skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An oversimplification to illustrate the concept:

Shares = investment amount/current valuation

There is no universal answer. If your version 1.0 is likely to earn us $1B in sales the first year you would give away a hell of a lot less than if your version 1.0 is a freemium app targeted towards furries to help find local dry cleaners. It all depends.
Google Chrome turns one: a few questions and attempts at answers.
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It's better that you're the principal complainer at the moment than any of the usual suspects -- like the greybeards at macintouch (still pining for OS9) or the denizens of any of the Mac rumor forums (oh no my themes and Haxies!) or any of the surviving BBEdit users. You're doing a pretty good job of playing the goat on Twitter too.

Given your usual quality of effort and the normal tone of your writing, it took me several readings to realize that you weren't taking the piss!

Did you really upgrade every Mac you come in contact with? When you ran into trouble why didn't you just revert to a backup?
Color me with a complete sense of humor failure if you like, but I just wasted 3 minutes of my life, and I'd like them back.

Call this a great incentive to get back to do work and producing things that makes people's lives better.
In what way do you feel that it is Wikipedia's fault that women do not edit it as often as men? I don't think Wikipedia needs to take steps to counteract anything in this regard because it's not doing anything to hamper women from participating.

Also, the %'s don't really matter as long as the content is good. It's not like women are at a disadvantage because they don't have enough Wikipedia editors.
That's bad news for those of us who are pure technical people. At the very least is suggests an app needs heavy investments in the design. At its worst, in marketing.
Japan building 1GW, $21bn solar power station in space
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Rashmi Bansal in the book: Stay Hungry Stay Foolish explains the view of two kind of person, one the believers and other the opportunists. Then she comes out with the alternate vision in the later part of the book.
Interesting story, terrible article. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=799806 goes to a better source. (Disclaimer: I posted that one, after seeing this one.)
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Definitely. Why solve crimes when you can catch people going to the toilet on the street and fine them each £60 or whatever it is.

You know there's a good reason to not live in cities. Move out to the country! Do what they hell you want! :)
Lord knows we're all sinners!

The worst thing IMHO is speed cameras. 99% of the population breaks the speed limit regularly. Catching a random part of those on speed cameras and fining adding points to license etc is a really bad way to go about things.
I guess Merlin's argument taken to the extreme is that Apple should wait until every piece of software written for a Macintosh computer is SL-compatible before they release Snow Leopard? "Well, I don't want to go that far -- I just want the apps that I use to be compatible", you might say. That's not fair unless you consider all of the apps that everyone uses and wait for those to be compatible. Very quickly we get closer to needing every app to be working again.

Upgrades can be bumpy. I lost a Dashboard widget that I use a lot (and didn't get upgraded until today), a few Preference Panes are a bit buggy, and my Safari plugins are totally f'd (since Safari64 can't load 32-bit plugins, I believe. I could be wrong, though -- ask John Siracusa). Yes, Merlin probably shouldn't have had TextMate and Photoshop crash on him. But at the same time, this is point-oh software -- I guess that in 2009, that means we should take it with a grain of salt.

By the by: I can't imagine that Apple releasing Snow Leopard a month ahead of schedule was a good thing for developers ( == 1 less month to Snow Leopard-proof their applications). I wonder if that is a contributing factor to the mountain of problems that people are having.
Some glasses have frames made of memory titanium and are literally indestructible. My pair have survived a few years of harsh treatment. I've sat on them twice, gotten hit in the face with a basketball several times, and they still bounce back to their original shape. They weren't cheap (about $350) but they will definitely last until my vision changes enough to need new lenses - which aren't even scratched because of some protective coating. Even so, I often use lenses so I can play lacrosse and also because psychologically it makes me feel better not to wear glasses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_memory_alloy#Optometry
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6017
compared to other major world cities it is still astonishingly high though.
According to the WSJ article:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/08/31/only-13-of-wikipedia-...

This was a survey, so this is 13% of people, not AIs.
Not really. BackBlaze's post is about how to get on-line storage up for the lowest cost per bit. They appear to have done a great job at quadrupling the density of standard 1U setups for a similar price.

Capricorn appears to be in the business of selling standard 4 drive per 1U setups and support. The fact you have to contact their sales department to even get close to a price seems to indicate they're not competing on price.
I'd also be interested in hours spent. E.g. are women spending more time in order to create a better article (better written, more research, etc..)?
Wow, I'm speechless. You sound like the archetypal defender of male dominance. It's actually time travel. 100 years ago men were saying using the same arguments about the right to vote for women..

Contributing to Wikipedia is a constant fight, that's why women don't participate. You contribute something and almost immediately your stuff gets deleted unless you engage in some tedious "discussion" why it shouldn't get deleted.

No wonder women don't contribute in such a hostile atmosphere.

Are you a regular Wikipedia contributor? Why do I ask? You sound like one. It's exactly this type of hostility I mean.
Fine, criminalize patent infringement, but also reduce the government-granted monopoly to 3 years, ban obvious patents that a ten year old kid can think of (probably most of them), and sanction companies that try to introduce such obvious patents with big-ass fines.
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> non-standard recursion extensions

WITH RECURSIVE queries are part of the SQL 99 standard.
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Blah, sorry. Thats the result of not having enough caffeine.

I'll leave my comment though so people can laugh at me if they so desire.
Macedonians have never been at war with Serbia. We have traditionally been allies, mostly because we share the same orthodox religion. I will assume you have limited knowledge of what really happened in Balkans in the end of 20th century, so I can only recommend reading some independent sources.

I also recommend actually being in a war and then reading about it in the media. You would be surprised how biased CNN, Fox and BBC were during the NATO campaign in Kosovo (well, maybe not so much surprised by CNN and Fox). I personally was greatly disappointed by the BBC - I viewed them as one of the rare media telling mostly truth, but it turned out the BBC way of supporting official British politics was turning the blind eye to all bad things that were being done by Muslims in Kosovo.

And also, in near future you will get to see what kind of regime NATO was defending in Kosovo.

As far as F-117 is concerned, funny thing is how in Serbia we were watching Discovery channel's praising "documentaries" about that aircraft, telling (years after 1999) how it has never been shot down by the enemy. Well go to Belgrade and you can see it displayed, you don't even need a visa for Serbia.

Western media is a great war machine, much greater than some "invisible aircraft". And you miked, are either a part of that machine, or a foolish follower of their praise.
According to that link you posted, there are two meanings to AWACS, one to indicate the general principle and one to indicate the Boeing/Westinghouse system which is exclusively deployed by America and Japan.

I doubt that it was a Japanese plane in use there (though theoretically it could be).

The F117 is exclusively operated by the US air force.
it depends...are you optimizing your socializing to be attractive to attractive women of average intelligence? this will be different from someone trying to attract intelligent women of average looks. (attractive and intelligent is a null set :P)

but I would guess that women of IQ 100 would be a quite homogeneous group within any one geographic area.
I wasn't confrontational, I just asked in what way you felt that Wikipedia was preventing women from contributing. I also pointed out that Wikipedia editors are not people of large influence and not having enough women editors is unlikely to have a societal impact. And now suddenly we're talking about male dominance, women's suffrage, and archetypes. That's a pretty big leap.

I'm actually a feminist. But people like you are just as problematic as misogynistic males. Let me just give you a brief list of things to think about.

* We don't need a 50/50 split of women and men in everything.

* Men and women are different and not inherently equal in every which way (this goes both directions).

* Making ridiculous claims and accusations just hurts the cause. Note how quick you were to accuse me.

* Picking your battles is important and Wikipedia editing is probably not an important battle.

I have a hard enough time arguing for women without irrational behavior making it harder. If my comment made you "speechless" you're probably going more harm to feminism than good. You're making it hard for the average person to take seriously.

And no, for the record I have never made an edit on Wikipedia.
I thought tsally was saying that women have equal access to Wikipedia, which should be enough - the lack of voting rights is all about denying equality to women from the outset. I don't think tsally's saying he or she is in favour of that.

There's clearly a problem with women being put off Wikipedia and I'd love to know why(your reason sounds plausible but I'd like a proper study to be made to find out all the different factors). I'd like to know if it's the same across different countries and cultures. It's a little disturbing to think that so few women are contributing to Wikipedia.
it's not just that. I've known quite a few of this archetype and the thing they all have in common is tenacity. they're always on the clock with one girl or another. cast a wide net seems to be the strategy. I think anyone can do this it's just that most aren't willing to put that much effort into casual sex. casual sex quite honestly isn't worth a lot of effort.

edit: it's also worth noting that in my experience this type has low self esteem and the constant need for sex is a form of ego affirmation.
Pew Research on Internet-based activism
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this is what the remainder looks like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F-117_canopy.jpg
This has the side effect of being unable to introduce any new tags in the HTML spec which have any properties different to div. (How would the browser know if it was a pseudodiv or a new tag? Possibly DOCTYPE, but that as a switch has had a varied history, which is one of the reasons for HTML5's <!DOCTYPE html>.)
This solution creates more problems than it solves.
"If by any chance you've set your email client to display images in email attachements you may be tipping off the spammers that you actually receive their email."

Thanks for that tip
This seems like a cool hi-tech venture. But the opportunity cost is way too high.

For Japan, I think $21 billion investment in windmills in the ocean would lead to more energy than creating a solar power station in space that sends back electricity in the form of microwaves.
Why "require 'rubygems'" Is Wrong
The real trick is to learn to communicate entirely in phrases which are present in the kinds of bilingual corpora that the machine translation folks feed to their engines.
I'm sorry :-)
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Yes, but the windmills don't get you a 1GW energy weapon in space.
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Oh, that's me! Hecl is pretty small - it even runs on old cell phones with Midp 1.0 profiles. At least the smallest version of it does. The core itself is pretty small too.
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Sorry, I didn't realize there were people running 22" displays in 800x600 due to sight difficulties on HN.

Still, don't blame web designers. The problem is that current operating systems are not resolution independent. While you can resize a web page in modern web browsers, everything outside the browser window is still too small.

Also, in Safari 4 when I make browser window very small, I still get horizontal scrollbar, and can see the date.
How to Build a Cloud Without Using Virtualization
Good grief. That's an incredibly hostile response to a mildly phrased assertion.
Gee. Who would have ever suspected this kind of thread of drawing people off into a pointless debate...
I think you should have already built something else - at least a prototype - in your free time while staying gainfully employed and then quit later when you can at least guarantee yourself and any dependents a lifestyle full of roofs and ramen.
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Bad luck for the guy having his house under the solar panels. He will have no sunlight even if there are no clouds on the sky ;)
This has to be the most cheapskate move I have ever seen. Drive manufacturers have been tricking customers with base 10 forever, and now Apple decided to get on board too? What a rotten move. I think a move like this clearly shows the respect that companies feel towards their customers. What's Apple going to do next? Is OS X 10.7 going to keep away the thetans? Is it going to prevent fan death? What other ignorance will they try to capitalize on?
Cheers, I'll check them out, I used to record PCAPs when I was using KVM's multicast network emulation, as it was easy to pick up all network traffic, its become more difficult using VDE, as I don't believe theres a way to record all traffic through a single tap interface.
But... in even the 'best' situations, half the urinals are going unused! I wonder if putting up a small wall between each urinal would be a good idea?
Software as Subtitles
"Will it tie into Google Maps and Google Print and Google Desktop and the 18,432,922 other Google projects in ways that a non-Google browser wouldn’t?"

It's not supposed to. The Google apps are supposed to be accessed from every browser. That's their entire idea!
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> I've been playing around with some social-news-rating algorithms of my own

Where do you get the data for this? Its something I'd like to toy around with a bit but I have no idea how to get data.
"I wasn't confrontational, I just asked in what way you felt that Wikipedia was preventing women from contributing."

No, you flatly denied there is a problem.

"I also pointed out that Wikipedia editors are not people of large influence and not having enough women editors is unlikely to have a societal impact."

Wikiepdia is the #1 educational resource right now for most people. When did you check your Google results the last time? No if this isn't societal impact what elese is?

"And now suddenly we're talking about male dominance, women's suffrage, and archetypes. That's a pretty big leap."

It's a small step for you but indeed it's a big issue for at least half of humanity.

"I'm actually a feminist."

LOL. How that? Let me know.

"* We don't need a 50/50 split of women and men in everything."

Who is we? We "men"?

"* Men and women are different and not inherently equal in every which way (this goes both directions)."

At least they should have the choice to determine themselves in what way they want to be equal.

"* Making ridiculous claims and accusations just hurts the cause. Note how quick you were to accuse me."

Now because I don't agree with you and you don't see a problem with women being marginal on Wikipedia my point is ridiculous? Well, you're a great feminist it seems.

"* Picking your battles is important and Wikipedia editing is probably not an important battle."

See above, tell me another single Website on the Web beside Google that has more impact than Wikipedia right now.

"And no, for the record I have never made an edit on Wikipedia."

So maybe you should try that to determine why it's actually a problem for women.

"...irrational behavior..."

Again, just because I'm disagreeing and you make me angry with your ignorance while pretending to be a feminist doesn't mean I'm irrational.

You said you're a feminist. Try reading this about self proclaimed male feminists:

""Feminist Men": Oxymorons, or Simply Morons?"
http://girlbomb.typepad.com/blog/2006/01/feminist_men_ox.htm...
I would think that would bias your algorithm towards articles with great headlines but not really great content.
Stupid article.

So if I write a ruby program that needs rubygems I need to ask people that will run it to please run my program with "ruby -rubygems foo.rb" or set an environment variable, instead of just requiring the gems. Because that would infringe on the domain system administrator of that system. That doesn't make much sense to me.
Agreed. I don't understand how require 'rubygems' is any less succinct than ruby -rubygems foo.rb.
I second down: I have some huge ups and some noticeable downs in my life, and everybody does, who's not a robot.
Listening to podcasts takes too long. I can speed read articles and skip the boring bits. Podcasts are too linear. I have even tried playing back at 150% speed, but even that takes too long. Another problem with podcasts is that they are produced by people who can't say things succinctly and in a very interesting way. They seem to mostly like to hear their own voices. What we need is really clever comedians write and produce the stuff. Then it might be entertaining and informative enough to make me tune away from the radio jocks.
given how hot my apartment can get in the summer I would pay extra for that. When I want sunlight I could walk down the road to the local park.
This is good. Of course, this is how the if tag should work in django to begin with.
The guy living in the middle of the ocean?
Has anyone tried the bean bags - are they big enough for adults?
I read the article you linked to. A choice quote:

As a matter of fact, it's caused me to realize that most of the men I've personally known who have made a huge hairy point of identifying as feminists have been either date rapists, mom fetishists, porn addicts, or bear daddies inflicting their frustrated pseudopaternal tendencies on women.

You sir, are quite simply a joke. I don't know what kind of bubble you live in, but it must be a lonely place. If you really are passionate about the rights of women I'd advise you to reeducate yourself about the important issues in feminism today and collect a set of sources that are educated and reasoned. Based on how you've presented yourself, I'd be willing to bet the hour I spent in the classroom last month teaching middle school girls math accomplished more for the advancement of women than everything you've done in your life time. I hope that's not true, but it probably is. Sigh. People like you are the true price we pay for our liberties.
True, but that doesn't stop Google from adding proprietary features in chrome which those apps can take advantage of to improve the user experience. As long as they make sure everything works very well in all browsers there's no reason they can't make them work even better in Chrome.
This made the Beowulf list yesterday, and below is what I wrote in response:

"Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 3Gb/s 3.5″
Aargh! Should be definitely substituted by 2 TByte WD RE4 drive.

Today I've built a 32 TByte raw storage Supermicro box with X8DDAi
(dual-socket Nehalem, 24 GByte RAM, IPMI), two LSI SAS3081E-R and OpenSolaris
sees all (WD2002FYPS) drives so far (the board refuses to boot from DVD
when more than 12 drives are in though probably to some BIOS
brain damage, so you have to manually build a raidz-2 with all
16 drives in it once Solaris has booted up). The drives are about
3170 EUR sans VAT total for all 16, the box itself around 3000 EUR
sans VAT. I presume Linux with RAID 6 would work (haven't checked yet),
too, and if you need more you can use a cluster FS.

Maybe not as cheap as a Backblaze, but off-shelf (BTO) and
you get what you pay for.
Please don't start your shell scripts with #!/bin/sh. If a script foobar needs to be interpreted with sh, just run it with '/bin/sh foobar', instead of ./foobar.

Please don't put #include <stdlib.h> in your C source files. By doing this you remove my ability to compile your files in an environment where the standard library is not present. Instead, whenever you need to compile a file that uses stdlib.h functionality, simply use a small wrapper file that includes stdlib.h and then includes your source file, and compile that.
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=799623
And also, in near future you will get to see what kind of regime NATO was defending in Kosovo.

Why wait for the future... six months ago there was an affair regarding BND (German CIA) and Kosovo and this is what the German daily newspaper "Die Welt" writes about it. BTW, "Die Welt" is probably the most conservative newspaper in Germany and its reporting is actually quite pro-Kosovo-oriented. The subtitle "An act of revenge?" is most interesting for this discussion:

http://www.welt.de/english-news/article2806537/German-spy-af...
Or even...cubicles!
4 sq km 36.000 km out in space is a very very tiny shadow.
agreed. The 'crippling' has gone a bit too far I think, I can see the reason why they want to limit what you can do within a template but to not have the ability to combine expressions gets tedious really quickly.

The argument seems to be that a template designer should not be able to break the site, that's not a very strong one because after all any brace or % sign removed will break the site just fine.
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His objective function is wrong, I think: it considers only the total number of people we can accommodate with all spacings >= 2, but if that were the only thing people cared about then we wouldn't have the "use the middle of the biggest gap" algorithm in the first place. And apparently no one ever finishes.

The model would be appropriate for the following situation: people turn up sequentially but rapidly; once someone starts peeing they stay where they are for ever; anyone who arrives and is unable to find a urinal whose neighbours are unused immediately commits suicide out of embarrassment.
or for all intents and purposes none at all. i could be wrong but given the relative sizes of the sun, the solar array, and the distances involved, the amount of sunlight that is blocked by the array from any observer's point of view on earth would be negligible.

for example planes flying at 35k feet don't cast visible shadows.
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