skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow! This is crazy. A similar thing happened to my friend Matt Harrison a while back. Here are the relevant links:
- http://panela.blog-city.com/burninated_by_google.htm
- http://panela.blog-city.com/back_in_google.htm
- http://panela.blog-city.com/google_hates_me.htm

As Matt explains, he was re-added to the index with no explanation. Perhaps Nick Carr will have a similar redemption.
Seems to me like he pretty much nailed the point. Certainly some legislative outcome could prevent double-taxation, but wouldn't it be more efficient to just let the market to take care of it?
Buffett: Apple Withheld "Material Fact" On Steve Jobs Health
FWIW, I think Eric Raymond has some kind of "last will and testament" page on his website.
FF has lots of problems like this. From the user interface to name of the service itself, everything about the site seems very awkward and not user-friendly. Judging from how many people use it I'm certain some people find it very useful, but it's never done a good job of making itself seem fun.
It's the TLD of Anguilla, and Anguilla is quite small (population of 13000, area just over 100 square kilometers), so most likely the internet of Anguilla is maintained by just a few persons whose first priority isn't the TLD and the domains in it.

Personal TLDs don't exist (at least as far as I know). Some registrars are just tiny, AdamsNames for example which maintains .TC, .VG and .GD.
Why do you assert that it "most likely occurred" because of this?

Do you have any data?
Not so Heavy and definitely not Crap.
Couldn't find that Email address listed anywhere. Do you have some further information?
Yes, products like this do exist.See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_series_database

The oil industry uses them to record data points coming from hundreds of instruments on equipment on their oil rigs (pump pressure, engine temperature, pipe rate of flow, motor RPM, etc). The oil companies that operate them are rich, and there's big money at stake to optimise the flow of oil; not to mention lives at stake - Piper Alpha accident in 1988 cost 167 lives and £1.7 billion.

The one that I saw used was OsiSoft Pi System http://www.osisoft.com/Products/PI%20System/
The billion dollar tag should be <resources>

A way to include external resources in html (images, audio, video, etc) in order to make a single file, which can be downloaded as a single file (same as MHTML, MAFF, etc but without the hacks)

I hope it gets considered and included in HTML6

Implementation:

- place it after the html closing tag to unclutter the file:

- use it from any html tag <img src="url(#myimg)"/>

</html>
<resources>
<resource id="myimg" content-type="image/jpeg" encoding="base64">...</resource>
<resource id="x0" type="stylesheet" content-type="text/css">...</resource>
<resource id="x1" type="script">...</resource>
<resource id="x2" type="font">...</resource>
<resource id="x3" type="audio">...</resource>
<resource id="x4" type="video">...</resource>
<resource id="x5" type="object">...</resource>
<resource id="x6" type="embed">...</resource>
</resources>
Perhaps "finding opportunities to be unique" would be a better way to describe this concept. Doing the opposite of everyone else sounds like a profoundly bad idea when applied to many, many things.

This stirs up some of the sense of irony found in business-friendly phrases like "think outside the box."
But this implies there is a defect in the camera that causes the explosion. The defect, and product liability, is in the battery.
"FSJ did, in fact, start posting again last week."

I rest my case then...
Left 4 Dead. 'Nuff said.

(Yeah I know you can play on 360, but it's not as cool.)
"This isn't unlike Apple's insistence on Apple-branded RAM being used in their machines; if you're having Mac problems, and you have third-party RAM installed, AppleCare will tell you to take a hike."

Not true. Twice I've had Macs have issues and both had Crucial RAM. Each time I was asked to remove the RAM and re-verify the problem. Each time the problem persisted and was fixed by Apple.
I doubt they would be that petty, if it became a common thing for Google to apply the banhammer for mild critiques of their business practices that would cause irreparable damage to the brand.

We would all be trying meta-search engines that compared different result sets. We would be back in the late '90's trying to figure out which search engines were reliable and honest. (anyone remember Dogpile?)

Except that now it's all incumbent monopolies and high barriers to entry.

If nothing else this should give a boost to small outfits like DuckDuckGo http://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aroughtype.com
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Hm. And I thought id would remain independent. (I haven't played even one of their games, just admired them.)
That's not a pay as you go plan. That's just normal service on an MVNO.

Pay as you go is where you have no monthly fee, and buy minutes ahead of time and have to re-up when you run out. That is way more expensive on a per-minute basis but much cheaper in total for people who carry phones mainly for emergency purposes.
Oh, it _is_ growing slowly. A friend of mine who shares my interests, follows Y Combinator and is a fan of PG for a couple of years still had no idea that HN exists. I was pretty shocked when I found out. I guess Erlang week works...
That's what archive.org does for us.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080201134026/http://naggum.no/
Your logic is flawed.

Games based on reaction time do not reward higher IQ. Both reaction time and higher IQ are a product of faster brain chemistry.

What you are really asking is for a way to take biology out of the equation, and just let people be completely random.

I think you are trying to virtualize rolling dice. Issues with random number generators aside, the question isn't how to write the game... the question is why would someone play it?
Trig class in grade school (or high school) sucks, in a major way.

However, I worked as a math tutor for 4 years in college. I tutored both college students and in an after school program for east african immigrants.

What I observed in that experience was that people with good trig backgrounds did very well with the mechanical formula manipulation stuff in Calc. They were mostly having issues with proof structure, etc.

The students who had a sketchy trig background had problems with proof structure and also had a lot of issues simply doing mechanical symbol manipulation problems.

I majored in math and focused on abstract algebra. I don't think rings, groups and fields are very useful to general programming or even computer science. I actually have the exact opposite opinion on the matter. Unless you're going into crypto algorithm research you don't need to know that stuff, you just use a pre-existing library. On the other hand, trig establishes a foundation for stuff like robotics, DSP, computer graphics, computational physics and so forth. Almost anything falling into the traditional "applied math" bin requires you to have gotten trig down cold at some point.

However, arguing this is sort of a moot point because I can't think of any elementary or secondary school math sequence where you just skip over trig and take group theory instead. Trig is usually required somewhere along the way and abstract algebra is usually not available in high school unless you're going to a specialized math and science school. Indeed, it's usually not even available in college unless you're a math major.

If you have a sketchy trig background and need more practice and inspiration, I recommend:

Trigonometric Delights by Eli Maor, for inspiration.

Trigonometry Refresher by A. Albert Klaf for practice problems

Advanced Trigonometry by C.V. Durell and A.Robson for examples of advanced applications

Statistics is very important and totally overlooked by most hackers and even math majors (including myself.) If you have the opportunity to take a good stats class in high school or university, do so. I do not have any good recommendations on self study, but it seems like books on things like Biostatistics often lay the basics out more clearly than general stats textbooks.
If it's 12x slower than Safari on a MacBook, I bet it's already faster than IE, which would be impressive.
Slow death or rapid growth for Second Life?
Twitter Creator On Iran: 'I Never Intended For Twitter To Be Useful'
I'm really tired of MG Siegler's posts he is far from accurate on his statements (even about Twitter), HN please add a author field.
I do like "finding opportunities to be unique", though I'd prefer something along the lines of "don't be just a follower".
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I used to think you should never buy OEM parts (for your car, your computer, etc). I thought the aftermarket could even provide superior versions of parts, or at least, the same thing for less money.

Then I got a job in hardware engineering. Now I _always_ buy the OEM part. Some examples:

* Remanufactured toner cartridges -- much more likely to contain toxic substances that can vaporize into the air when printing. And have fun guessing whether they stated the page counts accurately.

* Seagate HDDs vs. Apple HDDs -- same drive, right? Wrong. Apple writes custom firmware, based on extensive testing. You may recall the data loss issue that came out last year with these (Barracuda 7200.11) drives... but not with the Apple firmware.

* No-name Chinese Li-ion batteries. Tested them myself, and they outright lie about the mAh. They're also almost certainly less safe.

* Got Bosch platinum plugs for my VR6 Jetta. Better than stock, right? Wrong. Finally found a mechanic that truly understands the VR6, and the stock plugs (NGK) were chosen for a reason.

Other examples abound. It isn't worth your time trying to outsmart the engineers that made your device by going with a part made by someone with no accountability (no brand to protect, no phone number you can call, etc).
A more interesting tag would be <definitions> where you can define your own tags for internal use:

:
<menu />
<businesscard />
</html>
<definitions>
<define tag="menu">my menu here</define>
<define tag="businesscard">my business card here</define>
</definitions>

Most browsers nowadays allow any kind of tags, ignoring them, so all you have to do is set their style to hidden for unsupported browsers.

Now the semantic web takes a new meaning on its own.
What I think is particularly interesting here is the fact that Buffett and Jobs are probably the two most prominent CEOs in America (with cultish followings) and employ styles that are almost directly opposite of each other.

Buffett cultivates an image that portrays him as being very open and easy to communicate with. He meets with students, his annual meeting prominently features himself interacting with the public (Q&As, so forth).

Jobs has always seemed like the opposite of that to me. Much more guarded and private. I don't think that either style is better than the other, but it's definitely interesting to see how they do their jobs.
While I agree that you have to use common sense (e.g. walking in front of buses isn't a good idea just because no one else is doing it), I think "doing the opposite of the crowd" is a useful way to look at it for people trying to find a way to be different or unique.
Apple very carefully qualifies RAM for each of their machines. Not all RAM is the same... some can choke up modern high-speed FSBs. You're paying for all the work it takes to qual those parts.
Simple reason is that they don't achieve what I think is important - namely clear progressions and dependencies from topic to topic, and a high level overview, and more, I don't think they can be made to do that.

They are fantastic resources, and I hope people continue, or restart, work on them, but I think they are resources for the system I'm envisaging, not a replacement, or starting point.
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Great find - thank you. I have long held that fractions are a critical point in mathematical development, and these papers are much clearer and more eloquent than I've ever managed.
I think the driven entrepreneur crowd tends to overestimate the energy most people have. It seems that whether someone is watching TV, playing an MMO, or maybe just reading, the fact is that a lot of people are very happy spending 5 hours a day essentially not producing anything. It may be increasing the quality of their life more than working extra hours.

For some people it may their goal in life to just kick back and watch sports all day. Seems to me my father-in-law would be happiest if he could just read fantasy/SF novels, watch sports, and go skiing all day. Certainly not "productive", but it makes him happy.
So in other words, Apple wouldn't deal with your problem while you were using non-Apple RAM. I think we agree here.
What makes you think they can afford to do that? And enforce it. There are already numerous international standards (ISO, etc) on things like Li-ion batteries, which of-label manufacturers are happy to ignore, lie about, or just implement incompetently.
There is now a comment on this blog entry purporting to be from someone on the Google web search team claiming that the site was removed because it had been hacked and that Google had attempted to contact the author.
The comments on the article explain why, Google detected that the site had been hacked and had email the author of the site.
Don't get me wrong, I don't blame Apple for their policy. Wonky RAM can cause all sorts of weird bugs, so Apple is right to avoid the diagnostic nightmare.
my advice for math would be:

learn to teach yourself math. I'd recommend getting a copy of mathematica and then find some good books on math subjects you're interested in and just get your learn on.

if you're getting into advanced algebra I'd recommend a bit of review of number theory and abstract algebra first, as that will make it much more interesting.
> This isn't unlike Apple's insistence on Apple-branded RAM being used in their machines;

I've never had this issue, and I've taken in two machines for service with non-Apple RAM.
Can you run php, python, ruby programs from archive.org?

That's what I am talking about, not html files.

Maybe appspot from google is more of what I think.

Maybe, paradise.google.com would be a great place to start, where you can indicate in your will to move all your stuff to paradise when you die.

Also, sourceforge, github, any online repository. I guess we should consider more options as more of our lives moves online.

As the pioneering generation embarks in the next journey...
Good point. Thanks for the feedback. I wasn't feeling 100% certain of this little essay, and almost didn't add it to HN, but your feedback helps. Thanks again. -- Derek
That's actually addressed by the original post:

The memory used by a VARCHAR or VARCHAR2 data type is
dependent on the actual size of the contents, not the
maximum size specified. For example, one million email
addresses defined using VARCHAR(255) will only take up
approximately 23MB, not 255MB.
Fairly informative for someone like me who is interested in building their own hardware but doesn't have much experience. Power supplies are the scariest part due to the possibility of screaming electrical death (or at least a good strong jolt).

Does anybody have recommendations for sites that provide more such instructional videos?
As of today, the FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) has not made 'CEO's health' to be something that should be legally disclosed. Should they or shouldn't they is beyond the point. But till then, I think its stupid to blame Apple.
familiarize yourself with time series data, as mentioned earlier in the thread, and read the amazon dynamo paper specifically the parts dealing with vector clocks.
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Another delay to the production of the 787 Dreamliner is a setback for Boeing
Google announces adsense for mobile apps
The innovation-stifling effects of browser lock-in require development to be expensive. Any compelling product in such an environment will be built to maximize revenue, which requires those products to support as wide of a consumer base as possible. This makes it difficult to build products with new technologies.

Today, development is cheap. Compelling products can be built as side projects with a minimal investment of time and money. If creators don't have to worry about making money with their creations, they're more likely to use whatever technology they feel like using.

If Mobile Safari lags behind other browsers in implementing emerging web standards, many developers will run browsers that stay current, even if they have to buy a new phone to do so. When they come up with nifty ideas that are relatively easy to build, they'll use whatever technologies they want, which will occassionally be HTML5 and friends. After normal iPhone users come across enough neat hacks that their phone can't run because their phone can't support it, they'll switch phones.

I doubt that Apple would let Mobile Safari lag behind other browsers, especially since they'll likely want desktop Safari to support emerging standards, but even if they did, it would be self-defeating.
They could potentially let you downgrade to another firmware version that does not have this check. In that case you accept the liability if the batteries do explode.
Lately I've removed a lot of feeds from my reader because too many of their posts were just noise to me. It means I miss out on some posts that I would have liked to have read, but with traditional readers like Google Reader it's all or nothing with each feed. So it's good to see someone trying to address the issue.
Very similar to the basic idea, although I have a different visualisation. It's close enough to give the idea.

Too bad the description of GPS is wrong.
"That seems like a geek fantasy to me. Just because you like to learn, it does not mean other people are like you."

Sure. I never claimed that.

I'm basing this on experience with people I knew growing up (some of whom were geeky, most not), plus the children of friends and family.

Kids want to learn to play guitar, hot-wire cars, assemble weapons, throw strike-outs, pick up girls (or boys), pick locks, cheat on tests, tape up their hockey sticks; the list is near endless.

It may be that, once they became adults, that passion fades (or, more likely, gets stifled), but that's a different matter. My experience is that, up until people enter the workforce, they are generally interested in learning about things of value in their world.

"That may be sad, but let's face it: the world also need doers, not just thinkers"

Doing without thinking is a nightmare. If you find someone doing that, slap them. (So to speak.)
As my startup is developing a distributed key-value store, I'm quite familiar with Amazon's Dynamo, and what I was talking about previously has nothing to do with vector clocks.
> I guess this is assuming that people don't just re-search with different terms if what they are looking for isn't right there on the first page.

Which I do all the time. I don't dispute that faster=better, but I have always been skeptical of Google's claim of just how much better.
somebody from accounting gets wind of it and shits a brick because the rules are different for money received for a service not yet rendered vs one that is.

This is absolutely a real-world scenario. The difference between money received in a lump sum vs. money contracted to be paid in installments over time is a big one as well.
I'd prefer hell.google.com, but I suppose both will be equally offensive to some person or other...
Ask HN: How To Add Video To Ramamia (Upload AND Webcam)
Quick background: Ramamia is a web app that allows families to simply and privately share with each other. We want to allow families to upload AND record directly from their webcam simple videos. Our users keep requesting it and we're going to add it. We could try to build it from scratch, but that might be counter productive if something already exists. Looking for either an open source plug in, library, or something we can easily use. The video should be flash. Also, we need heavy privacy, so if we use another service, all videos can't just be lumped together. Probably looking for something more like a web service. Videoegg used to do EXACTLY this back in the day. They discontinued the service.
Is it an obligation to tell your boss about a health problem that could keep you from finishing an important task? Of course.

Steve Jobs' boss is his stockholders.
I agree completely. I have spend close to $500 on admob and no conversion at all. I am pretty sure that there is a huge click fraud going on. The worst part is $100 runs out as if $100 worth of advertising means nothing. I am not going to use admob for quite some time and I have more than 20 apps on the appstore of which quite a few have been in top 20 in education and quite a few of them have been in top 100 for some time now even at $9.99 and $14.99 price point.
The 'hack' must be very, very minor: I can still visit with Chrome, which supposedly checks Google's 'Safe Browsing' blacklist.

Maybe it's just hidden spam links? In which case, index-removal seems an extreme way to get the owner's attention.
Ulcerative colitis is a terrible disease. I could totally understand him being a very irritable guy.
There really isn't the possibility for "screaming electrical death" unless you go through great lengths to attach something where it doesn't belong (and hence, obviously doesn't fit).

Also, nobody in their right mind would leave their computer plugged in while working on its internals.
No, most of what was said there is incorrect.
"If you're from a disadvantaged background, but put as much effort as a person from an advantaged background, then you would make the same after-tax income."

This is clearly untrue. If I have $2M US in the bank, it takes me no effort at all to earn $40K/year. This is part of the rationale behind a progressive tax, that money begets money with little effort, like a snowball rolling downhill. That's why only a fraction of the wealthiest 5% started life outside the top 15%. They love to tell the rags-to-riches story, but the riches-to-more-riches story is about 20 times more common.
I, for one, agree that the world is full of people, if not inherently stupid and frustrating, then acting stupid in a frustrating way. They're everywhere - teaching our kids in high schools, running our companies, writing the programs I rely on to work. They're people who have gotten better at "satisfying the practical aspects" (bullshitting their way through) instead of knowing what they're doing. From the little I got to read of his ideas, I hope Erik would have agreed, that with bullshitters, there is no appropriate discourse, and the only phrase that comes closest is "Fuck You".
It wasn't a revolutionary post — that's fine. The value was in the reminder: Try to shake loose of typical thinking. Even if I know that, maybe seeing it again knocks me into a good thought pattern this time. That's enough.

I used to think re-seeing was a waste. But it's powerful because it can change actions now. You don't have to be Tim O'Reilly every post, being Seth Godin is just fine. Both give value differently.

And there's value in seeing the same idea expressed differently. I like to see the metaphors others think in. It makes communication with them easier.
No, his boss is his board. The board knew what was going on.

The shareholders can appoint new board members if they feel so inclined.
Trying to figure out what "opposite" is can be a challenge.

Everyone is building Web apps; what's the opposite? Phone apps? Brick-and-mortar services?

Many things don't have a proper opposite. Like when people say that "pepper" is the opposite of "salt". You know that's not true, but the actual opposites is ... complicated.