skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's too bad he had to pay such a heavy price for speaking his mind. It's understandable, since he embarrassed some fairly powerful figures by being right; but that doesn't excuse it.

In the US the way we would defuse someone like this is make them into a celebrity.
If it's going to be a startup and you have roughly equal abilities in your relative domains and you're going to work equally hard on it, you should tend to split the stock evenly.

Don't forget vesting.

If he then also finances it, pick a valuation and dilute accordingly.
Wasn't Apple the reason Android spent it's early days without multitouch? Imagine modern touch mobile without multitouch?
I stopped reading at this line:

"The new policy is a big political victory for Google and other Web content providers whose business model depends on free-loading off the huge capital investments in broadband made by others."

Anyone who could write that either is not in possession of the facts, or has chosen to disregard the facts. Lies and inaccuracies do not a cogent argument make.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, and your point was to claim that free-market arguments must be based on lies?
Why not self publish?
How to Stretch Your Security Dollar
Trust me, just forget about the girlfriend thing and embrace your productivity. Seriously, i'll bet you're the productivity king right now. I used to be you, I did some amazing work, I had the work ethic of a new immigrated china man looking to bring his whole family over, I was working 16 hours a day... and I LOVED IT. When I got my first girlfriend (at 20) my productivity crashed. The emotional roller coaster that women put me through, it was too much. We broke up after 3 months, and I immediately started dating a girl (its been almost 2 years now) who was a mechanical engineer (closer to my level of introverted) Life is more stable, but i'm nowhere close to where I used to be. A girlfriend is almost like another full time job, except it costs you money instead of earning you money.
Introducing Raindrop from Mozilla Labs
Interesting.

However:

> The eco-pawprint of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser driven 10,000 kilometres a year, researchers have found.

"Normal" yearly driving in the U.S. is generally considered to be 12,000 miles, or a bit under 20,000 km. And that's a lot more than 10,000.
Justin TV!

http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
Simple: Because Apple can get people to pay $599 for the iPhone.

More specifically, they can get people to sign up for $XX/month plans, which means Apple can get AT&T to pay them $399 for the hardware. There's no such deal to be made for the touch, thus it's $199.

As for the components, I'd be surprised if an iPhone off of the line in China would cost much more than $50.
Since net neutrality does not seem to be in the economic best interest of the ISPs and wireless carriers, government is likely the only way to enforce it.
... soap characters are typically well-educated and have few children. And they prove to be extraordinarily powerful role models: Simply giving a village access to cable TV [...] has the same effect on fertility rates as increasing by five years the length of time girls stay in school.

Oscar Wilde claimed "life follows art". I guess he wasn't thinking of the transformative power it could have over millions of lives, and might have debated whether soaps are "Art".

Who wants to watch soaps about pious mothers-of-8? Our choice of role-models is about who we want to become, and perhaps one of the success factors for TV is that it offers poor people a vision of The American Lifestyle ... something to aspire to (at least from their perspective). On the other hand, I've never figured out why anybody watches Coronation Street, a half-hour banging my head on the wall would be better spent.

A soap character who's beautiful, charming, popular, wealthy, witty, racist, xenophobic, homophibic, antisemitic could be a very dangerous thing indeed. If TV becomes a tool for manipulating culture, it could get nasty in the wrong hands.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sh1mmer/4035024371/
They compare this to OSX FileVault in the article, so I thought I'd share this: I've been explicitly told by an Apple-approved technician that they don't recommend FileVault. The process of dynamically resizing the encrypted partition on the fly leads to a higher number of filesystem errors, many of which are non-recoverable.
Why Steve Jobs Could Be A Savior For Media Companies
In the presence of real competition, network discrimination wouldn't be in the best interests of many ISPs, because they'd shed customers over it. Customer turnover is a huge issue for ISPs.
Instead of just saying "liar, liar", maybe you yourself could form a cogent argument about how the article is wrong.

I'm likely to agree with the argument you come up with. I'm just pointing out: you haven't come up with anything yet.
Yes, and it bears repeating that as you mentioned, if they really had a case here, they would have brought it up in 2007.
The GNU C Reference Manual.
Upvote but I try not to write unique ledes here even if they're true. It just seems like a slippery slope from interpreting to simply reporting. I link, you decide!

That's good but I'm afraid my edit clock ran out.
This isn't an either/or proposition.

The 5 minute rule gives us a simple planning rule of thumb for comparing storage technologies:

Given some access frequency, if an item is accessed more frequently than this break even time iops dominates the cost calculation. Likewise if an item is accessed more rarely, capacity cost dominates the calculation.

For current technology, roughly speaking, the break even time between RAM and SSD is 5 minutes, and about 6 hours between SSD and spun disk.

To cost optimize for a particular system you need to know the distribution of access times. For something like facebook the access times are heavily biased towards recently created items (ie, almost all users start walking the data graph from the top of the news feeds, and days old data is very unlikely to be touched).

This can make it difficult to get utility out of something like SSD that straddles a thin band in the middle of the storage hierarchy. Your dollars may be better spent on ram and disk in the proper proportions.
This is exactly why this question fascinates me. The usage flip flops constantly.
Intelligence Explained
Elephant now has its own native storage? (When I used it last it still relied on BerkeleyDB or a SQL store for data persistence).
REvolution Computing gets major funding, new CEO
I’m in the Austin area, but occasionally in the heat of the summer I start longing for the cooler temperatures of Seattle or Silicon Valley, lol.

It sure gets hot in Texas. :-)
The End Of Hulu As We Know It? Might Start Charging Fees For Access
The row orientation of a sql database is a significant limitation for sufficiently deep datastructures IMO. They often force you into multiple calls for a single entity or complicated loops through really long rows. All of which can be the cause of wasted cycles in code. A sql db with its rows presents a poor datamodel for those cases.
Better the devil I know (corporate greed) than the devil I don't (lobbyist driven re-election hungry politicians)

In the same way, the government has exactly zero economic interest in a correctly regulated network. Over time, laws have a way of favoring those who are connected over those who are not... Goldman Sachs springs to mind as an example of just such behavior.
Heh, sorry to state the obvious. I had such a good time in the tank that I tend to be a bit of an evangelist. If you trust them at all, it's also been studied by the National Institute of Mental Health and they think it's safe.
Not ironic, since you are following your own advice.
Yeah, you are quite a ways away. Maybe you already do, but using prepreg can make the process a lot faster, much easier layup, and better final quality - but I doubt there is an autoclave that size on the island.

You could easily make an unpressurized one though, I made an autoclave for a 15"x8" solar car body I designed in college out of plywood, insulation, and a heater/thermostat.
I dunno, but you can start one. Pick a day and time, pick a spot with good wifi and space, not too trendy or crowded, and commit to be there every week. Invite your friends at first. If you can keep it up for a month or so, start telling everyone about it. Don't take it too seriously and have patience.
There's some nice work at the GLEaMviz site. For that I personally congratulate you and your research group. While I was reading the authors' names, I was sure that I had seen before. Now I know where... I read some of your publications for a class on Complex Networks. Very nice, you have reason to be proud.
www.perqworks.com
I wrote it, jQuery to the nth-power.
The components in a 16GB 3GS are estimated to cost $178.96:
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/06/24/apple-ip...
>An effective 25% tax on the iPhone is a great way to ensure that iPhones are only purchased by people of means. So egalitarian!

Oh come off it; taxing baby formula at a higher rate than other goods might suck for people who aren't of means, but taxing luxury goods like iphones?
Ask HN: who will buy PG's startup idea #22?
So, for some time I have been designing/ tinkering/ pondering something
along the lines of PG's startup idea #22 (web-based spreadsheet/database
hybrid).

Thing is, I can't think of who will buy such a product. Would appreciate
some clues in this respect...

After a couple of iterations, I decided to write a web app that replaces
emailing Excel spreadsheets around. That was a pet annoyance of mine
at work, actually.

But now that I think about it, what kind of person emails Excel's around? My guess is, usually they will be assistants and other low-level
knowledge workers in big organizations. Managers in these organization
will have somebody else do the emailing around and report the results.
And employees in smaller, more agile companies will go for something
like Google Apps or whatever web app is already there that suits their
particular domain.

The issues then are, 1) these assistants that email the Excel's most likely don't see emailing spreadsheets around as a problem, and 2)
even if they saw it as a problem, can they do anything about it?

So, I'm not sure that the Excel emailing public will be a good
market for my app.

What other use cases do you see for this type of web-based spreadsheet
thingie?
Sorry for posting it then guys. I honestly haven't seen these screenshots before, that's why I posted :)
I'm not sure the block syntax buys as much as you'd want it to. Maybe a more complex example would help?

For instance, you can create similar syntax with a class definition. I've tossed together something quick below to emulate your UI library (not really something I've tried in practice, but the idea is there):

class ExampleLabel:
caption = "This is an example"
position = (50, 50)

class ClickMeButton:
caption = "Click me! Click me!"
on_click = lambda: sys.stdout.write("The button was clicked.\n")

class HelloWorldWindow:
caption = "Hello World"
dimensions = (400, 300)
contains = (ExampleLabel, ClickMeButton)

If you then had classes or functions with kwargs arguments, that recognized key names such as "caption", "on_click", etc., then the above classes could be used in this way to instantiate things (either alone, or within something like a Window):

b = Button(**ClickMeButton.__dict__)
l = Label(**ExampleLabel.__dict__)

...or equivalently, on the fly:

l = Label(caption="Other label", position=(10, 20))

Notice that since everything is defined as a class, instantiating duplicates is actually taken care of. For example:

w1 = Window(**HelloWorldWindow.__dict__)
w2 = Window(**HelloWorldWindow.__dict__)

Since I haven't "inlined" anything in a block assignment, the definition can be used repeatedly (when put in a class).
This thought struck me when I observed the reverse process in some poor countries during the oil boom. Where people are poor and energy is expensive, there's an incentive to 'deindustrialize' by replacing expensive machines with cheap labour. Industries weren't just standing still or going bust, but innovating by eliminating mechanization and taking on workers. Presumably an industrial revolution is the same process in reverse.
The pirate bay?

...just kidding!
Dive Into Greasemonkey
There's interesting stuff under discussion up there but I've noticed it doesn't seem to get a lot of attention - few blog comments, etc - was wondering why this was since there's other arguably similar gatherings (TED, SXSW, etc) that get a lot more attention.

It's also geographically close to me, if I didn't have to work I would consider going to Camden. Kind of a bizarre location really.
You're missing the point: television is everywhere. Even if you're generous and you assume continued exponential growth of the internet, it won't have the same global reach for a long time to come.

When most of the world is still at the stage where clean water is revolutionary technology, it's kind of silly to suggest that Twitter is "changing the world" of much more than people who live comfortable lives in first-world countries.
"Scientists haven't yet studied white matter enough to know how to improve it directly, especially in healthy people. But exercise, diet, and mental activity have all been shown to boost brain health and decrease the risk of dementia, a disorder that has been linked to white-matter damage. And other studies have shown that just a few months of practicing a new skill can enlarge certain parts of the brain, including parts of the frontal cortex involved in motor planning and parts of the temporal lobes that integrate visual, auditory, tactile, and internal physiological information. Similar studies on ways to improve the quality of white matter are under way."

There does need to be a lot more research on this issue. The article is a good guide to who is doing research on brain structure and IQ, but I think the title promises more than the article delivers.

After edit: And a while ago, Richard Haier directly disagreed with another statement in the article just submitted.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126993.300-highspeed...

"Just because intelligence is strongly genetic, that doesn't mean it cannot be improved. 'It's just the opposite,' says Richard Haier, of the University of California, Irvine, who works with Thompson. 'If it's genetic, it's biochemical, and we have all kinds of ways of influencing biochemistry.'"

The way to find out how much a characteristic can be changed is to do experiments. The way to find out how much it may already be changed by haphazard environmental variance is to look for variance in the characteristic in genetically sensitive designs. Monozygotic twins can be discordant in IQ, so there surely is environmental influence on gene expression for IQ.
>"Smile" is not an atomic face state, there are many
> gradations within it.

You're not kidding! http://face.paulekman.com/default.aspx

Personally, I've never seen the Mona Lisa's smile as that complicated. Her mouth is smiling, her eyes are not. When you look at the bottom half of her face, you see a smile. When you look at the top half, you don't.
This came up today on a journalism blog I follow.
http://fleetstreetblues.blogspot.com/2009/10/triumph-of-hope...
Seneca - On the shortness of life
They released the alpha version. It's been demoed by people with invitations.

Looks great on the touchscreen? Yes. Have you seen the video in the post?

That computer is a touchscreen. The program running is the Kindle For PC.

And it looks great.
I hope I see a Snow Leopard vs Windows 7 review soon. I'm still on xp, so I think it's slowly time to move on. Right now both are looking good.
You might want to integrate some sort of cache busting mechanism to your js/css/image files to prevent this kind of caching problem.
Why don't Apple/AT&T legal representatives argue this in court? It sounds like it's in their interest not to be doubly taxed. From the business class I took, sales tax is effectively split between the seller and the buyer, even if it's the buyer who formally pays it.
I feel like this should be easier to implement internationally than the device...
Why don't you try working while at work?
Don't market it as a "database". That scares people. Don't market it as a spreadsheet either, because they'll think it's for financial number crunching stuff which Excel does well.

Now, ask anyone: do you sometimes use Excel for lists and storing information? Try not to say the database word, but if you're with a techie, they'll understand it fine without being scared. I bet you most will say "yes".

Blist tried doing this, but failed for a few reasons. There is without a doubt a need/market to do this, but it requires such a perfected formula mix. I hope somebody does do it.
Government always has an interest in regulating bad behavior... Some parts of the internet show bad behavior, but they are punishing the whole lot just to enforce a few.

People are wholey very good creatures. But there are times when a person can become evil and that is what the government is for...
Google & Facebook to offer music sales
People drawing together on Colorillo.com
If you don't support the only realistic method to ensure net neutrality then you can't really claim to support net neutrality.
Do you care to elaborate on how '3-4=5' allows one to explore some more complicated mathematical constructs? Unless 'complicated' means 'ilogical' I cannot understand it.

I think Haskell is a very nice language and it's flexibility on definitions is very cool, but I don't think this is a good example of it.
Thank you very much for the feedback.

I tried to keep the examples simple so that the functionality was clear, I'll try to come up with a more concrete example to demonstrate it's utility.

I'm aware that you can achieve a a lot of already using classes (and metaclasses), but I thought a clearer syntax would be helpful. I don't seeing my code cluttered with "class" when that's not what's actually happening, but of course that could be exactly what was happening in my example.

One thing I originally had in my example (though I decided it wasn't a good idea so I removed it) was

ui.on_event "click", "altclick":
print("I've been clicked!")

where on_event macro takes the paren-less tuple of event names and returns another macro which takes the block, then does the correct assignment.

I realize this also isn't a strong example, but it's a little bit more than I have in the post.
You are confusing SQL with "necessitates row ortientation", even tho column databases frequently use SQL for queries. This is essentially why I originally asked -- SQL and relational data does not require what you describe, it has just been the traditional approach to implementing it.
What's worse, a partial direct quotation that you know will leave the wrong impression, or a summary of the point you find interesting that might betray your bias? I'd rather go with the bias. Particularly since the literal title for this article would just be "Q&A: Author Malcom Gladwell." That doesn't tell me why you linked to it.
You know when you update your data. Therefore, you invalidate your cache when you update your data.

Timestamps help alot if you're paranoid, also.
Online users can pay with Time instead of Money
I just watched "August." It was pretty decent.
How is there any freeloading going on? Where can you get free bandwidth? Oh that's right.. you can't. You have to have agreements with people to connect to their network. It is like you have have an agreement with bob and i have an agreement with bob, but you're saying that I'm freeloading off of you -- even though nobody is going against any preexisting agreement.
I consider government "the devil I know" at least compared to corporations like Verizon and Comcast. I may have little say in the functioning of American government, but I have precisely zero say in the operations of large corporations. It seems self-defeating to abandon the only measure of societal control all citizens have equal access to, because of some cynicism of politics.
This is true, though it did take a few months of people hassling them about GPL violations before they posted the source
To be fair: There are taxes and fees on phone service, but sales tax on subsidized equipment isn't one of them. You could equally argue that rolling a hardware purchase into a monthy "service" bill is an effort to avoid taxation on what would otherwise look like a purchase on credit.

This is one of the reason why policy wonks prefer a VAT instead of a pure sales tax; the accounting is easier and more objective.
"I am sure that like Java, [C#] will be a 'no pointer' language, where the most common runtime error will be a 'NULL pointer exception'."
-- Jerry Kott, in comp.lang.smalltalk
Relational theory only requires row orientation at a conceptual level, and not even that -- a row is just a set with a key and potentially a relationship with another set. At a lower level than the relational algebra much data is better kept in columns or graphs, as you mention. This is why I ask my question, the data is conceptually relational (all data is pretty much by definition of relational...) but access patterns dictate a non-row orientation.
Well, I just think that a lot of data, most of it in practice, does not naturally fall into a table structure.

Social networks, heirarchies of inheritance, arbitrary relations between documents such as the web itself - most data is naturally a graph or tree structure.

So when you squeeze these kinds of data into tables, and do the right thing and normalize so you dont have duplicates etc, then you have a lot of SQL manipulations to get the data back out.

Relational I think has a specific meaning in terms of relational algebra the math behind normalising tabular data in 'Relational Databases' (tabular databases).

But obviously you need relations between items of data regardless of whether they are in a RDB, OODBMS or in a graph or tree structure.

I think the Key Value stores we see being so popular now have got it right, but there's some part missing - a good intuitive powerful query and update language [probably functional, definitely not SQL].
A WebGL / WebGLU Demo in 50 Lines
WebGLU, the Open Source WebGL Utility library hits v0.2
Founders who can't take a "pass" and investors who can't stomach investing in one will not make it long term anyways. Those are just egos talking. Great teams will breed success and Sequoia is another great team to add to the YC concept.
Intelligence helps society more.
Hulu to Charge Users in 2010
If the providers advertised this fact more, they could pocket a little bit more profit by selling the phone with a payment plan. This would reduce the service part of the monthly bill and so reduce the utility taxes for those who live in a city run by thieves.
Because double-taxation isn't illegal (AFAIK -- I certainly haven't passed the CA state bar). The state can tax whatever it wants, with a few exceptions like interstate trade specified in the federal constitution. If the people don't like the taxes their government decides on, the proper solution is to pick a government with more popular policy choices.
> For example, you could not use human power to drive most of the things we drive with engines: cars, trains, ships, planes, etc.

True, but not relevant to the initial, successful commercialisation of the technology. The mobile power plants are a whole step beyond the "lets mechanize labour".

Newcomen engine: 1712, Stephenson's Rocket 1829.
How does it have an interest in regulating bad behavior? How do people in government benefit from such regulation?

In practice, it seems government has an interest in threatening regulation in order to extract concessions (campaign contributions) from regulated groups. There is little connection between the well-being of society and the incentives facing politicians.
Those guys should interview the iCanHazCheeseburgers CEO. He's got to be one of the best examples of a journalist who created his own success in a new direction.