skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't really something we can try, but I suspect you'd get turned down some reasonable percentage of the time (2%-10%, say) with such an offer, by people who have "all the money they need." Since to me the utility of the first few million is vastly larger than the last 500 million, I'd offer 50% just to avoid that rare case.
I just don't think anyone wants yet another social network, with twitter, facebook (and google+ muscling its way in) no one is looking for another way to contact old friends or meet new ones... especially not at $36/year, as we saw with Instagram most people don't care about privacy or ownership, if you have a compelling product as long as it's free you'll get users no matter what your privacy policies are.
This is a blogger advertising for his new book.
Gilgamesh described a world in which men and gods were equally capricious, and the strong took everything from the weak justly by virtue of their strength, justly, because there was no concept of justice (again, only divine caprice.)
> But jury trials are expensive, and time consuming.

[I think you're being sarcastic, but...]

The converse, plea-bargaining making prosecution easy and profitable (see seizure law), has resulted in huge expansion of laws making ordinary activities illegal.

If it was hard and expensive then we wouldn't outlaw behavior every time some twit get's their panties' in a twist. And we wouldn't automatically bend-over and use the criminal justice system to prop up failing business models.
Rails 4 uses turbolinks. It is a mechanism that instead of loading a new page loads up the HTML via AJAX and replaces the entire content of the page without reloading all the resources(css, js, etc...)

So instead of having to deal with plenty of small ajax calls you just build an app as it would work in plain HTML and just use turbolinks to leverage AJAX.
The only problem here is that because the Javascript is delivered by the server which is supposedly offering privacy from itself, nothing is stopping the developers from simply changing the Javascript and stripping away the encryption through either capturing keys or not applying it in the first place.

see: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
One day we'll look back and laugh about how much we needed to check in to a black mirror every so often, like how people looked back to the 70's and 80's and laugh how much cocaine addiction, was tolerated in social settings.
Turbo links is more suited to traditional web pages.

Backbone for single page mini-apps.
right now we have more then one leap motion in our office, and its pretty cool to do some stuff with it, but today we saw your gadget and video and we were very impressed.

i really like the slogan 'WAVEGOODBYE TO CAMERA BASED GESTURE CONTROL' - because ur idea can be used everywhere, camera gestures only in the reach of a computer/console.

so i really looking forward for the final version, and to hold it in my hand. i hope your sdk is awesome from the scratch. it would suck, if all developers have to wait for month, until a good version is available.

what i'm wondering, in the video the design of the hardware is different to the selling screens. and i like the velcro version much more, because the other one does not look like 'one size fits all' and might slight away on the most arms.

so whatever...i'm looking forward too late 2013
Bla bla bla - show me another ubiquitous platform that let's me chat with my mother halfway across to the state from my mobile phone/computer/toaster.

I only have 49 Facebook friends, I don't add every other schmoe to my list. I laugh when I see people with 2000+ friends and then complain about privacy. Give me a break.
Sorry for the naive question... But does this help Heroku's woes?
I am wondering here what more can be done about researching/developing that revene model. Anyone have links, thoughts, whatever?

Thanks for sharing this.
There's no money in that. Didn't you get the memo? The "let's make a new social network based on getting users" is "totally sustainable (TM)".
Why do people keep talking about Facebook as if it's an exercise in ego-stroking? I don't sit there staring at my own profile page, I use it to communicate with people.
Exactly. "Facebook is the DEBUL! Find out why, read my book!"
I'd love an invite if anyone has an extra! Email me if you can!

In exchange, I'll buy you a beer (or coffee) if you are ever in LA. Or if you are in SF I will be there next weekend, and I'll be you a beer (or coffee) then if you'd like!
This is getting a little tiring. Does this prove the claim "White men are assumed to be competent"? No, it does not. People really seem to want me to be arguing something other than what I actually said, but I'm not. My comment was very specific and not all that grand in its claims, and I find it amazing that people are this desperate to fight over it.

In case you have forgotten, my claim this whole time has just been that hackinthebochs was overstating his case — that the situation is not so crazy that being white exempts you from the need to demonstrate competence. Anything that does not prove white men are generally assumed to be competent is a red herring.
my mistake, I didn't follow the events particularly closely; thanks for the correction.
Interesting project, but if this page is for developers, I think there should be less text and more code in it. If the idea is to make it dead simple to host opaque content, the second paragraph should say "it's this simple!" with a 10 line code sample for this project's hello world equivalent (a simple backup service, for instance).

And if this is supposed to be a generic framework, I think the FAQ should jump straight to the problems inherent in this type of generic solution. For instance "How do we give you sorted results to queries if everything is encrypted?"
Google is one of many tools that can be used to solve problems. IMO it's generally one of the more efficient ones.
While not using an M1 Garand, the link below says 2 miles!

http://www.researchpress.co.uk/longrange/sandyhook.htm
Actually, even without the restrictions of the One Child Policy, the ethnic minorities in China are disappearing as distinct cultural groups. Homogenization of culture is a powerful force.

Ironically for your point, this issue seems to be most severely affecting the Uyghurs and the Tibetans, arguably the most religious minorities in China.
Sounds like a very good idea. My dog didn't bark when he had SA - I'm pretty sure he only whined. You may want to incorporate something for whining noises too. Also, an option to run at certain intervals would probably be good too. This might possibly avert SA.
yfiles for html has a strikingly similar approach to going about doing things.
I wonder how much that has to do with religious groups' dislike for contraception and their leaders' urging followers to maximize reproduction.
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Sent. Give the coffee to a homeless guy.
I think a lot of people miss the point of Facebook. They say it's a wide, shallow network with low-touch engagement. But that's just fine for what it is. Rather than comparing Facebook engagement to some hypothetically deeper, more ostensibly fulfilling form of social interaction, we should be comparing Facebook to not-Facebook. How many people were we keeping in touch with before we started using Facebook? How have our existing friendships deepened or shallowed because of Facebook? My guess is that, on balance, we have suffered very minimal (if any) "shallowing" of true friendships, while simultaneously we have rekindled a lot of (admittedly shallow, but nonetheless existent) secondary and tertiary friendships.

Most important, we have probably increased our frequency of engagement with all friends -- close and not-so-close -- on a daily basis, and no doubt by a dramatic margin. Facebook gives people a great way to engage in social interactions at low social cost, so to speak. There's minimal risk of non-reciprocation, the way there could be with SMS or email or phone calls. Thus, the barriers to initiating social contact are drastically lowered. Frequency increases accordingly.
This means, essentially, that the strategist can't build an Excel model of the game and win that way, the way many games are played and won. Excel would blow up...
Nope. The issue at Heroku is before the request has a chance to talk to the rails application. That is why so many people were annoyed that the reporting tool that analyzes speed of the rails application did not report the time lost.
I think the problem is possibly that most people don't want to pay to get into a silo when there are so many free silos to choose from.
I think it's more likely that you are underestimating the violence, vengeance, and warfare of ancient Mesopotamia than human history got more violent, especially given the art we have available for Mesopotamia (vs. literature) for that period.
Part of what makes developing on tent.io a problem is that there seems to be no easy way to find other tent.io users that are not using the tent.is service, i.e, people who want to run their own server.

It seems that it's supposed to be distributed, but there seems to be no easy way to find users that are distributed.
Look how sporadic the posts are. That should tell you something...
I have a very similar federal felony conviction that Aaron was facing and have been able to find employment in the software field. It's not as easy as it would be without the conviction, but it's a lot easier than I ever thought it would be. I doubt McDonalds would hire me with my record, but I've worked on software used by government agencies and Fortune 500 companies.
Is your database of support mails really suitable for conversion to knowledgebase articles? I would expect most, if not all of them, to have too much conversational text and private customer information to publish online.

Why don't you have your support people create articles as they go? Whenever they answer a ticket that might be helpful to other customers, they should copy and paste the ticket into a KB article, rewriting the customer-specific bits to be safe for public consumption.
This is a favorite game of mine and I've given it some thought. I think an alternate formulation might give the typical HN reader new insight in the game.

Let's say I tell you I have an idea for a company. It's a really cool idea and if we realize it we will make boatloads of money. I need your help to realize it. If you agree, you will get 20% of the company. If you don't, we won't realize it and neither of us will make any money.

Do you accept? If not, why not?
I'm wondering if you just need to spend time on marketing? What are your thoughts of 4 Steps to Epiphany by Steve Blank?
This is about how likely people are to suffer from impostor syndrome, not "how seriously people are taken in all professional situations."

From my comment that you seem to have been calling "tiresome"†:

> though I agree that women have to fight harder for recognition in many fields, there is no evidence that this means they are more subject to impostor syndrome.

† At least, it was the parent of the comment you were sympathizing with.
Exactly, this is the general idea of what I do in the ecommerce app I mentioned.
The most fun was firing at balsa wood target RC planes for anti-aircraft target practice.
We'd lie on our backs and fire the M60 at flying targets.
This was at Pohakuloa Training Area, in Hawaii.
Absolutely using it to sell books (at a high cost, btw, if he tries to get back on FB), but he brings up some interesting points. "It does things on our behalf when we're not even there."

But my favorite part is at the bottom where we are all invited to "like" CNN Opinions on...wait for it.. FB. You'd think he demand that they not have that below his article.
>You're right, the analogy doesn't entirely hold. But then, I used to have a hell of a Taco Bell/Mountain Dew addiction, and obviously couldn't get my fix anywhere else.

That's a good point, and it would be interesting to learn what keeps consumers from searching for substitutes. I guess that marketing and branding makes people so strongly associate the good feeling with one very specific brand, which makes them not want to seek out all a low-bidder.

Otherwise, I think we're in agreement, and we have to recognize that the effects of the foods make people deviate from the "level-headed decision maker" that justifies leaving people to their own devices.
I'm not saying there is a 100% relation between the parents beliefs and the children.

But all things equal, is a religious couple more likely to have religious children, or atheist children? Is it more than half the time ? If it is, that's enough to make assumptions, even if counter example exist.

"when others tried to force them to believe, they will find a way to prevail"

Not so. I'm quite interested by the experience of atheists in north africa - how they organize and such. In an oppressive society, atheist have to hide - they don't prevail. Religions in general have a problem with atheism, as mentioned in the article about religion from the same author that was separately posted.

I'm not taking sides here- I'm just trying to figure out the dynamic.

It seems to me that while religions can be self perpetrating, atheism is not, and in the long run, it always ends up replaced by a religion.
The Firefox devs are at least working on adding in Chrome's audio API, so once that's out you'll finally be able to use one codebase for all your audio, as long as you don't care about IE or desktop Safari...

But yeah, audio is a big problem. I'd argue that caching and content distribution in general are probably the other big problem. Having to roll your own complete solution for downloading and caching assets for every game is a pretty big problem, in part because the available options for storing assets on a client are pretty miserable in HTML5.
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Or you could perhaps go to the police first and tell them what you're doing. There's nothing sinister going on.
Maybe audio books at 1.5x or 2.0x speed?
"The auditor began digging, speaking to many people in West Virginia state government who had been involved with the project. The Department of Education told him that it "did not request or require that the routers for the state's schools have internal dual power supplies. Education would not have made this requirement because unless a school has two power sources the feature of dual power supplies would have no use." A network engineer for the Department of Education confirmed that he had not requested such a feature."

Education would not have made this requirement because unless a school has two power sources the feature of dual power supplies would have no use.

Oh is that how redundant power supplies work? You need two power sources, eh?
Which is why congress inserted a mandatory minimum 6 month prison term for some 1030 offenses and why they keep pushing for more.

http://www.volokh.com/2011/05/24/congress-considers-increasi...
Perhaps your point wasn't clearly presented then, because it seemed to me that the substantive argument you made was about notions of your own productivity and the value you consequently provided to your company, and I responded with a serious attempt to address that point in context that was broader than peculiarities of your own situation.

If that was actually a flippant remark, I'll be happy to focus the conversation on your intended point, once I grok what it is.
I think you can do it if you quantify everything that goes into the number and list that too. For example, if you hire top talent from Google and pay $30k/year more, you could note in the salary table that being from a prestigious company at that level is worth so much, and give a range. It would take work, but if you credit everything that could possibly explain the difference, you might satisfy people or at least explain to some exactly why they make less.

Or, and I prefer this, you could not disclose but pay everyone above market rate so they don't think about money, but not so high that it's an issue/fuels the desire for perpetually more.
In other words, form over content.
Derp, yer totally right.
I'm not real rich, but I'd turn you down. Someone so selfish running around with close to a billion dollars...no. The misery you could cause! Let the researcher keep their money, they will probably offer it to someone more deserving in the next round.
I'm going to take that as a yes. Given all the recent hackings of Google, Apple and Zendesk, I don't think I would feel comfortable storing all my passwords unencrypted with anyone.
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My wish is for something like this to be provided as a service. I want to be able to write a collaborative, multi-user web app without having to run any servers and without having any access to my users' data. The way desktop apps used to be, except I want my users to be able to share data with each other easily. I also would like my users to have flexibility to choose between data providers (or even run their own), so their data is never held hostage.
What about StatusNet? Just because you are more open and distributed, does not mean you will be more successful.
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> Do you accept? If not, why not?

Almost no one on HN will agree. (I predict.) Ideas are easy. Even I have ideas. Doing something with the idea is what counts. That starts with programming, but also involves selling product and running the company. So unless the idea-person has a great record of implementing great ideas and good exits people will be unwilling to lumber themselves with a lot of work for so little return.
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How does this relate or compare to homomorphic encryption technologies?
The WebKit2 page explains:

Chromium WebKit does not directly provide a multiprocess framework, rather, it is optimized for use as a component of a multiprocess application, which does all the proxying and process management itself. The Chrome team at Google did a great job at trailblazing multiprocess browsing with Chrome. But it's difficult to reuse their work, because the critical logic for process management, proxying between processes and sandboxing is all part of the Chrome application, rather than part of the API layer. So if another WebKit-based application or another port wanted to do multiprocess based on Chromium WebKit, it would be necessary to reinvent or cut & paste a great deal of code.

http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2
"Civilization requires persistent and widespread violence"

http://www.endgamethebook.org/Excerpts/1-Premises.htm
"Competitive" is an interesting word to use. For example, I can get 100Mbit bandwidth from Hetzner for $9/TB. Transferring the same amount of data over S3 would cost me 10x more.

Now, if you're serving large files and you really need more than 100Mbit sustained, S3 makes sense. But it's unquestionably a premium service for a premium price.
Also app.net's $100/yr developer account is perhaps not the best way to attract developers to the platform.

Our apps, whether they are dedicated app.net clients like Netbot or just apps that let you post content to a user's app.net account, add to the network effect that can help app.net grow.

Developers should be allowed to build against the platform at the same price as regular people pay to become members in my opinion.

I'll be watching app.net and seeing if they change their stance on this in the near future.
That observation about work as transactional vs social is great, thank you. It has summed up a problem which I hadn't found an adequate definition for.

It tallies with my experience that remote workers, integrated into a mostly office based environment does largely end up being transactional. Another problem is that there can be transactional workers in the office, and I would characterize those folks as usually the least likely to participate with remote workers too. So you can get a double hit.

However, the best remote setups I've seen have been where someone who largely works remotely is heavily social usually using their occasional time in the office effectively.
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> I am just noting if there would be a man writing it, and he wrote something like "For all men learning to code, do this and that" he would very soon be reminded to avoid using non-inclusive language.

And such a reminder would be completely appropriate. If someone else didn't remind him, then you should step up and do so yourself.
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That sounds like the least creative way to use mathematics. They can de-anonymize till the cows come home for all I care. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter at all. Plenty of salaries are made public for various reasons.
If someone is turning down $50M because they have "all the money they need", why would they then accept $500M?
http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Code-ebook/...

http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Addison-Wesley-T...
So any service this works for (sans the manually integrated ones with service knowledge) should be highly suspect for security practices, as they are doing nothing to prevent session hijacking. You're basically offering Session Hijacking as a Service. That's rather genius.

I don't mean this to criticize you, one of the first scripts I ever sold was a better UI to a service that basically used Cross Site Request Forgery to do the work.
Weird, maybe I did something to make mine use ASP or maybe it's only on Dev/Beta channels? I did pretty much space on XMPP, I tend to just use IRC these days.
"Strapping rockets onto the back of a helicopter is not the type of approach we're looking for. The engineering community is familiar with the numerous attempts in the past that have not worked. This time, rather than tweaking past designs, we are looking for true cross-pollinations of designs and technologies from the fixed-wing and rotary-wing worlds. The elegant confluence of these engineering design paradigms is where this program should find some interesting results."
Yes, exactly. Forgot my <sarcasm> tags.
As a western-born programmer who has spent much time in East Asia, I found the linked paper Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic vs. Analytic Cognition even more interesting. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nisbett/images/cultureThought...
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I believe some mobile browsers do not support GZIP - but I don't have the data. Presumably older models (a dying breed) - but returning GZIP'ed content without receiving the appropriate accepts header is non-compliant with the HTTP standard.
> fixed-length binary strings are a group where the operation is xor (or '^') and inv(x) = x

Most people would call this group (Z/2Z)^n, i.e. n copies of Z/2Z under addition. Similarly, for "matrix addition" you could say Z^(mn) or R^(mn) for matrices with dimension mxn with elements Z or R (or whatever you are filling your matrices with). Your only non-abelian example is matrix multiplication, i.e. GL(n,R), general linear transformations of dimension n over R. It may or may not be interesting that this is mainly focused on abelian groups.
They must have shown some demo of some prototype. At least I don't see how else they could have passed YC interview.

Either way I really like the approach. Start with some sensor that has good ergonomics (wrist band), do some awesome machine learning trick and get a gadget from the future as a result.
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well, I am happy that some people might realize this was a bad idea after that auditors report showing approximately all $5 million was wasted. And also that Cisco's claim that "the state had reviewed his spreadsheets and not objected" is not a reasonable excuse.