skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is still not nearly as pretty nor as user friendly as the mouse based tiling window manager that is built into Blender. The difference between bluetile and Blender is a bit like the difference between win3.1 and osx. They are so many years ahead of the game.
Sell what cannot be copied
Why isn't this much clearer and concise intro on the homepage?
"The financial services industry is the most influential political force"
Can you point to someone who developed a useful medicine for 3rd-world diseases and failed to make money?

Few diseases are confined to only extremely poor areas. Medicines against malaria, for example, are a robust business. If you developed a good vaccine, you could make a lot of money selling it in Brazil, China, India, and other developing countries. The reason there is no vaccine isn't because there's no money to be made, but people have actually tried pretty hard and been unable to develop vaccines that aren't as risky as the disease itself.
Want to know which twelve passports will instantly get you shunted over for secondary screening, simply by showing them to the ID-checking agent?

Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, or Algeria
Relevant for hackers because it argues that political choices have incentivised "too-big-to-fail" unsuccessful companies rather than market-led innovation. The discussion is UK-centric, but refers to (and seems relevant for) the US as well.
Hackers ‘rip off’ Phishers
Good one! "Named AutoWhaler, the service allows anyone to scan a phishing server for log files that contain juicy information such as usernames and passwords."
In Florida, the Sunshine law permits any resident to obtain consumption information of any household if they are serviced by a municipal utility. I can walk into Gainesville Regional Utility and ask for a copy of all residents' consumption information and they will grudgingly hand me a cd of data from over 90,000 homes.

Thinking this might be pretty useful for comparing similar cities from across the nation, I started calling and e-mailing other local municipal utilities. No such luck. Apparently Florida is an anomaly and they know it--currently they're trying their best to eliminate this part from the law because they think it encourages identity theft.

Getting good data is indeed quite difficult.
Why did people stop playing it?
That's interesting. I've noticed that over time, in pictures, people smile more. Compare pictures of people today with pictures of people from the 1800's.
All these things have historically made huge amounts of money. While there are some very visible recent failures, the average return on all these industries over their lifetimes has been very good.
Also: I found that almost all my answers to the questions require highly lopsided distributions, which the app doesn't support... this makes it hard to get meaningful answers.
I added it shortly afterwards.
A friend had an absolutely piss poor experience with their fulfillment company ("White Glove" or something like that). They basically delivered a sofa laying on it's side (in other words, vertical) on his front lawn leaving him to fend for himself to get it the rest of the way into the house. I believe it was more than a few weeks later than estimated as well. When you pay that much for a sofa (the delivery wasn't free either) that sofa had better land exactly where you want it. It was enough to keep me from buying anything from them. Too bad about the knockoffs, that's just sad.
It's helpful to understand a little bit of how a PDF file works.

A PDF file stores a sequence of instructions for what do draw on a page. The instructions are commands, such as "write this text here" or "draw a circle there." When you draw black redaction boxes, you are just appending an instruction to the end of the list ("draw a box here"), but most of the time the previous instructions are all still there.

Really, the only way to redact a PDF with certainty, short of manually reading the file itself (yes, PDF files are text-readable; you just have to decompress them) is to rasterize the file to a large image. Otherwise, the instructions for writing the text are all still in the file, and there are any number of ways to extract them (for example, simply by deleting the instruction to draw the redaction box).
Where do monads come from?
That's usually because exposures took many minutes in early photography. Smiling for 5-10 minutes wasn't really possible :)

Some photographers even used metal rods to hold people's heads in place.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/roots/polynomialroots05expi02....

Absolutely gorgeous. I especially like that they're beautiful in a much different way from fractals.

There is a sereneness here that is a fresh of breath air, much different than the imposing fractal figures.
Interesting. I'd not even Blender brought up in this context. I found this, http://www.blender.org/development/architecture/window-manag... but it doesn't mention tiling.
Kestrels on Rails
I'm not sure whether you're in NYC or Chicago, but http://www.fleishers.com/ is one of the best NY butchers with local, grass-fed beef & local pork & such. I've gotten a pig's head there for some coppa di testa.

Off topic: I see you're looking for a rails developer in NYC, would that perhaps extend to a rails intern? I'll shoot you an e-mail about this.
right, I would not have clicked the link if I knew it was windows only...
90% of app sales are made during first 6 weeks

That is probably a conservative estimate on the AppStore (and people ask me why I won't develop for it).

By way of comparison, roughly .3% of my sales to date were within 6 weeks of release. If you consider the release of my web version to also count, then about that bumps up to about 5%.
Rabbits Out of the Hat: A War Story about Line Extensions
Ask HN: Startups and Viral Marketing / Social Media
I'm going to hold a talk today on "Social Media and Business" and just today morning I thought it would be nice to incorporate how startups use Viral Marketing and Social Media to gain traction and promote themselves and their products...

I remember the Swiss startup Amazee very cleverly using Social Media when they were in a dispute with Amazon. Also almost every startup nowadays is blogging and using various Social Networks to promote themselves. Do you have any more examples that go further than that?
Also we're not talking about theaters here, which are a value added service. We're talking about watching at home.
Uh, the Xray's aren't microwaves from the big bang 'cause the microwaves are on the other, less energetic side of the spectrum.

This does make me feel like a kid looking up into the night sky again.
You don't want any carrier to have this option if they are the only reasonable choice of carrier in your area. I'd rather live with the bad behavior if it ensures a carrier doesn't get to play judge and jury.
Games don't (all) have to be fun
That's likely because USB (as strictly defined by the spec) can only put out a limited amount of power. Some devices are made to be able to handle more than is strictly necessary to meet USB specs. So given a comparatively powerful AC outlet as opposed to a USB power source your iPhone can charge more quickly.
very exciting news; and definitely a great list of angels involved in the event. In light of all the market pressure and negative effects on the VC industry, an opportunity like this for startups is priceless, literally. Great stuff. We will definitely be applying.
Anyone knows if the people who are self-publishing for the Kindle (basically uploading the finished product on Amazon) are getting more than 35%?
It's beautiful and awe-inspiring.

But... if it is just an overlay of five static images, it makes me feel a little like I've been tricked.
No, I strongly doubt Rizzolatti and his colleagues considered their discovery to be parapsychology.
My authorial intent with the example was to make the syntax sound long and arduous. Listening to him read it aloud was physically painful for me. Mission accomplished.

(I can't do justice to his delivery in print, but take it from me, it was pretty good. You can hear the boredom start to creep into his voice, he starts going a little faster, has just a crust of a pause at the ellipses, and then goes for droll irony afterwards.)
Is it possible to sell PDFs (or some other format) on your own website, and let the users download them onto their Kindles directly?
searchable too. are we feeling safer yet?
Read a Random Walk Down Wall Street, give up, and put it in an index fund.

You would naively assume that actively managed money has a higher return than passively managed money. This is pretty much the exact opposite of the truth, especially for small investors (and if you're at mid six figures, you're small). Your transaction costs and all the time you spend managing your money come straight out of the profits, and there aren't guaranteed to be any profits for them to come out of. (Many people might spend, say, two hours a week managing their investments. That is probably in excess of $10k at your implied wages, or like 2 ~ 4% of your portfolio. Throw in another 2% for transaction costs and you have to clobber the market average to do as well as just putting it in a low-fee Vanguard total market index fund and forgetting about it.)
On Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/23757640/Screening-Management-SOP-...
Mrs Browl works at a e-discovery company where documents are often redacted depending on which bits are admissible in court; I gather they use TIFF files for exactly the reasons you describe.

I suppose the (extremely limited) redaction features in Acrobat stem from the belief that the document is ultimately destined for printing rather than computer reading.
And NCAR doesn't just do global warming research, either.

There really is no such thing that I can see as "anti-climate-change" research so it would be rather difficult to find a direct comparison.

> You can't compare the 'income' of two arbitrary non-profits (greenpeace and AEI) and draw any conclusion from it either.

Why not? My purpose here is only to give a counterexample to the 'policy' portion of the claim that the "anti-climate-change" side is "dwarfed" by the pro- side. It's fair to say that both Greenpeace and AEI do are quite active on the issue (I picked the first two that came to mind); equally it's fair to say that Greenpeace certainly does not 'dwarf' AEI; and further it seems reasonable that Greenpeace isn't massively outspending AEI even on the single issue of climate change. It seems to me almost certain that the opposite is true.
Anybody else get an annoying dialog from this site complaining that your cookies are disabled?
Here's the link to his current projects:
http://www.shufflebrain.com/

His ideas should be pretty inspiring to anyone involved in mobile or Facebook games.
That maybe true, but everytime I see a video on silver light it always better than flash videos. It maybe that the users of silverlight understand; video, lighting, sound and encoding better, or just care more about what it looks like.
This experience is said to feel more real than real life, and to be largely ineffable. This is obviously problematic for science for a number of reasons. (For example, if it's true that there is such a thing as an ineffable experience, this means that the basic assumptions underlying all of science are false.)

Aren't all our subjective experiences ineffable? In other words we can only communicate our experiences to each other because our experiences are shared and by communicating egocentric analogies. Or to put another way: if a bat tries to explain to you what it's like to navigate with sonar it's going to seem pretty freaking ineffable to you! That's why they call it the Hard Problem. :-)
Ahem. This is a software system, right?

Okay, you need some beefy server infrastructure. Heck screw that, let's just build an entire datacenter, we're the government after all. A billion dollars should get you something nice, flower tapestry and all.

So, and then we need this ubercomplex software system. That, like, stores a data-record for a few million user^Wpatients. We probably want to tie that to chipcards and stuff.

Boy such a system can be expensive to build. I'd say a few hundred millions for sure. But hey, it's almost christmas, let's be generous and clock in another billion here - those oracle licenses don't pay for themselves.

Okay, so, excuse me if I'm dense. But what exactly have the other 10 billion dollars been spent on?
Agreed. I think this is probably a bit of (funny) unfortunately worded legalese and not so much a dastardly plot by Verizon to crack down on your Facebook stalking.
Apologies, There is a mac and nix version. Il get it compiled and put it up here asap.
Find someone who you can hire to help decide what to do (typically a CFA, I guess) -- someone who isn't paid by commissions on your decisions.

The typical thing to do is allocate money to stocks (us, emerging, europe, etc) and bonds (govvies, soverign debt, corporate,) mostly via funds. You want to have a variety of uncorrelated assets.

Algorithmic portfolio trading is /hard/. You're not building an automated trading system by yourself.
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don't have java installed and don't want to.
This is exactly my point. "Don't be evil" so quickly becomes "be less evil than the competition", it's already the standard that YOU use to judge google's actions.

Buying the competition in order to shut them down seems, well, evil.

Make no mistake, I'm glad that google is less evil than other corporations its size, but I don't delude myself into imagining that they fully, or even remotely, live up to their "don't be evil" mission.
i don't think passion is the defining difference between criticism and negativity. if anything it is thoughtfulness or possibly respect.
PS. Developers want to eat, support their families, pay their mortgages, etc. so patience is not an option here.

If this is their main concern, then why are they spending their time on such a low payout time consuming endeavor? "Not enough people are buying my iPhone app fast enough for long enough" isn't something a mortgage lender or a hungry kid wants to hear.
DOA probably isn't the right term here. Neither machine was DOA. Anyway the point of advance replace is a good one. Apple also doesn't have on-site service which is a major issue for big heavy computers that are typically used as professional workstations. Apple, as a company, seems rather clueless about enterprise level support. They're missing out on a small but insanely profitable part of the market. People will pay a premium for the best support possible. This goes for computers and software developers. How many iPhone developers would pay a few thousand dollars a year to get A list treatment? (a lot I think)
"What if I don't care about AI?"

- maybe making AI explicit in the title would be good.
Another thing to note, authors get 35% of list price, and when Amazon discounts books (for example, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002U4XPK6 lists for $26.99 and is selling for $9.99) the author will still get 35% of the list price (or $9.45). In this case, Amazon is getting 54 cents.
Oh, I totally agree that it all should be public. I'm just saying that the OP's take that "let's get some professional programmers in there and clean it up" won't work unless they work in close collaboration with the scientists themselves.
The difference between good and great is that great works everywhere.
I took a broader view of "the other side" from the grandparent comment. If you're going to assert that within climate research itself there are very few dissenters; well, yes. That's what having a broad scientific consensus means, after all!

On the advocacy/policy front, 'the other side' is more well-defined and it seems clear to me that claims for it being dwarfed are incorrect.

(AEI vs Greenpeace was just an out-of-the-hat comparison of two organizations that advocate loudly on opposite sides of the issue; you can look at the lobbyists-by-industry chart for a less randomly-chosen view of the same thing.)
This should be required reading on redaction in the government. http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/dod/nsa-redact.pdf
a) not everyone can install a native app or plugin. I expect web apps to work everywhere, on any device.

b) not everyone uses or will use a traditional pc.
In case you were like me and had no idea what "high street shops" were:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Street
I find counter-examples just as helpful. Maybe you could highlight how a handful of relatively high-profile startups could improve their viral marketing strategies.
Yup, my comment focused more on events as a whole and service providers attending.

You roll with a top notch crowd and put on events to match. If I were a service provider, I would pay the fee to be at the table.
Sure. PDFs are natively supported in Kindle 2's and DXes. You can convert PDF's to a supported format for older Kindles. Also, you can sell .mobi files and they work just fine on any Kindle.

Once you have a file, you can put it on the Kindle over USB for free or you can send it to an email address Amazon gives you for file transfer (15 cents per some amount of file size...I forget how much). The Kindle store uses DRM, but the Kindle certainly doesn't require it on the files it will let you read. It's like an iPod in the pre-iTunes Plus era.
Apple planning to make huge push into cloud-computing
Great first run. Keep working on it!
Google Opens Personalized Results to All
SomeType could be a primitive type. Your java code won't work for int or float or Object * (if you could have such a thing).
Double of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=980043
Aardvark Mulls Over A $30+ Million Offer From Google
Cool, but too bad that 5V is on the low side to run all electronics. It's easier to downgrade 12V->5V than to step up, so I'd prefer if we make new building wiring it be 12V.
Can't install in Sandboxie. Some file not found VB.NET error.

Nice app though, But I don't know if 21MB memory usage is worthy for a collector like that.

Can not collect HTML texts in IE or Chrome

Can not collect richtext in Word or anything else

If copied some Excel data with CJK characters, VB.NET yields a System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException error.
I criticize by creation, not by finding fault. - Michaelangelo

From this old but good HN thread on criticism: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=424699
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So? That's what they are now and that's what matters.
Its in the comments. I updated the first post with more info.
Technically, I don't think that Verizon is a neutral carrier. Not with a clause like this.

I've been a Verizon customer for a while now, and they've not removed anything off-topic of mine. Then again, I doubt I've been vociferously complained about.
Sigh. ISPs and Web sites have never been common carriers. Web sites are covered by the CDA, but it doesn't have common carriage obligations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicatio...
> How would the dispatch table get corrupted? If the dispatch table is compiled down into an executable in exactly the same manner an if/else would be, then I can't think of a reasonable corruption vector that would corrupt a compiled-in dispatch table, but not a similarly compiled-in if/else block of code.

Without doing any actual experiments and assuming native code, the dispatch table is liable to go into the .data section of the binary with the rest of the globals/statics, which should be read/write (if you're lucky, you made it const and it's in .rdata which is read-only). An unmitigated buffer overflow in a different item in .data is liable to corrupt the table. Typically, the .text section (the program code) is not writable.
This true and known, though the researcher didn't mention an important piece - men have a much, much larger standard deviation of intelligence/success/etc than women. So men are more heavily represented in engineering, physics, mathematics, etc, but they're also more frequently mentally retarded, homeless, die of homicide, commit suicide, and wind up incarcerated - general "failing" type things.

One hypothesis is that for most of history, the difference in results between being "above average" and "exceptional" was very large for men, and a less so for women. So you've seen men go on dangerous trading journeys, fight for honor/prestige/titles/land, engage in duels and competitions, fight wars, break paradigms, take on establishments, and so on. Whereas for a woman - historically speaking - by simply being reasonably capable in all of the duties society expected of a woman, she could find a husband. For a woman, the best strategy would be to be a bit above average and work to progress, but not take huge risks. For men, taking victory or death type risks might've made more sense.

One of the most interesting statistics I read was about what percent of people historically had children - I believe the numbers were estimated at 80% of women and 40% of men (not sure if this is all people, or people who survived infancy which was a legit problem back then).

If this sort of thing interests you, there's lots of information and statistics here:

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm

Very interesting read, I saw it here on HN originally. The difference in standard deviation/failure rates between men and women surprised me, but it made a lot of things make sense after reading it.
Verizon claims that their AUP has always had that provision, it doesn't mean what you think it means, and it will be changed. Not that anyone believes them.

http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-peopl...
This would be a steal for Google. The tech behind the scenes is impressive. The service is very intuitive and is so far tied as one of my favorite apps of the past few years (boxee and dropbox are the other 2). Part of me wants to see them stick it out, but the other part of me would love to see the team get a payday+give the service a boost to be a mainstream hit with google behind it.
http://mbusreloaded.com/umbus -- several hundred people use it every day, all of them cheap/lazy college students who aren't going to pay for the privilege. The value of advertising on the system seems to be barely greater than costs (a few tens of dollars per month) and the current advertiser is behind on payments.
Looks wrong--last I heard, there's an ocean opening through Ethiopia and the Red Sea.
Pretty ridiculous. Why not just make one version for internal distribution, and a completely separate document for the public?
You are right, was thinking of Dropbox there, even though their recommendation Feature probably has produced quite some growth. Another suggestion?
I wonder if this site uses it though. I would guess, it probably does.
Apple applies the same principles to customer service that they do to their products.

Rather than tier service -- and by design treat some people badly and some people amazingly -- like many companies do, they work hard to find a good middle ground where everyone is sufficiently happy and receives almost the same level of service. Necessarily, this means some people used to amazing support will get worse support and those used to shitty support get better support.

Whether you like it or not, it seems very strange to me that someone would say Apple is "clueless about enterprise level support." Of course Apple understands how the industry standard is for enterprise support. They most likely consciously do not copy it.
Choosing Between An FBML Or IFrame Application
I am referring to the slides which for me shows the ignorance of the Perl community and especially Larry Wall. For example this quote from Larry Wall which showcases his views on teh Powerness of Perl (Steve Yegge has more quotes from your beloved leader):

"The very fact that it's possible to write messy programs in Perl is also what makes it possible to write programs that are cleaner in Perl than they could ever be in a language that attempts to enforce cleanliness."
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Motorola Droid: why don’t you want my business?