chances of success, as does being alive. Sadly it does the same with one's ego.
The Noun Project: new paid licensing options, user profiles, and awesomeness
Having been a PPC linux user in the past, I'm a little wary of jumping into ARM. The 3rd party stuff, particularly Flash, not being there or being kind of crummy was a thumb in the eye of an otherwise great system.
There is a wonderful StackOverow post about the problem of cycles in family trees.
I believe the syllable division should be "Ap" "ple."
Also the difference between using .NET's P/Invoke (DllImport) interface versus Java's JNI is about as big as can be in terms of developer pain and overhead.
Agreed. My family history spans 3 continents, so tracing the people gives a very personal connection to history. Who knows what could be revealed as the site grows?

However, I do warn my relative, who has spent much effort on this endeavor of hers, and shared it with Ancestry.com, while paying for the privilege to do so, that she should keep all the things she finds through Ancestry on paper and in other formats for herself, and not to rely on Ancestry to maintain that information for the time spans she is used to dealing with. Fortunately, as someone who gets frustrated when a particular lead into the life of some obscure distant family member turns cold because of missing documents, this isn't too hard.
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The value I assign to the time it takes me to setup the hosting myself is a lot less than the cost of running on AWS.

Admittedly, the calculation is made easier by the fact that I'm not building the next Netflix or Heroku, however, neither are 95% of the other start ups out there.
Redis 2.6 is out (stable)
One weird screen resolution you're set to if a ~30px header takes up half your 13" screen.
Absolutely. The negative tests mean little today considering it is unlikely he would use anything that we can already detect.
It's not that it's a hard point to understand: it's that it lacks all bearing in reality and policy.

Go back to the original point:

"Another major issue is the fact that millions of people from the poorest places on earth (I'm not talking about wealthy nations like Mexico here) could be lifted from poverty. The vast majority (i.e., >95%) of India lives in what would be considered dire poverty in the US. Upper class individuals in the poshest suburbs of Mumbai suffer living conditions comparable to the poorest housing projects in the US. All we need to do to lift them from poverty is allow them to enter the US and provide us cheap medical services, clean our houses and the like."

This is nonsense--the idea that somehow transplanting these people to the US will magically create wealth. "Aha!" we say," This fellow was in the top quartile of his former economy--let us bring him into the United States so he may be worth more as a member of our top quartile!". That's rubbish.

Moreover, the "cheap medical" bit isn't correct. It's not labor shortages that are causing all the runaway costs in healthcare, and to pretend that bringing over physicians will somehow improve our situation (without explicitly saying how) is just wishful thinking.

There is still more issue with "Oh, well, they can do menial jobs and suchlike, and clean our houses." We already have folks for that--normal immigrants and illegals, no less--and additionally it creates yet more lower class issues. The problems we have with the economic gap here persist and are worsened by this sort of thinking, regardless of any absolute scale of poverty.

And then, the signals bit.

If you want to talk about signals, observe the point--however odious it may be--that a reliable signal we have from the poor is that they both are unskilled enough not to be desirable additions to our economy and irresponsible enough to continue breeding and voting. I can support this signal however you'd like with a straight face.

Signals, sir, are whatever you interpret them to be, regardless of origin or intent.

Compare that with another signal from illegals here--that they care enough about quality of life, for themselves and their children, that they'll willingly do whatever it takes to become part of the economy and community (note that I did not say citizenry, as they do not use official channels to becomes citizens).

~

All this annoyance aside, I'd much rather see an attempt to upgrade their countries and societies in place than flood our own lower classes with more immigrants, especially if we can't even come to terms with existing problems like our resident illegal alien population.

The fact that the two of you have made such observations about the illegal immigrants tells me that we've a ways to go before we should even consider helping out people abroad.
You are an idiot. Resolved.
Why is Chile such an outlier among South American countries on the Corruption Perceptions Index?
It could be even more complicated than that. Intelligence could be a question of proportion, like beauty.
(I-502 is a pot legalization initiative on the ballot here in Washington state. I voted for it although I don't smoke pot)

Of course the MM industry opposes it. I-502 threatens to cost them a lot of money.

1. This seems like a specious argument. What they're opposed to is that this price increase won't be going into their pockets.

2. This is a ridiculous argument intended to rally support of stoners against I-502. See here, for instance: http://www.newapproachwa.org/sites/newapproachwa.org/files/I.... You can legally be prescribed codeine, an opiate, by a doctor and take it, but this doesn't mean you can drive while under the influence.

Here's some more information on it: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/pot-activists-vs-pot-acti...

and one more quote: "If voters pass I-502, officers would be held to the same standards as they are today: They would still require probable cause to stop a car, evidence of driver impairment, and any tests would have to be conducted by a medical professional". (http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/10/20/why-do-...)
Regarding the second point, although the proposed level may not be ideal, there should definitely be a limit of some kind. I'm all for legalization, even for recreational use, but there is nothing funny about impaired driving.
Where I live in Mi there are billboards that say, "WE GROW THE BST OG!" All over the radio are ads to get your marijuana scripts. The biggest problem we are having here is the law left the question of dispensing medicine to each individual charter. So most around the state have passed 'moratoriums' waiting for a bigger rule to follow behind. But there are plenty of places dispensing medicine. Its amazing to me that a few states can legalize gay marriage and the democrats will put it on the ticket, but 17 states and the district of Colombia go medical and there is no discussion about it.
I really like the idea of booting a system off an SD card or thumb drive, just seems really cool. That said, it seems like it would be really slow, unless you managed to somehow run entirely in RAM (optionally writing to disk at some point, or not if you were doing exclusively cloud / remote stuff).

I only looked into it briefly but it seemed complicated for me to set that up. Bonus points, new macs use EFI rather than standard BIOS, which seemed to make things even more confusing.
up-vote for the fair question. I was under the impression that information was common knowledge among SV elites. The person who initially told me was close to paypal people. How this came about it went something like this:

me - Hey I noticed earlier photos of Musk and he looks so different.

the other person - oh yeah, this whole surgery thing was known among some paypal people I know....

Ignoring the above conversation. His facial changes are sort of going against the pattern of aging.

1 - his receding hairline (starting 10 years ago) is reversing and it's almost gone now. http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/201/elonbeforeafter.jpg

2 - usually people go from high cheekbone to rounded face as they age not usually the reverse. http://www.stepbrother.co.za/images/musk2.jpg

also the scar just under his left eye is not there anymore http://www.inc.com/uploaded_files/image/feature-80-Musk-1-pa...

That said, I'm rather embarrassed for posting this and reply to your comment. But I find it intriguing what you need to do as a visionary since image is everything and there is probably something we can all learn from this.
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Win the Business with this Elevator Pitch from Harvard Business Review
> Its amazing to me that a few states can legalize gay marriage and the democrats will put it on the ticket, but 17 states and the district of Colombia go medical and there is no discussion about it.

What are you trying to say?
But ebooks don't represent a minority of book sales. On the contrary, Amazon sells more ebooks than print books (both hardbacks and paperbacks combined).

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19148146
This is retarded. Scientists cannot accurately predict earthquakes, they just want an escape goat.