skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He can make some guest post in Mixergy :D, it will add some value to mixergy and definitely promote his blog/site/project/ebook/<whatever he is thinking here>. Of course Andrew that will choose if it's possible or not, but Andrew rulez and everybody knows that ;)
it's a pacifist pedestrian parrot.
Hey, this idea sounds familiar...
Interesting. I'll see if I can catch one on camera, the wind has to be right for them to take off in this direction and it is night right now but it happens with some regularity.

There are lots of interesting craft here, not just AWACS.

Google maps has the area 'obfuscated', so I can't use that to look at the planes (it was to be expected), but I'm sure an opportunity will come soon enough.

edit: this side of the border there is actually quite a bit of resistance against the AWACS craft taking off and landing because they are technically in Germany but the noise pollution is mostly felt on the dutch side which is much more densely inhabited than the German one.
How to reject a paper without reading it.
I'd suggest going about the travel differently. Using a car to get from point A to point B is insanely expensive compared to other methods. Greyhound goes practically everywhere (just not on a convenient schedule/time frame for most people). Also, starting off in Chicago, you've got a fairly major Amtrak hub nearby where you can reach nearly any point in the U.S. by train for a reasonable cost as well.

I would set aside enough money to take Greyhound back to wherever you plan to call home afterwards (from the furthest point away, so you cannot get stranded), then plan out cost to ride Greyhound from place to place. This should give you cheaper day to day costs, but puts you at the mercy of where you're going.

This is where the blog/donate will help out. Put at least a week's notice of what date you plan on being in which city, look for folks to interview and a spot to crash. Ideally you'll be able to "tail" someone for a day or two to really see how their business goes while you're interviewing them. This also would provide for a very interesting read (a day in the life of a entrepreneurs, and not just 1 famous guy, even just in the trenches never heard of them before entrepreneurs). And along the way, share what you've learned with readers and subsequent interviewees.
Team Apart (YC S08) hosts group meetings online for free
yes, the world needs an improved chat service
Yeah, this is the thing that's really bugging me. I don't want to bank on people just inherently wanting to share their story and calling in favors. I've got a couple weeks before I can realistically set out, and that will probably be haunting my thoughts the whole time.

Hopefully, I could offer enough exposure to present an incentive, but this only really works for the less established.
Haha! "Thieves." "Locking out." You're just an anti-GPL zealot. If using the GPL makes me audacious, then call me audacious. Now go troll somewhere else.
You're welcome to hit my couch (just outside of Boston) and I"m happy to regale you with stories from our companies first almost-two years.
Good one. But there is this similar service that I really like bumpin.com.
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The problem really isn't constructing rational arguments. The problem is finding premises that are either verifiable or that both parties will agree are true. If the two parties will not make such an agreement, and the premises are inherently unverifiable, the arguments will all be a waste of time and will likely descend rapidly into trolling for kicks. Despite this, the arguments will still have been rational.
Usable RIAs
Last time I checked bumpin.com their UI was much better. But I guess they've added lots of dark color & strange fonts onto their website ;(
http://www.templatemonster.com/
What is the definition of statutory law that you're using?
This is true. Some clouds have silver linings by talented writers.
Congrats guys, Olark rocks =)
It's down for me too I think HN effect may have knocked it over.
Sorry to rain on your parade but perhaps you should think about getting a job first. Your savings are not much and if that is all you have in the whole world you can easily get in trouble (imagine, for example a car crash in the middle of nowhere).

And even if everything goes smoothly you can find yourself at the end of your adventure with no money at all. Of course you can set up a donations site but you never know how much donations you will get.

A good way to hang out with entrepenurs without risking your neck would be to get a job with a start-up or a small company. Or you can start a consulting biz that helps small companies (such as website creation, fixing setting up computers, etc.)
Meebo have just branched out into embeded chat as well. I think these guys might struggle.
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A very interesting and well-done course on many of the vagaries of US copyright law from MIT OCW (video lectures) that might be relevant to the discussion:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...

Especially lectures three and four:

3) Copyright applied to Music, Computers; Napster®; Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

4) Software Licensing; DVDs and Encryption
Is traveling better than working on a startup?

Stop comparing. Do both, do neither. During the dotcom craze, I "traveled" to a foreign country and worked at a startup. The experiences were very rewarding. Your mileage may vary.

Advising people to travel is a bit like giving advice to learn Lisp. And, I know that hearing "well you just don't get it unless you do it" is not very helpful. But, I am learning Lisp anyways.

As Krishnamurti says, "Don't do what I do."
Tyranny for the Commons Man
I always wanted to do this too. Last summer I traveled to various cities talking to early-stage funds/incubators and their participants and learned a lot. Now I'm working on a similar blogging project. Pinged you!
you are crazy.

but it sounds like fun. if you make it to silicon valley be sure to check out the hacker dojo in mountain view: http://hackerdojo.pbworks.com/

Do start a website, and make sure you give your sponsors plenty of publicity. But make the project cool.

If I wasn't spending every penny I can on hardware, (or if I wasn't selling out faster than I can get new servers up) I'd buy some advertising. As it is, I'd be happy to give you some hosting, if you don't have any, and if you make it down here I'll buy or make you dinner.

You should pitch it as "I'm doing this really cool thing, and I think you are really interesting and would add something cool to the project" which should be true. Be aware that respondents will be motivated both by being part of something cool, but mostly by the publicity. But then, it's not good publicity unless it's cool, right?

You probably want to setup the website and build some excitement ahead of time.

so go out and make something cool.
The gold fringers posting in the comments don't seem to help the site any.
It looks like it's working now even without JS. The history detection method itself doesn't need JavaScript at all; see http://whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com/docs/details.html
That's true -- there have been several projects making use of the CSS :visited history sniffing technique. The method itself was originally reported in early 2000. See http://whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com/docs/details.html#re...
You can type next to move to the next lesson.
By users, not dollars...
The trick is to come up with a probabilistic model for how they could have implemented this simulation that we're in, assuming that we are simulated.

Is there a way to exploit the simulation?

If I were to create a simulated universe, the program would have assertions that test for an interesting condition. (Say, if the simulated humans can achieve X, then break, and print a stack trace so we can study what lead to X)

When the universe simulator breaks, does that cause a perceivable difference for us, the simulated? Not necessarily. We would never experience such a break because by definition there is nothing to experience.

We can exploit the program if it is likely that the simulation program includes glitches. There are likely to be glitches if certain computations are innately difficult to do (e.g. NP hard?) so our simulation architects had to "hack" an estimation. For example, the strangeness of quantum mechanics may be just a poor (albiet optimized) implementation of newtonian mechanics.
I agree that a car is expensive, but it doubles it's value by offering me a place to sleep if I can't find one by other means and serving as a big suitcase, allowing me to keep clothes straight and my equipment at the ready.
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Reminds me of _why's Hoodwink.d
Surfing is hacking mother nature's laws of fluid dynamics and gravity ;-)

http://www.fisica.net/ondulatoria/surf_physics.pdf
Google's Chromium sandbox
Of course, to do that you'll need some way to get EEG data out of your head. You could get an Easy Cap (scary website: http://www.easycap.de/easycap/e/products/products.htm#15 and http://www.easycap.de/easycap/e/prices/price_list.htm because Europeans alike to put the price on a different page from the product info) or go to eCrater: http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=4734120 ...where you can also buy a neurofeedback-enabled teddy bear to clutch during compile cycles (for real): http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=4733183

Unsurprisngly, decommissioned systems are quite cheap on eBay.

Emotiv http://www.emotiv.com/developers.html offer a similar (14 electrode) device for $299, but only with a simplified SDK. If you want the full data you will pay more. Much more. Discussion of this, with issues familiar to many on HN:
http://www.emotiv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7 I'm not sure why the fuss, given that you can get a lot of other EEG stuff for much less than you might imagine, but the Emotiv product does look good and suitably modern compared to the traditional caps.

I don't like the BCI2000 website much, but here's the list of compatible hardware: http://www.bci2000.org/BCI2000/Features_Hardware.html software & sources is apparently free on registration. Windows only for now, Linux and Mac coming soon.

...man, sometime I wish we could mrkup HN posts like on Metafilter...oh well, enjoy!
Surf Physics [pdf]
http://tryruby.sophrinix.com/
So the "article" consists of one sentence which links to another article and says I should read the other article. This is such blatant hit farming that even Slashdot would be ashamed of it. I am sure the other article is a fine and important one, but I am just not going to click on it out of principle.

I wish I could mod stories down. How much karma does one need for that?
"Living abroad challenges you in ways that are very hard to find at home."

True. On the other hand, who can honestly say that he has exhausted all possible ways to challenge oneself at home?
http://benefitslink.com/articles/guests/washbull080630.html

Summary (if you meet any of 3 tests, example net worth of $2 million) if you relinquish your US citizenship any unrealized capital gains must be "marked to market" and you have to pay taxes on that amount.
Good.

A person who personally profits from owning shares of a US corporation should pay taxes on those profits.
On the PySide
There is one very important difference between what can be built as an experiment and the commercial Segway: The commercial one has a lot of safety features, redundancy and fool-proofing. Mine has none whatsoever (Well, it does have a kill switch so it doesn't go zooming away if I fall off, and it does shut down if it finds itself tipped more than 45 degrees.) Those details are kind of important, and you should think about them carefully before considering building such a thing yourself. With a scooter like this, if it stops working for any reason (software crash, hardware failure, low battery) you will fall, hard, and probably on your face. Imagine zipping along at 10 MPH, and suddenly the platform you're standing on stops dead. Oh, and there's a T-bar in front of you to trip you up if you start to run. So you really shouldn't try to replicate this experiment, and I can't be responsible for what happens if you read this and try to build something.
Great f-in idea. Do it.
Strangely, I'm always sleepy after exercise. If I go for a run, I'll feel like taking a nap when I'm done.
agreed. you're welcome to crash at our pad in Boston as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
http://alistapart.com
http://www.sitepoint.com
http://www.sixrevisions.com
http://www.smashingmagazine.com
http://psdvibe.com
Yeah. You can crash in Des Moines if you want (e-mail in profile).
then focus on the less established. there are plenty of really interesting businesses in the 'exchange goods and/or services for money' category that have zero chance (and sometimes less interest) of getting venture capital.

Even those that get seed capital are usually interested in talking with interesting people... and if you do this right you will end up with a lot of contacts, and thus be a very valuable person, even without publicity. There is a lot of value to be had in saying "oh, I talked to this other guy last week who was doing something that would complement your product or service."
You are referring to DNS tunneling, which is different.

With OzymanDNS your laptop can tunnel out to the net in spite of your hotel's crappy gateway.

With DNS source routing anyone on the Net can tunnel onto your laptop in spite of it having no way to receive inbound IP traffic.
It was on the front page of digg as well - and when I clicked the link from there an hour or so before the story was on here it was having trouble loading all the images etc. so I am sure hitting hn was just the cherry on top of their server meltdown.
If you haven't made money from writing before, don't count on being able to do it this time. Making money at writing is super bonus extra hard.
Um, that's not the best policy to pursue.

Usually, you pay tax in the jurisdiction whose services provided by the tax you will use. I'm Canadian, and pay Canadian taxes, because I use Canadian services.

If I own a small piece of say, Disney, I can usually apply for an exemption to some or all of the income tax because the US recognizes that I live and work in Canada, and pay taxes there. This encourages me to buy more Disney shares.

Guess what happens when the IRS decides that I have to pay them, while at the same time getting taxed by the Canadian government? Exactly. I sell Disney.
Can anyone out there recommend good econ blogs/sites? I'm an econ novice. Thanks!
Come to NYC and I'll buy you beers while you interview me about my startup.
Hmm.. looks suspiciously like exactly the SuperMicro case, for about twice the price of rolling ones own.
Fair use provisions are part of the US Code. The DMCA is also part of the US Code.
I think you're overlooking the key part of my point.

I'm saying that the person has no home in the USA, no nothing. But the USA still taxes income made overseas. Heck, even if this hypothetical person renounces his citizenship, they continue to take the taxes for another ten years!
And those licenses, like all elective copyright licenses are specific (and usually conditional) waivers to some of the rights afforded automatically by post-Berne copyright law.

Even the most draconian shrinkwrap EULAs will specifically grant the licensee the right to install (copy!) the software onto a filesystem of their own, and allow for an operating system to read (copy!) the work into memory and page (copy!) it back to disk in normal operation.
Do it. It's no crazier than this girl who set out to the end of the world back on a tractor collecting dreams of people.

A great interview on NPR at http://www.pri.org/theworld/?q=node/14897

and more information here:
http://www.tractortractor.org/english/
Did you de-obfuscate the text, run the searches, or use some other mechanism? I didn't find anything when running the searches and don't really have the time to mess with de-obfuscation
US Tax code is the most unfair set of laws I've ever seen to be honest. Most countries wouldn't even dream of demanding the levels of indentured servitude that the IRS feels is their right to collect.

In fact, I'd say the only state that is worse at screwing foreigners is - surprise - Switzerland.
I know it's driving me nuts. Sorry.
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what does s3 charge for transfer? $0.10 per gigabyte? I bet that covers much of the data center costs.
Found a bug in hndir :). It doesn't recognize @uiuc.edu as an illinois address. Not all of us changed, you know!
Bertrand Russell: The thinking person's superhero
No, you're living in my simulation.

Prove me wrong.

Obligatory: http://destructionoverdrive.blogspot.com/2005/06/last-answer...
You're smart enough to ask "am I crazy" - it seems like a suitable piece of bait. You just graduated college and you want to do something? Yeah, shout me out. I do http://grantvote.com - you see it's quite entrepreneurial. Call me for free, 620.388.1771 - I'm Jesse.
From experience, I can safely say that luck has nothing to do with it. LSI MegaSASes support more than 240, so it doesn't affect my math at all.

Similarly, from "at home" experience, I can also safely say that luck factors prominently in the vagaries of SATA port multipliers. The reason I even made the attempt was a lower price per port. This is why I'm so started that a solution based on them would end up being more expensive than a SAS-based one.

Of course, if the camel of performance gets its nose into the tent of ones requirements, it has to be the SAS way or the highway.
I think chat (especially applied in small commercial sites) is nowhere near its potential.
Ask HN: How do you want to be remembered? 
I've been pondering this after being repeatedly asked for biographies for press releases or whatever.

How do you want to be remembered?
Bad Motherfucker
Please do it. My life situation means I can't do things like this anymore and I regret it big time.
Somebody has done their homework! ;-)

But yes you're correct... this fantasy is reserved for post acquisition day.
Can you provide references? Are you saying that the U.S. transactions (includes equities) may be subject to U.S. taxes? If so, that seems fine. I don't see any claims to non-U.S. property.
Can anyone explain this tool? I didn't realize looked at who was linking to you outside of their page rank.
You can either do it, or always wish you did. Your choice.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com is always packed with inspirational designs, often with downloadable templates to base your work on.
The first ML implementation by Luca Cardelli was done at the same time as K&R C was fully implemented. 36 years ago!
You right, it is screwed up. You should write to your Canadian representative to let them know you are being unfairly taxes by Canada for a service they do not provide.

Why should Canada profit from your stock transaction for a U.S. entity? Canada doesn't pay for the costs of allowing Disney to keep Mickey under intellectual property protection indefinitely. Canada doesn't pay for the costs of running the SEC. The U.S. does. I think a stock appreciation tax (capital gains) should be paid to the country the stock is listed in, i.e., where you made your investment. Same with property, which this thread started with. Pay your taxes where the value was created.
Sounds like you've got interest....

You probably ought to think a little about where you land after this if it doesn't become profitable, or decide that when your bank account drops to something ($200?) it's time to stop. On the other hand, this is the time to do something like this. It'll only be harder later.
The punchline becomes less hilarious after you read this rebuttal.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/64ad6def...
echo, disqus, olark, meebo - interesting area.......
You're only crazy if you don't stop in Boulder!
err - Bad Ass Mother Fucker (BAMF)
"So on day 1 after the trip you have 0$?"

And a really good story.
Not the same at all--the HN title is a little misleading. Membership (pricey!) buys you access to $500,000 worth of tools and facilities, not just outlets and comfy chairs/wacky furniture. I've been complaining for years about not being able to do physical projects because I don't have access to a machine shop, and, well, now I can, for $125/mo. Excellent idea.
Actually the time traveling robot's mission was to come back as a young man, known as Arnold Murray. with whom Turing would become infatuated. The purpose of this mission was an evolution of the continued misunderstanding of the philosophical nature of the Turing test and it's human centric definition of intellect. The robot's inventor figured that if he proved the robot was "at least as intelligent" as Turing by causing him to fall in love with it, it would thereby pass the Turing Test.

A similar robot was sent for Church, but he couldn't understand it's lisp.
ISP seek low broadband bar. Is Comcast 0.256 Mbps broadband ? France has 50 Mbps
Most of us are destined to be forgotten by all but our dear ones. Grow up. There's only one von Neumann born per millenium. The bright side is that not being von Neumann does not mean one can't do meaningful work.
I don't think it takes quite as much effort as you imply, since a fairly basic storage array from one of the major vendors is $100k. (And then there's "maintenance" and software upgrades, but that's a separate matter).

Even if you got a $100/hr consultant, $100k would be half a year. I suggest it could be done in half that time, by someone who has suitable background. Someone with the specific expertise should be able to do it in 6 weeks elapsed and 2 weeks of full time work, tops. (bt; dt)
Canada taxes my income. The US waives the taxes on the stock because of this. Thankfully we've got pretty good tax treaties, and Canada is a little better versed in dealing with partial residents, as is Europe.

Canada doesn't pay for the costs of running the SEC.

That's an interesting point and I don't necessarily disagree. Of course if they followed that line, they wouldn't be killing American expatriates now would they?
The whole point of the article is that Evernote is not making money and aren't even expected to break even until 2011.
Once you're in the cockpit, all it matters is the performance. I would rather fly a MIG-21 than an F-4. But, of course, if I had enough money I would prefer to fly a SU-27 or an F-16, so that I could have the performance and the looks ;-)
* Should the US government be able to dictate the laws of foreign lands, in order to satisfy its own choice of tax regime?

No they should not. But this is not what's happening here. The transactions originated in the U.S. by and through U.S. entities.

* Should the US government be able to dictate that foreign corporations provide data to the US, forcing those foreign corporations to bear the costs for enforcing the American tax regime?

Again, that's not what's happening here. When UBS or any other foreign bank operates in the U.S., it is incorporated as a U.S. entity and must follow U.S. laws. UBS and such have chose to say "oh, those customers we acquired in the U.S., well, that data is back in Switzerland, and we have strict privacy laws there, so no can do". Sorry, but the transactions originated in the U.S. through the U.S. operating entity, Swiss laws have no say here.

These banks have gotten off incredibly light. The U.S. has plenty of existing laws on the books to allow them to seize the assets of the entire bank for their illegal behavior. The only reason they did not is because seizing Swiss banks would have unknowable repercussions from global elite.
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I think they mean what the Web knows about you. The Internet sure as hell doesn't know about my email habits or how much streaming I do of music.