skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Explain how environmental protection works without regulation, taking into account negative externalities as well as transaction costs.
Soon! We've got to get NYC set up correctly. But we're excited to launch in Atlanta next year!
> I am pretty sure they at least need to sign it, which is why the common (overreaching and abusive) employment contracts include a clause saying that the employee will facilitate the filing of such paperwork.

Sadly, that's not the case: "Whenever all of the inventors refuse to execute an application for patent, or cannot be found or reached after diligent effort, a person to whom an inventor has assigned or agreed in writing to assign the invention, or who otherwise shows sufficient proprietary interest in the matter justifying such action, may make application for patent on behalf of and as agent for all the inventors." 37 CFR 1.47(b).
Hmmmm...Jan 1st may be hard to meet :)
The site offers a collection of office furniture, a way to connect with interior designers and wellness programs, kitchen accessories and so on. For now, it’s basically a lead-gen aggregator, sending users to the sites where they can buy those items

-- This is an interesting, logical extension too.
If you feel the need to down-vote, please explain for the sake of edification.
Another Reason to dis-like DRM (Amazon App Store Fail)
Pure PHP implementation of GPG
It's amazing how many things live of die by their web projects these days.
You've touched on the problem with the Chromebook. It doesn't replace a notebook or any other device So it becomes one more device that duplicates functionality of other devices without doing anything unique. I like mine, but if I hadn't gotten it as part of Google I/O this year, I'm not sure I'd feel the dollars for buying one would be well spent.
Wow, Anonymous taking one side of the conflict and actively helping Hamas terrorists. So stupid move for them. They are just killing the whole idea.
> This is simply false. Pollution would be treated as a tort. Now, you can't set up a home near an already existing, noisy club and complain about noise pollution. If you set up a home in a quiet and unpolluted area, you have a right to maintain the structural integrity of that area.

Let's analyze this situation with some economic rigor. What you're invoking is Coase's theorem. The idea that if you create property rights in what would otherwise be externalities, and let people transact freely in those property rights, the end result will be an optimal allocation of rights that maximizes value.

Now, I'll get to the punchline before going further in depth. It's deeply ironic that libertarians invoke Coase's theorem in this context, because Coase himself used smoke pollution as an example of a situation that called for regulation rather than the creation of property rights.

You see, there is an important assumption underlying Coase's theorem: transaction costs are zero. But in the environmental context, transaction costs are not zero, and in fact they totally dominate the relevant transactions. A polluting coal plant might cause $1,000 of health damage to each of 100,000 people, and it isn't worth any of their whiles to litigate such injuries. Yet the cumulative impact of such activity is large--the coal plant is essentially "stealing" $100m, but getting away with it by stealing a little from a lot of people at once.

Multiply that by the hundreds and thousands of pollution sources that have a measurable impact on each person, and what you get is an unworkable system. And Coase himself recognized this and said as much in his papers.
Yea! What a great post. Subscribed to the blog in fact.
Would you not have to customize this for every country that you do business with, though?

Hmm. Sounds like a complete and utter horribly painful schlep. A schlep that puts you right in the path of the money. Interesting.
Libertarian belief system fails because it bases it's ideology around the idea of ownership.

You explain the problem pretty well yourself when you say that we have to think in the framework of libertarianism.

Thats like saying you will believe in Jesus once you let him into your heart.
I set Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to behave like they do in web browsers and notepad++:

[
{ "keys": ["ctrl+tab"], "command": "next_view" },
{ "keys": ["ctrl+shift+tab"], "command": "prev_view"}
]
You have a point. Here is the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome, although it does not have significant technical detail.

Maybe the linked piece is best regarded as a flag that this tech now exists at least for simple ballistic missiles.

Afterthought: since the original offensive missiles are unguided anyway, I wonder if an effective countermeasure might be to put on some kind of fin that would cause non ballistic flight?
And after that, if you keep thinking critically about it instead of taking comfort in having a seemingly logically coherent ideology, you start realizing that the entire framework of libertarianism is batshit crazy and your initial intuitions were not actually that far off. This leads to a healthy distrust of ideologies in general, which is only a win.
Man, isn't it easy to explain things in a world where there are no transaction costs, no information asymmetries, no externalities, and no collective action problems?
Two ways: first, people do not currently value environmental protection. When the environment deteriorates to a certain point, people will be motivated to do environmental protection in the absence of regulation.

Second, allow lawsuits for damage to property resulting from pollution. There could be a neat little lawsuit right now: NY and NJ residents vs. 5 biggest polluters in the world, on account of Sandy and the scientific evidence that Sandy was very much a result of AGW. (But then, it should be noted that lawsuits decided by courts is a governmental function.)
I have one Chinese friend who married a Chinese American and had a child with her. He then got a job opportunity in Shanghai and took it, leaving her in the US with the child because the food safety is so bad in China. Knowing nothing about the particulars of food safety in China, I thought this was insane. I brought it up to two other Chinese born coworkers, and they thought it was reasonable to raise the child in the US because of food safety concerns.

Briefly searching around the net, the food safety in China does seem very scary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/18/opinion/chinas-corrupt-foo...
My family hails from a developing nation. People get sick eating restaurant food all the damn time.
It seems good, as others have stated it is a bit low contrast.

I just have one small problem with the header/title. Right now it's click able on the whitespace surrounding the title. I've outlined this http://i.imgur.com/isRbJ.png

The red box is where it's click able now, and the green box is where I think it should be click able.
How to Become the Ideal Apprentice: Part VI
> Libertarians deeply want to believe that we live in a world where you can leave people free to transact freely in a free market, and that will maximize total value. And economic theory tells us that isn't true.

Libertarianism isn't about maximizing total value; not if you're intellectually consistent about it. Most libertarians see libertarianism as a moral imperative and respond to arguments about "maximizing total value" with "the ends don't justify the means".
One concern: Lockheed shored up political backing for the F-35 <by choosing suppliers in nearly every U.S. state>. But having such a large and widely dispersed group increases exposure to cyber attacks, said Ben Freeman, national security investigator with the non-profit Project on Government Oversight.

"Even if Lockheed has top-notch cyber security, it's still vulnerable if its subcontractors are vulnerable," he said.

-- WOW. Just. WOW.
Your explanation ignores both externalities and transaction costs, not to mention more subtle things like information asymmetries and cognitive overload. You can't just ignore the parts of economics that don't fit into your ideology.
Would the uncooperative inventors' names still be placed on the patent? Name and Shame seems reasonable to me, if not.
Aren't necessary or aren't pretty? They're too very different questions.
Turns out rifles and IED's are pretty effective. Tanks aren't worth shit in a guerrilla war.
Grand Daddy of No SQL and Messaging: Grapevine, Birrell
Even though lots of people have praised the creator, I couldn't leave without saying well done :). This is absolutely fantastic work. There is something amazing about being able to jump across the world a keystroke at a time. I loved the attention to detail with the "Share", "Download" links... this is going to come handy during house-hunting time :).
I was once in a mall, around noonish, when all of a sudden I saw a group of those Israeli sellers quickly close their two carts and run outside. Turns out that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents were in the mall looking for them.

A couple of hours later, they came back and resumed working as if nothing happened.
Thanks! I'm afraid my background, like yours, is more in methods that are not specialized for time series, and so I couldn't credibly give any comprehensive references. My understanding is that a lot of methods designed specifically for time series draw heavily on the theory of stochastic processes. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoregressive_model, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoregressive%E2%80%93moving-a.... I once took a course called Signals, Systems, and Inference that covers some of these ideas (full course notes here http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...), but that's about as far as I've gotten along that road.
Not to mention there ain't no chance the customer's skipping to a different service in 6 months.
I haven't known my great-grandmother much, but my grandmother lives on a typical German diet of eating as many greasy potatoes and meat as you can get, and like a good grandmother, she loves cake. She is doing okay because she exercises a lot, but tbh, many people of her generation are fat and sick on the same diet - all from natural "slow food".

As far as recognising it as food goes, has there ever been scientific advice in favour of processed foods? This seems like an implicit strawman to me.
Hollywood votes democrat. RIAA is run by a democrat. MSM media is democrat 9/10. Comcast's CEO vacations with OBAMA. etc.

-- Old saying: 'My enemy's enemy is my friend.'
By reading Atlas Shrugged and having an egocentric view of the world.
"Go off the record" is misleading, it has nothing to do with OTR, as one might assume:

[1] http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/16931/how-does-th...
There is a self-consistent version of libertarianism based on a moral belief in freedom tempered by property rights (which is of course a totally arbitrary premise). I disagree, however, that most libertarians feel that way, largely because of the huge emphasis on free markets. I think most are just utilitarians who are mistaken.
He may wear a kilt, but he doesn't play the bagpipes, so he's no true Scotsman.
They don't 'lead' with that. That example appears on page 4 of a 9 page document. It is the first example they use to illustrate the effects of current policy.

The way your comment reads it sounds like the entire position paper is based on the DJ/Remix industry example.
'Socially tolerant' or 'socially laissez-faire' are probably better terms than 'socially apathetic'.

Schwarzenegger was. Rudy Guiliani, for the most part. Ron Paul has been, in most policy dimensions. When Romney was running for MA Senate and then elected as Governor, he was pretty socially tolerant, as well. And before him, another Massachusetts GOP governor, William Weld. Chris Christie isn't a socially-conservative crusader, and a number of the other GOP governors/senators are more pragmatic than anything else.

It's always been there; it just needs a stronger hand versus the deeply socially conservative elements. However, as more issues have "nationalized" the parties have homogenized somewhat, with Dems successfully tarnishing even socially-tolerant Republicans as if they were the same as faraway hardcore religious conservatives, and liberal Republicans peeling away (as with Lincoln Chafee in RI and Charlie Crist in FL).

I suspect the national parties (or perhaps mainly the GOP) will have to devolve into more than 2 brands for healthy regional competitiveness. While our system has a bias at every level towards 2-big-coalitions, having only two harmonized national brands doesn't offer sufficient competitive diversity. "Coke vs. Pepsi" is not enough for a nation this big, and especially damages the Republicans, as the more-stingy party.
"discharge Ron Paul as some sort of crazy guy without even listening to what he says"

Or they read enough of what he has said and found it abhorrent.

"composed of many different unrelated parts. Not true, Ron Paul ideas are ideas of libertarianism"

Libertarianism and the coming race war.
I've had pretty good success with using facebook for this. Put the email address in the search box and more often than not you get the subscriber's name and details.

This is also a great way to do research on your subscribers (and to customize your emails). Read up on their profile, check out their websites, interests etc.
So what about user style-sheets? They modify the appearance of the data, but I've never seen anyone sued over it. Nobody sues IE for rendering HTML differently. In this case it'd just be another 'browser'.
It's a valid argument that private protection agencies may become de-facto government. With one crucial distinction: no one's giving them any legitimacy to be one. If they point guns to people, people are free to organize themselves and fight or hire somebody else to fight for them. Either way, it would put a cost on the protection agency. And as we determined, it is always more costly to fight than to strike a deal, even if you're stronger. Wouldn't you agree then, that the equilibrium would be reached in which protection agencies act more like actual businesses serving their customers, rather than as racketeers?
To quote The Simpsons: "You don't win friends with salad". That is to say, Republicans don't win voters with well-thought-out tax restructuring plans, they win them with "God, Guns and Gays" policies that appeal the the lowest common denominator.

It's like a vicious cycle: they chase the LCD voters, who are typically less educated, and as a side-effect in the policies of the GOP, they vote down more educational spending, creating more less-educated voters who respond to these vacuous non-issues, and so on.
آهنگ دل خوشی من و خوشحالم از مهدی عسگری
I think this depends on the question whether nerds actively choose to be nerds, or whether they are born into their fate. Generalisations about people who willingly do/become something are different IMHO.
"Where there's muck, there's brass".
Although you never hear about it in most Western media Gaza militants also claim their attacks are responses to IDF attacks. The current escalation started when IDF killed a mentally challenged man and than a kid in an incursion a week ago. You can read about the tit for tats that have been going on here http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/how-israel-...

To always blame the Gaza side as the aggressors and as terrorists is just to swallow IDF propaganda whole and uncritically.

Did you know that before this current escalation Israel had struck Gaza hundred of times this year and killed 312 people including 61 kids, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/15/bodies-for-... Who are the real terrorists?

Oh, and it just so happens that there's an Israel election coming up.
Pricing low has nothing to do with being rude. That statement is a major disconnect from reality.

I also think that there are many service out there that are buying into this 'high pricing' doctrine and are giving prospective customers sticker shock. These starving young companies can't afford to do that so early in the game.

The other day I saw a site on HN selling business ebooks to startups: "how to drive more traffic to your website" $99, a customer segmentation ebook for $39, a copywriting ebook for $49. All this stuff is way overpriced. Dozens of quality articles can be googled up in a few minutes for the same information. I know because I did just that.

The people that tell these young startups to jack their prices are not being helpful or even honest. Maybe its a way of trying to justify their own high pricing.

I suggest young startups get users by any means possible, even if it means discounting heavily. They need habitual users, and that requires making it affordable enough that the enduser uses the tool / service for a long enough time that it becomes a habit and the tool becomes too entrenched in their workflow.

If anything is rude, it's telling young startups how to price their businesses when it looks like they don't have a clue on pricing even their own.
If the file uses tabs, at least you can choose to display the indentations as 2 spaces or 4 spaces.

If the file uses spaces, you don't get to choose.
> I bet he really was fired.

If he did make lots of sells I bet he is still there, and the boss is laughing all the way to the bank.
Lots of libertarians aren't intellectually consistent; I was just talking about the intellectually consistent ones who actually have a "libertarian framework" to apply rather than simply a generalized skepticism about government ;) I think we agree.
Because having a simple and logically consistent system to decide what is right and wrong in any given situation absolves one of the responsibility to make complicated moral decisions on their own merits.

I understand libertarianism and I very much appreciate that it is built on a foundation of reason. However, being an imperfect being, a wise man tempers his reason with empiricism.
I need to take a crap.
soul sourcing statement

I think you meant sole, but I had to laugh at this meaning as well in the whole scheme of dealing with finance departments.
Awesome stuff. I would dare say the command palette alone makes ST2 better than Vim.
You remove as many barriers to the purchase as possible. Allow monthly credit card billing, but incentivize longer term payments. For example, PivotalTracker.com charges monthly. However, I personally paid them for an entire year to get the 2 month discount! 12 months for the price of 10 months is enough encouragement for me to pay for the entire year.
I've already seen something similar with JList/JBox:
http://www.jbox.com/
(JList.com contains some NSFW content.)

JList and friends actually maintain products in stock stateside, I'm not aware that they order products on demand.
POP: This iPhone app is every designer's missing puzzle piece for prototyping on paper.
Isn't that a bit like saying don't make Linux a monopoly? Things are a lot better with an open source "monopoly" than a proprietary one. In fact I'd say an open source monopoly is even preferable.
Same way. The user settings are stored in a few plain-text JSON files.

Also I would hardly call .vimrc files "simple".
Help wanted on O2 porn piracy cases
It is more true for Coffeescript, because Coffeescript is so closely tied to specific Javascript problems and idioms that it makes it more of JS shorthand than an actual new language.

It's very different than understanding .NET (or Mono, for that matter) to write C#, or understanding the JVM to write Clojure.
Ebola may go airborne
Negative Hype Surrounding The Twilight Saga
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MadamefashionTV takes you live to the streets to showcase Fall/Winter 2012/2013 and the sophisticated elegance of shows. The event was attended by the designers and merchants of Madame India, KSA, Spain and Bhutan. Also present at the event were all the Store Managers who enthralled the forecast. Madame Models walk the ramp to showcase the Latest Fashion Trends Autumn Winter 2012 Collection.
You'll find a lot of good ideas (and some bad ones) from Republicans if you hang out in right-wing circles. If you get your news from left-leaning outlets, then they are caricaturish bad guys. Of course, the same is true in the other direction.
I made http://www.hnshowcase.com that shows thumbnail/comment count/vote count of all "Show HN" posts. You can sort by comment and vote count but right now it doesn't let you filter by time range. I think I'll look into adding that to the next version.
Great description of what really happens in these situations. Scary.
These are two very different scenarios.

Developers never had a chance to help IE grow. IE stagnated because it was locked up and Microsoft was happy with it's state.

Webkit is open and being worked on by many people in many different places. Webkit can grow with help from outside of itself. IE could not.
The problem is nobody on the Palestinian side seems interested in the two state solution. Mahmoud Abbas refused a very generous offer in 2009[1], and since then kept refusing to further negotiate. Hamas aren't much into negotiating either, so there's no one to talk to.

My hope is that one of the locks in this situation is held by Iran, and once it's released we may see new opportunities.

[1]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05...
Nobody really says "here is a task I am delegating to you." Delegation sounds more like "I need this by Friday" or "How long will XYZ take?" or "Let's put this task on the top of your priority list."

Learning to delegate tasks is a tricky hurdle to get past if you start to get into management. For one you have to get over the guilt of assigning other people tasks. You just can't be a good manager if you don't learn to delegate. There's also a weird thing when you are too nice and timid about assigning tasks then it tends to create problems due to, I guess, lack of respect for the boss. If you're pretty confident and no-nonsense about it then people don't seem to question it. It's a weird thing. Assuming of course you're being reasonable, aware and considerate about people's abilities and workload.
Hi Khetarpai,
Thank you, that is the closest that we could get to managing learning tasks I think.
You are substituting what you think are acceptable prices for what the market will bear.
Don't worry Microsoft, there is a version of chrome that runs inside internet explorer without special privileges.

Problem solved.
Agreed on all points, and to add another: Webkit is in use by more than one competitor. There are the occasional shootouts between Chrome and Safari to be obvious, and so long as both wish to be preferred by their users, they'll both continue to innovate or, at the very least, prevent the stagnation that IE6 became.
Hi ninthfrank,
Thanks for the suggestion. I did use rescuetime. It gives interesting stats. Since I spend a lot of time on coursera videos playing in vlc, it decided i was wasting a lot of time ;) It was very useful nonetheless. Unfortunately it stopped working when I changed my desktop environment. I will go back and get it working again.
It's a rite of passage for some recreational riders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_ride
"It pleases conservative bloggers, appeals to young swing voters, stokes the culture wars and drives a wedge between two Democratic constituencies, Hollywood and Silicon Valley."

Glad to know they are in this one for
It's pretty much a standardization of the worst testing/QA techniques ever. I have to imagine that RFP's have to meet this standard (if in fact this wasn't a no-bid contract, which I think it might have been).
Yes, I should have known better than to comment on an HN political thread.
There are definetly lessons to be learned from India's struggle but I think a big difference is that Brittain didn't have the religious motivation for occupation that Israel has. It makes it much more difficult for Israel to back off.
How about, why did you apply to Y-Combinator? You can get a job, make 20k in about six months, and then fund yourself and enjoy 100% ownership.