skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great. Please allow me to control your bank account so that I can dictate how much you spend on your car, on your health insurance, on your vacation, on your wedding, on your kids, on your personal growth, on your food... each and everything which affects you.

Are you okie? I hear a 'no'. Then why do you think you want government to control how others spend their money? Do you really think someone else knows better than you what to do you with your own hard earned money? And why do you think libertarianism doesn't work? America is a living proof that libertarianism/capitalism works.

Another example: I am an Indian and when I was a kid, I remember how poor our country was. Since India decided to open up the trade in 1991 and adopted some of the libertarian policies, it has flourished. I don't know how old are you but did you hear about India as a vibrant economy 25 years back? So please don't suggest that libertarianism doesn't' work because I have seen it with my own eyes how well it works.
Seems like the simplest compromise is to leave wikipedia as is but change deletion into relegation to another tier.
nice, I remember using NX a couple years ago and found it way more responsive than VNC
That may be true, but the inherited rich are contributing to society by investing capital. The self-made rich wouldn't have made it if a venture capital firm wasn't willing to fund them in the initial stages, or the bank wasn't willing to provide a loan, or institutional investors weren't willing to buy IPO shares.
I have no argument if you believe that your government can spend money better than your fellow citizens. Good luck!
Wow which false reality is that?

I'm well aware of how much I pay in taxes, its significant and getting worse since I started my own business this year.

But I believe that my taxes fill a need society and in fact even have a pragmatic slant (one which Cuban raised) in the Keynsian model more taxes = more spending by gov't and the only real way to stimulate economy.

Win/Win I help people and make more money with a better economy.
I am going to use those snake analogies.
I'm biased against Asimov --- which I'm sure is a great suggestion and thank you --- because I got it in grade school and it put me to sleep. Was I crazy, or is stuff like Snow Crash just a whole lot more fun to read?
Imagine you're on an island with $100 split among five people and five goats, each goat is worth $20. But one guy has 2 of the goats and he breeds them until there's 50 goats. So now each goat is worth ~$2. So if the others had done nothing, they could still buy a couple more goats. So if you measure wealth by purchasing power it can increase for everyone.
Billy Corgan has said the same thing about upcoming Smashing Pumpkins releases. Only singles and EPs after Zeitgeist (hence American Gothic and G.L.O.W).
You could assume that the non-thumb fingers of a hand span at most two rows and that one of these is the "home" row.

When you detect a tap visually, you could then infer which row that finger tapped by looking at where the other non-thumb fingers are.
There's another force acting in WP besides deletion: consolidation. In the early days it was harder to know about pre-existing articles on a subject. Multiple pages on the same topic and closely related topics were common.

For example, I discovered the other day a separate page for Reagan's NPR joke about Russia, "We start bombing in 5 minutes". Another example is subject timelines that are broken out into separate articles for each year.

"Notability" is an unfortunate choice for a criterion since it has a large component of subjectivity. There are many people who are only temporarily famous; many who should be (more) famous are nearly unknown - on Wikipedia, for example, technical people before the 20th century whose discoveries still positively impact our lives. Warriors of all ages, on the other hand, get more than enough attention.
Tax and spend, or face the consequences (from the new unemployable)
Sorry for nitpicking, and although I'm not sure about Latvia, (where Peter lives), in the US "no license whatsoever" certainly != "you are free to do absolutely anything you wish with the code".
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I second the suggestion for Asimov, everything by Asimov.

Also, Piers Anthony has some excellent Sci-Fi books targetting that age group. I started reading his books when I was 11.
Awesome. I hope it works fast though I wont mind hanging on it for couple of minutes if the results are good.

How is the location accuracy - one can potentially focus on some thing a 100 yds away. So would it still identify the correct restaurant or will it list n options.
No problem. I appreciate the kind words. And thanks for fessing up. :)
In case you need examples to back up your view of albums, take a look at Adversus' or Eisregens early albums, for example. Adversus' albums are like a depressing hour-long story of a sad love. Eisregen had some really nice 4-song-cycles (FF - like "color darkness" about an evil darkness from the underworld, wiping out humanity, and the Pest-zyklus - like "pestilence cycle", which is a sad, rough tale about abuse of people during the time of pestilence, people going crazy and such.).

But I guess such albums are too complicated for todays everyday market and will stay rare. :(
"Do you really think someone else knows better than you what to do you with your own hard earned money?"

You're not answering my question. I trust myself, heck you seem smart enough, I even trust you. I don't trust large sections of my country and you don't have a solution for dealing with the people who decide to spend their money irrationally.

You can not call America a libertarian country and wave it like an example. Its far from it and thankfully so. The most economic success this country has seen in the last 25 years was the eight were it was run by democratic leader (you know the tax more spend more people).

Likewise India's success in the last 25 years is great, but its a bit hard to show that as an example when it houses 1/3 of the worlds poor and 42% live beneath the international poverty line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India
Could you give me an example where FDA has done a good job? Let me give you some examples of where they have fucked up.

* Seven thousand people die every year because the FDA hasn't approved the Ambu CardioPump, a CPR device that is available in just about every other industrialized country.

* Nine hundred people die every year because the FDA hasn't approved the OmniCarbon heart valve, which also is in use just about everywhere else.

* From November 1988 to May 1992, about 3,500 kidney cancer patients died waiting for the FDA to approve the drug Interleukin-2, which was already available in France, Denmark, and seven other European countries.

* In 1988 alone, between 7,500 and 15,000 people died from gastric ulcers caused by aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, waiting for the FDA to approve misoprostol, which was already available in 43 countries.

* And 22,000 people died between 1985 and late 1987 waiting for streptokinase, the first drug that could be intravenously administered to reopen the blocked coronary arteries of heart-attack victims.

I have a friend who does medical research and to quote him:

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As a professional in the medical device field, I can bear witness to many better reasons.

1. Delay of life saving technologies. I've had a product which has already saved lives in clinical trials waiting for FDA approval for 10 years!!! How many have died unnecessarily in that time?
Nobody risks their job in FDA by saying "no", only "yes"
The review boards are a joke. They consist mainly of your potential competitors!

2. Needless paperwork. At least half of my company's expenses are directly related to useless compliance with FDA paperwork. The joke here is that it doesn't have ANY connection to REAL patient safety, just the proper invocation of holy words on endless reports and forms. Maybe the FDA is really a secret cabal? Just kidding...

3. Chilling effect on new products and technologies. Want to make venture capital run away and hide? Say "subject to FDA approval"
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Tell me again how is FDA useful?

Also, why do you think libertarians will wreck havoc on education? Could you explain me with example of how they will wreck havoc? AFAIK, libertarian recommends a school voucher system which will ensure that all kids get education and the free market forces ensure that they get best education possible.

The libertarianism doesn't advocate concentration of power, it actually promotes liberty for everyone involved.
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You retweet because you want to say what someone else said.

With my startup, our stories are retweeted 50-100 times a day. They're retweeted because our followers want to share the news they got from us with their own followers.
Is this sponsored by the local government? Are they hoping for it to be sustainable?

I mean, this can (and likely will) be really beneficial for those who get in... but what/where's the endgame?
It's true. Neal Stephenson is a whole lot more fun to read.
First thing I looked at was the iPod touch. It said the firmware (which I read to be the OS) wasn't based on open source software.

It's not the prettiest site in the world, either.

Were you planning on making affiliate commission? I can't imagine that anyone will make a purchase based on openness of the platform in the first instance. If they were the kind of consumer that did, I doubt that they'd use your service.

I'm really sorry, but I don't have a lot of positive things to say about your site.
What exactly is the advantage of using Twitter for C&C? It's trivial for Twitter to suspend accounts like this (which they already have done: http://twitter.com/upd4t3), it just makes their job a little harder.
Yeah, every time I see that stat, it just sounds like a great argument for diff-updates:

http://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/smaller-is-faster-and-safer...
I love seeing these AR apps, but being able to integrate with some kind of lightweight head mounted display will make them vastly more interesting. Anybody know what the state of the art on those things are yet?
Hm, it certainly is new to create a twitter-account to coordinate a bot-net, but on the other hand... why should communicating via a public, active (and slow) site be better than communicating via some little known (or even private) IRC-server?
Duff now works at Pixar. But before that worked on http://9fans.net/ Plan9.

Including the shell still in use today http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/rc
best shell ever

And my favourite web browser : Mothra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothra_(web_browser)

while you argue over css / tables - try writing for a browser that has neither !
awesome. have you tried it in san fran yet? i walk .5 a mile to the bart all the time and it would be cool to see if there are some good restaurants i'm missing.
reminds me of this http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10266380-1.html
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Cantor went mad thinking about infinity - to me, a clear sign of how worthwhile the OCD path is.

To quote my favorite close-is-good-enough source, Wikipedia, "Poincaré referred to Cantor's ideas as a "grave disease" infecting the discipline of mathematics".
Was the wreck of the USS Scorpion discovered thanks to collective intelligence?
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We just started market research service. Here is the first report: Collaborative Text Editing Became Really-real Time — August 12, 2009 (12 pages) http://observer.jumpidea.com

What kind of facts about web apps market do you like to add to this reports? Thank you for comments.
Have you seen Wikipedia? They already do that with tons of pastel warning boxes.
This isn't complete pie-in-the-sky stuff. NaS batteries have been around for decades (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaS_battery) and in fact Ford was building EVs with them in the late 90's.

It looks like they found an interesting tweak to the technology that might make it suitable for home use. It's possible (likely, even) that it will end up either too expensive or too unreliable to be practical, but it's certainly newsworthy.
For those tired of seeing this topic rehashed continually via recent HN posts, this source provides much more sophisticated legal analysis than usual for those interested in the underlying details and strategic implications of the ruling.

Definitely worth examining even if you have read all the recent press on this issue.
We just started market research service. Here is the first report: Collaborative Text Editing Became Really-real Time — August 12, 2009 (12 pages) http://observer.jumpidea.com

What kind of facts about web apps market do you like to add to this reports? Thank you for comments.
Thanks for the comment.

What I have in mind is that there is no license, none, it's public, free code. Doesn't belong to anyone. Anyonce can take it and use it any way they wish.

What do you suggest I write instead to make this point correctly?
It doesn't really feel like you're getting anywhere the first couple of days because there are so many things to get right and learn about. Hang in there, check out the Django book and read tutorials that teach you cool stuff (balance between taking small steps and seeing cool stuff to look forward to).

If you're feeling adventurous check out virtualenv right away (Python not Django specific)
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Have you taken a look at zoho.com
This is definitely cool. May I ask whoever submitted it why what made them think to submit it here?
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glad to see more options coming about. As to the no equity part, thats cool that they can do that. I think the YC model, if it fits your startup, has an equity basis that I would call a "token". I'm sure there are angels throughout the world that could offer investment for no or low equity as YC and others are doing it.
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I went to Mozilla presentations at the last FISL (Forum Internacional de Software Livre / Free Software International Forum) here in Brazil. They explained clearly that one billion downloads don't mean one billion users. And, honestly, I don't see nothing wrong in this kind of marketing.

Even though the download counter isn't a reliable source for the exact number of users, it's still reasonable to estimate a software's growth based on the growth in number of downloads between versions. I can't think of a better, marketable way to promote Firefox based on it's growth.
Making use of the notifier would imply one's heightened savvy, no?
This is a no-nonsense product that people actually need in the field. I think small companies would find this indispensible, the preliminary pricing seems really attractive compared to competitors. And once small companies become big, I don't see any reason to switch to more expensive products either! This one has enough features even for the most critical applications.
There's nothing preventing symbol table modifications done by Perl modules at compile time to be reified into some sort of linkage unit, with which a parser could then statically parse the code.

Similarly it's possible to prove that a certain block of code does nothing but link in such deterministic units, removing the nondeterminism of function prototypes.

Most of the source code out there can be parsed statically without resorting to anything drastic. The semantics of this hypothetical Perl 5 variant do differ, but as a strict subset it will still properly most of the useful code out there.
Or how about a wikipedia mirror that doesn't propagate deletions? That way when an article on wikipedia is deleted, the mirror simply displays the last available version.
I doubt there's any endgame. For the price of some unused office space they get smart people to bounce ideas off, free introductions to anyone the founders know who can help their business, and a bunch of publicity. It's the same reason why already established people often like to cowork.
No. Maybe.

Speculating, but apart from the benevolence aspect, probably to establish close links with companies that will use Red Gate products, and ideally (re)sell them to other client companies (hence desire on business-orientated rather that consumer-orientated startups), as well as to ideally make an investment or take equity in any companies that go through the process at a later stage.

But why not ask them directly?...

Neil Davidson
neil.davidson@red-gate.com
twitter: @neildavidson
(http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/)

Amir Chaudhry
amir.chaudhry@red-gate.com
twitter: @amirmc
I am not a lawyer, nor have I ever published code under any license, but I believe that, to let anyone do whatever they like with your code, you say that it is in the public domain.
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The Bends (which, I've always felt is their best album overall) would work pretty well in a singles model, though it is even better taken as a whole.

I think it's worth realizing that the "album" concept came about because of technological changes...and the singles model is coming back, again, because of technology. I also don't think most songwriters can really deliver an album, in the grand sense of the word. I think the list of truly great whole albums is shockingly short. There are only a few people on earth that can deliver an album of the caliber of Dark Side of the Moon, Abbey Road, Rumors, London Calling, etc. Most of even the best selling bands of all time would have served their customers better by providing a few great singles at a fair price. Journey, for example. Great bunch of very successful singles over a long career...but even their best album is at least half filler, and none of their albums are better appreciated as a whole (Don't Stop Believing is not improved by being heard with the surrounding tracks on Escape).

Bands that want to make long cohesive concept pieces are more free than ever to do so; the cost of album production is lower than ever, and the distribution costs have reached approximately zero. Their customers are also more free than ever to say, "$12 for 15 songs is too steep. But I'll give you a buck each for those two really good songs." The casual listener has a chance to take part and support artists in ways they may not have in the past, while the artist and dedicated fans can still choose big productions and long-form recordings (and pay more for that experience).

These are good times for music, both artists and fans. The recording industry, on the other hand, is approaching a long-deserved reckoning.
Interestingly, C suffers from a somewhat similar ambiguity, where not the results of runtime-at-compile-time but rather type definitions affect the parsing.

http://calculist.blogspot.com/2009/02/c-typedef-parsing-prob...
"Dedicated to the public domain"
creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
Maybe people sometimes want the status from being associated with someone famous. People also unabashedly like quotes, as well as being part of a movement. So I'm not sure if RTing will go down.

Are you giving your own opinion on the matter or is this something mentioned by the Twitter Dev team?
Actually you're not that bad. You only misflag articles 17% of the time.

As for political articles, the test is whether the article is an instance of the ordinary back and forth of debate on some political question, or whether it's about some deeper underlying phenomenon that only happens to be related to politics. E.g. "Politician A accuses Politician B of X" or "Why policy Y is good/bad" are probably both offtopic, whereas "How political campaigns use statistics" is probably ok.
Too bad i don't have a passport at the moment..
That may be, but you have to admit that there are thousands of fictional characters with larger impact on our world than the majority of real persons...
It was really sad to hear this. Radiohead albums tend to be greater than the sum of their individual tracks.
i love this so much esp in busy cities. very cool guys!
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India became independent from British rule in 1947. It opened up economy in 1991. India has progressed more in last 18 years (from 1991 to 2009) than it did in 44 years (1947 to 1991). You can confirm this with any Indian who is more than 30 years old. [Compared this to US which has been independent since 1788, more than 200 years]

I hope you would agree that poverty can not be eliminated overnight. I am thrilled that India is making progress and I can assure that over the next 50 years, India will also join the rank of developed nations if they continue to adopt libertarian policies.

Anyway, coming back to your argument that you don't think others are smart enough to know how to spend their money. Just because percentage of the population is not smart enough, do you think I should suffer (by paying higher taxes) because of that?

Also, let's for a moment say that government should decide my health care. What's next? They will tell me what to eat as well. Where do you draw the line?
Hmm... I understand the coworking benefits, and the opportunity to either sell Red Gate products or invest in a later stage that babul mentioned, but this is still a huge investment.

Living expenses for 10 weeks and meals for however many people, plus high-profile speakers? This is going to be expensive, even with the benefits you two mentioned.

Just a note: I'm not "suspicious" of Red Gate's motives (I believe them when they say that this is catch-free and that they made this program to help others); I'm curious as to who is funding this and why.
But saying a billion isn't the same as giving an estimation of growth. It just seems like a misleading (even if true) statistic.
I agree with you much on how much this makes sense for music as a business. I don't lament the death of the album though, because I don't think this will be the death of the album, this will be a filter. Many albums today are no more than a list of potentially hit singles for the "artist". If the industry heads in the direction inticated by the article, I'd bet that entire albums would still be released, but only when it made artistic sense to do so.
Shap's at MSR now, no?
Hmm... from 1991 to 2009 we've had 2 web bubbles. Maybe that had something to do with it?

But you're still ignoring the core issue.
Unfortunately it's an ACM paper, so I guess we'll never know.