skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was before XML acquired the, ahem, "seriousness" of the rep it now has. Really, I don't think the exact format mattered, because it would only be used between the processes themselves, you'd use some kind of formatter on the output end to produce something actually readable. The transport format isn't what killed it; one might argue that flat text is good enough, and that's what killed trying to create an alternative inter-pipe format.

I still think it's a good idea, but even the success of powershell (how often do you hear of someone actually using it?) says it's not going to go anywhere.
The $ should be paid to your business, not you. Then pay yourself very little as a wage. Roll the rest back into the business (i.e. pay yourself to create apps/software that you think would be cool to build and sell). Repeat.
FTFA "So the money that used to flow through the music business has slowed to a trickle"

I'd like to call that a "mis-speak"

"The digital music business internationally saw a sixth year of expansion in 2008, growing by an estimated 25 per cent to US$3.7 billion in trade value. Digital platforms now account for around 20 per cent of recorded music sales." [1]

Which makes music sales of US$18 billion for 2008 by contrast the revenue for the top 20 countries in 2005 was $12b [2]

"PRS for Music, the organisation representing songwriters, composers and music publishers, today published new research showing that UK music industry revenues totalled £3.63bn in 2008, up 4.7% from 2007’s £3.46bn." [3]

Some fucking trickle

[1] http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_resources/dmr2009.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Statistics

[3] http://www.prsformusic.com/aboutus/press/latestpressreleases...
This is also extremely interesting because OK Go was one of the bands that was able to tap into viral video as a way of getting the word out there. Remember the video for Here It Goes Again? 50 million views.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI
To be fair, I bet the money that flows down to them has slowed to a trickle.
> What would stop you to even consider signing the agreement ? (true question)

Anything ending on a '?' should be a true question :)

I think what would stop me is the fact that the contribution alone is not enough, that on top of that I would be required to enter in to some legally binding agreement.

The benefits from what I can see are exclusively one-sided.

I'm fine with Rich Hickey wanting to keep a strong hand on what is happening, I'm not so fine with him taking (shared) ownership of all contributions.

This could lead to all kinds of trouble, for instance in the event of his untimely expiration. His estate would suddenly be the party that I find myself holding 'joint copyright' with on something that I wrote.

That could cause a lot of headaches.

So, instead if that situation would come up I'd release it out of the clojure contributions package as a stand-alone thing.

Anything that needs http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/contributor_agreement... this much legalese is probably best not signed until you've had a lawyer look it over, and that's going to set you back a pretty penny.

Contracts are great for people that do not trust each other, they add a stiff price on top of the original arrangement which makes it expensive to break. A low-life open source contributor has no place signing contracts that carry possible consequences over and above the contribution.

That should be the sum total of it, requiring people to sign stuff imho is not the way to go about this.
10 years as a PM on Internet Explorer between 1995 and 2005. Not exactly something great to have on your CV is it :)
"... I find the best way to find previous HN threads that I remember is a site-restricted Google search ..."

Way better ~ http://searchyc.com/previously+submitted?sort=by_date
You maybe can come up with a technical solution, but the point is that it's not permitted. The article itself offers a solution to the problem of embedding (offering the video through a different website).

The article raises more interesting issues than this, however, such as why it's not allowed in the first place, and what needs to change to make it allowed.
A friend of mine is doing some interesting things -- mostly for women right now -- very similar to this:
http://www.theweatherstylist.com
A "slate" is the new class of touchscreen tablet devices expected to emerge Apple's announcement next week.

The journalist here doesn't seem to understand that a "slate" owner is unlikely to own a netbook at the same time. Nor does he apparently understand that unlimited data on a smartphone entitles you to ubiquitous free WiFi (in the US anyways), so your netbook/slate data plan is entirely unnecessary, especially when considering tethering capabilities of the phone you're already using.
Question: Does MTV pay the record labels for showing their videos? I'm not being a smart-ass, I'm really asking and didn't want to rip into this without having some background.\

The article says that they used to consider MTV a promotional partner, do they still?
Modern Computer Arithmetic (free ebook)
It's not at the south pole, but is a job providing support to research being conducted there.
This misses one of the more important roles of a degree. The degree isn't to show you that you know what you're doing, it's to show everyone else that you know what you're doing.

Whether or not that ends up being true is something else, but I tend to believe that you get out of a good university what you put into it.
Ahh... I'd love to do that... but, unless you're the head of IT (and probably not even then), it's very difficult to get other departments to see it that way. I definitely see lots of opportunities for process improvements at my current job, but it's not easy to push them to the decision-makers (I'm quite low on the ladder :P )
Good to see you doing well!

Rembember though: growing fast in the beginning is easy, maintaining that growth once you get larger can be very hard.

From 100 to 1000 visitors per day is 1000% growth, but from 1000 to 2000 visitors per day is only 100%, it is just as much if not more work.
Vienna.js
Strongly disagree about waiting 1-2 years to deal with equity issues -- equity should be dealt with immediately up front. Everybody should be issued equity via an ISOP based on their expected contribution over the next 4-6 years. If somebody outperforms the expectation, they should be issued more ISOP. If they underperform, they should be fired.
After the introduction of Windows 95, it was clear that the free software universe was lacking a number of technologies and that we were lagging behind in various areas.

At Microsoft I learned the truth about ActiveX and COM and I got very interested in it inmediately [sic]. Upon my return to Mexico Federico and I started to design a GUI control infrastructure for Unix that we code named `GNOME'.

"The Story of the GNOME project"
http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html

or "How one man ruined everything"
Hint: Drag and Throw ;) . . . some nice physics
> The successful candidate will need to be physically qualified and willing to work at Polar and high altitude sites during the Austral Summer.
I had a similar experience in my first year after college working for BigCo IT. I'm somewhat surprised that you went through this at a tech company, so I guess "big" is an important factor.

Initially I thought that as with my high school programming job, I'd learn a lot at work. I also bought into a certain sense of obligation: "I'm salaried, so work doesn't stop after 8 hours a day!" I came to realize that work wouldn't be completely intellectually fulfilling, and that I value intellectual growth over corporate loyalty. I decided to explicitly dedicate time for intellectual advancement apart from my regular job responsibilities.

So, my first antidote to intellectual stagnation was to apply for tuition reimbursement and enroll as a part-time grad student. I made arrangements to work half days on MWF or take very long lunches TT. Real-life lectures are better than online ones because you can ask questions, and the homeworks and exams are very helpful for giving you an objective reference on your progress.

That didn't help my salary or my future job prospects (as far as I can tell), but I'm very glad I did it. I think it worked out well for my employer during that time, too, because it kept me happy enough stick around at a lowish salary for a couple years when I was performing very well but not feeling very challenged at work.

The second thing is that I maintained my ACM membership and read Queue and CACM. I think that helps me to stay somewhat aware of the progress of the field. I've used the digital library several times to help me with particularly thorny programming problems at work.

Finally, if you're not doing new stuff at work, try to motivate yourself to do something new at home. Maybe you just implement an algorithm you read about from CACM Research Highlights or whatever, or maybe you join a programming club and volunteer to teach a topic. I think it's very important to keep doing and not just reading.
Yeah, I'm really not sure what it's for either.
That's a great thread. Thank you for that.
Not saying this is authoritative but your numbers don't jive too well with this Wikipedia quote:

"In the 21st century, consumers spent far less money on recorded music than they had in 1990s, in all formats. Total revenues for CDs, vinyl, cassettes and digital downloads in the U.S. dropped from a high of $14.6 billion in 1999 to $10.4 billion in 2008. The downward trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable future—Forrester Research predicts that by 2013, revenues will reach as low as $9.2 billion.[5] This dramatic decline in revenue has caused large scale layoffs inside the industry, driven music retailers out of business (such as Tower Records) and forced record companies, record producers, studios, recording engineers and musicians to seek new business models.[6]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#2000s
10-20 clicks a month(and that's what those signature links tend to get you) is not worth it. My time is better utilized on SEO.

Because with SEO it's a linear increase, every month you get slightly more visitors. With forums, you hit your peak right away. And that 10 new users are no different than the 500-550 a day I get from Google.
There are advantages to having overwrite-in-place as an option. If sed is passed a malformed expression, or for whatever reason is unable to operate, the file is untouched. A separate program would clobber it.

Better to have the separate program than everything to implement its own version, but having both isn't necessarily bad.
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Except when you say to someone, I'm going to keep x% and you're going to get y% (where y is much less than x) because your future contribution isn't going to be as much as mine, that person is either a) going to walk away or b) have no motivation to perform at startup levels because you just screwed them over, especially if you're not out there killing yourself every day.
Review my App: Illuminator (www.goa41.com)
Illuminator is an application that allows to create Flash banner, menus, tabs and so on.

What is interesting about the project is that it is a mix of Silverlight and Flash: the application allowing to design the Flash "banners" has been made using Silverlight.

Initially this project was built as a demo of what could be done using our toolsets (see www.netikatech.com) but at the end it became a real full project.
Therefore, we are a lot less interested by the "technical achievement" and we would like the application to become really useful.
However, two main barriers must be eliminated in order to get people to switch to our product (I encourage you to read Joel Spolsky’s great post about barriers: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html):
1. The learning curve of the application needs to be shortened. Some concepts that we use are powerful but they are not intuitive to novice users.
- A menu button and the elements it contains can have 4 states (Up, Over, Down, DownOver).
- A menu button can be linked to a Selected Canvas and/or an Over Canvas. If the mouse is over the button, the linked over canvas is displayed. If the menu button is down, the selected canvas linked to the menu is displayed. Otherwise they are hidden.
- Elements can be docked inside one another (left, top, right..).

2. The average user is not a designer. He does not know exactly what he wants (something beautiful...) and he needs to be guided when building a banner.

In order to remove these two barriers, we intend to build more templates and to add wizards.

We would love to hear your feedback about the way to make Illuminator a real useful application.
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01a8'

Object required: 'oC'

/dinaj_referer.asp, line 225

i can't tell, is it saying the object is the jacket and it's required?
New RF Stream Technology Revolutionizing TV Testing
Ask HN: What key question would you ask a software engineering hiring manager?
I have a software development offer from a late-stage start up for what could be my first job out of college.

I'm trying to assess the engineering organization to see if I really am a good fit. I got to ask questions during the interview process, but want to follow up to better understand how they develop product.

I'm concerned that I may end up working to pay back technical debt and won't get a chance to work on new feature development. I see myself excelling at sales and business development in the long run, and want to build up the product-oriented skills needed to accomplish my long term goals. What questions will allow me to best gauge my potential for success at this company?

Questions asked thus far:
1. Code unit test/review/check in policy
2. Development methodologies & software shipping schedule
3. Ability for face time with customers
Squeezeboxes, Start-Ups and Selling Out: A Tech Evangelist’s Story
The 'diagram' was a plastic plaque designed to contain/hide the electronics responsible for storing the skimmed data.
Yeah I use the Stack Exchange platform, but it's heavily modified. At this point I have something like 4,000 lines worth of modifications.

I kinda agree with the design, the users they are kinda split 50/50. Fashion people like it, techies hate it. The current design was more or less hacked together due to user feedback, which is why it looks like it was designed by a committee.

So my next version will be a lot more universal. It'll still have a fashion feel, but it won't send regular people running for the door :)
Well when I was a kid I used to always say "Hey why do I have to wipe my own ass." and now theres a app for that! Gods sake open a window and look outside!
It is a good example of using a little humor to help defuse a user's frustration.
Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK
http://www.theweatherstylist.com will make sure you are stylishly prepared for the weather heading your way!
Finding primes in parallel
Download Wallpapers Maskot World Cup 2010
Piala Dunia FIFA 2010 adalah Piala Dunia FIFA ke-19, suatu kejuaraan sepak bola internasional, yang putaran finalnya berlangsung pada 11 Juni sampai 11 Juli 2010 di Afrika Selatan. Ini adalah pertama kalinya turnamen ini diselenggarakan oleh negara di CAF, sehingga menyisakan OFC sebagai satu-satunya konfederasi yang belum pernah menyelenggarakan Piala Dunia FIFA.
> What else could be done simply?

A simple thing that is actually being done: ATMs pulling in the card with a randomly changing speed. This makes it very hard for the skimmer to get a reliable reading. The actual reading by the ATM is done during the second phase, inside the ATM.
The implication, however, is that higher-education institutions that last for hundreds of years are better for education.

Who's to say Cornell is a better 'educational institution' than Wikipedia?

Sure a degree from Cornell looks better on your resume than reading a bunch of information on wikipedia, but that's not a measure of education.
You mean the same diagram used on virtually every gas station pump I've ever used?
Now you're touching a nerve. I'm a big NPR fan, have listened to Wait Wait since they started, and it pains me to say: that show has deteriorated. Most of their panelists suck, especially the ones who seem to appear most often. I find myself cringing at how lame they are... not a good sign for a comedy show.
I don't think most of the video cameras on ATM machines are actually pointed at the machine; they're designed to capture the user's face.

I would imagine that gluing a piece of plastic onto an ATM can look just like a regular transaction - person walks up, looks at the screen while their hands are doing something below.
Thank you!, by Sarimin!
The salary seems a little low for asking someone to work in the middle of nowhere, away from family, friends and civilization. I know "regular" developers who make more than that.
Thanks man :)

oh yeah I know that it'll start slowing down, and I'm more or less prepared for that to happen. Slow and steady wins the race :)

My current goal is to generate the type of numbers that'll get me some more mainstream coverage. I think 100K-200K visits a month, should at least get me some mentions here and there. Which will in turn drive traffic to the site, but most important will boost my link juice and will rank my questions higher in search results.
I wonder if the cameras are proactively monitor-able or if they exist for after-the-fact, reactive evidence in the case of a mugging. Obviously, ATM owners could upgrade to better systems though. Perhaps images with suspicious light levels over time could be shown to a human for assessment.
Like any templating engine I've seen - there are "for each", "if then else" etc.

It's just matter of convention - designer should know what he can change, and what he cannot - lisp-encoded html is almost like normal html, and has the adventage of being compiled - some static checking can be done.

When you extract data producing into functions only called b name in code that is emiting html it will lokk just like html template, and it has all the clojure power when it's needed.
It'd be easier if Hulu offered that (does it?) for people outside the US. But of course, there are other options if you dare (cough cough proxy server cough cough rapidshare).
> I'd be suspicious of why they had to put a diagram to show you how to use what should be a universally understood sort of thing now.

Clearly you've never seen someone in a self-checkout aisle trying oh so hard to scan their discount card through the magnetic reader when the video on the POS is telling you to swipe it. Or vice versa.

There will always be someone too dumb to use something.
Well, it sounds like a long project to me :) .

It would be a nice project, though, maybe I'll propose it (and contribute to it).

Guess the first step would be contacting Khan.

PD: Spanish is my mother tongue.
Ok, seems like I'm the only one with googlelitis.
I know. But, anyone should be suspicious of why that's even needed.
Should your online comments affect your credit?
Another thought... When someone steals account information using such methods, it is unlikely the ATM owner/operator who is responsible for losses. After all, it would be really hard to prove conclusively that it was the fault of a particular ATM's lack of security that led to future thefts. Perhaps strong correlation could be shown, but the legal costs associated with reimbursement likely outweigh the efforts, at least in the short term.

Do ATM owners have any incentive to prevent thefts? I suppose those who process mostly the transactions of their own customers (BoA in SF, etc.) have the greatest incentive as the problem is their own.
I wonder what they use in the North Pole
I left 2K games for much the same reasons. Working on big budget games like Bioshock is safe and comfortable, but after nearly 10 years to going into the office at 9, having meeting after meeting, then going home at 6, I realized life was passing me by.

So I quit and started my own studio Iron Helmet Games. I'm taking risks again, I have some creative control, I'm even getting much more done! It feels so good to work really hard again. I like to work hard, but I need to know its useful and appreciated.

Our first game Neptune's Pride has only been in development since September 2009 and people are already playing and enjoying it.
That's PRI not NPR, which is relevant because NPR famously rejected the show (then had to license it from PRI because it's so good).

I once heard Ira Glass talking about why he didn't make it on NPR... he was hosting the national phone-in show for a few months, and they would have expert panels discussing things like the Cold War. One day, some national security expert -- evidently trying to play the folksy card -- responded to a question by saying, "Well, it's like my grandmother says, blah blah blah". Glass' immediate instinct was to say, "Oh really? Tell me more about your grandmother!" He always wanted to go for the marginal, overlooked thing. I love that story.

One other point before I get off this NPR binge: has anyone else noticed that Ira Glass' vocal mannerisms have been picked up by the new generation of NPR journalists? This is really annoying. It's like a whole generation of singers imitating Bob Dylan. Listen, people: it was cool when he did it; you are making asses of yourselves. The worst offenders are the people on that "Planet Money" team; I can hardly listen to them. Ok, rant over.
That's way way better than leaving someone feeling like they've been thrown in the dumpster!
I was thinking the same thing. Are experienced Java developers really that plentiful?
Washington Post Blames Increased Typos On Staff Cuts, SEO
The Design and Long-Term Use of a Personal Electronic Notebook
Is 10 years when the site comes up? 503 Unavailable.
My thought is that they know that a lot of people are willing to do it because it's at the south pole. To those folk, it being at one of the most remote spots on the planet isn't a detriment, it's a non-financial bonus, making the job more attractive, and thus requiring less pay.
yeah, although I wonder what is the reason for "Last modified: January 15, 2010",
Yeah, the music industry is experiencing some brain trauma right now. It'll happen to the film and TV industries too in a few more years once bandwidth and memory prices decrease.

Because music is so readily available, almost no one expects to pay for it. Itunes is cleaning house right now, but that's because people still want ultimate control over their libraries. I'll bet once people can be guaranteed the same level of access that they enjoy on their Ipods as they do on their phones, then Itunes will meet the same fate. Apple probably knows this which is why they are making plays in the streaming business.

What the content providers need to do is accept this fate and start building a new model around distribution and the incredible amount of information (data!) they have available to them. Package the product up in something consumers will always pay for--new devices or other peoples products (advertising).

The beauty about this business is that it hits a chord in consumer's lives. They will always want it because this content defines them in some abstract way. If content companies can learn more about their consumer's identities, they can sell that information to product makers. If you doubt all you have to do is look at the new artist product lines-- Sean Jean and Dr. Dre Beats to name two.
Absolutely - it's a great post overall.
Twitter terror arrest: cause for concern
Whenever I see a summary in HN comments it is usually because the post itself is long and rambling. I'm glad I was not deterred from clicking through, it's a great read.