skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A very smart guy says "ignore everybody" to be creative. Maybe that's harder when there are more people around a lot like you, but not quite. http://www.changethis.com/6.HowToBeCreative
Years ago I read about Tesla that he would visualize a machine in his head, start a simulation of it running, then come back later and inspect the screws for wear - all of this in his imagination. Does anyone know whether that story is true? or where it came from?
Determining List Steepness in a Homomorphism
qmail is a program written in C which runs on UNIX. Trying to secure that is a near impossible task.

Building a secure system would basically need to start from scratch with a micro kernel which supported a sandboxed OS written in an interpreted language. Even then drivers and HW would need to be treated with the utmost care.

Granted, actually building such a system would be horribly expensive and probably take the better part of a decade, but it's still possible.
The first time that would happen to me I'd hang up. And I'd never ever call back.
Call for limits on web snooping
We have an iPhone app in the works and are working on beefing up the email integration so you can send commands and requests by email, since all smartphones have strong email clients. Right now you can add ideas to lists by email and request the names of your lists by email. Next up is the ability to request the group's merged favorites by email. Thanks for your input!
Just goes to show you how little the "authorities" understand technology. If this had been a brick and mortar business it is highly unlikely that they would shut them down for 45 hours for one file. They didn't even bother to contact the owner of the site? The assumption that he is involved in the theft simply because he owns the site (which apparently is openly accessible) is asinine. You can just imagine the "authorities" talking in their little uniforms about "these hacker kids" while prodding the the strange boxes with their billy clubs.
I wouldn't call it "great"; the writing was rather pedestrian. Another inspiring story, nonetheless! All I really have at this point is, "must be nice".
You can simulate the grant of options in an LLC but, for this to be readily quantifiable, it requires that the membership interests be defined as "units" rather than just a percent of the company.

Meaning that instead of saying: "Member x 33%, Member y 33%, Member z 33%," you say: Member x 333,333 units, Member y 333,333 units, Member z 333,333 units."

The operating agreement then sets forth an "authorized number of units," with some held in treasury, and option grants are then made from those treasury units. If and when the options are exercised, the units are granted, with the effect of giving ownership to the erstwhile option holder and of diluting the remaining members.

If the operating agreement is not set up to define the membership interests in the form of units, it can be amended to provide for this. There normally are no special filings associated with this - just everyone agreeing to the changes and doing a re-draft to the document.

You cannot do incentive stock options (ISOs) with an LLC and so the options would be non-qualified (NQOs). This means that, if they are not exercisable until, say, the occurrence of a liquidation event, you would be required to pay ordinary income tax on their value as of the date of such an event, i.e., the tax structure would not be particularly favorable to you.

You may also have tax complications arising from the way you are designating your payments as being in exchange for the options. On this, you do need to see an attorney. The way you guys are doing it is not ideal, as it lets the IRS put a direct measure on the value of the equity (based on the value of your billings being exchanged for it).

In general, then, it is legal to do what you are doing but it doesn't sound like it is being done in the best manner, given the goals of the parties.

I don't think there are securities law concerns here, as only certain LLC issues falls within the securities laws (remember, at its basis, an LLC is basically nothing but a traditional partnership).

All in all, though, you need to get good advice based on your particulars from an attorney who knows what he is doing. Though I am an attorney, I can't give specific advice in this type of forum. But I think the general ideas I have suggested should point you in the right general direction.
35k a year adds up pretty quickly. Salary acceleration is also likely to be increased.
I don't understand what you're saying. This is supposed to be a plan that you get. Basically you choose it, and then get a free call or lower cost. You have noises in the background anyways. Blurring them with something better isn't really disrupting the call?
I actually don't understand how people can buy cars from eBay, or any other online outlet. I could not imagine buying a new car online, and even less for a user car.

When I put $20K in an item, I want to try it, make sure I can actually talk to the seller if anything goes wrong, and be able to exercise the warranty easily.
> I show it to normal, non-tech people and they almost universally start using it themselves.

I have to quote this. The non-revolutionary stuff that nobody has for some reason yet created is just as worthwhile as using the most newfangled tech for some crazy application. Hell, I think I know more Pandora users than Twitter users...
Wow, that's outrageous. I wonder if the same sort of inefficient panic would occur at a US airport.
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An Interview with Mark Fletcher, founder of Bloglines and ONEList
All investment assumptions are predicated upon market conditions, which in turn depends on government policy. Given that the government was pursuing a loose monetary policy, no one expected interest rates to rise, nor house values to decrease in the short term, looking at the figures alone. If the statisticians had done a field trip or an audit, things would have been much clearer. Moody's had succeeded in the past because they were able to quantify trust. It's failure today is precisely because they failed to audit some of these loans.
Fair enough rebuttal.

I do agree with a lot of his conclusions, but some are misguided.

He seems to think that only one factor can be the critical factor, but I think he's missing the point. If someone cannot afford their mortgage, they are pretty much going to get foreclosed on. It's just a matter of time. However, the more negative equity they have, the sooner they are likely to do this.

Also, he craps on Obama's "making homes affordable" plan because of it's target of 31% housing-to-income ratio. But this program is only available for those with Loan-To-Value ratios under 105%, precisely because frankly it's pretty obvious that if you are way underwater on your house you are better off walking away from it.

Now, I don't really think that we should've spent the money on pretty much any program to save homeowners. Giving $3000 to a mortgage company for refi'ing a loan that empirically goes to foreclosure anyway 50% of the time is a giant waste of time and money. Both the banks and homeowners got screwed by entering these loans, and they should be left to rot with them.

It probably would've been better to try to convince banks to just turn the owners into renters for a 3-5 year period to let the mortgage market meltdown run its course while somewhat punishing both parties that entered such horrible deals.

Oh well.
"KeyFixer" Firefox Plugin: Forces correct behavior of HOME/END keys on the Mac.
Amusing -- but not HN, IMHO.
The economic effects of drinking bottled water
Didn't know those existed, thanks for the links. Sounds like you're doing it right. Two 'cheaper' ideas:

- A VM with minimal customization (use existing LDAP, etc.)

- Your install in a common server is exactly like some other popular intranet package (a wiki or PHP-BB ?), and can copy its initial settings from there ...

Good luck.
That is an absurd comparison.

Twitter series A: July, 2007

Pandora series A: March, 2000 (!)

Everyone's thought of radio. Although, no one thought to brute force categorization. I'm a daily user today, I fully expect to look back on pandora in 4 years as an epic failure.
Aleinikov, though Sergey, is no Brin, that's for sure.

More seriously, he obviously did a stupid move. Whether it was malicious or not, I do not know.

But the way the whole collection of servers goes down just because a single remote user has done something suspicious from a legal (not technical) point of view raises concerns, both of legal and technical nature.

One issue is whether a distributed server system would have been able to withstand what is technically an attack from the legal authority.

Another issue is whether there is a technical solution to a legal challenge, specifically, if it is possible to recognize an illegal action by technical means. And if it is advisable too (for example, I would hate to see watermarks in the source code or, more likely, udp/tcp packets, but I would hate it much more if a whole system went down).

This kind of attack may be more efficient than a DOS attack. Can it be prevented?
Firefox totally fucks up MIME types in a different way -- since version 2.0.1X it is extraordinarily anal about 'respecting' the Content-Type that the server returns. It basically means that if you want your text to be displayed in the browser, you have to declare it text/plain.

Oh, your webserver helpfully sniffs the extension in the filesystem, and serves up some example C code as 'text/x-csrc'? There's no way Firefox could ever possibly display that! The default should obviously be to 'open with' an external viewer, even if that's less or vim.

It's not very useful to open a downloaded document using a curses program, especially when stdout is not a tty!

This behavior is not configurable or reversible. I found and hacked together an ancient extension that adds 'View in Firefox' to the 'open with' list, but it's not on addons.mozilla.org
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This smacks of subliminal advertising, it's not 'done', possibly even illegal, it certainly is in film and television advertising.

There are two sides to a phone call, a caller and a called person, afaik they both hear the same sound.
How are you defining "fad" and "revolutionary?" These are strong words, not to be strewn lightly.
Upvoted for use of the term "shitass"
Building A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning
I'm more interested in ctrl-a/e working properly on mac firefox.
Points well made. Great interview by RJurney.
Advertising is by default subliminal.

Not necessarily true. Example: when your credit is about to expire, you get a notification that the other side won't hear. Two sides in a call can hear two different sounds.
If my own experience is any guide to answer your last suggestion there is almost no investing going on other than a few proven horses. Risky stuff is way down.
This is well-balanced. We hear a lot of horror stories, but there are a lot of developers who don't have too many problems. Here's my own story:

http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2009/06/25/app-store-rite-o...

pretty uneventful. But I have to admit, I probably would have picked a more ambitious first app than a card game, if I wasn't afraid of potential consequences with my first few app ideas.
"Phosphorus" is Greek for "light bringer."

The Latin equivalent is "Lucifer."

Which is a pretty good summation of how lisp is viewed from the inside and outside of its user community, respectively.

Pretty brilliant.
This is a good question. Personally, it seems to me that degrees in business are of a different kind than more academic courses, but not lesser.

This difference in kind may explain some of the attitudes that are out there though. MBA's are relatively new in terms of degrees and they are much more applied than most degrees. This is simply different from what other students are working on and people tend to be disdainful of what is different, especially if it is also new. This is just an off the cuff thought, but it seems to fit.
They probably already are!
I don't believe in anything supernatural.
Tagged Terms of Service:

"...Tagged reserves the right to modify or amend this Agreement at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all, at Tagged's sole discretion. The most recent version of this Agreement will be posted on the Tagged website. Although Tagged will provide notice of material changes to this Agreement on the Tagged website, as a Member it is your sole responsibility to keep yourself apprised of any such modifications or amendments. Should Member object to any terms and conditions of the Agreement or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with Tagged in any way, Member's only recourse is to immediately: (1) discontinue use of Tagged; (2) terminate Tagged registration; and (3) notify Tagged of termination."

So, here're the terms but we can change them at any time for no reason at all and it's your responsibility to keep up.
I understand what it's for; I'm dubious that it's actually used. By your own example, twitter doesn't actually do this. Does anyone, to your knowledge? This header has been there for 12+ years. If no one's used it so far, tell me again why I should care that some browser sets a bad value?
I agree, especially with the first point. Also, though the program was a lot of work, two years of being back in a college environment is pretty cool for most people (from the people I've met in this program, it's not like the typical ennui- and angst-ridden experience you usually see other types of graduate school portrayed as -- although I guess it would be if you're going into it because you've got no other ideas, i.e. grad school as "the snooze button on the alarm clock of life")
Wow. I never expected I would see someone complain about this.

Firefox is following the mime types exactly the correct way.

Compare to the disaster of IE which sometimes looks at the file extension to decide how to display the document - that caused me huge problems way back.

Yes, a view as text option would be nice, but firefox is doing exactly the right thing by listening to the mime type.

If I get text/csv I don't want it showing in the browser, I want it to launch it externally. If firefox gets text/x-csrc it checks the /etc/mailcap, and does what it's told. It has no way to guess that you prefer to view it in the browser - the server said: it's a C file, and firefox listens.

How would you program it? How is it supposed to know that text/x-csrc should show in the browser, while text/csv is an external program? Both are listed in mailcap.

However, like I said, an option "View as Text" in the download box would be nice.
Thanks, grellas. Looks like the plan needs to be revised.
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Citing search in a book when the content won’t be released
Suggestion: ask on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Asking mid-day on Friday is just a waste.
Getting worked up over the potential of a DARPA research project is like getting yourself worked up over a popular girl when you were in high school. There's almost no chance those ideas will come to fruition, and on the slim chance something does, it will be in the far off future and nothing like you initially thought.
There's plenty, but in pales in both breadth and depth (number of sources and amount of money offered) compared to DOD funding.
Professor BJ Fogg from Stanford on his Behavior Model
Shareflow and Wave address a common issue that everybody has to figure out: what to use instead of email, that old-warhorse

There have to be better ways for teams to work together

Shareflow looks like it is one way!
Can't agree more. And they want me to sign up in order to see or download a plain PDF, thats not going to happen.
i love this plugin. one of the things that keeps me off of safari, no way to fix this (that I know of)

my main beef with OS X is weird keyboard behavior. CMD instead of CTRL is fine, but home/end/pageup/pagedown behavior is retarded. and the laptops don't even have those keys!
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Great interview. Thanks, Mark. Always wanted to go to Buck's Woodside.
I'd prefer that it display all text/* content in the browser. If I want to save it, then I'll save it.
In the sage words of Samantha Bee:

"My Stalker just Grunted on my Twitter!"

(For context, try this video:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=219519... )
Retired mainframe pros lured back into workforce
:) The two alarm systems I have owned are both old Toyota ones. Both keys are normal metal - no microchip - it's the beeper that disables the immobiliser. I am wondering about if I have a

The point was more that the distraught caller might not want to look like she's breaking into a car out on the street.
When was last.fm more popular than pandora?
Not in Canada, where we can't listen to Pandora, but we can listen to (the now limited) Last.Fm.
Don't they?

When I type this message (on mac firefox), ctrl-a/e takes me to the beginning and end of the line, which is what I expect. Also, ctrl-w, deletes a word backward, ctrl-k kills to the end of the line.

Most of these seem to work http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/bash/

EDIT: I should add one more thing ... ctrl-w on firefox is very useful in the location bar (as in, it's very smart about what it defines as 'a word').
In what browser does your scroll wheel not work? It works for me in firefox and safari.
I don't get it - is that an attempt at spamming HN? I'm trying to figure this out - is this a bot that has auto-submitted something? I'm just totally lost here as to why that article and this post were placed here.
I believe all three of these methods should work in most native OS X applications:

Cmd+left arrow/Cmd+right arrow
Ctrl+left arrow/Ctrl+right arrow
Ctrl+a/Ctrl+e

And Cmd+up/Cmd+down will send you to the beginning or end of a textarea.

I personally use the built-in Emacs bindings whenever possible.
I wonder if they will attempt to reconstruct a complete transcript of what is said. Perhaps they will use data from this game to enhance the output of speech recognition software.
He he, I'm clearly behind on the project changes in the last year! Either way - iPaper 1.0 was an excellent foundation :)
Well then tell Firefox that. You can configure what it's behaviour is in the preferences pane. The defaults are perfect, it's your preference that's different from the standard. Which is why they put it in Preferences.
It could be about angel funding, but the angel would be the entrepreneur, and the devil would be the angel [investor].
I found Digital Image Processing to be the most fun and educational and the assignments were a major reason. The visual output acts as a pretty good motivator. The same probably goes for Computer Graphics.

I was never so thrilled looking that the output of a Prolog interpreter that i made. But maybe that's just me.
I drink filtered tap water at home but when I'm out the only real choice is bottled water. I always thought this debate was somewhat irrelevant since a thirsty person on the go is probably going to buy _something_ to drink. If it's water, soda, fruit juice, tea, etc it doesn't really matter. If you buy bottled water to drink at home a filter would be a very good investment.
Why are we still talking about proliferation? Proliferation has already happened: Pakistan has the bomb, North Korea has the bomb, Iran is probably building one. We were only ever going to delay the inevitable, once you prove that it can be done, it's only a matter of time before technology brings the price of doing it down to a level that less wealthy nations can afford. There may be other reasons why we shouldn't reprocess fuel, but proliferation isn't one of them.
What's the motivation to remain an LLC? (My co-founder did all of the legal stuff and chose to go directly for a C-corp, so I don't know what the benefits of an LLC are)
I really, really don't understand why car makers don't sell cars online like Dell (for example) sells computers. Have some small dealerships with a few pre-made cars for people to test drive (or for impulsive folks to buy), and then let people custom-order their cars online.

This would solve the over-supply problem and also keep people from having to 'settle' on a particular car because it's the only one the dealer has in stock.
Here's a cool documentary on Tesla:

Tesla: Master of Lightning http://www.pbs.org/tesla

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1LqxG49DLk
"we’re likely to stop supporting IE6 for logged in activity like digging, burying, and commenting. Users of IE6 would still be able to view pages - just not logged in. This won’t happen tomorrow, but we’re thinking about doing it soon."
the bulk of his networth are disney shares due to pixar sale.
Three inquiries launched into News of the World hacking claims
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Yeah, that's hard for me: not to be defensive; always to remember i am a continuing student (and that that's a good thing).
Terrestrial radio stations in the States don't have to pay performance fees in the United States - essentially, a fee to the record label that owns the recording of a song. Say, Whitney Houston's version of _I Will Always Love You_. In all other countries, they do. U.S. radio still has to pay a "mechanical" fee to the songwriter - in this case, Dolly Parton, who originally wrote the song. (ASCAP or BMI probably handles this on Dolly's behalf, as they do for the vast majority of songwriters.)

The fact that U.S. radio doesn't have to pay performance fees is an accident of history. There is a bill in Congress that would make terrestrial radio pay performance fees. (Satellite radio has to pay, so it's not really a "we hate the internet" thing.) In Chicago, there's a radio PSA every half hour asking listeners to call their Congressperson to express their concern against it.
Don't most terms of service have a clause in them similar to that?
On the upside: even if the "wars" are a tad artificial... it does provide db noobs (like me) a chance to see the issues (at least when processed in the analytical way they are here at HN).
This guy nailed it right on the head.
Yea ... so what's the point of this post, was it for a laugh ?! Should they have acted differently ? Could they have acted differently ? For a country that has been witness to such bomb attacks, I think their course of action is justified.
Well I don't know of anyone who actually does the right thing, but then again I'm not familiar with that many web services. I also don't necessarily think you should care that some browser sets a bad value - I guess the biggest issue is that since browsers are the most common HTTP clients, other HTTP implementations must conform to what browsers actually do, rather than the HTTP standard.

This points to one of the "problems" with HTTP -- it's very easy to hack together your own solution to a problem instead of following the standard. This generally isn't a huge issue in any particular case, but it does increase the overall cognitive load of developers who deal with many APIs, make it harder to effectively utilize proxies and caching, and increase the amount of work that must be done by servers to accommodate the many clients out there, among other things.

For example, rather than the desired MIME type of the response being specified by the URL itself, or by a query parameter, or by a post body parameter, or by the Accept header, it should just be in one place: the Accept header.
Rewound the DVD?
> The partners want to give me the opportunity to buy options at the company's current valuation (based on angel investment) with a 1.5 multiplier. E.g., $100 buys $150 of stock.

You really need to consult a tax specialist before doing anything because that looks like a transaction that will be taxable immediately to you even if you never buy the stock and the options expire worthless.
Affiliate codes are usually hidden in the URL, though. You don't even notice them unless you're paying attention (though most bloggers, LJers, etc seem to disclaim the referral lest someone else point it out).