skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
true - at my old company we insourced it. One couple choose to maintain a small store with soda's and candy and fruit from a warehouse store. It made enough to keep interest in it maintained, and kept the money stream in the company.

Then people feel less bad about paying as they know it's not going to some vending machine company, and they can also request healthier snacks.
I am wondering what clueless fools have downvoted you. Technical Analysis is as foolish as Black-Scholes. Maybe moving-averages and Bollinger bands are not algorithms for the HN crowd. Technical Analysis is retarded, but then... so is all that crap they teach at Quantitative Finance courses.
If VC's and F-500 acquirers aren't going to accept results from small CPA firms, then increasing the supply of small CPA firms will only indirectly help startups.
Perelman has a mind that is capable of taking in more information than any mathematical mind that has come before. His brain is like a universal math compactor. He grasps complex problems and reduces them to their solvable essence. The problem is that he expects human beings to be similarly subject to reduction. He expects the world to function in accordance with a set of strictly laid out rules, and he cannot take in anything that does not conform to those rules. And because the world is so unruly, Perelman has had to cut off successive chunks of it.

if her book gets no deeper than that trite, reductionist, unsympathetic cliche then it doesn't sound like it's going to say much of interest about the chap. i hope she writes better about maths (but my impression from the interview is that she does not).
For me it was :

Generally working unpaid overtime for a long time and then during a quiet patch coming in early and leaving early (5-10 minutes early). I got personally told off by the team lead.

Having a virus checker on my machine that I could not remove on pain of huge financial penalties. It scanned every input, intermediate and output of my compiler and turned the computer into a sloth. Didn't help that the final output was 230mb in size (and had a translation step into another 230mb executable). I tried in vain to get exceptions added but to no avail.

These little things slowly chip away at you and you later realise that you left for the wrong reasons - but it is too late.
clearly, it matters to you since you're bringing up the question of Hotmail.
Btw Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft and Microsoft began porting it to Windows many years ago. They never intended to keep it running on a non-windows platform.
... are fuzzy arguments that will be torpedoed by any weal security argument Microsoft deploys against them.

Turn this over on its head. What about Mozilla accepting a Microsoft-run CA?
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Common, I think, amongst people who work just for the money, and don't actually enjoy or care about the work itself.
Without the root cert installed, they add zero additional security, because the browser can't verify them. They might as well be self-signed.

CACert has been working on this for a long time, and the outlook does not seem positive. If they can't even get past Mozilla's audit requirements, how well do you think they'll fare with Microsoft?
I think you're on to something. Don't forget–Google Maps already shows local reviews and details gathered from Citysearch, Urbanspoon, Insider pages, Angie's List, etc. In large cities it seems to have a decent amount of reviews/content.

Google might already have a better yelp (or a just as good yelp).
On this point, you are very wrong. There are large immigrant communities all through the Midwest, Great Lakes, and plains states.

I am wrong? Where is your proof, or did you just pull this idea straight from thin air as I find many HN readers doing these days to support their delusions?

Here is my proof.

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign/maps/TF...

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/i...

So you are going to compare 3-5% foreign born population as something significant compared to 17-26% in areas like Florida and New York? Keep in mind that the total population in a state like New York is several magnitudes larger than these "Midwest" and "Great Lakes" states.

The illegal immigration chart points out that the only great lakes state on the top 10 immigrant states is Illinois which is unsurprisingly home to the massively crowded city of Chicago. None of the other types of cities you state rank in the top 10 where the last 10 is a measily 2%. Compare this with California (25%), Texas (14%), or Florida (8%), and there is simply no comparison.

We can find incentive's (or simply create regulations) to encourage immigrants to specific locations.

Ok, you and your unproven incentives can magically force immigrants to move into jobless areas where xenophobia is high. Great logic.

I do find your jaded anti-entrepreneurial comment to be unnecessarily vicious and ignorant though.

How is it vicious and ignorant? This is the logical conclusion, and knowing other entrepreneurs like myself, this is the current evaluation of the system. The system does not favor native employees.

Next time I suggest checking your reasoning before making unsubstantiated claims, despite how badly you want your beliefs to be true.
The biggest secret of Demand Media is that they have managed to take advantage of the biggest mispricing of labor in the global economy: that the market wage for an American with a graduate degree is zero if she is also a stay-at-home mother. If Demand Media offers her what amounts to $6 to $8 an hour, she'll quite often leap at the chance. (The economics of this have been well understood by SEOs for a few years, but doing it on an industrial scale is a fairly recent innovation.)
Sure - so I guess if the hf traders really were a problem, people would start migrating to other platforms.
Stackoverflow is supposedly one of the more popular Q&A sites for IPhone developers:

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-57/

...Stack Overflow has become a very popular destination for iPhone development. This is completely accidental, but it is a valid reflection of the vibrant and growing iPhone development community. If you’re an iPhone developer, check out the Mobile Orchard website and podcast, which even has a best of Stack Overflow for iPhone developers!...
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Thats probably because there are so many NY startups working on a Twitter or Facebook extension instead of a real core idea that can stand on its own.
SSH and TLS use two totally different trust models. With SSH, you deliberately accept an insecure first connection, but then rely on key continuity so that subsequent connections won't be any less secure than the first. This happens automatically; users don't have to think about it.

TLS has no key continuity. Browsers talk to tens of thousands of different sites. TLS doesn't work unless you can verify public key signatures all the way back to a trusted root.

Yes, you can manually manage certificates, but you can just as easily add the CACert root to your certificate manager and use TLS the way it's meant to be used. Which, fine, do that. But for the other 99.999% of your users, CACert is no better than a self-signed cert.
It is very rare for any individual to completely reverse their previous decision, especially when the results of that decision are subjective, delayed and hard to measure.

By the time management realises that soda should have been free, the opinions of the top engineers have irreversibly changed.
The problem is when the execs start feeling like they will never be caught - or worse, when they start tricking themselves into thinking that what they're doing isn't fraud.

Sure, they'll be caught eventually and punished, but the damage is done.
The point is that you shouldn't be looking to specifically hire people who know a language you can learn inside of a week.
You could have offered both, then you wouldn't have to piss of some of your employees.
Absolutely. While in a lot of cases I would say that safety and the value of human life should be the first consideration, space is not one of them.

Tens (hundreds?) of thousands of people lost their lives trying to sail across the oceans to discover new lands, but the world as we know it could not exist without their sacrifice. Space is a frontier. Frontiers are dangerous. Trying to make them safe requires either a short period of intensely dangerous activity or a very long period of less dangerous activity. But space is too important to be taken slowly.

Personally, if NASA told me I could be an astronaut but there was a 30% chance I would die, I would still do it. And I am sure there are thousands more out there like me.

Additionally, what NASA should be doing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_dumb_booster
Well it's a different startup culture here in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

We have the benefit of being a global hub for culture, with all the diversity that comes along with that. We also have lots of very different types of industries here, so when all these people come together from different backgrounds and industries to combine ideas, our startups end up looking very different than in the valley.

Take that and combine it with less VC firms that are willing to just throw money at any random idea, and it forces us as entrepreneurs to really think about what can be a profitable business.

So we end up with startups in fashion, music, finance, Internet, tech, etc, and not just 100 companies trying to build the next great twitter app (oversimplification, obviously).

It's just a totally different thing here, and a really exciting time to be in this amazing city.
Its unusable because of auto-buffering? A simple onclick DOM replace will fix this (as the article mentions). I get that we want better tuning parameters, but really, the video tag is such an improvement over a flash player or embed tag that we're looking the gift horse in the mouth.
For those interested in learning more about the character of Perleman and some of the controversy surrounding the Poincaré conjecture and it's proof, here's a great article from the New Yorker (dated Aug. 28, 2006): http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2
#3 seems to assume that the end-goal of every startup is to get funded by a VC, and that just doesn't jive with me.

#2 I'm not sure if San Fran even hosts that many startup conferences. More importantly, the whole model for conferences is broken. Which sane startup can consciously blow $1000+/person on a conference? I think over time, with the advent of conferences publishing the keynotes online anyway, and with more and more meetup groups, conferences will be a non-factor.

#1 - I think its cool to be in a place where there are a lot of startups -- but if you really step back and take a look, I wonder how much collaboration (in real life) is actually happening even in NorCal. This is something we need to improve, and is certainly not something that is jiving even in Silicon Valley. I'd dare say that HN is having more real collaboration than San Fran iteself.
Would commercializing the moon help us colonize Mars?
I was just being snarky. I find it interesting to hear how other people set up the sites I use, but I don't much care so long as they work when I try to use them.
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There is a good chance that other employees will follow them to their new, more attractive company. They might not compete for clients but instead for other employees.

There is also a potential that they have a great idea related to your company that they pursue once they leave.
Those interested in this topic should also check out the organization behind this forum: http://www.marssociety.org/portal
Here's an example of what the demigods at RenTec do:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...

"Volfbeyn said that he was instructed by his superiors to devise a way to 'defraud investors trading through the Portfolio System for Institutional Trading, or POSIT,' an electronic order-matching system operated by Investment Technology Group Inc. Volfbeyn said that he was asked to create an algorithm, or set of computer instructions, to 'reveal information that POSIT intended to keep confidential.'"

Now, you didn't think they used Black-Scholes, did you?! If you did, then: welcome to the real world!
Twitter whats in it for the average Joe?
The rich get richer and we get..........

With Twitter signing a new deal with Google and Microsoft what does this actually mean for you and me.

If blogging is dead (Or at least for the 99.9% of bloggers who can't make a living from it) how will Twitter making a profit benefit the average Joe? Will Twittering for fame and fortune go the way of the blog?

Twitter does fill a need in that we can all have a piece of our favorite celebs by knowing what they had for breakfast, when they are stuck in traffic. We are their friends no make that followers (Don’t cults have followers?).

So great we can find out what clubs they like, when their movie is coming out and this of course translates into money for them through endorsements and ticket sales. I follow you. I'm a part of it so where's my cut?

But what does this really mean for the normal guy? What’s the point in having 100k of followers if they don’t know you or care what you say? Inversely what’s the point in having 35 loyal followers that can’t give the exposure you crave.

With the top 25 Twitter accounts, I could go on, all previously established brands and/or celebs before Twitter their Twitter presence is merely just an extension of their brand.

So it would seem to me that the rich get richer and the poor will just move onto the next get rich, or not rich scheme.

How many people do you know (personally) that got rich from podcasts, blogging, Youtube, video broadcasting and iPhone apps? Me not so much.
> ...government will be pressured to react by introducing new legislation to remove that loophole.

That's the point right there - doing that would create more secondary effects. Let's say England says that if you have employees there, and make large profits, you have to pay high taxes.

The reason I focus on legislators is because they tend to be ignorant of secondary effects. Let's say they want Google to pay more taxes and want "close the loophole" as you say - how do they do that? There's law, they can't just write a letter to Google demanding taxes. So what will the law read? "The Fair Tax Burden in Cyberspace Act of 2010" - how would that theoretically read?

Well, maybe the first draft says that if you have staff in England over a certain amount, you have to claim corporate taxes there.

Well, maybe Google does the math, and decides it's not worth - and and lays off or transfers its English staff.

So a legislator gets furious, and writes the, "Anti-Cyber Laundering Protection Act of 2011", which mandates that if a website collects revenue from a country, it has to pay taxes, or the website is banned.

Do you see how this goes downhill really fast? Legislators don't consider that the actions they take won't always produce the results they want, and almost always have secondary consequences. Maybe this is much ado about nothing, but we could get another one of those scenarios here.

I will admit a bias though - I think Google does a better job providing for humanity and the people of England than the English government. And I say that despite the fact that I think the English government is one of the more sane and better run governments in the world - Google just does an absolutely incredibly job, they've produced far more amazing stuff in a shorter period of time than just about any government organization.

So yes, I have a bit of a bias in favor of great companies keeping their revenues instead of giving them over to bureaucracies, but that's not even the crux of this here. The crux is that by legislating, you create secondary effects, many of which are not positive, and the world would be better if legislators paid attention to that and thought things through more clearly.
I really hope they would -- it'd be extremely nice for vanilla Windows Server installs to be able to provision themselves a default certificate.

Of course, Mozilla are the asshats that innovated the draconian dialog maze for self-signed certificates, and as such have made it impossible to ship appliances with HTTPS web interfaces. I hope their heads fall off.

Don't you really want WiFi access point config pages to be HTTPS-only?
There's no free coffee? Every place that I've ever worked had free coffee. From the crappiest of the low-level jobs to the awesome job that I have now.
I've been a SizeUp user for about 8 months, and use it every day. The Cinch/SizeUp developer has been responsive and open to user feedback and suggestions. Highly recommended.
That is a problem, but it seems like it would be very easy to move the image - click for video behavior into a pretty small JS library. Writing something like this probably wouldn't be all that terrible:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$('#video_1').to_video('myvideo.mp4', 'myvideo.ogg');
});
</script>

<img class="really_a_video" id="video_1" src="mythumb.jpg" />

I'd still rather do that than deal with Flash.
Why is this okay? You wouldn’t post an R.I.P. status update if someone you knew personally passed away, would you?

The family of an acquaintance of mine recently went through a difficult time. They chose, wisely, to keep their suffering private, relying on a few close relations to help them get through this rough patch.

The privacy rules for celebrities are already wildly different than for "normal" people. Whether celebrities are entitled to more privacy than they receive is a different argument, but why would a celebrity's death be a special case? If they live in the public eye, it comes as no surprise that they also die in the public eye.
I'm not clear on what their model is. They're generating their own ideas. Is that like an incubator? Are they looking for founders, or are they going to retain control over all the spin-offs?

"Polaris Ventures will have first dibs on these independent companies for investment."
http://gigaom.com/2009/12/21/the-start-project-launches-retu...

i.e. startups that Polaris doesn't fund get hosed. But perhaps that isn't an issue since they're not really looking for founders?
Just to clarify, I did NOT write this post as a "East Coast versus West Coast" thought-piece. I wanted to give a 50,000 feet view from what is happening in New York City to document the momentum of the ecosystem that's being created as we speak. I'm a huge supporter of entrepreneurship in every city, and this is a model that should be shared and replicated in every community. If we take what works in NYC, Boston, SF, Seattle, New Orleans, etc -- we just might be able to get somewhere.
The second half reminds me of one of my all-time favorite pieces of writing advice, Orwell's Politics and the English Language:

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
Interesting,

How ISN'T Demand Media this?
The rich should be taxed. After all, when the top 20% are taking over 80% of the money, they should be paying 80% of any nation's taxes too. If they're not, the system is unfairly biased to keeping the rich rich.

If you can pay $1 million in income tax in a single year, I figure you're doing fucking amazing out of life and it's where any entrepreneur should want to be in life.
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Apples and oranges. I don't see SO as being useful for prolonged discussion, not does it convey any sense of a close-knit community.

Also, I get Google Group messages in my Thunderbird in-box so I don't have to keep checking to see if there's anything new and I can filter, save, highlight items as I see fit. I much prefer mailing lists over bulletin boards, and SO is much like the latter.
Headline inaccurate.

What Kaltenegger is actually saying is that of the planets we're likely to be able to detect in the near future, life is more likely on moons of gas giants than planets. This is because the detection technology is still at a stage where the only Earth-sized planets we're likely to see will probably all be so close-in as to be tidally locked to their stars, which is most probably going to be bad from life's point of view.

As for whether life is more common throughout the universe on moons than planets, we really have no idea at this stage.

I do like the way that every science story from Britain appears to include the word "boffin" at least twice.
I agree. The financial collapse was the worst and best thing that could ever happen.
Interesting--I read it as being a new concept that people didn't immediately get. I felt that way the first time I heard about the Smalltalk IDE. It wasn't until I tried it that I understood it. I had no previous frame of reference for it.
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When I worked at Pepsi, they paid 'rent' for keeping a vending machine somewhere. The rent was based on location, power usage, etc.
I'll be interested to see how 'the pulse of the planet' can be fed relevant advertising.
Despite upvoting you for your clear argument - I disagree. The top engineers are the lifeblood of the company, and to make trivial cost cutting measures ($10k really is nothing) that risk their retention is incredibly stupid.

Decrees from the top that disregard the input of and value of the employees are the issue here, not how those decrees are handed down. I can't think of any way that HR could say "no more free soda" without it sounding like the stupid cost-cutting measure that it is.
I think the main issue at heart is the desire that every human being has in controlling their environment.

I say this because I just read in a book (A Drunkards Walk) how seniors in a home who could arrange their rooms the way they liked and could choose a plant to take care of were measurably happier and lived longer.

Restricting machine names, removing snacks, clocking in and out these all contribute to a negative environment.

Which employee (all other things being equal) is more likely to burn out:
a) Diligent and responsible employee is essentially free to do what they need to do to get their job done.
b) Diligent and responsible employee who gets shuffled into a 'highschool' scenario: hall-passes, attendance reports, dress code.

Obviously some places feel they require these restrictions. Maybe in a large corporation you'll end up hiring employees who you can't trust to show up on time, etc. But isn't that also HR's fault?
I don't quite parse "Take Five" that way, but I will give it another listen.

So is any music influenced by the various gaits of a horse?
Welcome to the twenty first century!

I mean, once a university lecturer drops off the tenure track, where is their career progression?

The web-sourced job world cannot offer a career track, it can only pay for the quality of content you produce now.

Indeed, what occupations today offer a career progression for many on their track? Any occupations that are offering this are in-line for being disrupted by web-sourced content.
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In my experience, Mozilla comes in for the harshest criticism from the people who understand TLS the least.
I wonder which CPA firms VC's typically use today?

I'd be curious to see to what extent these non-small CPA firms latch SOX reporting requirements onto their audits or other engagements for VC's.
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I've always been puzzled by people who can't see how to make money from Twitter.

Imagine there was a global, constant conversation happening in real-time and involving 10s of millions of people. Now imagine you can know exactly what each one of those people is saying.

Can people really not see the massive value in that?
Nope. Most groups have their own coffee machines and stock their own coffee.

I work at an aircraft company. While I'm a salaried employee, the effects of the union being present at this site hit everyone. It's nice in some cases (benefits), but often it really screws us (hard to lose ineffective employees, no little 'fringe' benefits, etc). I'd be surprised if most companies w/ union involvement are much different.