skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't accept this coming from Krugman, Bruce Bartlett is a moderate voice who says essentially the same thing: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/the-new-republi...
You might want to check out our service, Klaviyo, and specifically https://www.klaviyo.com/features/integrations. We do exactly what you're describing around connecting your data with data from the all services you use. I definitely think it's the future and the future is coming sooner rather than later.

I also agree that metrics are not nearly as powerful if you can't tie them directly to action. Which is why we built our own, fully featured email solution so you can go from metrics, to important people to engagement automatically.

That's where we think things are headed and it's going to be incredibly empowering.
Hollywood Wants To Use Drones To Make Movies
Yes, I think you can.

There have been case(s) I think (in USA) concerning websites where it was argued successfully that placing an non-password protected page available on the public internet was implied consent to access/use that service.

That seems the right way to do it. You can't then, for example, put up a website which enables printing and then claim that people who use it are financially liable for using that service.

That would be like putting a bench on a busy street and then popping up and charging people if they happened to sit on it - if they sit down, you can tell them they're not authorised to sit without payment, or you can advertise lack of authorisation (eg with a price list) but otherwise you're implying consent.
I doubt I'd hire a C programmer who didn't recognize a bit operator. Yikes! Even for Java/C#, it seems disconcerting, doesn't it?
http://mises.org/daily/6277/Socialism

Much better read
This is really cool, but I'm curious how an investment in this is different than a charitable contribution. The contribution is awesome for the network it introduces Watsi to, but I can't imagine there will ever be a return on this kind of investment.

(This is not meant to sound negative. I am truly excited to see it, interested to see what the YC network can bring to it, and very curious about the investment thinking behind it.)
I will add that I am loving seeing Kevin Cornell's illustrations at that size, though.
now the article suddenly makes sense to me
"You can't outsmart a pirate."

You can't generally bludgeon them with force, you can't outsmart them forever, but sure. People can and do outsmart pirates, it's just rare and those "combatting" usually aren't creative or empowered enough to make the right (er, effective?) decisions.
Sorry, but "Preserve the Union" is not any more concrete then "Energy Independence." In fact I can come up with quantifiers for both.
There's a fundamental difference: Billable Hours.

For a lawyer, if they put in 100 hours to come up with a 2-page letter, they charge for those 100 hours. The next time a client comes to them with a similar problem, they charge for 100 hours.

Software developers charge for time actually spent working on a particular project. If they reuse code, they don't (typically) charge anything. If developers were to charge for the number of hours spent writing that code they're reusing, they'd be more like lawyers.
Ask HN: Has anyone submitted a .me Premium domain proposal?
I'm looking into a .me premium domain which steers you to their Development Program. Unlike a lot of other domain purchase sites, .ME appears to request a business proposal for the concept vs. a price for the domain.

Has anyone had any experience with this? Pros vs. Cons?

Thanks for any feedback.
there's a surprising variety of tools available, and they each accomplish different things.

for example:

mixpanel and kissmetrics are great for tracking custom events and learning deeply about engagement and conversion inside your app.

but you're still going to want hittail or google analytics to analyze your referrers.

and you probably want customer.io, vero, mixpanel or klaviyo to do targeted email marketing, which is great for improving activation and retention.

so i'd say why wouldn't you want to use multiple analytics services? maybe our definition of "analytics" is just broader :)
Yeah, Javascript must be really confusing to have so many people asking questions about it :-).

I jest, but seriously, popularity of a tag on StackOverflow should be used to determine one thing: popularity of a tag on StackOverflow. There are more important factors influencing a subject's popularity on SO than its overall popularity. A big factor is where the community around the technology tends to congregate. Many projects (like Guava: http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/) officially endorse StackOverflow as the place to ask questions, because the maintainers and experts will be monitoring SO. That will have an inflating impact on its relative popularity.
I agree it's idealistic, but as you say it's something we should be aiming for. Unfortunately the only way that will happen is if people make a conscience decision and talk with their wallet; whether it is Apple, Samsung or Starbucks etc.
There is no difference; it is simply a charitable contribution.
Hmmm...I'm not an engineer and I love Google Tag Manager. It's not the most intuitive interface, but after a few hours, I can't imagine ever managing scripts anyway else. No need to bug my CTO just to add a conversion pixel? Heck yeah.
In school I had done a little research project to see if there were opportunities to map out these cameras and use them for disaster response scenarios. It seemed like a promising approach but I don't believe my prof ever took it past my proof of concept.

We were even able to track down some cameras located on campus which made for some hilarious phone calls.
COMEFROM programming
Yep, I am currently living in Nepal doing a startup and recently wrote this:

How to move to a third-world country and plant a tech startup
http://blog.cloudfactory.com/2012/10/how-move-to-third-world...
The Inside Story of SQL Slammer
Email dropped.
I waffled on this when I created my account, but ultimately I want it associated with me and my name, not just a random name that anyone could claim as their own. That said, I've thought about having an anon account simply because I don't want to ask a stupid question and have someone bring gender into it (because, unfortunately, this happens). So I'm in this cycle of where I just browse StackOverflow and use my account to favorite things instead of taking the risk.

I did recently have someone in UXExchange comment on an old answer of mine (which had been upvoted a few times) to essentially tell me I was wrong about everything I said. The post was dated and no one else had replied to the thread in awhile. This same person had tweeted me around the same timeframe inviting me to join their chatroom. I hate assuming gender had anything to do with it, but it seemed odd that both of these would come out of nowhere, especially because telling someone they're wrong on a 2 year old post in this industry is like.. really?
Absolutely, exactly.
support given to the banks

Support given by the government, right? That would make the government, if anything, more culpable.

total value of all residential mortgages

It's true that my previous comment applied to residential mortgages, but as I understand it, the real estate bubble was not limited to residential; it included commercial and industrial real estate as well. Certainly in my local area there has been lots of overbuilding of office and industrial space. So the correct number to compare with the total of government support given is the total of all mortgages, not just residential.
I can relate mate. There is so much self-shame in those thoughts but like with all mental illness, we can't generalize. I'm sure some people have those feelings, I know there have been times when my own episodes have even included them so maybe I shouldn't have written it off so quickly.
The Bell Curve of Risk and Failure
Project started to run Erlang on bare metal
Good point. Doesn't a unified vision/direction typically imply a huge problem to be solved? Even the space race was more a race against Communism than a common motivation to accomplish something great.

The ideal is to have no huge problems to solve. Humans being humans, without a common thing to scare us into working together, we'll all work on whatever we want.

That said, one might argue that we have huge problems we just haven't realized are huge problems yet. Climate change comes to mind.
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Yes, this letter is a waste.

Hell, two far-better goals: abolish software and "business method" patents, and reform healthcare so that it's not tied to your EMPLOYMENT. Any talk of entrepreneurship is a sham as long as people are tied to dead-end jobs for insurance.

Then we can move on to repealing the DMCA and restore consumers' rights.
Dude this is seriously cool. It's dead simple and the page is super clean. I think if you promote this properly it could be really popular. You could probably make some decent money putting up affiliate links for web hosting. I think you should seriously consider building a suite of webmaster tools that are similarly clean and simple. Also, you should consider using a much shorter (but descriptive and memorable) name.
So, the really cool part is this:

"At Watsi, 100% of your donations directly fund medical treatments. Watsi.org is separately funded. They pay all their operational costs from their own funding, and none from your donations. They even eat the credit card processing fees."

This works great with Watsi's crowdfunding-style model. It probably wouldn't help with things which need legs on the ground full-time, but it would be interesting to see more nonprofits looking at an "out of channel" donor model.

P.S. If you haven't clicked through to read PG's announcement and check out Watsi, go do so. Really. This is something YC is going to look back on and be proud of being part of 20 years from now.

https://watsi.org/faq
I am using Chrome on Windows 7. The menu bar on the top of the page cuts off the title and the bottom of the page slightly cuts off the * FOR PEOPLE WHO MAKE WEBSITES.

Is that the way it should look?
"If Steam can still trivially get its third-party-bought programs onto the metro-styled start screen, the popular reporting on that situation was off."

All mine are, by default. Valve is concerned about the competition from the Windows app store, not the UI revamp.
Actually many other car manufacturers are making (perhaps more incremental) steps towards that goal too: http://singularityhub.com/2013/01/19/mercedes-and-other-carm...
is it down for anyone else? connection keeps timing out =\
A car with triple the gas mileage is yawn-worthy? How out of touch are you? Do you not believe emissions are a serious problem?

1) Eliminate the need for a legislature by using technology to collect votes.

I think you have a serious misunderstanding about government and complex systems in general.

2) Do more for less - find a way to provide today's services for 1/10th the cost.

Sounds great but is a total fantasy. Wildly unrealistic goals are of no use to people that actually get things done.
pg,

I wrote this minutes ago in a thread about the 3rd world. If you ever come across a startup that solves this please fund them:

"The biggest problems right now involve education and health. Example: 60-80% health problems follow the same pattern: you see a doctor, he asks for blood/urine tests, you get the results, go back to the doctor for a prescription. Build something that the poor can explain their symptoms and do those tests without going physically to a doctor and become a semi-god here. That would involve a website (or phone call) and portable blood testers. (Specially for things like malaria, E. coli, colera, dengue fever, typhoid fever, etc)"
I'm really not trying to drag Vayner through the mud any more than he already has been, but I thought I'd clarify why I think he was ridiculed.

The ridicule against Vayner wasn't because he played tennis, lifted weights, practiced karate, or ballroom danced. The ridicule existed because he compiled these accomplishments into a video resume which he sent to UBS. He was ridiculed because he thought this was the best way to present himself to a potential employer and to many, came across as egotistical and pretentious.

This video alone was enough to go viral, but add to it the fact that there was evidence that a lot of the claims in his video and resume were falsified makes the story even more outrageous.
I'm pretty sure that the 88 people [1] who want to go from "MEL to Perth UK" actually want to go the other Perth. Interestingly only 3 have signed up for "MEL to Perth AU" - perhaps you could add some heuristics to your autocomplete?

Similarly for "Auckland NZ to Christchurch UK" - people might be getting more than they bargained for there. :)

[1] http://adioso.com/following/missing_routes
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Very happy to see this. At the very least, it's great news for the nonprofit world, which needs desperately to learn some of the basic the lessons of the startup world: fail fast, iterate, focus on your users, and more.
“Dashan,” the Canadian Comedian Who Achieved Stardom in China
If it takes off and is successful on a massive scale, I'm sure they will find a method to monetize it other than transaction fees on donations. One example that I can think of off the top of my head is to charge medical device manufacturers or pharmaceutical companies a fee to market their products the recently funded with direct messages or traditional advertising.
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I would agree with you that it's reasonable to expect that to be a conversation that would result in your desired outcome. There are a few technical things at issue.

Again, I agree this is broken. My only point is that saying things are "fraud" is harder than I think you expect.

The problem is that saying "I want X% return with Y risk, show me suitable investments" introduces two problems. The first is that risk is not easily quantifiable[1] and also that there are likely many things that are plausibly suitable for that requirement.

If you are dealing with a salesperson, they are required only to present stuff that has a reasonable likelihood of meeting your goals.

If they're working with someone who is a fiduciary, that fiduciary is required to do the extra analysis, but many people are not lucky enough to work with folks who are held to that higher standard.

In my view, every consumer when transacting with every salesperson should use their own judgment to make sure that the products they are being sold are sensible and suitable for them.

Failing to do that -- to just walk into a store and buy what the salesperson (not your personal shopper or your sister or someone who actually cares) says is best -- is just a bad idea.

I hope that adds some clarity as to where I'm coming from.

[1]Quanta exist, but are not comprehensively descriptive. Any metric will not comprehensively describe risk, especially because there are behavioral factors (your own changing attitude towards risk over time) that need to be incorporated into a thoughtful assessment.
The President of the United States (and I don't mean the current office-holder, I mean the office of the President) is uniquely incapable of being this person that you want.

They are the head of the Executive branch. They uphold the Constitution, specifically the laws passed by Congress.

In this conversation, the President can merely suggest goals to Congress.

Also, Congress is in no position to do what you ask, either: they make laws.

It should not be illegal to NOT pursue the Great Challenge you talk about. It should also not require taxing everyone. It should require motivating people to help.

If it's to succeed, it also needs to pay for itself, or be so self-evidently worthy that people donate to it enough money to keep it going.

In short: I don't think the Government can do you what you want.

Here's where I put my hope for the future:

http://www.planetaryresources.com
How about a kick starter like nonprofit for social funding of scientific and medical research?
Pretty sure it is intended. I refreshed a few times thinking that some stylesheets were missing or not loading properly. Definitely a bold direction...
What was your reaction? Did you report this to anyone higher up or any legal authorities?
I don't think I've ever said this about a website, but the font size is way too large. There is also too much text on each line.

I feel like this was approached from a layout perspective rather than a typographic one.

For a site like ALA, I find the design to be really, really disappointing.
> Each of them is horrible about getting data out in
> order to correlate it with other services.

Hmmm. In what way? We (Chartbeat) provide all of our data through our API, and all of our products are built using those very same APIs.
> Still faster than walking to the gas station and back

Dude, the amount of current you're going to need for a 5 minute charge is going to put such capabilities only in the hands of businesses for decades at least.
A few months ago I erroneously port scanned our office HP networked printers (I meant to scan our internal servers but a typo meant I selected the wrong IP range). As soon as nmap encountered the JetDirect ports every single printer spewed out a dozen pages of total gibberish. Put it this way - I bet the owners of the printers you just scanned are slightly puzzled why their printer kicked into life.

More worryingly is that on many unpatched HP printers[1] it is entirely possible to push an unauthorised firmware update through port 9100.[2]

--

[1] Enabling OS updates is one thing but I wonder how many businesses actively update their printers to the latest firmware versions?

[2] http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.js...
We (masporloschicos.com) have been doing roughly the same since 2005. (instead of health we focus on malnutrition)

Note- site is in spanish - targeted to the Argentine audience

We are a bit less granular though - instead of matching against an individual, we match a specific soup kitchen. But we keep donors updated with newsletters, pictures, letters from the kids and so on.

edit: this level of udpates keeps donors engaged. we dont allow one time donations - instead we require you to subscribe.

When we built masporloschicos.com I wanted to do it more granular (individual level), but we ended up doing it a bit more aggregate because it was really hard / expensive to get to that granular level.

I wonder how is watsi tackling this problem - because ultimately you don't want to spend a lot of funds (regardless of where they come from) on the administration/bureaucracy required to provide quality 1:1 matching.

So I just wonder how are they doing it?
The post also links to this brilliant analysis by Rowswell himself of his character, how Westerners perceive him, and how he fits into Chinese culture:

http://www.quora.com/Learning-Chinese-1/Why-do-so-many-Chine...
Is a printer publicly accessible over an IP network really so different from a fax machine publicly accessible over switched phone network? Hell, many times (probably always these days) the fax machine is a printer so if the printer is a "computer" the fax machine half of it surely should be as well.

I can see them getting you for spam, just as they can with unsolicited faxes I believe, but anything more than that? Seems a little silly.

To add to the printer/fax comparison, I have known people who used printers in different physical locations within an organization as a "fax machine" that was easier to use with a computer. Need to send some documents to the guys across the state? Print it to them.
You mean a jury of people too stupid to figure out how to get out of jury duty?

The common man cares about Kim Kardassian, and what celeb is with who. Or sports..
HN rarely makes me laugh, and that isn't why I come here, but your comment certainly did. Thank you!
That looks very good as a starting point.

Im the demo page I was looking for the BOM and the parts values. Being non-standard this implies limitted applicability in practice.

Did you consider adding constraints to part values?
> Still faster than walking to the gas station and back

Dude, the amount of current you're going to need for a 5 minute charge is going to put such capabilities only in the hands of businesses for decades at least.

Basically, it's like running a fleet of 30 cars all at once for five minutes.
Open source game, [d0x3d], teaches security concepts and is fun to play
Site and mission sound great, I'm looking forward to contributing.

Hopefully it'll quickly join the ranks of the larger crowdfunding non-for-profits like Kiva.org, Donorschoose, etc...
So I have not actually used V10S (dont have a windows machine for one thing), but my impression is that it was only for smali code. This decompiles to Java, and its for Linux/OSX.

I would say that V10S is for small modification/hax, and java decompilation is for understanding how people did things/what they are doing.

Also becoming a smali god is hard.
I should note that this isn't unique to computers, by the way. You should also never leave a note on an unlocked car saying "hey, noticed your car was unlocked --signed XYZ".
Author mentions this point briefly without saying "AES-NI" though.

<quote> On the contrary, AES can be very fast in software implementations, and even more if your CPU provides specific instructions for AES. </quote>
Ask and you shall receive: https://www.microryza.com/
There are a ton of problems to solve, so why focus on one?

The idea, I suppose, is that by focusing on a single "big problem", we could make very rapid progress (instead of making slower progress on a bigger set of problems). At its height, the US was spending almost 1% of its GDP on the Apollo program. Now imagine we could all agree on some other goal that we would spend that much money on. The hard part would be choosing a good goal, and then convincing enough people that it's the "right one".
The game is based on Forbidden Island, which is a great game to play. It's a cooperative game where either you all win or all lose.

http://d0x3d.com/d0x3d/welcome.html
Tough luck for those children who didn't already work there.
Some IRC networks or channels make their logs publicly accessible - so if you're showing off your parakeet on camera one day, that URL might be logged.
Use a PIN, and if possible, encrypt your phone. It won't completely mitigate the risk, but it will reduce your surface area.
IBM Predicts Cognitive Systems As New Computing Wave
This would be illegal in the US AFAIK. The law and the US government are the biggest barriers to medical innovation right now.
Gravitons are not included in the Standard Model, which doesn't cover gravity at all, and is not intended to.

As far as whether gravitons could be the "very light force carriers", I don't see how that would be possible; gravity is way too weak a force to make that much of a difference in measurements on hydrogen atoms, even muonic ones.
Human colonization of Mars.
Print your own life-size robot for under $1,000
> The contribution is awesome for the network it introduces Watsi to, but I can't imagine there will ever be a return on this kind of investment.

The model of charityfund-operationsfunding separation is quite enticing. This kind of transparency fosters trust. If they ask for donations on the side to keep their operations running, by golly they've got access to my wallet alright.
Not it's not. GNU Sed compiles pretty much everywhere. Just use that.