skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it's easy to cheat in bartering -- just don't tell the other party that your goods have some hidden flaw.

If I barter you my old laptop that crashes when you leave it on more than an hour, you're going to be mad later when you find out I didn't tell you, and you'll have to appeal to a third party for justice if I'm bigger or stronger than you.
"an open show of hands in a room -- one that everyone in the room can count for himself -- is self-enforcing"

This is his second example (where you can complain to someone else if it's unfair) which he just got done saying _wasn't_ self-enforcing. Sure I can count for myself, but if the official number is not my own, I need a third party.
Hey, it's blog.jedwhite.com - or just click on the title to go directly to the post.

I don't know why HN shortens it to the root domain. blogger doesn't seem to work delegating that externally.

Cheers
Jed
mr. jedwhite: unless for some reason an intermediary system is distorting this...your domain (blog.jedwhite.com) is resolving to 192.168.31.15 (a private address), and therefore, is not accessible to us. k, tnx.
yes, working on http://rankforest.com and another unreleased project
Ask HN: Founders, Pre-Founders, and Students...
HN seems to be divided into 3 categories: Founders, Pre-Founders, and Students (well, students are likely pre-founders
but they're occupied with school for the time being.)

Personally I'm a Pre-founder and an early employee at 2 different startups.

Would other Pre-Founders be interested in meeting up somewhere between SF and Stanford for a mini-conference where we can
share ideas, experiences, philosophies and potentially find future co-founders? (Founders and Students welcome.)

Think "startup school" without the well-known speakers.
I used to listen to it but then I realized, "holy fuck why am I living in the past?"

Also, if you want sharp clean sounds you can listen to minimalist techno, some house music, etc. Most music is composed of sharp clean sounds because it's digitally recorded and fine-tuned by sold sound engineers.
Cofounder of http://shoptalkapp.com .

At this point, we all three (co-founders) participate pretty evenly in the hacking, strategy, marketing, etc.
different chapter (41) and it was Tom Howard, not Randy who had sex on a Gomer Bolstrood dresser.

(The reason I can quote chapters is that I have an OCR'ed scan of the book that I found on the internet. a quick search on the word 'stockings' found the right chapter.)
Co-founder of http://akvo.org/
I'm a cofounder of http://shoptalkapp.com
What you say makes a lot of sense.

However, notation actually does affect the ideas, and deeply. Euclid did not consider 1 a number, for perfectly sound reasons. Multiplication is a very different animal in Euclid's math, and his proportions are not just funny-looking fractions.

Overall, you are right. If someone is looking to get a broad survey of mathematics, Euclid is not a good source. But to start from scratch and learn rigorous math-by-proof, he has no equal.
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blog.jedwhite.com is down too.
Intensive technical knowledge, I wish he gave a bit of overview, its getting long. I'm guessing he figured out how to make it faster or he was just exploring it the bad driver code.
Thanks.

Right now, I'm talking to different startups who might need the service.

I think most startups build their own because they don't know there is a service like this out there.

I ran an ad campaign on Google for some keywords and it looks like people don't really search for it.
I left school when I was 16 to do homeschool, which turned out to be nothing more than my parents buying me books when I asked for them and nothing more.

I did my GED and dropped out of college, so I think that I can relate to how you feel. There's a huge inferiority complex that comes from having less education than others. Filling in the gaps is difficult but I've found that whenever I fill something in, I've benefited pretty quickly. Lately I realized that I sucked at systems programming concepts, so I've been reading about that, which has been really helpful. I make a living as a programmer, but I have to continually be studying to try and fill in gaps before I'm hurt by lack of knowledge.

If someone can work through a discrete math textbook and do the exercises, I think they could get a lot out of it. Calculus has some important ideas, but I think the discrete math is much more relevant to every day programming. I took a course last year at my community college that used Discrete Mathematics with Applications, by Susanna S. Epp. I don't recall it requiring higher math than algebra, but it did require sharp thinking. Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science is probably a good textbook, but I haven't used it, so can't say anything about it.
Nah, they're pretty dull; the coverboards are usually a clean piece of pizza-box or a bit of used matteboard. I'll take a pick this afternoon, if you like.
A "Do not disturb" feature is crucial for when we're on the flow.

Kudos!
Great! Once we figure out how to handle authorization (suggestions?), I'll email you. :P
The cure may be worse than the disease. Think about the hilarity that would ensue if you applied that same heuristic to self-styled 'experts' on the topic of server-scalability or web-application security.
"These self-regulatory programs are voluntary, but if companies refuse to participate or comply, the programs can refer complaints to the F.T.C. And the F.T.C. can sue those it sees as violating guidelines."

More Orwellian redefinitions - now "voluntary" means do it or else. Just like "Voluntary service" requirements for high school graduation.
Co-founder: http://www.medularis.com, previously http://www.lemontech.cl and also worked at http://www.needish.com
Seems pretty weird. Who runs your DNS and what are they running?
The blog is on Blogger, which is Google (the internal address is jedwhite.blogspot.com). Google generally seem to know what they're doing.
Has anyone else had problems getting onto Blogger sites?
This is a relatively young bootstrapped startup which is now becoming rapidly profitable. Still only at 9 employees, they've never had an intern before.
IE6 still has more market share than Opera, Safari, Chrome, and Conqueror combined...as measured amongst the population most likely to use alternative browsers.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
HN is the new tabloid. :(
huh.. do you have to house your servers in locked cages to maintain hipaa compliance?
Summary: Twitter is in maturity / value discovery phase. Show standard product life cycle graph. Then blatant plug for gist.com, which "Twitter needs in order to filter lots of content".
Unless there is some strange problem affecting only some DNS providers not correctly resolving Google/Blogger domains, then blog.jedwhite.com appears to be fine.
I just checked on http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/blog.jedwhite.com
And all is showing fine there too.
Hope that helps.,Cheers Jed
There is no intuitive way to convey what you are proposing. If you tried to move 4 tons of cargo, a big rig would use less energy than a Civic. If you are trying to get yourself across town, a Civic will use less energy than a big rig. It would be complicated and expensive to calculate the full spectrum of efficiencies for a vehicle under different cargo loads. Personally, I would use the data, but I suspect the average person would find multiple efficiency graphs to be overwhelming.
there's a plugin for WordPress (that hasn't been updated for years) that's intended to highlight search terms when the visitor comes from a search engine

This functionality is wrong in and of itself, broken or not. I am sick of sites which highlight my Google search terms. I already KNOW what I was searching for, you don't have to tell me! I can search within the page if I have trouble finding it - though these pages often also sabotage my efforts by also displaying the search term somewhere. Just show me what your page actually looks like. Do you think that because I found a summary of the page on Google and clicked through that perhaps you should show me a ... different page.
atoms.
I'm a founder and VP of sales at Solutious Inc.

http://solutious.com/
cool. ask them. especially if you feel like your work is valuable to the company.

they won't fire you for asking.
Public statement on the Mobigame "Edge" trademark case
To be honest I just don't understand why Mobiegame didn't just change the name and have done with it.

With all sales they lost after the app had to be removed, and how widely reported any name change would likely to have been, it seems like incredibly bad business sense to drag this out.
I'm the code-writing founder at http://www.lolapps.com .
Maybe it's best to accept hook-up culture for what it is

I can't do this. I haven't met her yet, but I value my future wife enough not to have sleazy hookups while I'm young. It's not fair to her. Similarly, I'm not going to go out damaging young women because some elements of society say I "should" establish my manhood by behaving badly. These are other mens' future wives; I don't have the right to do that!

But where else can you find hundreds of hot young women that are looking for no-strings-attached sex?

This can be bought. I've never done so, I don't think I ever would, and I'm generally opposed to this. However, it's a more honest style of transaction than a college hookup, wherein the woman is too drunk to be qualified as consenting (in many states) and the medium of exchange is "game" rather than money.

So long as the woman is consenting, I think prostitution is less sleazy than hookup culture. It's also probably cheaper-- the costs are well-defined; also, as long as you aren't already in a relationship (cheating is a different story) it probably won't ruin your mind or your life, which participating in the "hookup culture" that has replaced dating often does.
I am the founder of http://mugasha.com So far my role has been focused on development. As we get closer to our launch my role has been shifting and is more of other things. Honestly, I pretty much have to have my hand in everything.
Am I the only one tired of the "Let's go shopping" meme?
US Cell Phone Plans Among World's Most Expensive
I'd argue that the bulk of data which is valuable is on the enterprise. However you do have a point.
I think Kreyszig's Advanced Engineering Mathematics is an excellent text in applied math.

I'm not sure where you're at or what direction you want to study, but once you're familiar with calculus concepts this text is a good place to go to deal with ODE and analysis.
Although I see the point of the assessment, the author fails to understand the change in culture with the newer generations. Especially in software where familiarity is the major driving force in the products which are used. I would much rather use a software package that I have been using all through college and grad school even if a commercial package may be better. It all boils down to familiarity.

Also members of the newer generation respect what open-source stands for. We realize the benefit to society. We want to drive change and innovation especially if it is free and open.

Then comes the question well how do you beat the open-source? Well, I dont think you can. You have to embrace the technology and build upon it. Use it as a platform for further development. Only when companies begin to embrace the open-source will they begin to be successful.
I'm doing it now and will report back. I've got the thing running in a VM so all should be fine.
Hahahaahaha :D
"Massive security hole" needs to be added to that list of problems :)
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The glossy screens are certainly nicer for watching crisp video. I wish I had gotten the matte screen as I don't watch much on my computer. (Glossy certainly looks better in the showroom)

I did buy a screen protector at the Mac Store for my iTouch which mimics a matte finish on top of the glossy screen. If I were to buy the upcoming larger-screen iTouch tablet I would highly recommend getting a matte finish to cut down on glare & fingerprints, etc.
Tech cos want to undo rigid test for business method patents - 44 briefs filed
The lack of a plan on how to deal with urban customers or those who don't have a garage to park the car in (apartment dwellers) is really disconcerting. As the article says, these are the people who could benefit from this car the most.
I would say get paid per experience and degree. You have .25 of a degree and approx 3 months relevant experience. Since relevant, in their company experience is worth more than general education. I would say somewhere around 30-40% of what you would expect to be paid after graduation. So do your research and find out what entry level salary for that field is perhaps from your co-workers.
Google's chief accepted gear but no pay as Apple board member
To be honest I just don't understand why Mobiegame didn't just change the name and have done with it.

With all sales they lost after the app had to be removed, and how widely reported any name change would likely to have been, it seems like incredibly bad business sense to drag this out.
Right, I think the point of the original article is that you can gain a lot by using the proper syntactic sugar.
I think the property tax example is just an inverse pirate scenario. (the landowner is the pirate needing the cooperation of the captain (the head of the land acquisition authority)). Granted a much weaker position to negotiate from.
SimplyHired raises $4.6 million, announces profitability
This is kind of situation where LOOP really shines.

(defun machin-pi (digits)
"Accurately calculates PI digits using Machin's formula
with fixed point arithmetic and variable digit guarding."
(flet ((arccot (x unity)
(loop
with xsq = (* x x)
for positive = t then (not positive)
for n upfrom 1 by 2
for xpow = (floor (/ unity x)) then (floor xpow xsq)
for term = (floor xpow n)
until (= 0 term)
sum (if positive term (- term)))))
(when (> digits 0)
(let* ((guard (floor (* 10 (log digits 10))))
(unity (expt 10 (+ digits guard)))
(thispi (* 4 (- (* 4 (arccot 5 unity)) (arccot 239 unity)))))
(floor thispi (expt 10 guard))))))
I'm co-founder of http://www.stormweight.com/ -- realtime brainstorming and voting for small teams. I alternate between title of "technical co-founder" and "ceo," depending on audience.
Really interesting concept.

I'm curious how a mechanic would react when confronted with an iPhone that showed their estimate to be much higher than the "average."
On the other hand, it's easy to audit for: "links to NeverSayDie: failure."
Or just barter it away to someone else (with or without telling the truth). ;)
I use my laptop mostly indoors in my home office with controlled lighting. The glossy screen looks better, deeper blacks, more vibrant colors, etc... While I wouldn't use it for photo or pre-press work, I really like it in general.
Find me an article that isn't '1000 subjective words' :-)

I actually wrote the linked article in response to all the 'this is what makes a good programmer' articles I've seen going by on Hacker News. It isn't the end-all, it's just more perspective. I'd also add that it doesn't describe me as well as I would like.
It does. In first person groan

http://twitter.com/Lcross_Nasa
i take back my statement. it seems this network is using opendns and maybe someone is changing things up between, but why your blog? i don't get it.

nslookup blog.jedwhite.com 208.67.222.222 (opendns) => 208.67.219.132

found a discussion of people mentioning this ip as a problem:
http://forums.opendns.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=1320

nslookup blog.jedwhite.com 64.102.255.44 (ns2.cisco.com) => 74.125.77.121 (what it should be)

looks like an opendns issue, prob same with the other person who couldnt' connect.
Every article I've seen on this topic (and there have been many) confounds what it means by "the new Microsoft." Most use the term to mean "plays hardball and engages in appalling practices that alienate certain groups of people," which, while arguably true, are not against the law. The discussion then gets defined by a group of folks pointing out the problems with this behavior, opposed by libertarians who claim that they should be allowed to do whatever they like. In turn, this leads to an uninformed, boring discussion: I'm not interested in discussing what other people believe Apple "should" do from an ethical/moral perspective -- Apple clearly knows its own interests better than any johnny-come-lately blogger, and they have decided that screwing around with their developers is good for their bottom line.

The proper point to focus on is a simple one: is Apple using its monopoly power in one application area (e.g. the App Store), to gain a monopoly in another (e.g. voice applications)? For to do so _is_ illegal. Our lawmakers have already pondered this issue and deemed it unacceptable. They have stated the illegal behavior precisely. A proper DA should have no difficulty prosecuting this behavior.

P.S. I also don't understand the level of whining among the iphone devs. The Android is an open platform, move over already - you can't choose to be punished and then whine about it.
Good for you that this strategy worked for you, but as others have commented, this relies on your ability to efficiently recognize classes you don't need to attend. The penalty for attending class when you didn't need to is a few hours a weeks spent in suboptimal times, but you can still work on other things at that time. The penalty for missing a class where you needed to be... well, that's your grade, buddy.

I recommend erring on the side of conservatism, as it's easy and attractive to self-deceive into an overinflated concept of what we would have done with our time (hack vs TV+videogames+internet)
If you want the challenge to be password-equivalent, then yes, you can avoid storing the password. This defeats one of the purposes of digest authentication.

Note also that by doing this, you're also conceding to store the password in an extremely insecure hashed format. It's not as bad as cleartext, but it's markedly worse than a real password hash.
I don't think it's quite as clear cut.

Matte never look black, more a sort of dark grey.
Contrast+brightness on glossy seems better.
Use this as a negotiation exercise.

If you do, first things first. Know your best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA). Try to factor in the opportunity cost, i.e. what else you can be doing with your time if you do not take the job.

With that in hand, accept any offer higher than the BATNA. Reject any offers below the BATNA. Either way you are best off.

Of course it is easier said than done ...

(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiate...)
That's one way to look at it. Another way would be that lower production volume for matte screens means higher per unit cost, so they have to make up for this with the additional $50.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on what would make it better.
It would be so fitting if the guitarist from U2 lobbed a lawsuit into the middle of this mess.
You could stop that behavior with a session cookie, but then you might as well just bite the bullet and use form auth.
Cut-and-choose is known as the "pie rule" in the abstract gaming world.

For games with a clear first move advantage the pie rule is sometimes applied to balance the game. The first player moves, and the second player then has a choice of continuing the game or switching sides. It is therefore in the best interests of the first player to choose a fair move.

Naturally, this only works if the first move possibilities include moves that range from good to bad.

Still, it's a nice example of a meta rule that can be applied to most games.
In an ideal world, concurrency need not be a problem. After all, we can say that it is simply a matter of checking the safety of every read/write against every possible state of every thread that may be running concurrently.

However, the reality is that developers can not do this checking with complete accuracy. The simplistic reason is that the complexity of concurrent programs is exponentially greater than that of non-concurrent programs. In a concurrent model if I have m threads of execution and n read/writes per thread I need to verify n^m states in my code. Such a blowup in state makes any reasonable person look for generalizations and optimizations, but those then lead incorrect assumptions and ultimately defects.

Outside of this simplistic reasoning lie other problems which serve to exacerbate code verification during design and construction; realities of deadlines, access to source or documentation of components, the learning curve of technologies used as black boxes.
The largest private company in the world, Walmart, uses Microsoft software from their servers down to CE on their Telxons. I suspect you are confusing primarily IT companies with companies more generally.
I don't think "downforeveryoneorjustme" is a very definitive source, I'd recommend something like just-ping, which doesn't seem to have any problems for your site:

http://just-ping.com/index.php?vh=blog.jedwhite.com&c=&#...
Well I think there are two different problems - personal and professional addresses. While I may not want my info public in the cloud, my plumber (for the sake of argument) presumably does not feel the same way, because his details are on his website. So problem #1 is getting the kind of free-format contact info you find in the "Contact Us" sections of websites into my addressbook. There is no technical barrier here - vcards/hcards are a decent but under-utilised standard.

Problem #2 (personal information) you are right, it needs restriction. But a household is probably quite happy to share addresses - not in the sense of each member having an identical addressbook, but in the sense of sharing some common groups - just like sharing calendars works now.

I just can't understand the seeming lack of interest in this area - address info is the one untapped area that everybody uses. But there must be some stunning lack of interest in it - which would also explain why the Google Contacts UI is so poor.
"Apple is the new Microsoft" is just more easily sold way of saying "Apple is the new Evil(TM)".

Microsoft has been a horizontal monopoly. Apple has large horizontal and vertical reach but has cleverly avoided being a monopoly of either sort. This doesn't mean Apple hasn't been evil but at least when Apple is evil, there's an alternative...
Cool, another thing I can ignore.
Bullies can be stopped, but it takes a village
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Is Apple adding iSocial to iLife '10? I dunno, but I hope so.
I have actually seen code like this in production. A "senior engineer" I worked with decided that C++ DOM parsing code was too verbose with so many checks for null child nodes, so he wrote a set of macros which wrapped setjmp/longjmp and trapped SIGSEGV to allow resuming any code that tried to traverse a null pointer.

If of course made debugging effectively impossible, not to mention catching all segfaults, not just those triggered by a DOM parsing error.
If you can prove it's <2 weeks old, it's just the 10% or 15% unboxing fee.
It's interesting that a lot of people feel that glossy screens look better in the showroom. When I'm in an Apple Store or a Best Buy or wherever, the overhead lighting is often so bright that all you can see on glossy laptop screens is glare and reflection. It's exactly because of this showroom experience that I've always avoided glossy laptop screens.
This is a big deal - and there are three protection rackets, er, performance rights licensors you have to pay: ASCAP, BMI and SESAC. You also have to pay them if you have a karaoke night or if you have some guy beating "Stairway to Heaven out of an old guitar.
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