skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But corporations do not speak for the actual human beings in organizations. The human beings are free to do that on their own. They don't need to speak through the corporations.

Corporations are businesses. They are not sentient. They do not have their own opinions. They do not require free speech.
HN'er DanielBMarkham has done this. A few months ago he posted a request for HN'ers to be his "advisors". I've participated (a little). Daniel has made fantastic progress on his new product and I've greatly enjoyed the reports he sends.
"That's the entire point of the OP."

The OP is talking about an election in the US, not about some ex nihilo society.

I find your questions rather confused; you may wish to research the issue further.
How many paid Unisys? (Honest question, I don't remember. But I do remember celebrating GIF Freedom Day when the patent ran out.)
Report Details Hacks Targeting Google, Others
You say "But corporations do not speak for the actual human beings in organizations", but then you say, "They are not sentient. They do not have their own opinions".

Both of your claims can't be true.

EDIT: Sorry, down-voters, they can't both be true. Either corporations speak on behalf of actual human beings, or they're sentient financial entities.
When voters reject a tax increase, it isn't unusual for a city (or even a school district) to make cuts in those services that inflict the maximum pain in the most visible way [1,2,4].

Businesses, of course, do the opposite when facing a budget crisis. They cut as far back as possible while still delivering as many of the things that their customers care about as they can [3].

It always seems silly to me when people worry about private sector pseudo-monopolies when we haven't figured out how to fix the incentives of that singular cartel that currently controls about half of our GDP.

[1] In part they are just living up to the implicit promises they make when asking for the tax hike. The message is never, "we need to raise taxes or else we'll be forced to cut the salaries and benefits of overpaid bureaucrats and work to operate more efficiently." No, it's always, "we need to raise taxes or else the lights will go out, and you wouldn't want that." You wouldn't expect them to let people down?

[2] Another commenter here usefully pointed out that this is an example of the Washington Monument Syndrome:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_Syndrome

[3] When I say 'businesses' above, I'm principally referring to the millions of private companies in the US, not the handful of attention-grabbing public firms where management can extract wealth from the shareholders (and the government, in the case of GM and the banks). There is a different set of perverse incentives operating there. An entrenched (government-supported) monopoly could act the same way, as could (to some degree) a politically entrenched department head of a private organization. The bad incentives derive from high switching costs resulting in monopoly economics.

[4] Regarding rigor (questioned below): 1) my claim about what is usual in these circumstances is based on my own personal observations working with local governments; 2) I cited the Wikipedia article for naming of the phenomenon, not for rigorous support of its existence (be your own judge for that), and 3) this is already more rigorous than I intended to be for a simple comment about a common phenomenon that others have observed and noted long before the internet was available for us to debate every ontological question at length.
Whether Google News is good or bad for a newspaper's online business is also partly a function of how big the newspaper is. Google News seems to frequently promote the biggest sources (NY Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, LA Times) with the main headline for a story and lump in the smaller players among the "2,000 plus sources". If you're a big player, it's probably fine to be part of Google News.

If you're a smaller player, maybe you needn't be covering stories that the big players are covering. Your readers are probably already only coming to you for local news anyway (part of the reason AP and Reuters content so often supplements a site). Reporting on more local stories could make you more likely to become the de facto source for your Local News section within Google News.

I've heard anecdotally that Yahoo's front door (which shows headlines from 3rd party sources) and Drudge are the biggest drivers of traffic to newspaper sites. Note that neither of those referrers tries to point out a dozen other sources for the story.
"10% of profits will help fund a 2010 TechStars startup!"

Of all things?
I wonder if there are any recent published tests that show this claimed difference?
Mind = Blown.
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Perhaps you forgot to read my post to which your responded. Or else, can you describe in what way a Corporation is, in fact, a citizen of the United States?
New to me, but looks credible. Any comments on the claims of lower power/higher speed ?

http://www.reveresecurity.com/technology.html:
"neither a block nor a stream cipher, but a rotor machine based on an important, novel rotor-stepping rule."

And that page ends with a link to this 34 slide presentation: http://www.reveresecurity.com/pdfs/RevereIntroduction.pdf
Money line: "The Government may regulate corporate political speech through disclaimer and disclosure requirements, but it may not suppress that speech altogether."
The same thing happened with .GIFs, royalties weren't actively pursued for a very long time, but when they were it became a problem.

Let's not make the same mistake again.
I don't think anyone was offended, but it's exactly the sort of thing some people like to jump on and say, "See? See? That's what I'm talking about!"
Why do the revisions use a "global" incrementing id for their public-facing revision number? It may be more user friendly to make a per-startup revision number so they're in chronological order (as in, "Initial revision, revision 1, revision 2" instead of showing "Initial revision, revision 13, revision 14".) I was confused by that particular aspect when I first saw it.
Thank you. There's actually already an official name for that (it's currently called the "iPhone OS" even if it's running on an iPod Touch or the iPad) so you don't really need to invent one.

I was scratching my head because I couldn't tell if the author was making a comment about it being a Piece Of Shite, or something about Point Of Sale terminals, or something else entirely.
"Something as simple as posting about a local candidate on your personal blog could have been considered a campaign contribution in kind, falling under the regulation and restrictions of said law."

[citation needed]. People have always been able to speak out in favor of their preferred candidates - that's what free speech is about. AFAIUI, the recent SCOTUS decision concerned:

1. What happens when there was an exchange of money for political speech on behalf of a third party, eg. paying someone for advertisements.

2. What happens when the "person" paying that money is not a person, but a corporation.

There's a big difference between somebody speaking out on their own and somebody paying for advertisement. There's a further difference between somebody paying for advertisement and something paying for advertisement.

I'll elaborate if you wish, but I'd assume this should be fairly clear to most people...
If the only widely adopted format on web becomes h264...

It already is, thanks to Flash.

...which would already be the case if Mozilla wasn't resisting (which most of you attacked)

It already is and Mozilla is doing very little to stop it considering they continue to fully support Flash. What the are actually doing is hindering the adoption of the <video> tag, because their implementation doesn't support the formats that are actually in use.
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I don't know any martial arts, but it reminds me of basketball - dribbling is exactly the same - every second you decide to start or not, you can make fake moves, and your oponent has to guess and react faster.
And if his guess is wrong he allows you to pass him.

Sometimes you can just feel the rythm in which oponent will react, and then passing him is easy and pleasurable at the same time. And looks cool. That's why I love basketball :)
I think when I reached 30 it occurred to me that, not only is life short, it's shorter than you think.
I lived in CS for two years - nice little town but the industries there are having a hard time. Intel shut down their fab and the 'Garden of the Gods' business complex is full of huge carcases from other business that have left the area.
I love the abundance of 'XXX is sued by MPEG LA' press releases on their 'media' page!

I guess they designate lawyers using 'squad/platoon/battalion' instead of boring old 'department' ;-)
Why the downvotes? The quote above is directly taken from the campaign video provided on the linked website.
To more directly address what you say:

"The human beings are free to do that on their own. They don't need to speak through the corporations"

This argument can be made as reasonably for every organization and the very act of political organization, from political parties on down to rallies and petitions.
Given that "10% of profits will help fund a 2010 TechStars startup!" and that TechStars seems to be a competing seed funding firm, I'd say no.
You do Haskell don't you? :-)
I can't emphasize how awesome it is to have advisers. Here are a couple of tips I've learned in the last two months:

1) Have a bunch of advisers. With ten or more advisers, if they only email you a couple of times a month you can get a huge amount of feedback. Whereas if you only have one or two advisers the bandwidth just doesn't work out.

2) Good advisers are not just boosters. I'm really lucky to have some HN'ers helping out and they have been terrific about giving me negative feedback when it's warranted. Lots of folks can cheer you up or pat you on the back. Good advisers give you a good reality check.

3) Never use an email distribution list. I did this the first time I sent an email to my adviser list and it was a big mistake. People are taking the time to personally help you, the least they deserve is a personal email and conversation. Yes, it's easy to send things to lots of people at once, but it's really counterproductive. You're not trying to spam people, you're trying to engage them.

4) People will usually over-promise and under-deliver. This is just human nature. It's easy to say you'd like to actively help out with something but lots of times lots of other things have higher priority. This is another reason for having a larger list of advisors.

As this latest startup nears beta status, getting and using advisers was the best decision I've made so far.
Google Finally Doing Something About N1 Service Issues
Some novelties are newer than others. Those you remember best are those that don't fit with your generalizations about the world. As you grow older your generalizations get better and less things surprise you. The more you've seen, the more generalizations you need, because you don't have time to review the whole of your experience everytime you take a decision. The generalizations become a gut feeling, you know how to react but you forget why. The gut feeling makes you more efficient but by unconsciously generalizing from what you perceive you lose sight of the details. If this explanation is correct, there must be ways to reverse the process, at least for some events. Try meditation maybe, or drugs? I haven't. Tell me if it works.

On the other hand it might just be your memory getting worse at recording new things, because your brain gets old and no longer works so well.

Or maybe your brain is becoming more careful about what it records because there's not as much free space as there used to be.

Or maybe your brain is just bored, at first it really loved this shiny new recording thing and played with it the whole day, but then got used to it. Nowadays it only gets it out for the really big occasions.

Anyway, this is really about the pace at which you record informations, and about the amount of informations you discard. I'm sure these questions also arise in algorithms or machine learning. Certainly some knowledgable scientist on this forum is going to point out a parallel with some machine learning algorithm or information processing theorem?
I don't think it's as deliberately evil as that. It's probably more along the lines of someone one thinking, "Do I cut my own salary or drop a fire fighter? Hmmm... My house hasn't caught on fire yet!"
Can you please introduce me to one of these inhuman "things" that might fund a political advertisement without human decision or involvement?
Hacking Ruby's Syntax
How do all the Vista and XP users view H.264 videos? Oh yeah, by installing a plugin.
Not 10 times, no. On the other hand, tmux is improving quickly; if not every day, at least every week. screen, on the other hand, seems pretty stagnant.
Awesome, thanks a lot for the info. I think we'll be following in your footsteps.
He's teaching you that reading white text on a dark background is actually harder to do and strains the eye more. Consider his comment your education on the usability/readability of different contrast ratios (a pretty well-reasoned post on the topic here: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200608/light_text_on_d... ). And consider my comment your education on how your tone can be annoyingly preachy and smug.
Only natural persons can be citizens (by definition).
If a corporation made a documentary about a candidate they would not be able to release it during the campaign season.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/03/25/could-hillary-movie-case...
You can pass an anonymous function or lambda:

def foo(thing, block):
thing = "cruel " + thing
block(thing) # like `yield thing' or 'block.call' in ruby

def bar(thing):
return "hello " + thing

foo('world', bar)

# or:
foo('world', lambda x: "hello " + x)

Ruby's blocks are really just sugar for passing an anonymous function in the last argument and yield is just sugar for calling that function. The example above in Ruby would be:

def foo(thing)
yield thing
end

foo('world') { |thing| "hello " + thing }
It is refreshing to see a city being realistic about their budget problems. From what I have read a lot of other American cities seem to just be digging themselves a bigger hole.
Since when is APT on the same level at all with the App Store? You're definitely not going to be finding the same quality in the utilities and applications you find in your distributions APT repository as you will on the App Store, simply because developers are unable to charge for them. I hope this article is a joke or something.
Strange, I had 0.267 with normal measures, and over 0.5 with surprise measure.
In some cases usability can be bad enough to create a situation where you prefer worse content with better presentation. Sure.

But those are edge cases. No matter how bad a theme of a blog is, on the other hand, it is always secondary to content. There is a journalist's site that I frequent where some of his articles display all paragraphs as a single line. I cut ant paste to TextEdit to read them. He rarely writes an article I don't want to read. Still an awesome site.
>You seem not to realize that Apple and Microsoft are the ones writing the "standards".

Nope I thought it was the WHAT-WG and the HTML WG at the W3C. Yes major corporations have direct influence on these groups but so to do the OSS friendly browser corps and to some extent web designers and users.

Google are already using h264 in HTML5 on YouTube for capable browsers aren't they? Are they sending Theora/Vorbis streams at all? Seems clear where they are going then.
How was the initial response to this project?
How an entrepreneur launched a mobile chat system with 18 million users
Greg Kroah-Hartman's explanation of Android/Linux parting
You could ask the same question about the words "collective", "co-op", or "partnership".
This strikes me as a terrible, terrible idea. There are already two ways to declare a method private in Ruby (as the author of the post says). They are both simple, easy to remember and not especially verbose.

He has small quibbles with each method ('small' is his word, by the way, not my characterization), but still, to tweak the parser and create a special def_p keyword of his very own? How does he plan to share code with anyone else?
I'm from Victoria and these six figures salaries being thrown around as "not that much" seem crazy to me too. Victoria is a smaller version of Vancouver but take off about $50k for the highest salary range and about $20k from your range for a new grad.

The quality of life is great though. It takes me 10 minutes to bike to work and I'm home by 5.

I've come to realization lately that if I want to earn a lot as a software developer, I will need to move to a large US city.
Google "operant conditioning".
Learning how to rely on your co-founder at a startup
3 new Cisco critical vulnerabilities
Game over for WiMax?
In hindsight, I wonder if there was a point where Sun could've acquired Oracle instead of letting vice versa happen financially speaking.

Could've Sun saved their money and thought about 1 major acquisition instead of many? Did Larry Ellison have in the back of his mind, "one day I want to acquire Sun" as he played golf with McNealy?

As a company in a declining market margin-wise, I'd want to be capitalizing on previous gains by moving into a growing market - especially with regards to complimentary products: it's all about maintaining dominance, the problem was that Sun let Oracle become more dominant than it: not that they were ever competitors, but they should never have been such friends.

Has commodity hardware with its lower profit margins and prices displaced proprietary hardware to a greater degree than open-source software has displaced closed-source software? If so, moving into software would've been the right move for Sun.

Oracle's slogan is now: "Software. Hardware. Complete."

Could've been Sun's had they moved more aggressively into Databases and Apps? But they didn't because they didn't want to be a total solution provider, the idea was to leave that to IBM and instead specialize and promote a best-of-breed model to customers and foster an ecosystem around their platform. Good for a while until the other big player in the eco-system, Oracle, becomes bigger.

ScottMcNealy.com is even owned by Oracle now.

Sun: well and truly pwned.
Theora is already good enough for the "masses".

So it's acceptable to deliver a product you know to be inferior to someone because their content isn't important enough to you? Would you not be insulted if someone said they didn't think your home movies were worth encoding with the best available technology?
We had over 70 participants including both trustees and applicants.
I prefer to think of it this way: DSL are syntactic 1st class citizens in Smalltalk. (Not 1st class for optimizations, though)

To say Smalltalk IDS is a bit useless. Sure, if your "domain" is some Turing-complete language.
This is the drug dealer business model. "Sure, the first hit's on me. If you want more after that, you know where to find me."
FYI your site doesn't work too good in Safari or Chrome. Very slow scrolling. Something about the background image I suspect. Works fine in Firefox though.
Goodbye, Roadster, We Hardly Knew Ye
What's really clever about this is that the stylesheet you download and use in your browser merely imports another stylesheet on stevenf's own site, so that additional CSS rules to hide comments can be added for the immediate benefit of everyone without them having to download updates.
Pomodairo - Adobe AIR client for the Pomodoro Technique
An Adobe AIR client for those who like to use the Pomodoro Technique to stay focused.

Pomodairo: http://code.google.com/p/pomodairo/
Pomodoro Technique: http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/
When looking at this from an atheists perspective it looks like very minor differences to me.

There's a joke about that, I looked it up:

I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said “Stop! don’t do it!” “Why shouldn’t I?” he said.
I said, “Well, there’s so much to live for!” He said, “Like what?”

I said, “Well, are you religious or atheist?” He said, “Religious.”

I said, “Me too! …Are you Christian or Buddhist?” He said, “Christian.”

I said, “Me too! …Are you Catholic or Protestant?” He said, “Protestant.”

I said, “Me too! …Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?” He said, “Baptist!”

I said, “Wow! Me too!…Are you Baptist church of God or Baptist church of the Lord?” He said, “Baptist church of God!”

I said, “Me too! Are you original Baptist church of God, or are you reformed Baptist church of God?” He said, “Reformed Baptist church of God!”

I said, “Me too! Are you reformed Baptist church of God, reformation of 1879, or reformed Baptist church of God, reformation of 1915?”

He said, “Reformed Baptist church of God, reformation of 1915!”

I said, “Die, heretic scum” and pushed him off.. — Emo Phillips
Holding the slide is not what prevents the hammer from falling. A semi-auto handgun with an exposed trigger that is placed out of battery has its trigger immobilized by mechanical linkage, regardless of the hammer's position.

Because of the way Glocks have their lug linkage, many will actually fire even when slightly out of battery. Knocking the slide back 1/10" and holding it there is probably not going to be sufficient to disengage the lug that prevents trigger pull.

Even if one could manage to pull the trigger with the gun significantly out of battery, I imagine that this would be a non-event with an exposed hammer because as you say, the hammer would fall onto the slide, not the pin. Still, firing out of battery would seem to be a function of the linkages, not striker-vs-exposed-hammer-ness.
s/a lot of other American cities seem/America seems/
and television... and movie projectors...
> more or less using slavery

My understanding is that most Chinese people working in factories have the option to go back to subsistence farming if they wish.
A basic Adobe AIR application for those who like to use the Pomodoro Technique (http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/) to stay focused while working.
I don't disagree with you, but the fact remains that they have a competitive advantage in manufacturing at the current juncture. That's what I meant by "what Chinese people are good at."
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1098336
What one thinks people "need" or doesn't "need" isn't part of not "abridging the freedom of speech".
Instead of micro-payments, what about micro-rewards?
What about people that can afford to attend, already know the material, but need a piece of paper?
Agreed, yet it is so random and hard to predict who will attempt to enforce patents and which patents are actually valid that it is basically unfair to small companies who seek to compete and innovate.

I point it out because it is useful to always be mindful of their absurdity.