skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget Kickstarter and Amazon already took their 5% each, so the authors never saw the full amount, more like $150K. So now they'll have to refund more than they received.

But agree with your original comment: if this goes through till the end (with lawsuits and all the drama), it'll be great for Kickstarter. It'll improve the quality and create a much healthier ecosystem.

Another project that got really close to a class action was OpenVizsla USB Sniffer. The conversation moved out of Kickstarter into the discussion list that was created by/for backers, but the authors finally showed up and recognized (somewhat) the problems, and are trying to fix it.
You have to understand a bit about the subject.

1. Current reactors have U-238 and U-235. U-238 turns into Plutonium and some of that fissions but some is turned into heavier long lived transuranics. U-235 is very rare so we can't run just on that: this is what is enriched with centrifuges (no chemical separation possible as it's chemically similar to U-238) and what people mean when they say we will run out of uranium. Most of spent nuclear fuel is still just U-238. Maybe one could simplify and say that the spent fuel is not "used up" : instead it is "poisoned".

2. Thorium reactors have Th-232 and U-233. Simplified, the Th-232 turns into U-233 when it absorbs a neutron. U-233 fissions very well and releases more than two neutrons when it captures a neutron. There's quite many steps up to transuranics from that where fission can still happen, so you get very little transuranics.

3. There is the "breeder reactor" that would use just U-238 by making plutonium out of that. But you need fast spectrum and it's hard to control. It would have plenty of fuel though since there's lots of U-238.

4. What's more significant is that since U-233 is so good, you only need very little. AND you can use thermal spectrum making control easy.

The thorium system is very clever in so many ways but it only works well if you design the whole reactor concept understanding what you have - neutronics and chemistry.

It's not very complex at all, just read up on it, the basics can be understood in a couple of hours.

Then you understand why it produces less waste, consumes less fuel, why putting thorium rods to solid fuel reactors doesn't make sense (protactinium) etc etc...
I can not rewrite my neurons at will or make a copy of myself to run in parallel. Does AI having those two traits lead to the singularity? I do not know it is to vaguely defined in this conversation, will it be bigger then the industrial revolution, I would bet yes.
Regardless of if he is indebted to fulfill the Kickstarter project itself, he's still required to send out the rewards. Furthermore, his lack of transparency on the issue (while continuing to give the media attention) is really what people are pissed off about. There's no excuse for that. He may very well be an incredibly passionate guy, but he's lost the trust of those who were willing to support him even if things hit the fan simply due to the lack of communication.
It should have gold coins in the top plexiglass but output pennies.
I'd love for it to be part of standard rails, but don't they usually like to see features like this play themselves out as gems before trying to incorporate them (e.g. turbolinks, cache-digests, etc.).

Of course if anyone knows of a better way, please don't hesitate to let me know or ping someone on rails core.
Companies shouldn't be able to set wages at an arbitrary low. Because then companies could simply set them as low as possible, without any regard to the standard of living for the employees making those wages.
What are you basing the "disabled zone" statement on? A 'dig ANY tumblr.com' shows MX, TXT, and NS records . . .
@tumblr
Tumblr has taken the site down in order to resolve a
network issue. We will update as we know more.

https://twitter.com/tumblr/status/279000741706878976
France seems to do okay by recycling it.

Of course it's cheaper to just toss the old stuff somewhere and dig up fresh uranium.
"There’s no master plan. I wanted Instapaper to exist, so I made it. Five years later, I wanted The Magazine to exist, so I made that.

I don’t know how to save journalism, but I’m also not qualified to. I’m not a journalist and I don’t know much about that industry."

This is essentially what every successful founder thinks before they end up starting a billion dollar company...

I'm not saying that Marco is going to flip this industry, but his general attitude is consistent with people like Zuck or Drew Houston.
This is the risk in investing, period. Kickstarter should do what it can to reduce the risk of scammers (properly screen and check into submitted projects and their founders history), but they're not in existence to be an insurance policy on consumer's bad investments. The lesson here is even in a very simplified world of investing, research and knowing before you invest is crucial.

I do wish the pursuit on the side of Alex Peake success, people should ask questions and investigate how he lost all that money. I like the idea of crowd-funded & crowd-accountable.
> caveat emptor.

Ironically, that doesn't even apply here - 'emptor' means 'buyer', but the whole point of Kickstarter is that you're not a buyer - you're a backer.

Your point still stands; I just found the aphorism amusing, since the whole point is - as you said - that Kickstarter projects are attempts, not guarantees (purchases).
I know that he'll also be present at the next Hack the Future event on January 13 where mentors get kids interested in tech. I just feel like people haven't seen an update in 2 months and are getting antsy enough to file a lawsuit, which is in bad taste honestly.

http://primerlabs.com/hackthefuture
The value is the way you can control execution: pausing, resuming, reaching in to alter state. That's useful even if everything is synchronous. Sometimes out of desire or necessity you need to do something async, and then you will always have to have some sort of typical callback/async style code...but what you can do with this is control where that code lives and express it in different ways.

In your example, have startServer start a server, then on each request create a generator, keeping a list of the active ones.

Your request handler would typically be written like this:

function requestHandler (client, request) {
sendToDatabase(request, function(data){
client.sendReply(data);
});
}

What this allows you to do is write something like this:

function requestHandler (client, request) {
data = yield sendToDatabase(request, client);
client.sendReply(data);
}

Where the callback has been moved to the sendToDataBase function. It would be something like this:

function sendToDatabase(request, client){
myDBLibrary.query(request, function(data) {
Server.clientHandlers[client].send(data);
}
}

There's a bunch of different ways you could do it, but that's the general idea.
"The one main point is that when AI / technology gets good enough, it takes off and leaves normal brain intelligence behind."

That is actually a very strong assumption.
I think the erratic behavior might be more related to his chemical intake.
I've found it's more about number of messages per minute, than number of chats at a time.

Where number of messages per minute is my real limit. (unless I am trying to trouble shoot a bunch of issues at the same time)
Alex participates in our SuperHappyDevHouse offshoot for kids called Hack the Future, and I also have to mention how passionate Alex is and how well intentioned he had to have been. I was just as impressed by his interaction with the kids, and from what I recall his activity station is usually one of the most popular.

But I definitely share the opinion the project was (and still is) more ambitious than he (or anyone) could pull off on time or on budget.
I liked this post and the title. As a PPC manager, I see all kinds of business models and can attest to the 3 tier method working best. The most interesting thing is how you arrive at these through bracketing. Nice work.
How much of the 'future of publishing' discussions do you think are driven purely by ardent desire not to lose the status quo? I mean, it seems to me that looking at it objectively, the future is very self-evident. What product did publishers provide? Among other things, their business model was completely built upon distribution being a valuable service and the entire industry being impossible without it. This made them rich. Now, distribution is a worthless service. In fact, the way in which they provided distribution for so many years, they are actually actively destroying value by having to adhere to all of the arcane, unnecessary geographic limitations that made distribution possible a decade or so ago.

Now, they will either morph and stop even charging for distribution (since any 12 year old with an Internet connection could beat their ass at the task) and radically shink their business (from billions to thousands) as they have lost their golden goose, or they close their doors. They can still make money providing a few services like aggregation (when distribution is essentially free, aggregation becomes a valuable service... not as valuable as distribution used to be, but not worthless either). They can provide promotional services to their writers (who are now the bosses, while the publishers are starving service providers) and things like that too.

If they're really smart, they will realize that the future is consumers getting their journalism from, gasp, journalists directly since distribution is now basically free. How can they profit from that? Well, finding journalists, managing logistics for journalists, etc could be valuable services. There is no question, they have to face the fact that there will no longer be The Fifth Estate and they will no longer be international power brokers, they won't even be reasonably wealthy businessmen. They're going to be working from home and shuffling bits unless they're willing to get on a plane and go where the danger is and become a journalist themselves. I understand from their perspective this is a scary prospect, the same for anyone who feels that the status quo gives them safety and predictability. And I can't help but think that a lot of these talks are based on that fear...
Wow! Killing DNS is a nasty way to take down the site. That could take hours to come back.
Why Pinterest needs a separate mobile photosharing app?
Pinterest, every girlfriends favorite network, is positioned to leap frog Instagram with a well-played mobile photo-sharing app.

Although they currently allow you to take a photo with your camera in their current app; it's not a core focus and lacks photo editing features.

If the app shares to Twitter and Facebook as well; I could see a significant number of people switching over from Instagram and focus on building their identity on Pinterest. Mobile photo-sharing is a wedge that could lead them to interest-targeted mobile status updates.

Finally, it's an opportunity to de-focus brands from Instagram back to contributing to Pinterest. Brands have already found the highest ROI on Pinterest so it would make sense for them double-down and have real-time photo content on their a "what's happening now" board.

Could a stand-alone camera app be Pinterest's new killer product?
If one were inclined to experiment, you could increase the payout of the machine to above minimum wage but with a small chance on each crank rotation that it would deliver a small electric shock.
Also fellow SAP consultant here.

SAP ERP is pretty stable. That's what customers are paying for. Material management has been debugged for decades. Try to compete with that. A couple of python scripts seem like a nightmare to me.

Yes, the code is horrible and ABAP itself is a nightmare, but the software as product is very hard to tackle. The only way I can think of is a disruptive move of Big Business in general, ie. small networked entities instead of crusty old ones.
Using Native client to accelerate Bullet and zLib in Chrome
We have 16 tickets sold so far and more people purchasing. We'll probably sell out by Friday. But it's probably not going to be a crowd for kids (just in case) heh
Many people learn their skills on the job. Setting an artificial lower limit of what they are allowed to work for prevents some people from starting to climb a ladder toward higher skills and higher wages.

Regarding just hiring the person managing the labor to do the work: Don't forget that one person can manage multiple people.
> Force companies to pay a living wage.

So what is a living wage for a teenager living at home? What is a living wage for a college student going to school full time but still supported by their parents? What is a living wage for a retired grandparent that wants to 'stay young'? How about for a spouse who just wants to be out of the house because the other member of the marriage brings home sufficient disposable income?

The notion that there is a single administratively selectable price point that is the 'minimum' wage for any and all job situations is a fallacy.
Here's a similar algorithm you can play around with, implemented in Javascript + Canvas: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/

HN post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392036
Well, not that I don't think you have a valid point but some very smart people have done otherwise...

"When we were working on our own startup, back in the 90s, I evolved another trick for partitioning the day. I used to program from dinner till about 3 am every day, because at night no one could interrupt me. Then I'd sleep till about 11 am, and come in and work until dinner on what I called "business stuff.""

(http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html)
At the end of the day, the Fed can seize all assets on a business touching marijuana. There are numerous activists with deep pockets eager to test the laws in court.

Ultimately Congress needs to change the law.
Huh? Who on earth wants to see the ugly mugs of their coworkers when talking about work...?!

No visuals = big advantage of chat (in this usage).
That thread is one of them, yes. As I mentioned, it does still exist, it wasn't deleted. It can be linked from comments in other stories. But it was removed from the global front page, and from the r/wtf and r/technology listings, and from their internal search results (which I believe is standard for removing stories, which is not uncommon in general).

----

The canonical test terms seem to be "blowjob" and "anal sex", though it will be interesting to see what else emerges as effected.

After work, you can test for yourself [NSFW]:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=blowjob&tbm=isch

https://www.google.com/search?q=blowjob&tbm=isch

Make sure to turn "Safe Search: Off" for .ca -- you will notice there in no longer any such option for .com
If your resume has them, the others don't, and the boss is knowledgeable or curious ... then it could help you stand out. I would think it would look very good for a developer position, especially at a place that makes high reliability and/or network facing products.
Maybe he's not ready to fulfill the rewards yet. I don't see that as a reason to file a lawsuit. I backed the kickstarter PID espresso machine project almost a year ago and have yet to see my reward. They reached their funding goal before this CodeHero fellow, so should we also file a lawsuit too?
Does It Generate Income?
The "classic scam-artist things" sound a lot like the kind of things I've done when I've gone under on a project.
Google unveils gorgeous Currents, its Flipboard competitor
Ask HN: How do you find a good progra... uhh.. I mean lawyer?
Quite a lot of comments dealing with company formation or IP says "find a good lawyer".

If finding a good lawyer is anything like finding a good programmer, how do you find a good lawyer?

In this case, your the pointy haired boss who doesn't know anything about law.
You should definitely come out and experience it with everyone else that loved this movie growing up. Also, with whiskey and beer you'll be 12 again.
Convert Office documents to PDF on the fly
I pretty much agree. Although I think it's important to have the tech background and have the ability to code (the same ways CEOs need to understand basic accounting) it's hard not to get immersed in the rat race and lose sight of the big picture. As the OP said, you need to spend a big part of your time pitching. Both to investors and as importantly to potential recuits.
They get hundreds of extra points for hosting their status page on their own service.

That's basically the main (already widely accepted) lesson people should take from this -- people want twitter updates as well as an outside-hosted blog and monitor for service availability.
Hmm, it looks like a lot of work has been put into simplifying object notation down to it's bare minimum, but the trailing whitespace and array representation both concern me. Significant trailing whitespace, as @cynwoody said, is a really bad approach to the multiline solution. Also, having to number arrays means ordering is a nightmare. Overall, it's a cool approach that needs some work, and could probably benefit from looking at YAML, instead of HAML, for inspiration.
Furries Pounce on Offbeatr, the ‘Kickstarter for Porn’
Huh the only way you can tell 72.32.231.8 redirects to tumblr's crash page is the link under find out why. Completely unbranded.
The Dell Mini 9 had an Atom N270, which is rated at 2.5W max. TDP: http://ark.intel.com/products/36331/Intel-Atom-Processor-N27...

There are (or were) plenty of fanless designs around that CPU on the market, from embedded/industrial PCs to nettop barebones, ITX mainboards and "panel computers" (i.e. early tablets).
So, if he is required to send out the rewards (even if the project failed, which it sounds like it must have, if people feel the funds were misused; to be clear, my understanding is that the Kickstarter was for a better game than the original Code Hero I said was possibly released), then Kickstarter is no longer a crowd-funded donation system for speculative investing and is a way to avoid collecting sales tax for purchases of physical goods (or custom software, such as "a special version with X", which is also often subject to sales tax).
No more a fool than an artist who took out a loan to make an album. Business often involves accepting a risk that you won't be able to meet your obligations.
http://paste.lisp.org/display/133628
Isn't the whole point of startups that they are usually funded (at least initially) on about enough money to buy ramen noodles for a year?

Sure, if you have enough funds to buy some rockstar programmers then go for it.

Otherwise what are you going to do? Outsource it to the lowest bidder? Then spend all that time worrying if they will produce something that matches your vision and worrying about the quality.
It was a bit unclear from the initial reporting what Google had in mind. But given time to reflect, I think the changes were made so that Google can focus better on giving users what they want, pornographic or otherwise. Same as with any other query, Google will present what it thinks you're looking for.

Arguably, the default results are now more explicit, since you are allowed to stumble across porn if your query is suggestive enough. (After the warning you get the first time this occurs, that is.)

I remain a little concerned about whether Google will become more conservative in their results, now that they're forced to judge user intent by default. The filtering of (most of) the obvious single-word pornographic triggers is one example of how the lack of a explicit SafeSearch-Off mode changes the user experience.

The internet outcry so far focuses on how the results are less explicit, which to me is a good sign; I'll worry more if now or in the future mainstream channels start to highlight how you might theoretically stumble across porn by default now (after all, nobody reads popups, right?).
Sometimes stated as "blind people can't be bus drivers", also known (in the inverse) as a Bona Fide Occupational Qualification or BFOQ [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bona_fide_occupational_qualific...
Cause a feedback loop due to companies having to charge more for products leading to inflation
It's cool. You're still young. You'll look back at these years and realize how much you really learned with Jeff and the gang at Twilio. Keep writing and reaching out to people and above all have fun. Chicago is a pretty nice backup city. :)
Should be pretty easy to "afford" since you get the money right back... right?
You should build an APPYnotebook App (www.appynotebook.com).... it works better for school and your classmates would love you for it:)
Some countries--Germany from what I understand, for instance--have sector and job class-specific minimum wages, which seems so eminently sane that it's impossible in the USA.
Yes, sure I would. Doesn't sound like a glossy DTP kind of document. The document size wouldn't be a problem. Ask on the groff list with more of a description of the kind of content and what you might be worried about. Books like _The C Programming Language_, W. Richards Stevens' _Unix Network Programming_, and others are examples of what can be done. http://troff.org/pubs.html
About half (of 3.8M) are under 25. Not sure about "very few", it's one in twenty jobs.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm
Twitter adds filters -- commentary by an early Twitter engineer
I wouldn't be surprised if the creators are actually the first ones to "back" the project as well. Potential supporters will certainly feel more comfortable backing a project that already has some pledges.
That method is optional.

You can also do:

message This is a
multiline string. It can
keep going and going.

I just thought this looked somewhat nicer:

message
This is a multiline string.
It can keep going and going.

However, unless syntax highlighting is present, it can definitely be a source of bugs.

But I understand your concern. It is one of my few nitpicks as well. However, the slight problem almost disappears with editors that support Note.

Thanks for taking a careful look at Note!
The biggest problem I see startups having (at least the ones I have insight into, consulting and whatnot,) is their founders are too far from the technical. I agree founding and coding is hard to manage, but without a developer on the same level with the same goals, you're shooting your business in the foot.
That's a real choice, and it's not easily legislated into oblivion.

I understand that, and I don't mean to demonize business by any means. A minimum wage might well stifle competition somewhat, but I think the lack of one would do more harm than good. Given the choice between harm to business and harm to people, I'll choose to harm business.
You can force a living wage, but you can't force companies to hire people at that wage. I mean, you can, but most people would find that pretty extreme.
You use too many ellipses. :)
Photo-filter wars: Flickr launches Instagram-like iPhone app
I'm not sure i follow that graph. What happened in 2004-2005 that caused 29% of "Other"? And what's responsible for the simultaneous large jump with apple? The iPhone wasn't released until mid-2007.
Interestingly, there are even information-theoretic reasons to prefer 3-way branching representations, as explained in this article about "Base 3":

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.3268,y.0,no.,cont...

Base 3, on the other hand, does have a genuine mathematical distinction in its favor. By one plausible measure, it is the most efficient of all integer bases; it offers the most economical way of representing numbers.

(Culturally, I think any reduction to 2 choices calls to mind simplistic patterns of 'only 2 directions'/1-axis/1-line, or 'good'/'evil'. You expect one option to dominate. As soon as you reach 3 choices, people recognize that evaluation may require 2 or more dimensions of balancing, using curved preference functions and more thought.)
CloudFlare has unlimited bandwidth. I'm not affiliated, and it doesn't exactly answer your question, but perhaps this is a useful thought.