skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Creating your own porn site looks much easier then it is. You'll need a lot of traffic before you earn some bucks, and all competition is fighting for the traffic. But it's a fun thing to do!

If you want to start out, I suggest to get yourself a domain name and use http://www.smutnode.com to setup a tube site in minutes.
The iPhone 5S Is Coming Next June
what's "Smells like teen spirit" doing on that list? Nirvana weren't one hit wonders.
thats what I meant. was writing P/poly != NP to mean "NP is not a subset of P/poly". or do we have to worry about the case where P/poly is a superset of NP? have never even considered that, have no idea what it would imply, think it might be impossible....?
But there's a reason home prices lag, generally speaking. Pay also tends to lag. But honestly, the Bay Area is an outlier in the housing market. Imagine moving from Chicago to San Francisco...
So I'm very curious if anyone can help see a "intuitive fair line" better than I can (because I can't find one).

On the one hand, it makes perfect sense Apple wants 30% on apps. They run the store.

On the other hand, it seems like Amazon should be able to sell books, Dropbox should be able to sell space, etc., without paying 30% -- otherwise it's financially impossible.

But if you allow apps to sell content within without paying 30%, then all of a sudden all apps become free, selling "upgrading functionality" within, and the app store is no longer viable for Apple.

You can't even make a rule like "reselling 3rd party content is exempt from the fee", because apps will claim additional functionality as 3rd-party. You can't make a rule that "content accessible on other devices is exempt from the fee", because gamemakers will just make their in-game purchases accessible on the Android version too, or something.

Can anyone think of a clear, unambiguous rule that would allow things like Dropbox, Skydrive, Amazon, etc. to get around the 30% fee, but without allowing loopholes that would allow everyone to skirt it? I swear my brain thinks there's a distinction, but I can't figure out what it is.
Don't go back. Yahoo isn't good option.
http://www.sami-lehtinen.net/blog/yahoo-mail-whats-wrong-wit...
I installed my own mail server with webmail. Now I'm happy.
Is Samsung Going To Launch Galaxy 4 Next Year Or Is It Something Else?
> I believe it's this model or a variation of it: http://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_u8150_ideos-3513.php

From the specs:

> Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo)

It just won't die...
1. BPP <= P/poly was proven by L. Adleman.

2. I never said that P = BPP was hard to prove. I only brought up BPP because its derandomization, despite being limited to subexponential nondeterministic time, would still imply a lower bound of super polynomial circuit size (which could be the exponential lower bound presented by the author). The author is using this exponential lower bound (circuits) to immediately conclude that P != NP:

"The proof of Theorem 6.1 is now complete. We have:
Corollary 6.5 P 6= NP"

Note: Theorem 6.1 is the lower bound
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And don't forget a reverse mortgage.
As explained on The Verge[0], the internet has been essential to the rise of K-pop, and the K-pop industry is not nearly as strict about piracy as the American music industry is.

0: http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/18/3516562/k-pop-invades-ame...
I don't think he meant for secrecy's sake, he probably wants to avoid publicly negative reviews that would show up when someone googles the site.
Python scripting is an investment, eventually it becomes as frictionless as bash scripting. Especially if you have a good shell scripting library.

I usually use Fabric, SaltStack, or https://github.com/kennethreitz/envoy
No, I am just noting the change. Actually, it seems like when they changed to the 'new' blog template, which is less condensed on the page, their posts decreased in length.
That's true, but not many people are willing to completely relocate themselves to a different part of the country just for a good deal on real estate.
LibreOffice 4.0 Beta released ready for a marathon test
Singly Launches “App Fabric” Platform For Developers
This is a good point.

Also wondering what's stopping MS from doing down the DropBox path and not allowing purchases on iOS.
Broadly speaking: you are not "investing" in any market if you only own the amount you intend to use or consume for yourself. You are only "investing" if you own (or have contracts on) more than you intend to consume.

For example, having a few bananas in your fruit bowl does not give you a position in the banana market. Owning thousands of bananas you intend to resell, or shorting a banana company, gives you a position in that market.

Likewise with housing. Owning enough housing to live in (at whatever standard of living you intend) is a market-neutral position, so you should not be particularly excited by price changes in the market. If you own too little housing, you're "short" and price raises are a negative, and if you own excess housing (extra properties, or a larger-than-desired property) you're "long" and price raises are a positive.
Well yes, it is equivalent. And they looked more and more carefully, and never found tiny clockwork gears, so that was not supported by the evidence.

What they did find were abstract, mechanical laws of physics.
Not a sensible idea due to the fact that a library is about reading books, an office is about doing work. Office work requires communication - on phone, in person. The nature of high-pressure business environments means lots of passionate conversations, debates, having a laugh to ease tension... I cannot think of anything worse than blocking the natural office environment with artificial rules designed for a completely different purpose.
$50 phone? Strange choice for Nigeria where everybody and his wife seems to have $20mln. :-)

On a serious note I wonder if the proportionally high number of the owners of those phones in Africa will be able to use them for programming to increase their living standards. Otherwise what's the difference between Android and Symbian?
I work on the Ubuntu One iOS team. Our apps have this same issue. I think it really affects user experience, because you can't allow sign up for premium features, but you also can't even mention those premium features (say, with a link to where you can find out more). If you don't already know about them, you're not going to find out in the app.
Victoria police say Apple has ‘half-fixed’ Maps Mildura blunder
Congratulations. That's the most elitist argument I've read on the site.
haha yea wait i read this and was like what exactly... what?
Microsoft offered to remove all paid subscription option, but the compromise was rejected.
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"the carpets are deliberately designed to obscure and camouflage gambling chips that have fallen onto the floor. The casinos sweep up a huge number of these every night. So the carpets are just another source of revenue."

http://gizmodo.com/5628834/the-ugly-carpets-of-vegas-are-hid...
I really hate the word disrupt used in this way.

$50 Android smartphones are enhancing the lives of millions, maybe? Titling it this way sounds like they are some sort of addictive drug or natural disaster.
404, guess that was https://supportbee.com/help

funny though that it shows 0 results for "supportbee"
great response. i see what you're getting at from this and other peoples' replies - that the most important thing you learned was that doing hoodrat stuff with your friends is awesome. The only reason i posted this was because it read to me like this was the only thing you learned rather than the most important thing.

i really like what you've written here though, makes it a lot more clear. have you considered adding some pieces of this comment to the article?
these solid state specific file systems are not intended for use on the types of ssds you buy to plug into a SATA port, those are already heavily abstracted by their firmware, which handles stuff like wear leveling and block deallocation.

These types of filesystems are intended for when the kernel has access to the raw addressing of the flash chips themselves, such as on some cellphones and embedded devices. They handle stuff like wear leveling, and deleting blocks.
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Has any smart 13-year-old not come up with the notion that the world might be a computer simulation?
No, you're not. And that's why non-profits have to spend large sums of money on marketing to convince people to give more.

But you say: "Marketing is a waste of money for a charity! Feed more starving kids with it!" That sounds good, until you realize that the ROI on marketing is positive and if the charity wants to grow, it has to spend a portion of each $1 you give to it trying to get the next $1 to help it grow.

Thus we end up with overhead, which ironically, can upset people more and make them want to give less.

It's a vicious cycle people. Spread the love and give.
Fun with to_proc and compositions (Ruby)
It had problems with wife fragmentation.
Taxes. The tax benefits often is worth the risk in most jurisdictions.
Here is the linked TNW article that goes into more details of the problem: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/11/as-skydrive-balks-a...

I am not associated with TNW, I just think that everyone should read it as it seems like there are quite a lot of questions regarding things that has been covered in the article.
>run a porn site and a non porn site with the same code base

so like reddit then
They have a facebook that the secret police adore and that is controlled by a corporatist elite.

We have an actual facebook that various security agencies adore and that is owned by Goldman.

One can make the argument... but I'm not making it. I'm just pointing out a similarity.
But everything else in the casino is bright and dizzying, too....
"If my house in the bay area goes up 30% i sell that and relocate to illinois you can bet i will cover the short and come out ahead since home prices in illinois lag ca by a good 150-200k"

You need to factor in interest paid on your bay area loan to get the full picture. Just because your house value goes up by a certain margin does not come close to meaning you have profited by that much. This is especially important to understand in areas with large home prices in that the cost of holding the asset (interest) is very high especially early into the loan.
I use sox sometimes:

sox -t sw -r 44100 -c 2 /dev/zero -t alsa pulse synth pinknoise vol -9 dB band -n 800 1200 fade q 5 30:00 10

It's filtered pink noise; last time I checked sox didn't have a brown noise generator.

Edit: what do you know, I just checked the man page again, and sox does now have a synth brownnoise option. You can play with the "band" parameters (or omit it) based on your local noise spectrum.

Edit 2: you can also use the "bass" and "treble" filters instead of "band"; the former are easier to understand IMO. It's been a long time since I read the sox man page; it's crazy how much it can do.
I buy stuff from Amazon on the desktop computer and read it on iPad and iPhone Kindle apps. So far works great for me. Dropbox is even easier, you really need to worry about paying for premium once a year, if that, more like once in five years when your credit card expires, so this is a non-issue.

In both cases I downloaded apps because I used desktop versions extensively not vice versa. I wonder if Apple's cut is a big deterrent for mobile-first strategy that was recently discussed in Fred Wilson's post that appeared on HN.
The stores are a wash for both Google and Apple (again see asymco). If you look at Android's income statement you can see that search and advertising is where the big profits come from - something Apple doesn't really have (yet), and Microsoft don't have a sufficiently large installed based for (yet). The $1.63 ARPU is monthly not lifetime and the data is more relevant in showing that the revenue from Android users is increasing at a rapid clip.

Apple is grabbing a large chunk of profit once from the most profitable consumers. Google is grabbing smaller amounts of profit but from a far larger number of regular users on a monthly basis.

At some point the larger Android installed base will mean some number of users will match the profitability of an Apple user's biannual purchase. There is no requirement for a one to one match.

If Google had not done Android then Apple/Microsoft/RIM would have been able to exclude them from the mobile market, which is on its way to becoming the relevant market.

As for Motorola, I don't know. Google can't treat them specially otherwise they will alienate existing Android partners. There is already the Nexus program for providing the unadulterated Android experience, which presumably keeps prices low due to volume.

Other than patents, Motorola would only provide leverage if existing Android partners did not want to play ball on something but there hasn't been any evidence of that happening either.
You cannot have your cake and eat it too.

All pricing introduces inefficiency without perfect price discrimination. If you charge a fixed rate for a product or service you exclude the users where the wealth created is less than the rate charged, aka the marginal consumer. You can improve this by charge lower prices for the marginal buyers. You can then do a similar thing for very high value consumers. This is why Microsoft sells so many versions of Windows.

In the real world price discrimination is very crude. Consider that Microsoft only has ~6 versions of windows, that is only 6 discrete steps to covers the several magnitudes of value created for users.

The reality is there is no algorithmic way to determine the marginal apps. Thus if Apple wants to charge 30% for all apps except those for which this is excessive they are best off doing things on a case-by-case basis.
I've been taking the Computational Investing course on Coursera. I knew next to nothing about trading and its definitely been helpful with the basics.

https://class.coursera.org/compinvesting1-2012-001/
Incorrect SyncDataType parsing caused Chrome crashes when Gmail went down
Found video of the conference, here he speaks in part 9, and he pulls out the phone at 9 minutes:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/_MVGnLZnMbs?start=549&autop...

Here is a screencap of the phone http://i.imgur.com/McJSj.jpg
We look at these problems constantly at Shapeways as we handle manufacturing and distribution for a ton of crazy 3d printed objects. I suggest reading this series of blog posts by Albert wenger on Continuous improvement: http://continuations.com/post/37634462048/continuous-improve...

The best advice I can give is to avoid being afraid of manual/unscalable processes. When you attack a problem, pick the immediate solution that solves your problem. It could be using a kitchen knife to breakdown boxes. Once you've used it for a bit, improve it. All too often we see a problem and try to throw software at it, only to find that our fancy sorting algorithm reduced time to pack by 6% whereas reducing the # of box sizes reduced time by 60%. (note: I just made up that example but you get the idea).
The more interesting game is the one in which the housing market is not assumed to be homogenous. If you can somehow anticipate a positive change in a local housing area, buy a house there and then sell it after the change occurs, moving to a cheaper, less desirable house, you can indeed make a profit. However, this requires two things: a) that you correctly anticipate the change and b) that you don't want the change for yourself. The nice thing about this play is that even if the change never occurs you still have a house. (There are many examples of positive change - e.g. the new railroad going through Rock Ridge in Blazing Saddles.)
So they're like Google, just with less infrastructure and cash.

Note: This is not meant to be snarky. Its just an observation that even "small", nimble startups can suck at support.
Though I'm not really riding on the South Korean wave, I have a huge amount of respect for Korea's music labels (at least when it comes to how they release their content).

If one takes a look at YouTube channels for the South Korean labels, the videos the provide are almost always high quality -- both in terms of actual video quality and content that they release (e.g. LOEN[1] and SMTOWN[2]).

On the other side of the sea, you have Japan. From the US side, it seems that Japanese labels haven't been too generous with releasing their content overseas. Universal Music Japan has been the only big label (IMO) that has been great with releasing content. The other end of the spectrum, you have Sony Music...and they've been pretty quick to bring down videos as well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/LOENENT/videos?view=0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/user/SMTOWN

[3] https://www.youtube.com/user/universalmusicjapan

[4] https://www.youtube.com/user/sonymusicnetwork
It'd be great if my parents understood this concept.
They always seem excited to sell their house when prices go up, and plan on buying a new one in a couple years after buying the first.
We do have to worry about it. If it is the case that NP <= P/poly, then PH collapses to sigma P 2. Unless there have been recent results that show otherwise, P/poly might even contain NEXPTIME.

Regardless, the connection to P in this paper is not immediately obvious to me. It certainly is not explicitedly stated in a form that I even partially recognize.

Because of these reasons, I am deeply skeptical of the leap directly to P != NP. A lot of incorrect papers do something similar: They show a lot of very complicated constructions then, BAM, Collorary. P != NP. It kind of hand waves the most important step.
The list seems to be of very popular songs; it just so happens that many of the songs are one-hit wonders.
Ah, I'm sorry, I completely forgot about spoiling it given it being so old. Too bad HN doesn't have spoiler tags :(
I was even writing good old roff a few days ago. So this book is not even out of date.
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The last time I was in a coffee shop in Minneapolis, everyone using a laptop glared at me for talking, presumably because they were working (it was 10:00 AM on a work day). Go figure.
I agree. Perhaps a nice way to solve it is to tell Google and Apple:

"Let people do in-app purchasing however they want, if they use yours, you can take a cut."

By all means, you make it as easy as possible to integrate with your solution by providing tools and support, and then you take a cut if they choose to make it.

Of course, this will never happen, but if it did (either because they thought it was morally right, or because of regulation), then it seems like a way to solve this issue.
Original article: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/11/as-skydrive-balks-a...
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Weird. Because Evernote showcases premium features.
The Last Question is one of my most favorite short stories, and unless I'm completely missing something, has nothing to do with simulation.
800mil/8mil=100 views per $
so to make $8, you would need 800 page views

That's $10CPM, which is a very reasonable rate.
Does it matter? Think about a simulation in a game on your PC. Nothing in that game actually exists outside the simulation. i.e. as far as anyone/anything in the simulation is concerned, the simulation is real. You cannot leave the simulation. You cannot end the simulation. There's nothing unreal about the simulation for anyone in it.
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Gangnam Style is a horrible example of "... a shift in how money is being made in the music business". Psy deserves every bit of it but the popularity of that song is a freak incident.
This assumes that reality is simulated using a grid, and particles are either in that cube or that one.

But that's not the only way to run a simulation - you can make the fundamental particles the building pieces and simulate them - they can move anywhere they want, in any direction, they don't live in a grid.

The only thing that matters is their relationship to the particles near them.

Which follows very nicely from relativity which shows that there is no absolute coordinate system, or absolute energy, only relative distances and relative energy differences.

i.e. like the difference between polar coordinates and rectilinear ones.
That's not true. The changes from ext4 to ext3 are evolutionary, not revolutionary. There is full backwards compatibility, and there's still a lot of the original ext3 code in ext4 (in particular, we still support old-fashioned indirect blocks in ext4, even though it's not the default, and we do that using a copy of the ext3 code).

If you look in the git history, you can see all of the changes as we added new features into ext3 during the course of the ext4 development.
Hmm, I stand corrected. That's quite a pickle there for Microsoft.
Pollock or Not? Can Fractals Spot a Fake Masterpiece?
I've been out of the loop for too long, but back in the day (when Tube sites were just starting up), it was getting harder and harder to make money. So many people were starting up, and Visa was cracking down hard on charge backs.

The biggest issue back in the day was Content licencing, which with today's whole DMCA crap, I would expect it to be far worse on a user-generated content site. If you licensed images for a specific domain and they appeared on another domain you owned, you would have legal representatives sending you emails (most of the time you would just do a deal with the owners and extend the license). This wasn't the result of the content being found by the owner, this was from organised firms that were hired just to scan images and videos looking for specific sets that they represented. When I hear about user-generated content sites these days, I think of one giant nightmare when it comes to content.

It's easy enough to throw something together and try to make some money from advertising, but to be successful in that industry boils down to 3 things. Traffic, Quality and Retention.

- You won't get subscribers without Traffic (fairly simple). If you think that you can get organic traffic off the bat, think twice. You'll need to set up some deals with guys who own key domains to have them funnel traffic through to you. (I don't know if this sort of market still exists, but I can't see that it would have died off)

- To convert the subscribers you need Quality or unique content (which the successful sites will usually do in-house or through companies that will work with them to produce unique content). If you're going to throw up a few galleries of cheap $5 content sets that everyone has seen before, you're not going to get the conversion.

- Retention, is a tricky one. Back in the day you used to count on the subscriber, doing a one off then forgetting stinging them with a re-bill or two, or three. Then when they got their bill they were too embarrassed to challenge they usually silently cancelled. As I said before, around the time I left, Visa was starting to really crack down on charge backs as subscribers had actually grown a pair and started wanting their money back. The only way to fight this is to offer what you advertise and more. You won't keep everyone happy, but you'll see a nicer charge-back rate.

For the record, I was a coder, I wasn't the guy behind the camera, or even the guy that designed the sites. I dealt with the systems, and kept them running. It's not a glamorous title to throw around at dinner parties, but it does bring up some interesting conversations when you start talking about the things that you seen in the industry.
Yes - you are only naturally short the housing you will need for the rest of your life, but if you own a house then that represents housing for the rest of the asset's life.

If the life of the asset is expected to be significantly longer than your life, then you are indeed slightly long in housing.