skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Obamify effect, LOL. I bet this little effect would be quite popular if more people knew about it.

If this effect is not beta you could probably use this effect to publicize your company and get some sales. Using a special landing page and with a little money spent on a clever banner ad campaign like EVONY does you might get a decent amount of interest.

The Obamify effect, LOL.

http://www.citrify.com/2009/11/obamify-effect/
To add any search to the search bar in Firefox:

- install addon Add to Search Bar

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3682

Then right click in the search page's search field and choose "Add to search bar ..."
Don't confuse how you use fb with the overwhelming majority of users. We are not the average user.

Yes I have a few accounts too. But my mom, my sister, my hundreds of uni friends have incredibly personal stuff on their fb profile.
If I am reading the Wikipedia article correctly (and if the article itself is correct), the benefactor does pay tax on that 5%.

However, if the OP had kept his startup in his own name, then at the time he sold it, he would have had to pay capital-gains tax on all of his profit, that year. (And then he would have been able to spend the remainder on whatever he wanted, that year.)
Apple Ordered to Pay Opti $21.7M for Infringement
Presto Porn Apps on the iPhone
Interesting, thanks for sharing.

Maybe "life changing" wasn't the best term to use.

> I don't think the highest value a book can have is "changing my life."

What do you think the highest value would be?
Next Gen Data Center Management Should be more Like Facebook
> In general, linear algebra comes into play once the number of variables you're dealing with is greater than one. You mentioned that you've discovered that probability and statistics are important. Well, you'll need linear algebra to deal with that once the number of variables exceeds one.

This is a great explanation, thanks. It's true too, I forgot I needed to use matrices last year for a recommendation system I worked on.

Thanks for the clear explanation.
General Dentist
General dentists at Culver City Dentist offer all kinds of treatments in general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, cosmetic dentistry and restorative dentistry. With state-of-the-art equipment and the latest developments in dentistry, our patients enjoy their visit and experience a more effective treatment session.
Is this surprising or concerning? This article seems to presume a belief or decision making process wherein the subject has a belief, but has not thought about what God would think on the issue, and so decides to address the question by performing an act of intuition—at which point God's opinion is intuited to be similar to the subject's own.

I would be awfully surprised if religious people didn't tend to have opinions, religious and moral, that tend to track with each other and influence each other.
until one of your recent college grads gets knocked up or gets his girlfriend knocked up.
Altruism aside, it is a very smart move. I grew up in India and am sparse in my living standards and am at times amazed at the kind of affluence that exists in America even amongst those who consider themselves less privileged.

As long as the trust grows at greater than 5% of its values you receive the mandated annual disbursement which is this case is a fair chunk of change and add monies to be disbursed at the end. However factoring in the rate of inflation and "money's real value over time", the trust probably needs to be invested wisely to grow at 5% + rate of inflation to retain its original value over the years.

Occurs to me that setting up the trust is only half the battle, having it deliver on its original promise is the greater half.
Anyone looking to understand color science should track down Mark Fairchild’s book Color Appearance Models, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470012161/

The best color science resource I know of online is Bruce MacEvoy’s website, http://handprint.com/LS/CVS/color.html and those interested in the Munsell system in particular should see this page: http://handprint.com/HP/WCL/color7.html

I’ve been meaning to finish writing the Wikipedia page about the Munsell system, especially the woefully inadequate history section, for more than two years now, but never get around to it; in any case, feel free to leave feedback about its current state.
$1.1 million/year sounds like a lot, but he is living in an apartment in New York city.

edit: Oh, -4 on the mods. I'll make a note to put flashing lights around it the next time I use irony to comment on a man who thinks a $1.1m/yr income is "living simply".
the comic doesn't suggest that its blanketly bad either.
The Peter Principle is darkly amusing, but it's not joke. I wish it were.
I was thinking of a similar configuration for an investment vehicle. Make a charity whose goal is investing in good startups. Feed the returns back into investing. The goal is clout and influence rather than cashed out returns. I think this would better align incentives of investors and companies. It could also be used for "human capital" investments which are uncommon today except for student loans.

It wouldn't need to be relinquished upon death - but the trustees would be transferred over time.
Specialized image recognition especially detecting objects with fairly rigid structures or common color patterns seems like a nice intermediary step relative to the more complex issue of detecting arbitrary objects.

During a few drunken nights my friends and I have had many conversations about doing an image crawler that would detect nipples.

You know that bathing suit that's see through that your friend's hot girlfriend likes to wear and posted a photo of herself on MySpace (just to be a tease)? Yeah, we wanted to find those photos.

We were going to call the site tittr.com.

Turns out nipple detection has many practical applications especially in digital mammography and there's even been a few research papers written on the subject.
Like slime, if you ignore autocompletion, arglist hints, automatic indentation of macros based on &body, M-. (jump to definition), crossreferencing, and compiler note overlays.

But having C-c C-c is nice!
As much as I love Apple I have a hard time praising them for doing something they should have done from the start.
thanks Scott. we have more cool effects in the pipe :)
Just got my ticket. See you there!
Focused audience aggregator sites good/bad?
We are used to Digg/Reddit for submitting content links. Anyone/Everyone can use them. Found this Digg clone from a Dannychoo comment, which is focused on Otakus (anime, manga). What do you think about a website like this that has a targeted audience?
In light of a recent content overload discussion (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=968101), what are the chances that each of the 10 pages have been outsourced to some freelance writer for a few dollars?
News, Music, Movies, Careers, Autos, Sports, Finance and more on MSN Arabia.
My thoughts exactly. SLIME if anything is more of an Lisp IDE (and a superior one at that) not just a clever hook to a REPL.
status is a thing >_> isn't derek signaling high status by giving away something valuable? <_<
"At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, 'Yes, but I have something he will never have enough.'"

Original source of 'enough' quote in Sivers' essay

http://www.tompeters.com/dispatches/010754.php
There's actually existing vision recognition software that can identify a blow job, and blur out the relevant part of the pictures. Such software is marketable, although I think it was an academic paper. I'm not going to look for a link at work, but I do remember it was robust with respect to rotation of the picture, which made for some amusing collages.
In other news, the world continues to rotate. It's nice to have a proper study saying it, though.
A colleague of mine pretty much came unglued when LinkedIn came up with friend links he did not supply (he had not used the address book surfing feature). He actually contacted a rep and had a back and forth argument: "You opened my address book without my permission," "No, we did not."

I'm fairly sure that people are not thinking through the ramifications of giving _anyone_ else _any_ data online. This seems to be a similar learning curve as those who are finding their offline shenanigans haunting them later in online life.

And it seems quite a business opportunity to offer "reputation clean-up" services, maybe similar to the "credit clean-up" services existing now.

I am aware of an instance of a non-refundable charge of $1200.00 and the reply of "there is nothing we can do in your case."
I tend to think that a lot of religious fanaticism is a result of positive-feedback loops between sect members. God is defined by the authorities in a group, per this article; the rest of the group internalizes this God and projects their own beliefs, again per this article; they share these beliefs among themselves and with the religious leadership, and the cycle starts over.

(I am a Christian, in case that colors your interpretation of this comment).
This isn't just any third-party site though - it's Facebook, the company people already entrust with their personal/private data.

I think this situation is like giving a friend your house keys while on vacation. You'd expect your friend to feed the dog, water the plants, and then lock up. Facebook is the friend that also takes the opportunity to rifle through your desk.
Thank you for taking the time to list all the examples.

I have a much clearer understanding of its importance now.

It seems that it's not quite something useful for doing quick "mental math", like prob/stat, but still incredibly useful to solve important problems.

I think I'll pick an example (like Pagerank), and use that to motivate me to learn LA.

Thanks, for me this has been very helpful.
Yes. I meant if you're not behind a NAT they can correlate your IP with your gmail cookie when you do a search and thereby link a record of the sites you are visiting to your profile to serve you more targeted ads. Apologies for the ambiguity.
You're thinking like an employee, not an entrepreneur.

Employees stay at jobs they hate for 30 years because of their "benefits" (what a silly name for cheaper insurance) and the "hope" that they will get some retirement money.

Entrepreneurs start companies because they know that if they do it right, and make a lot of money, these things will come as part of their ongoing successes.
It's not about altruism or lack of it. Nor ultimately even saving money in taxes. It's about having enough, so there's no point in owning more than you need.

He obviously has to live somewhere and eat, so it's only pragmatic to arrange that he will get what he needs but, I assume, not really much more.
A Look At the Safety of Google Public DNS
HSV is not very “intuitive” at all, being an RGB cube, turned on one corner and then squished a bit into a cylinder. It’s still dependent on the mostly arbitrary (with respect to human perception) geometry of whatever RGB input/output device is being used.

In HSV, colors of the same “hue” generally have slightly different apparent hues (and the particular difference depends on the RGB space chosen), and worse, difference in hue angle has little correspondence to perceptual difference between hues, so that if you try to “rotate” the hue of an image you distort all of the hue relationships therein.

But you’re right that it doesn’t butcher hue as badly as the other color attributes, which are not remotely close to perceptually uniform.

* * *

As for Munsell, it’s basically just a big look-up table, rather than being defined by formulas (as, e.g., CIELAB or CIECAM02 are). So if you have the OSA renotation data from this link, you pretty much have just as much to go on as anyone does. Figuring out how to interpolate that look-up table isn’t totally obvious, I suppose, but it’s not the hardest thing in the world either.

If you want to use your computer’s existing color space conversion stack with the Munsell data, Bruce Lindbloom made a look-up-table-based ICC profile that will round trip CIELAB to what he calls “UP Lab”: http://www.brucelindbloom.com/index.html?UPLab.html
From the link in the OP: "Despite speculation that Apple's acquisition of PA Semiconductor was motivated by the chip maker's specific products, a new report reveals that the iPhone designer is interested more in the buyout for its promises of intellectual property and development expertise -- and may be causing a crisis for the US Department of Defense in the process." (my emphasis).

While Apple isn't a startup, PA Semi was a startup. More importantly, and exactly on topic, Apple acquired PA Semi for the people, not for their technology. PA Semi was making a PowerPC architecture CPU that was low power and fast. When Apple bought the company they stopped development on their PowerPC architecture CPUs, dead-pooling their CPU technology (the physical representation of their IP). Apple actually tried to stop building the CPUs, but the government (military is a heavy user of the PowerPC architecture) stepped in and "persuaded" them to continue to manufacture their CPUs.

What Apple bought was a team consisting of some of the brightest minds in the low power, fast, CPU (and more?) hardware design field. I assume that Apple has them working on new, fast, low power (probably ARM-based) CPUs for their iPhone/iPod (and laptop?) product line.
sort of. but everything humans do can be argued as a status move, so it's unwise to get super hung up on it. (me, i just marvel at the 1337 tax-evasion skillz. :-)
I refused to get on FB for years because their privacy policy was so awful (I eventually relented). It's always been one of the worst privacy policies around, which is saying something.

I don't want to be the pedant who says "you should have read the privacy policy before you signed up," but you should just assume that any site like this is going to do all sorts of shady things with any information you provide, until you find evidence to the contrary. This kind of paranoia is absolutely called for on the web.
It is entirely possible that the incentives are aligned in such a configuration - where to maintain that position, facebook needs to be better for all parties involved.

Think of this with respect to google. Their business grows linearly with search usage, so their incentives are to create faster and more open access to the internet. Don't believe that "don't be evil" bullshit. They act the way they do because it makes them a great deal of money. AND, it benefits pretty much everyone expect dinosaur incumbents.

[this is just my opinion]
But catastrophic insurance will cover prolonged illness and hospitalization, and quite cheaply if you're able to shoulder $5-15,000 of the risk yourself. We're talking about how to get around the price-gouging that accompanies everyday lab work and routine care.
The post reads a bit like an abuse victim. "Well, I mean, sure, they've done some bad and difficult things, but sometimes they're really nice!", combined with making excuses.
The first and last example never had anything close to the scale of facebook. Facebook is the first app of its kind to reach this scale. There was no lockin incentive with Netscape - quite the opposite.

I'm not saying facebook will last forever - just that it is easy to poke holes in your examples.

IBM and Microsoft are probably the best examples of decades long dominance that eventually began to decline.
Sounds like there's at least one good, caring person working in AppStore submissions. That's all it takes -- one person can make the difference.

It's just that based on blog activity the ratio between good, caring persons and wannabe dictators in AppStore submissions department is quite close to zero.
It was an entertaining comic, but I agreed much more with Uncle Bob, the author of the linked article.

The comic said: "The client has completely forgotten that they hired you, the web designer, to build them a great product."

Whereas I see: "You have forgotten that the client is paying you to build a site which best represents the business in which they are the domain expert."
A story like this makes me wonder who the client company was. Did they do this because they really want to change, or because it was some large "important" company?
In an odd twist of irony, all ten companies post gains in 2010 while the domain businessinsider.com is sold for $200 to a porn company looking to bank on office affairs.
Here's what I did: Write your exclusions in the NDA or contract agreement. Be clear about what your doing with them. If your not a real competitor to them, they should go along with it. Negotiate this with the person needing your work, not their legal or HR people.

I did contract work as chief architect for Fortune 100 companies while I was building up assets for my startup in the 90s. My work for these megacorps including my building and licensing them some of those assets with the understanding that I could continue using the IP on my own. I never had a problem.
Secret CIA 'Magic' Manual Reveals Cold War Spy Tricks
One Million Years of Isolation
The problem isn't cost. Of course you only want to get catastrophic coverage. But you're as likely to be declined for high-deductable coverage as for low-deductable coverage; at least, we were.
I thought the essense of negotiation was hiding your "walk-away point" while trying to discover the other party's. If you follow this line of reasoning, there should be no negotiation, it should just be "here's the minimum/maximum I'm willing to pay/receive, take it or leave it."
I wonder if the pictures were captured using this:

http://gizmodo.com/5255361/google-street-view-employs-high+t...
With regard to PSRLB, PSRLW, PMADDUBSW, and PMOVMSKB, I must say I loved assembly much more in the times when each instruction mnemonic was only 2-3 characters.
huh. I guess I am more 'product oriented' than you are, but I tell people 'no' when they want passwords rather than ssh keys to access their out of band console. I imagine it would be different if I was charging by the hour, but I'm not.

But this is part of why I like being a product company. I do my R&D on my own time, without an angry customer if it fails or if I take longer than I thought. "Here" I say, "are the products I've sold to hundreds of other people. I can sell these to you, too." Then I add "If you want something else, suggest it, I might add that as a product as well, then I will sell it to you and others who want it at a low cost, but I'm not going to make it just for you."

(of course, being a product company, if I screw up production, I have many, many angry customers.)

For me, this has largely solved the problem of not estimating correctly and/or managing customer expectations. Here is what I have. you don't like it? Oh, I'm sorry. would you like a refund?
Health insurance is state by state--I can't keep my WA health insurance plan if I move to CA, for instance. Since YC already says "settle in Silicon Valley", I'm sure it would actually be easier for them to buy a deal from a CA health insurance company, though the legal wrangling would undoubtedly be epic.

pg has remarked multiple times about why he doesn't provide office space, though. Not sure if the same rationale applies to health insurance.
This begs the question - what does the average YC startup do for healthcare? Do the co-founders find insurance on their own? Can a startup do 'employer-provided' insurance? What sort of work does it entail?

I see some comments from tptacker regarding this but would love to hear from the wider YC community
Developers Disappointed with Android
Beware Social Media Snake Oil
Blue Yonder Cafe
Blue Yonder Cafe
11014 19th Avenue Southeast
Everett, Washington 98208
Phone: (425) 337-5040
I absolutely love the color design on that website. Which, considering it consisted of a single color of underlines and a sharpie, is pretty good.
Dude, the highest mean income in the most titsy of NY neighborhoods is only about $150K/year. $1.1 mil is a shit ton of money each year.
bust ass for the rest, then don't bail out to the Valley when you get funded. yes, i'm looking at you, groupon. please don't leave us.

in my opinion, this article is answering the question "what makes a city easier to find vc money." we really need to break the mentality that palo alto and boulder are the only places where technology and web-based startups can go to market.
Actually, I don't think that, I was just being a wise ass (so your comment is deserved :) ).
Giving your password to anyone is a problem (and probably violates the TOS of the passworded site, do people and services think about that?), but it's not the problem being raised here.

"If you give up your password just because a stranger asks you nicely, whatever happens is your problem, imho."

The problem being raised here has nothing to do with giving up a password. FB no longer has the OP's password, and cannot do anything password-related. The OP making a mistake does not give FB a free pass to do anything else it likes.

However FB got the OP's contact list, they're using it in a way that goes beyond what he understood they would use it for. That's a problem. And there's nothing you can do about it. Privacy statements are a joke, they're written in a way that gives the service maximum flexibility, they're long and inconvenient, and services will ignore them and then change them when it suits them. Privacy statement violations are likely ongoing as we speak, in every service of note. They will assume the wiggle room in the present, and brush off the challenges when necessary.

You should assume that any data you give to any entity will be used in ways that you did not consider and that may surprise or disturb you. By entity I include the entire spectrum from friend (low risk, except insofar as they save your data on a higher risk service) to corporation and government (high risk).

The more money a corporation makes from data, the more likely they are to spend the resources to use your data in creative and long-lived ways.

Then add in a corporation's parent/child companies and business partners ("... and our affiliates ..."), and business sales, and there's no way that you will ever be able to track or control your data.

The OP's problem was not giving up a temporary password, it was giving up data and expecting that it would only be used in the way he assumed. Even if he read the TOS he may not have been able to predict this, and there are additional surprising and creative violations of individuals' expectations of privacy waiting to be thought of; at best those violations might be tailored to the privacy statement in effect at the time, regardless of what the privacy statement may have said when you signed up ("... we may from time to time change these policies, and it's on your head to keep up ...").

But man that Facebook is cool.