skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Climategate: The Smoking Code?
CrunchPad Breaks Cover at Media Event Next Monday - Crunchpad pics video demo
I was just talking about an app idea like this with friends.
Its just proves - there IS an app for everything!
For the acquired company you have traded in illiquid stock you have a lot of control over for illiquid stock you don't have control of. Only worth doing if you really, really believe in the acquiring company or can cash out a significant percentage of the stock.
Microsoft, Google Take Maps in New Direction
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Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway
Webapp: image recognition to find nearest tennis courts from satellite photos
In action over at: http://www.ahathereitis.com/
The methodology of the mental imagery paper has been published in detail as a separate paper (by Melanie Boly who actually designed the experiment).

There are various telltale signs of consciousness that can be detected by PET scan. Vegetatve patients have their associative cortices deactivated, especially the precuneus that's known to be involved in the processing of information about oneself.

Furthermore, you can detect using PET that the activity of the cortex and the thalamus are correllated in controls, but not in vegetative patients.

These results have been published 15 years ago, I supposed that they've been reproduced since that time. The main criticism that they received was that they were passive measurements.

The imagery experiment requires he subject to perform the various tasks during several blocks of 30 seconds inside the MRI scanner. Vegetative subjects only show a brief activation of the primary auditory crtices while the instructions are given. Controls show an activation of different higher level areas involved on the task.

The patient of the Owen paper (Science 2006) showed an cortical activation comparable to controls although she was completely non communicative and remained so during several months.

I don't know what test were performed for the patient discussed in this HN thread, but I know that they have more than enough reliable tests to detect awareness in non communicative patients.
Contrast this with the Oxford English Dictionary's entry for Hacker, noun:

1. One who hacks; one who hoes with a hack.
2. That which hacks; an implement for hacking, chopping
wood, or breaking up earth; a chopper, cleaver; a hoe,
mattock.
3a. A person with an enthusiasm for programming or using
computers as an end in itself. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
3b. A person who uses his skill with computers to try to
gain unauthorized access to computer files or
networks. colloq.

One of the quotations listed under 3b. is also notable:

1983 Byte May 298/1 ‘Hacker’ seems to have originated at
MIT. The original German/Yiddish expression referred to
someone so inept as to make furniture with an axe, but
somehow the meaning has been twisted so that it now
generally connotes someone obsessed with programming and
computers but possessing a fair degree of skill and
competence.
The CU iPhone is unpopular. This is the more expensive, but less functional version compared to everywhere else. Eventually it will gain some ground if the price ever comes down. I bought an iPhone on the grey market and have an official one. I'd have to go back to the US to get any support at all for the later.

Sooner or later, people are going to run into problems and that 600$ iPhone is going to turn into a 1200$ headache if you can't get it serviced.
The title is misleading.

To clarify,

> only 5 iPhones sold in Chinese online store

Which really means, The official ChinaUniCom store on Taobao.com has just sold 5 iPhones in 2 weeks.

ChinaUniCom is the only and run-by-government carrier of iPhones in China, all official iPhones has no WIFI chipset(Marvell 88W8686 Wi-Fi). And Taobao.com is the biggest & most popular B2C & C2C online store in China, something like a combination of craigslist+eBay+Amazon.

But, the statistics does NOT include ChinaUniCom's own website that offers iPhone sales online: http://shop.10010.com/iphonesale/getAllIphone.action

But this does not change the fact the ChinaUniCom version iPhone sucks hell. It's expensive and lacks function. Reports say that 80% buyers dropped the official ChinaUniCom iPhone OS for modded ones.
A gold star to the first person who posts a link to Caecilius and Metella's house.
Well, that's highly anecdotal and as long as Facebook keeps growing your observation does not hold true for the majority of the users.

Everything goes in waves though, it lies in human nature to grow bored with sameness. Ten years ago there existed a community product in my country that had managed to capture 90% of all high-school students, and they seemed unstoppable. Now, the product is almost forgotten, they lost to other products, similar products, but people had just gotten tired of it and wanted something new, something cool, something different.

But ten years from now Facebook will probably be gone. It will be very interesting to see what replaces it though.
"I'm guessing that what happened here is that these people have my email address in their address book."

I don't think this is necessarily true. In my experience most of these suggestions have come from friend-of-friend commonality. For example, two of the people you are friends with on Facebook are also friends with these people, so Facebook thinks you know them.
Even if your thoughts on what happened in this case are correct, this kind of connection making, social graph building utilities if you will, are so fundamental to the purpose of Facebook that your objection seems odd to me. This kind of stuff is exactly why many people join.
Just something I had a hard time figuring out and seems poorly documented:

--type-set=scala=.scala # works in .ackrc
--type-set scala=.scala # doesn't work in .ackrc

...despite the version with one equals being correct command-line sequence. Only seems to matter if you want each flag on a single line in your .ackrc file. Might not be true for everyone.
DNS pre-resolution
Saying "NO"
Yes, but the correct thing to do in this situation is to pay the $5,000 for the Hello World program, NOT post it (you never promised to publicize the results), and tell your boss "mea culpa... I tried the programming contest thing and it didn't work out". It wouldn't be the first time that a marketing program spent $5,000 to produce essentially no results... marketing is a very hit-and-miss business at the best of times, so your boss may be annoyed, but should take it in stride.

What you DON'T do is to advertise that you're offering a contest, then fail to pay out the prizes. That's not just sleazy, it's illegal.
I've always assumed that a part of what Import your friends from your email! did was exactly what you describe - try to invite the non-Facebook users in your address book to Facebook.

This is one of the reasons why I would have never thought of trying to import my email account's address book.
I'm curious as to what effect Java's crappy tail recursion has I tried running a ruby sudoku solver in jruby that functions basically like an n-queens solver and it couldn't handle it. Not sure I'd expect erjang to do better since the issue is with the jvm.
It does if they are using OpenDNS or an ISP like Comcast (if they still do DNS interception?).

These organizations redirect failed lookups to their own search pages and sell the traffic on for a price or show their own ads.

The alternative is a clean failure which gets handled by the browser. I believe that most browsers send you to the default search in those cases - which is usually Google.

There's a kickback involved in that case too (searches from Firefox earn Mozilla a small fee for example) but I wouldn't be surprised if it was cheaper.
He listed 6 factors to ponder.

1. Low cost of living.

2. Nearby colleges and universities.

3. Community of experienced entrepreneurs.

4. Large national airport.

5. Plethora of professional service providers.

6. High concentration of consumers

I think bullet points 3 to 6 make point 1 impossible.
From dictionary.com:

1. a wide-ranging and impressive array or display: the dazzling panoply of the maharaja's procession; the panoply of European history.

2.	a complete suit of armor.

3.	a protective covering.

4.	full ceremonial attire or paraphernalia; special dress and equipment.
All things considered, it could have been a lot worse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo...
Facebook allows me to see pictures of people who are not in my friend list, but which are commented by any of my friends...I can their complete album even if only one pic is commented by any of my friends...How is that for privacy ? Any thing more private than your pics...
A major example of this was Apple's purchase of PA Semi:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/04/23/apples_pa_semi...
The one item that really matters is:

Community of experienced entrepreneurs.
"Perhaps one day not long from now, everything on the Web will be a mere extension of Facebook." - a very optimistic view of the growth of FB , to put it mildly.
Another Linux file notification subsystem
From the article: a new notification system, sorta like inotify, only instead of an
arbitrary 'watch descriptor' which userspace has to know how to map back
to an object on the filesystem, fanotify provides an open read-only fd
back to the original object.
I have one facebook account with a totally fake profile that I used once to view someone's photos. I'm done with facebook, but I guess my once-only fake account still counts towards the growing number of facebook users.

I am surprised by how pervasive facebook is. I insist that people post their photos on flickr or some other service because I don't want to use facebook. They in turn insist that I sign up to facebook just to see their photos.

No, I can't stop facebook but, I don't have to use it either.
I think my Macbook Pro is about 9 months old. Apple and others recommended that when you unplug, always let it drain down to the point of going to sleep/hibernate and never plug it in before.

So far so good, 277 cycles and I have not noticed a single difference in battery life. I drain it at least a few times per week. Sometimes twice per day.

I did not do this on my last Macbook Pro and Apple replaced the battery for me after about a year and a half because it couldn't even hold a 10 min charge and it had very few cycles, certainly not 277.
Facebook's business model is busted. Costs are higher than revenue per user. The model has to change, become a search gateway, start selling products people want to buy, or cut costs features and charge high bandwidth users.
This is very true - i am very surprised that people don;t find this creepy. This is the reason i came out of FB.
Is this article gone now? It would be a shame to see this story go away.

Edit: Looks like it's back now.
And they don't list prices. I feel like this could easily be too expensive to make it worth it for many people.
Large national airport.

I think there's something to be said for having more than one large airport, in competition with each other, in any large enough major metro area. Single-airport cities in my not-pluralizable-to-data experience have more problems with rental car shortages, weather, and traffic.

Perhaps it's just a question of number of airports per population and/or land area. About 1 per million people seems about right, even though the Bay Area falls shy of that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropol...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_100_largest_metropo...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_p...

Is there a convenient count of major and/or minor commercial airports for these areas?
Chicago has all of these in spades except for #3; which is a doosy as it's far and away the most important.
Could you please avoid posting articles that require a subscription to read beyond the first paragraph?
I'm learning Dutch, and it's even worse. Really basic, commonly used words aren't there.

Good dictionaries are hard to build. At the same time, the web isn't constrained by space the same way a physical book is, which means that a result should have even more information. You shouldn't accept an online dictionary that gives you only one simple usage of a word.

A good dictionary will list the short & sweet definition, alternative definitions, forms, example usages, pronunciation, history, usages in various situations/jargon, idioms, and word history. This dictionary just points you to a wiki.
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In Erjang, every node runs on a single heap, and so global gc will sometimes happen.
On the other hand, Erjang does not copy messages between processes — they are simply shared, and so that might leave some room for savings.

Will be interesting to see what happens, no doubt. Message copying will have to be implemented, anyway, for inter-node communication.

I don’t know how Java’s various garbage collector compares to the one in Erlang, but I guess that Java’s is significantly faster.

Doubtful. A garbage collector specially designed for small heaps, running on such, will outperform Java's general-purpose ones. Also, Erlang's GC is stop-the-world (where "world" here is an Erlang process), and that yields numerous benefits. I think Java's GC will not be better for erjang.
The word "panoply" derives from a compound Greek word, "pan" = "all" and "hoply," from the "hoplite" or "armed soldier" of ancient times. Hence, the original idea behind the word is that of being "fully (or heavily) armed."
Thats it. i am not buying from Fabergé.

Although it's not like I could :)
I would think you were right if it were not for the fact that the email was sent to an email address that I have not registered with Facebook. That means that they can't have identified my Facebook profile and must have been going off on the presence the email address used in the address books of those people in the email.
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i think I saw somewhere that it was about 7 GBP for a pack. not too bad. I really like the look of this stuff, can already think of loads of uses, including making a nice little stand for my ipod touch to have beside my computer. Could become as ubiquitous as blu-tack. also sugru (súgradh) is the Irish word for 'play'.
Messaging matters: The AND 1 ToChillin
What you said is common for many homeruns. Amazon lost money for a long time. YouTube too. PayPal too.

And yet fb is about to breakeven or hit profitability.

Bust? Not really.
Commercial tool cracks Bitlocker (Used on Win7 and Vista Enterprise)
Will gadget revolutionize our reading habits?
Look at Facebook ... look at ChromeOS .... it's the same thing (only Facebook is further along). The business is data mining and advertising.

The issue will be who do you distrust the least.

Who is going to make it easiest to export my personal data to use somewhere else? Hopefully us geeks will keep pushing for this and then help everyone else follow.

Until then I feel like I'm just toying around with the flavor-of-the-month.
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That's a really good point. And the government of Tuvalu hasa 20% stake in the company which actually owns the contract (Verisign owns the rest).

Very well structured deal for both sides.
Characteristic of good project manager
World Economic Forum honors Bay Area techies
You're in the absolute minority with your fake profile.

I've been a heavy fb user for 5 years and can't recall the last time I saw a fake profile.
Facebook just reached 350 million active users and they count only people who log in over the past month.

Also I just read very recently that over 50% of monthly active users log in to Facebook everyday.
ExpressionEngine users get a first look at 2.0 with new public beta
Facebook should be cornering its games market with online payments. Charge $5 for 450 'game points', basically you charge $5 for 450 real-world equivalent 'cents' that you can spend arcade style in whatever game you want.

No facebook game will ever get a payment from me while they're relying on third party providers. There's a slim chance they'll get my money through paypal (since I've had a paypal account longer than I've had a facebook account), but as the money you pay goes into solely one game there's no interoperability. Every developer is stuck developing their own way to implement credits using companies that have no reason to care.

People are going to trust facebook, but they're not going to trust 'cherry credits' or whatever suckass companies you know nothing about that you're signing your credit card information over to. Facebook is already trusted by its users (or they wouldn't be users), which gives them an unbelievable edge without them having to play unfairly against the other game credit providers.
>> "It doesn't help that my stream is populated by my friends' constant romps on Farmville or Mafia Wars"

So surely that shows your friends are using it a lot :/

Personally, I find facebook far more usable than twitter - upload images/videos/share URLs, no silly char limit etc.
Since I live in Massachusetts, that's almost exactly what happened! (It wasn't/isn't free, but it was no more expensive than when I worked for BigCo).
X86 assembly encounter
E.g. George Soros made a lot of money with speculation.

How's that in support of Buffet? Soros has totally different philosophy!
I don't trust any of them. That's why I don't have a Facebook page, I don't have a MySpace page, I don't use gmail or any of Google's services. I don't have a Twitter account. I do have an account on LinkedIn because my boss at my last job asked me to set one up, but I never update it.
That's quite a claim to levy with no details. I'd be curious to hear which of your friend's unique ideas Google stole.
It's great that they used definitions from the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary (http://www.antimoon.com/how/cobuild-review.htm). Collins was the pioneer of corpus-based full-sentence definitions back in the 90s. Nowadays, there are better choices for an English learner (e.g. the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English), but COBUILD is still miles ahead of open projects like Wiktionary.

Overall, good news for English learners in the short term, but not so much in the long run (who's going to make dictionaries if you can no longer sell them for money?).
I agree in general, though it's not so all-or-nothing.

Being able to live and work cheaply

I find the key to be in the above, where the focus is on ability. Two cities may have very similar overall costs of living on some generally accepted scale, yet still have significantly different costs of "living" for entrepreneurs.

Perhaps point 1 should really be "low minimum cost of living." Does anyone provide CoL spread information for the bigger cities?
First thing that went to my .bashrc was:

alias ack='ack-grep'
I guess like everything about Buffet it's frugal but satisfying :)
I imagine most people on these forums are interested in starting a company regardless of healthcare issues. Personally, as I'm a little older and have a family to consider it's a little more of an issue but even then I feel like I can work around it and that it's not one of the major risks I consider with starting a business.

So, that being said, I guess my answer to your question is "yes" although I would probably be doing it regardless of your proposed situation.

I guess what you really may want to know is how many people would start a business that otherwise wouldn't, or how many people consider this a barrier to entry.
Actually, you have much better endorsements than Spolsky. 2 classics in software engineering also stress that individual offices are much better: Rapid Development, by Steve McConnell and Peopleware by Tom DeMarco.
I just might have started one in the last year. I was between jobs over the Spring/Summer and developing pitches and prototypes.

Without going into details, health insurance is a big issue for my family. I looked at my options (I'm in the US) and there really aren't any unless my employer has insurance. I have no idea how insurance companies and employers ended up married like that, but if one wants to get/change insurance, the only option is to change employers. And it seems fewer employers offer it every year.

Then I landed a gig with a very nice place that has great benefits, including epic insurance. So, for this year, I'm here in a job that's about as far one can get from a startup without being a government gig and surprisingly happy about it. That's a big 180 from where I was 6 months ago. :-)
Yes. That said, I plan on doing so anyway...but that would certainly make it even easier and that much more attractive of an option.
It depends if Facebook will be gone. Trust and reliance become significant things in stopping migration, I haven't changed from Google despite it being eternally the same because #1 I rely on it, #2 I trust it.

If facebook can get one, or both, of these from its 350 million users it has a significant chance to stick around. You also have to consider teen markets shift much faster than adult markets. I know in my high-school a single thing could spread throughout the whole school, but when a new grade entered the viral spread had disappeared and they remained 'uninfected' by it. So any trend automatically lost 1/5 of its teen market if it didn't capture the new grade.

This happens less so with more mature crowds, who tend to be more loyal. You don't see people buying from the same car manufacturer time after time because it's an 'in thing', it's because they're loyal, which is in essence reliance and trust.
I don't think the point of the article is to explain how to prevent malicious use of your private data, the point is that a big public company like Facebook should not be doing certain stuff with the data it mines.
I am reminded of the perhaps slightly less practice of soliciting RFPs from companies with whom you have no intention of doing business. A buyer who wants to use a particular vendor but must convince upper management that his decision was made objectively often solicits RFPs from companies whose pitches easily can be discredited.
The Pentagon invites you to play its red balloon game
Repeat after me: there is no privacy on the internet. Everything you do or say is public. Act accordingly.
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