skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good concept to understand before you start chopping up the company :)

George represents my company TrailBehind.com, and I'd recommend his firm to anyone looking to found a start-up. George's firm deals only with founders (and not VCs), which is not so common a thing in the valley.

He gives good practical advice (like you can read in this article), and the firm bills very fairly and transparently.
> There's no specific reason to provide for a transfer of wealth from tall people to short people, it doesn't provide any specific social benefit.

Sure it does. It helps people who are disadvantaged.

It's like giving preferences to middle class black people over lower-class white people.
Did Shaq Just Find Out He Was Traded On Twitter?
Startup Law 101 - Mistakes Founders Make – Neglecting Securities Laws
I was interested in this article... can anyone post the url?
These houses rely on "the grid" for energy storage but don't pay the grid for said storage.
Because healthcare is "fixed" in many other nations?
What do people think of this advice?
This law firm makes startup law seem very complicated.
I can't tell to what extent they are promoting their services and to what extent issuing stock is actually very complicated.
They played a couple of recreated samples on NPR. One sounded roughly pentatonic to me; the other sounded... of indeterminate scale and/or out of tune. It's hard to say exactly how it would have sounded, because the flute allows a lot of room for bending the pitch based on things like embouchure and whatnot (I'm a former flutist).

Check it out for yourself:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1058231...
I posted this link earlier, but reading it again in this context makes more sense

http://www.well.com/user/nocebo/
Check out www.predictwallstreet.com... people are using all kinds of social information to trade stocks.
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Explanation of the proof by the person who implemented it:

http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/papers/lam/paper/html/paper....
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A MAC is a keyed hash -- you can only compute it if you have the MAC key.
Who say that they are getting much joy or dignity or that they're doing it to further the wonder of capitalism or whatever strawman you made up?

The difference between a government's central planning and the company is that the company have to trade something to get anything done.

While the company may in fact central plan part of their operation, the fact is, the bricks must be traded for something else. The steel, the workers, and everything have to also occur by trade.

This is something that cannot happen by mere "central planning". Each individuals, must decide what will benefit them the most. After all, they could go do something else in the economy that need urgent attention.
Jobs had the transplant in Tennessee, which has shorter wait lists for livers:

"According to data provided by UNOS, in 2006, the median number of days from joining the liver waiting list to transplant was 306 nationally. In Tennessee, it was 48 days."

48 is significantly lower than 180.
http://daringfireball.net/2009/06/wsj_steve_jobs_liver_trans...
Why do people always benchmark JVM-ported languages to be lot faster than the main version, but in actual production use they turn out to be much slower?
> Not really relevant to the conversation. There are databases that can store trees of objects just fine as is, not all databases force you to store everything in tables.

To me, the conversation is about trade-offs, and if the alternative database (for example) forces you to get rid of ACID transactions, then it's not as cut-and-dry as you purport.
There's the problem with keystream reuse, yes, and also the problem shared to some degree by CBC and OFB (but not ECB) that's at its worst in CTR — that you can flip single bits in the plaintext by flipping arbitrary bits in the ciphertext. (But of course that's why you use a correctly-implemented MAC, right?)

I concur with you that new cryptographic protocols are likely to be flawed, and your recent blog post on that subject was excellent reading.
There are other reasons I want to use strings-as-keys. Are you familiar with how, say, postgres handles this sort of thing, and is it any better in this regard?
Ah. Thanks. I knew I was missing something basic :-)
It sounds like Cameron may have beat the uncanny valley...
Iran, Social Media and the Rise of Genetically Modified Grassroots Organizations
Valve might not exist were it not for id. In their early days Valve licensed id's Quake engine for use as the technical foundation of Half-Life.
if i tweet this headline, someone makes a losing trade based on reading it, and loses money in a transaction from which i profit indirectly...

is there a name for that?

I'd ask a lawyer, but they might answer me.
Microsoft responds to our call for standards support
It could also be a journalist sloppily attributing the work of someone underneath her. Also, though, she's pretty technically deep; she was doing AI before she started doing usability at the big G, and it wouldn't be at all surprising for her to come up with an idea like that, especially given that we're talking about a time when Google was a small company (this was when they were first adding AdWords; would have been in 2000 or 2001?)

Under some circumstances you might argue that there's more leverage in an executive like Marissa delegating work like this to someone else. But maybe sometimes the raw brainpower you bring to bear on a technical problem can really make a billion-dollar difference.
That's equivalent to data: URLs if you only refer to the object once in the HTML.
The HotOrNot talk at CodeCon cited improvements of much more than that for a slightly more drastic change: moving the banner image to between the person's face and the rating bar, instead of above the rating bar. Unfortunately I don't remember the amount of the difference.
There are systems like this for elderly people leaving alone.
"Who say that they are getting much joy or dignity or that they're doing it to further the wonder of capitalism or whatever strawman you made up?"

Here's a direct quote from the article:

"From the miners to the factory workers to the truck drivers to the smelters to the architects of the factories to the executives that run the companies that fund and organize each step of the process, each and every participant is in the game for his own self interest—to make a living, and to make a contribution that's really only a tiny part of the end result of a product, even one as insignificant as the humble pencil. Pan back until you've framed the entire world economy, and it's hard not to marvel at the wonder and miracle of capitalism's invisible hand."

You want to tell me I'm making stuff up now?

"The difference between a government's central planning and the company is that the company have to trade something to get anything done."

"While the company may in fact central plan part of their operation, the fact is, the bricks must be traded for something else. The steel, the workers, and everything have to also occur by trade."

"This is something that cannot happen by mere "central planning". Each individuals, must decide what will benefit them the most. After all, they could go do something else in the economy that need urgent attention."

OK, you tell me: if you're the guy who lives in a slum in Bolivia and works for slave wage in a tin mine, to what other aspect of the economy can you devote your urgent attention? And, with the lowest GDP on the continent, what are you, your employer or your country getting in return for that resource to make it a worthwhile trade?
I like the rules of thumbs about whether you want a key-value store or a graph database or relational DBs.
@froo, you do have a point, but revenue is not profit.

I'm saying their business model will come to an end because of recent trends and advancement in technology:

* I don't know of many companies that still sell prepackaged software. I don't know of any startups either, and while there might be examples of such startups, the majority are moving to something else. YMMV

* Their forays in new markets aren't generating profit (besides the XBox, which I think is doing quite well)

* PCs will be soon surpassed by smart-phones. The latest Windows Mobile looks promising, and while they were quick to enter this market, it's head to head with Linux, and Symbian has something like ~ 60% of the market share

* people are accustomed to not pay for products that are becoming a commodity (especially on the Web). Windows is bundled with every PC, so that's good, but where I live I see more and more companies using OpenOffice (those that don't are still using Microsoft Office because either they don't know better, or their infrastructure is based on Exchange). It's not that OpenOffice is better, but it's good enough for basic needs and it's free.

* I have inside knowledge about Adobe and I can tell you for sure that they are having a hard time justifying the price for CS4 to customers that already paid for CS3. It's not like CS4 isn't a good product, but this economic recession does make people wonder if the value provided is good enough.

These trends aren't very encouraging for me. I still have to make a living. But that's what people and businesses always did ... adapt to new conditions.

And btw ... FUD is not an incorrect statement, neither something you disagree with. FUD is an incorrect statement done with a clear intent to discredit a competitor. Please, stop polluting the term.

Disclaimer: I don't have an inclination to prove my statements with numbers, which makes me susceptible to cargo-culting and being gullible. I do have the tendency to check my assumptions from time to time, and I am not anti-Microsoft, I'm just pro-technology and I don't dismiss their products or their achievements out of religions beliefs (I happen to be a happy user of .NET in several personal smallish projects)
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This is a repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=661429
Handshakes are good too.
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It is highly doubtful that central planners can in fact gather all the necessary information much less being able to understand and decide what and how to allocate resource in a way that satisfy the population best.(Let say that central planner's goal is to satisfy the population to the most extent possible)

More over, since the population do not have the same taste, wants, or preferences the central planner must cater to all tastes. Since even group with the same preferences are made of individuals, the central planner must also produce enough to satisfy all the needs.

He must balance all parties' conflicting needs and wants and must decide what to produce and not to produce since the end that there are only so much resources to go around.

Pretty tall order isn't it?
Chris Anderson (Wired Editor) explains plagiarism charges
Wow, so people really think it more likely that Buffett is implying a future legal challenge than Buffett is stirring a bit of publicity?
Why we need Steve Jobs
I would agree with that. As an avid gamer, I don't see the point why anyone would play a game where everyone is equal. You get to progress in the game only because you are better than the others. A game where everyone is equal and reaction time and skill doesnt matter, results in everybody progressing at the same speed which makes it boring. This is sort of reminiscent of the good ol' MUDs. The only people interested in such a game would be casual gamers, and even they would tend to get bored quickly.
Animals that count: How numeracy evolved
10 Tools to Improve Your Site’s Usability on a Low Budget
What is DoD using their supercomputers for?
I always wondered, what is DoD doing with its supercomputers? What kind of problems are they solving that require so much processing power? Probably modeling of some sort, but what are they modeling?
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Are you saying this is just an exalted critique of unitaskers (a la Alton Brown)? It seems to me there's more going on here:

"Perhaps the majority of human activity can be reduced to a desire to make life more comfortable for ourselves, and has thus far led to being able to buy a toaster for £3.99 [among other achievements]. But looking at toasters in relation to global industry, at a moment in time when the effects of our industry are no longer trivial compared to the insignificant when our, they seem unreasonable. I think our position is ambiguous - the scale of industry involved in making a toaster [etc.] is ridiculous but at the same time the chain of discoveries and small technological developments that occurred along the way make it entirely reasonable."

As if "global industry" exists only to create "toasters [etc.]". In agreement with the essay, I think there's a whole lot of context that's being dropped by focusing on a device with relatively narrow purpose.
http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/2...
There is a great deal of social pressure in Asia (Korea?) to have 'big eyes' through plastic surgery.
you might as well ask for a listing of their home directory.

I think most programmers write house-keeping tools when they're new to a platform (or even a given box.) once you have your environment well tailored and you're comfortable with it, you forget you even wrote tools.

log parsin and transformation is basically the essence of automated system administration. if you ever had a root account in a unix box you must have written at least ONE log transformer and messaging tool of some kind.

OTOH, people working on REAL engineering problems using excellent tools on posh platforms will not need to write auxillary tools. How many log analyzers does a DSP engineer need to write? just an example :-)
MS debuts Power Conservation Website
Airport security should be about securing airtravel, not securing the collective asses of TSA or whatever lump of agencies and companies it is these days.

And IMHO, even airtravel doesn't need that much securing. And the collective ass needs even less.

Sealed cockpit doors are definitely a good measure for the decades old hijacking problem and the newer, though much more unlikely, 9/11 copycat situations. Other than that, the passengers can't really do much on a plane.
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Facebook Launches “Live Stream” Widget for Publishers, Networks, and Developers
Using CodeIgniter in Multi-site Set-up
Only if the sites are hosted in Iran.
"You want to tell me I'm making stuff up now?"

EDIT: I see it now. I can see how you might interpret it as that.

In any case, it is doubtful that people care about furthering the glory of capitalism. I think the author is talking about the invisible hand rather than any specific noble cause.

"OK, you tell me: if you're the guy who lives in a slum in Bolivia and works for slave wage in a tin mine, to what other aspect of the economy can you devote your urgent attention? And, with the lowest GDP on the continent, what are you, your employer or your country getting in return for that resource to make it a worthwhile trade?"

What? I don't understand your question.

Surely the worker is mining tin so that he could eventually trade for food. The employer who are getting the tin can then eventually trade for something that they want, no?

There's always attention to devote to in an economy. After all, there's always the never ending needs and wants that must be satisfied and the limited amount of resource that can be devoted toward the unsatisfiable demand of men.

The question is not whether there's enough jobs but rather how the economy can reallocate resources correctly and efficently so that people can find work again.

If the resource allocation remain uncorrected(Examples include overpaying for labor which often happen when minimum wage are enforced), parts of the population may continues unemployed although they may be able or skilled enough to trade their labor on the market.
Cost to build Apple's new iPhone 3G S estimated at $179
The Day Facebook Changed Forever: Messages to Become Public By Default
Slowloris DoSes sites using low bandwidth.

http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/
Imagine if China goes Bing or Yahoo overnight? scales will be tipped, even if google returns after a few days.

Zhongguo == HUGE.
Red Hat: Bad economy is good for open source
Microsoft: Outlook is Not “Broken”
I'm not an NBA buff, but for what it's worth, it is apparently somewhat routine for insiders with direct knowledge of athlete trade deals to deliberately leak details even before the deal has closed.

This particular story just has the added twist that the player in question found out via... what was the name of that website again? Oh, thanks TechCrunch!
Ask HN: RSS feed of my comments/submissions
Is it possible to get the RSS feed of my submissions and comments? It would be useful to have and display on other sites
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Alternatives to Rentacoder.com?
Are their any good alternatives to this site? I've heard of bad experiences from both customers and coders who have used this service, and the site design is archaic. I have an idea for an iPhone app and wanted to check out the going rate for developers.
Standing Out in a Flood of Web Applications: An Open Letter to Developers
Not too bad. But it does not show any of the other data (date, comment etc). At least the preview does not
Yeah, there's some potentially good business reasons to do it. It can build a buzz up for a team and some intrigue. Regular leaks - some true and some not - help executives cover their tracks and get deniablity if a player hears their general manager is trying to trade them (some players get upset, it can mess up morale). It can pressure a team to sign on a non-finalized deal because their fans want it to happen. It can create leverage for one side or the other. An executive might want to get some goodwill with a reporter, so he gives the "scoop" to them, and the reporter can pay him back with some false rumors to cover tracks or some positive PR later.

Unless a player has a no-trade cause, they can usually be traded without them or their agent being told - and teams regularly "shop" players without telling the player. It causes bad will if a player finds out his team is trying to trade him, so it's kept behind the scenes until it's final or unless there's a reason for a leak. Quite common - players have seen in the newspapers or on TV that they've been traded before they or their agent are told for a long time. Twitter is just another fast public communication medium, so no surprise there.
TechCrunch is slightly less tech everyday. Twitter should not be covered with such scrutiny after it has gone mainstream, and I find post like this (second this week) completely off-topic.

They should create Gizmodo-like filters. For example, if you browse gizmodo.com/not:twitter, you get Gizmodo without anything with relating to twitter. Or create TweetCrunch and dump every tweet on to it.
I fully agree on the cypher then MAC policy. Deciphering is time consuming and by feeding bogus data could be used in a DOS attack. Without prior checking it may be possible to indirectly probe the deciphering process.

What I am not so sure is the choice of CTR. I currently prefer CFB.
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Twitter Drives a Lot of Traffic to Media Sites, not Online Retailers
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Ask HN: How do you decide if you buy insurance on goods?
I'm curious to find out what the 'best' algorithm is for deciding if you buy or not additional insurance. For example, when buying computers/displays, do you get premium insurance? What about rental cars? What about cars?
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For brute force proofs, the proof basically nothing to do with the output of the program. I'll explain:

A mathematical proof is just some utterance or depiction that will convince your audience that you have proven something. The actual utterance that might 'count' is totally dependent upon who is in the audience. If you are a topologist and you are talking to another topologist working on very similar stuff, your proofs would be incomprehensible to even other mathematics researchers, who could not determine if you were giving a valid proof or not, while the other topologist could easily tell.

If your audience is a really smart physics professor, that same topology proof would have to suck in many other facts, and explicitly quote accepted theorems, or you would risk the physicist jumping up and saying "not so fast" every time he see's a break in the reasoning. At least the physicist will be comfortable with the existence of theorems.

Now, a proof of the same thing, given to an alien with an IQ of 5000 but who's race never thought up the concept of a theorem would be exquisitely painful. You might have to actually give the proof of each theorem you use, and each theorem each of those theorems use. Otherwise, he would say "your logic is flawless, but you assume facts you have not proven, so this proof is incomplete."

If people were way smarter, proofs would be way shorter, since nobody writes down things that are really obvious. Nobody says something like "since the real numbers are commutative under multiplication..." because there is no need to say it. If people were 50 times smarter or something, way more complex things would just 'go without saying'.

So, what does some kind of brute force proof really consist of? It's a program that runs on a computer generally. So the proof is really the source code. If people are convinced the program does what you claim, and then you run it, that is certainly a proof.

If you can't count that, you also can't count any other non-constructive proof. I would say that they are basically pointless, since you can use the result of the proof in other proofs, but you can't build on it very much.