skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some would say that sharing a computed score that claims to say something about me is not sharing my personal data. But I don't even think that Google would compute and sell such a score at this point in time. I trust them to some degree, maybe even a bit more than I trust others.

What I'm concerned about is that data that allows such a score to be computed is out there and I have no way to control it or take it back. Google could change and start to interpret their privacy policy slightly differently. The data could be stolen or accessed by governments. Many things could happen that are outside of my control.

But I agree that Microsoft may try to insinuate something different from what I'm concerend about.
Actually I was mostly joking, learning C and Haskell has greatly increased my hability to write code, even if it's other language.

And I'm not in the laboral world yet, so I have plenty of time to get used to Rails or any other technology, but it's right that at least of 75% of Startups are using Rails.
Not to mention the whole "double taxation" thing. Dividends aren't exactly an efficient way to return value.
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There's only one way to find out for yourself.
why do you think it would be in google's interest to bias search result ?

Ask a Googler or Larry Page, why did they do that?

Showing paying customers first in search results? Or not showing results if there are similar ads to be displayed?

It's a lot more than showing a few ads next to search, it's almost all ads. Frankly even the "unbiased results" are mostly from advertisers. I do not trust them at all, their revenue keeps increasing with each change
That's why wall street doesn't like it. Apples has the benfit of being public without relying on wall street for its financial future. I guess hedgefonds and banks are less than happy with having little to no influendce on the most valuable company in the world. So every now and then someone tries to sue his way in. Business as usual I guess...
Also, it's probably easier to get a designer to improve the default theme (or make a new default theme), than to patch possible improvements into the core (when there is no theme engine).

Separation of concerns is always a good thing.

edit: seems they have no real theme engine, just a method to replace background image for header and footer. duh.
Debate the magic of Steve Jobs if you want, but I don't think anyone can deny that one of Apple's strengths is in avoiding conventional wisdom and finding a more profitable path.

Imagine if people sued Apple to try and make them license their OS to others![1]

This is the worst kind of back seat driving.

[1] I do think that Apple licensing iOS to companies like HTC, Samsung, etc. with a strict quality control program would make good business sense, but despite being long Apple, I realize it's not my place and there are probably many factors that I'm not aware of. The problem of not being able to meet demand, and needing to compete at the lower end of the price spectrum would be solved by my proposal, but Apple likely has other plans to solve this problem. At the end of the day, it's up to the Management Team and the Board to address these issues, not minority shareholders!
ExtremeTech reporting on a Phoronix rumor is basically the perfect storm of over-hyped under-sourced tech journalism.
For anyone interested, the Knight Foundation helped fund EveryBlock with a grant that required them to open source their code. http://code.google.com/p/ebcode/

The grant required that they open source it at the end of the grant period so I wouldn't be surprised if the source code was not current but for anyone who would like to keep it alive, this would give you a major head start.

Also, it appears someone already did something with the source @ http://openblockproject.org/
You have it exactly backwards. If shareholders want more cash, it is theirs to demand. They don't have a "right to a voice", they own the company. And it has nothing to do with being public.
Not sure what you mean by that, but PyLint gets errors like

- calling non-existent members (including class hierarchy analysis)

- reading non-existent variables

See the Exxxx messages http://pylint-messages.wikidot.com/all-messages
ruby that comes with Debian Squeeze.

$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i486-linux]
I think the answer from Paul Buchheit on that post is the better one:

"I certainly don't regret it.

Wealth removes constraints. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on the extent to which you needed those constraints. If you have a serious alcohol or other drug addiction, wealth could be fatal for you. In general, it makes people more of whatever they already were. If you're an asshole, getting more money will probably make you more of an asshole. However, if you have purpose and meaning in your life that goes beyond chasing the golden carrot, money can give you the freedom to focus on the things that truly matter to you.

One of the biggest dangers of wealth is that it often causes people to cut themselves off from the larger society, either out of fear or the belief that they are somehow better than others. We are all one."
When I was a kid, one of the things on which I spent a fair amount of time was trying to figure out how to make a Lego vehicle with independent front suspension (and steering). Nowadays, they have specialized pieces that have effectively solved that problem.

I don't know whether I ever came up with a decent solution back then, but I do know that trying to come up with one was an excellent exercise, one that I probably would never have embarked on if I'd had the pieces they make today.

edit: grammar fix
Drawing overlapping elements in javascript.
"Delivering innovation at scale" is exactly what let McDonald's grow like few companies before or since.
I don't know if its worth it, but I don't really like the alternative (being broke). These days, you either have money or you don't. There is no middle class.
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I agree it's not a legal issue. The law is pretty firmly on his side, as it should be. I believe that things of this nature are too fuzzy to be encoded in law, it's more of a "I know it when I see it" type of thing that reasonable people can have differing opinions on.

However, a really stupid part of domain law is that Nissan Motor's can't convince him with money. If he had offered to sell to Nissan Motors or attempted to negotiate a price in response to an offer by them, that could be considered evidence of squatting and he could have lost the domain in court. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Pro...
True, but that's not what's happening here.

If a majority of shareholders wanted this proposal, or some other proposal, they could get it in the proxy statement and then get it passed.

What's happening here is a lawsuit to try and do an endrun around the process by which the shareholders exercise their rights.

Hell, shareholders vote for the members of the board of directors.... shareholders could choose to nominate and vote for board members that support the idea if they wanted.
I agree that that point is a valid complaint, but a complaint is all it is.

If the money was really bringing someone down so much, the problem could be dispensed with by writing one check to a charity of their choice.

The fact that wealthy people do not give all of their money away is proof that having it is better than not having it.
"Why was Apple able to [ignore Wall Street outright], when other major corporations can't seem to shake their Wall Street shackles? I would guess that it had a lot to do with an early chain of big hits. The iPod, followed by the massively successful generations of subsequent iPods and iTunes"

I agree, but the chain of hits started with the iMac, which quickly became the bestselling personal computer ever.

Also, Jobs had already demonstrated his ability to make tough decisions: when he became interim CEO at Apple, he appointed an entirely new board of directors, chose new VPs, slashed many product lines (Performa, Newton, Network Server, QuickTake, LaserWriter, etc etc), and he wouldn't take more than $1 in salary.
Why backstabbing? Is that really necessary? Sure, politics and hard work, and even hustling (as used by Steven Corona here: http://stevecorona.com/college-was-my-biggest-mistake, rather than the "semi-legal activities" pop definition)

I just don't see backstabbing as a necessary (or even effective) means to accomplish an end, no matter how noble the end may be.
fwiw, I find the syntax definition in the ruby_parser gem at https://github.com/seattlerb/ruby_parser/blob/master/lib/rub... to be much easier reading, as it's written for racc (the ruby equivalent of yacc), although as the readme warns, it's not perfect.
For all those complaining that Everyblock should have given more notice, this obviously came as a surprise to the team.

Just look at their blog history.

Exactly 1 month ago (Jan 7th), they announced [1] a new Neighborhood Ad service for Business.

People don't announce new paying services and then completely shut the doors 4 weeks later unless someone way up the NBC management chain axed this unexpectedly.

[1] http://blog.everyblock.com/2013/jan/07/neighbor-ads/

Update: Fixed typo
"Mr Prosecutor, yes I killed that guy. But in my defense, my wife was shouting at me earlier in the day and it made me upset. I had been fired from my job the day before, and didn't have a new job lined up yet. So I got angry at the grocery store over raising the price of milk, and killed the cashier. Please consider this and drop some of the charges."

"Ohhh your wife was shouting at you? I hear ya, buddy. I'll drop most of the charges and you won't have to go to jail for murder..."

I mean, come on. We can't take people's personal circumstances that are unrelated to the crime into account. No matter if you are rich or poor, married or single, working or unemployed, kids or no kids, you should get equal treatment under the law. I can't believe people are arguing that "possibly suicidal" people should have charges reduced. If that was true, everyone charged with a crime would claim to be suicidal...
This.

I sometimes wonder if the reason that I always push things to the limit in an attempt to do as much as possible with my resources is somehow down to years of playing strategy games on computers, where correctly timing several turns of complete poverty results in massive success 50% of the time.

Unfortunately, this behaviour doesn't translate well to a medium in which the "reset" button involves 6 years without access to credit.

Hasn't happened yet. Nearly. But fortunately not yet.
Humans Swap DNA More Readily Than They Swap Stories
Show HN: Flawless - a Python framework for reporting exceptions via email
> t also makes the rest of the application container-
> agnostic, which is quite cool.

Not least because containers have a tendency to fall out of fashion. For instance if you suggest using Spring for a large project now, people will queue up to punch you like a meat pinata.
A shareholder lawsuit isn't an "end run" around the process. It's one of the options in the process. Companies incorporate under statutory frameworks that explicitly contemplate shareholder lawsuits in addition to other mechanisms for shareholders to assert their interests. Investors, in turn, buy stock with full knowledge of (and indeed, often because of) the fact that lawsuits are an option shareholders have to assert their rights.

In this case, you have to distinguish between "I think Apple should be managed differently" and "hoarding cash amounts to a breach of fiduciary duty." The former is about general corporate strategy, and that is governed by majority consent of the shareholders. The latter is a right specific to each shareholder, and so cannot be waived by majority consent.

Why is the process structured this way? For obvious reasons. Say you're buying a 25% stake in Apple, but back in the 1970's before it was Apple (remember, the rules of the arrangement as decided prospectively, before anyone knows how things will turn out, not retrospectively, after everyone knows the company will be a hit). You might be willing to leave general corporate strategy to a majority vote. However, if you think the company's actions actually amount to misuse of your capital investment, you want to be able to sue, not just submit your grievance to the majority vote.
You can use python.
I learned to do this trick with the following book: http://www.amazon.com/Unleash-Your-Hidden-Poker-Memory/dp/17...
It takes me more than a minute though, because I don't practice often enough. The technique is based on leveraging the visualization capabilities of your brain.
The linked article is possibly the worst misuse of a public forum I've ever seen. It pretends to convey useful or interesting information, but it's a shameless attempt to put advertising in front of the reader, over and over again.

They could at least have revealed the statistical breakdown of the digits, or pretended to be interested in the mathematical issues. But no -- there's no usable information at all.

> [As for methodology, the way we did it is we loaded the number into 10 different browser tabs, and then Control+F'd each digit to get a count of how many times it occurred.]

God, I hope this is a lame attempt at humor.

For the math, here's a quick Python breakdown of the 17,425,170 digits by frequency of occurrence, compared to the expected mean (as a differential percentage):

dig total +-%
------------------------
0: 1739652 -0.164417
1: 1743497 +0.056240
2: 1739844 -0.153399
3: 1745602 +0.177043
4: 1743528 +0.058020
5: 1739641 -0.165049
6: 1742677 +0.009182
7: 1743436 +0.052740
8: 1743298 +0.044820
9: 1743995 +0.084820
I found the Rubinius source code to be quite readable. For example, here are the AST node definitions: https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius/tree/master/lib/compile...
I'm curious how many of the people reading this thread have ever actually used Everyblock (and if so how often)?
Does it come with decent tests?
Search results drastically different between desktop and device Itunes versions.
That sounds an excellent idea - plus, to be fair, it kinda solves the "what if I go crazy and spend it" - if the right amount is tied up in trust funds for your children (enough to do something, not enough to do nothing) then you can consider the rest risk-potential and worry less (one hopes)

In general however, people who win lotteries tend to go back to their norm of happiness within a year. By the time you are 18 you are either a happy person or not. Sorry.
The source was dumped with no version history once in 2009. So, yes, out of date.

That said, I know nothing of the conditions around this, what their plans were, and so on - so not judging. And a site like EveryBlock is less about source code and more about execution and moderation, which they did quite well for a time.
This is a good idea. But even this strategy isn't foolproof, in so far as someone can just start buying things on debt in anticipation of getting access to their money.

Best way to save your money and not go crazy with it? Take responsibility for something. Have something to keep you occupied and engaged every day. Something that depends on your time, care, and attention. That something could be a job you find meaningful and challenging. It could be a child and a family. It could be a big project that you now have the ability to pursue, having come into financial freedom. The point is: have something to focus on other than material.

(Hell, this might even be another company, in which case, even more money flows in. Not the worst problem to have).

We're all familiar with the old saying "A fool and his money are soon parted." Well, in the case of the very smart who happen to come into money, I'd warn "A bored or unhappy person and his money are soon parted."

Money can indeed be a ticket to freedom. But too many people conflate "freedom" with "freedom from responsibility." That line of thinking is dangerous. It leads to boredom and idleness at best, and recklessness at worst.
Yes. Next question.

An extremely authoritative opinion from some Anonymous that appears more like speculations doesn't count.
On a side note, I'm applying for my MBA. Usually on our resumes we list our programming skills at the top, because its what represents us quickly.

Should I leave it there, move down, or remove it completely? How else did you tailor your resume for your application?
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No, it wasn't. [1]

He died Jan 11, 2013. He was arrested Jan 6, 2011. Close, but then again, any two random dates have a high chance of being close.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
I want to get rich because money, that commonplace, almost vulgar device, can be traded for time, the most precious thing in the universe, and for influence, a multiplier of time/action that can help me to achieve more good things in my life.
This project was directly inspired by your work with rails/rails issues, thanks for everything.
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Memrise was started by Ed Cooke, a world memory champion, and Joshue Foer's mentor in the book Moonwalk in Einstein (a great read about hacking your memory).

The basic technique for memorizing a deck of cards is known as the PAO system - person, action object, and is used in conjunction with the memory palace.

For each card, you assign a person (or character), action, and an object.

King of hearts - Paul Graham juggling watermelons
King of diamonds - Michael Jackson moonwalking on a birthday cake
King of clubs - Tiger Woods swinging a golf club
King of spades - Homer Simpson eating a sausage

You then memorize cards in sequences of three, so if the order was the king of hearts, king of clubs, king of spades, you would imagine Paul Graham swinging a sausage. You would then store that image of PG in a location of your memory palace, which is usually a room in a house you have memorized. For each three sets of cards, you store a vivid image in a room or space of your memory palace.

The human brain has evolved to be exceptional at visual memory, so this technique utilizes your ability to remember imagery to translate interesting images to a more boring subject matter (a deck of playing cards).

At the end the deck, you can then "walk" through your memory palace, and see the strange images you have committed to memory. In the first room you would see PG swinging a sausage, and know instantly that correlates to the king of heats, king of clubs, king of spades.

Ed Cooke explains it in more detail in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x...

And here's a list of know mnemonist who use the PAO system http://mnemotechnics.org/wiki/Person-Action-Object_(PAO)_Sys...
The question should be what happened to the US dollar not lego. Lego is manufactured in Denmark, where they managed to spare themselves from several rounds of quantitative easing.

The author could really spare herself all the time and effort and just post a chart of dollar. He/she took it from the wrong end.
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I figured reading from the reddit post this is related to IEEE special way of writing two.

But why IEEE has a special way of writing two?
Get away with what? Isn't MIT network open and isn't JSTOR allowing everyone from that network to download articles? I'm really not informed about this, so please inform me. On the other side it looks like witch hunt from the start.
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I object to the idea expressed near the end...that if you aren't happy now, money will not change that. While I am nowhere near as rich as the author, my financial situation has changed drastically in the last year. The lack of stress that I now experience is absolutely a factor in my increased happiness.
Works for me[2]
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I am super bummed about this. :-(

I wrote some thoughts on my blog: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/rip-everyblock/

Adrian (EveryBlock founder)
I'd be a lot more sympathetic if the domain was actively used and somehow a clerical error made them lose it. However, according to gus_massa in another comment, this was always just a parked domain.

Why should someone return (or sell back at a "fair" price) a domain they legally bought, just to have it fall back into disuse?
I think that this is generally true about a lot of the opinion articles on extremetech.com
Why should a user know about a sites business model? To an average joe you letting me sign up and do stuff is all I know. While "giving a week" isn't a rule, it sure sounds like it might be the nicer thing to do.

You spout your answer like its the obvious and "derrr" response, but in all reality its not the users responsibility to provide longevity.

And lets face it, we (startups) would be totally f'd if users didn't become entirely dependent on our services early doors, perhaps even pre-biz model.
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Tesla was #1 all time, but Eric Dollard is #1 right now.
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oh yea for sure. Then again, assuming you're not born into it, I would assume it's difficult to just give away a large portion of the wealth you've accumulated through hard work. There is also the 'rainy day fund'...which signifies another point the author made about worrying about investments. If he loses his money, and suddenly needs it there is a significant amount of regret.
It's implicit that they think Apple does not know how to reinvest that cash in a way that will provide a return that is commensurate with the risk of Apple stock. I don't think that is a stretch, given how much they have. If my cash is sitting in a bank account at Apple my investment is exposed to Apple's risk, I'm going to be upset about it.

If they can't invest it in a way that covers their cost of capital, it is their duty to pay it out, not to sit on it.
So, according to the author if you let people already in your life know about your wealth, they may act weird and have unreasonable expectations about sharing in your wealth. I think that can be a good thing. It brings out a side of people you never knew. It could tell you who your true friends and family are. The true ones are the ones who don't expect a free ride.
> First, one of the only real things being rich gives you is that you don't have to worry about money as much anymore.

I disagree with this. One thing being rich gives you is the ability to make things happen.

Being a benefactor of a cause or artistic organization or an investor in a startup means that you can help set into motion meaningful projects that you believe in that would not otherwise have been possible. I'm a singer and one group I sing with has a benefactor who has financed all of our recording projects. We put his name in the CD notes and that guy can know that without his support the CD simply could not have happened. I have to believe that's a deeply gratifying feeling.
2.5 GB virtual server? You don't need that at all. I use shared hosting for my blog, and yet I survived several hours as #1 on the HN front page. The trick? Static HTML pages (made with a homemade PHP blog system, but I could just as easily have used one of the many static site generators).