skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could tell by your first response you get paid by the profits of the very cons Taibbi is railing against. Answer these questions:

So you are OK with front running clients? Forget about legal... that's moral?

So you are ok with these banks getting dollars at 0% from the tax payer and lending them back to the taxpayer at 3-30% interest?

You are ok with big banks not loaning to small business and entrepreneurs? Likely becuase those are uncredit worthy loans right? How credit worthy are the big banks who screwed us in the first place?

I'm betting as long as you get paid, you'll be able to justify all kinds of cons.
They're working on traveling wave reactors, a particularly slick kind of fast-neutron breeder reactor:

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=special...
Shady URL: Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
So you could write a mobile app in F#? Neat.
Right. We shouldn't be pissed off we are getting screwed by the people writing your checks. I love it.
This headline is very misleading. Here's the actual quote:

"I would say that we did not understand how to communicate Google Buzz and its privacy," he said. "There was a lot of confusion when it came out on Tuesday, and people thought that somehow we were publishing their email addresses and private information, which was not true."

The context where he's using the the word "confusion" is completely accurate, and in no way makes it sound like he's blaming the user, which is what this headline implies.
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It seems to be missing most of the concerts from the largest venue in the state of VT.
In the end, most of the big browsers are open-source, so I guess you could try submitting a patch, but I agree with most the answers here about performance, laziness, and the fact that users don't care.
Don't they already have a huge app store for Windows Mobile that no one uses? http://marketplace.windowsphone.com/Default.aspx
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Calling something propoganda while failing to point out inaccurate statements is propoganda.

Further, you should have a disclaimer in every one of your comments that you are paid by the industries Taibbi is railing about.
Well you obviously need to make a shell company then before starting ;-)
I agree with you now :-)

I would like to have two browsers of the same type, one with high(er) quality typography and one as it is now. And then compare the speed. That would be interesting.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
"This is the first we have heard of this lawsuit being filed and the plaintiff's allegations," he said today. "However, we can categorically state that we are - and have always been - committed to protecting the privacy of our students."

"Our district was one of the first to provide free laptops to all of our high school students," Young said. "This initiative has been incredibly successful and well received in our school community."

"We have referred this matter to our attorneys for appropriate legal action and plan to communicate with parents and students with more information as it becomes available."

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20100218_Suit__Sc...
Those simple text files you mention all have a different syntax. And I've never seen a usable Samba or Apache configuration GUI ... wonder why that is.

You're also talking about /etc ... which is go-rw, and user configuration files are all over $HOME.
What phones use the windows mobile os? Everyone I know is on an android, iphone, blackberry, or an old school phone. I've never seen a phone using windows.
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What does the fact he used to work at Microsoft have to do with anything? I know plenty of lovely people who have or do work at Microsoft.
The discussion also usually doesn't focus on the fact that the costs of the stimulus haven't been felt yet. It could just be higher taxes and higher interest rates. But it could also be that treasury bills are no longer purchased by foreign governments, and the shell game where the government essentially buys its own bonds will be harder to hide. That is much more serious problem than a crippled mortgage market. I'm looking forward to politicians justifying debasing the currency for "national security".
Probably because they think a PR agency helps them do a better job on PR. Lots of companies use PR agencies and sometimes they are a valuable service.
I'd find it fun to play with (good for settling haiku disputes), but even after a few specific google searches I couldn't find it... maybe a domain would help?
Nice.

But once again, building a widget in a weekend is very different than building a full product, in particular if you include an actual business model or community surrounding that product.
> Most conf files are one of a few common formats

That's not my experience.
No, not really. If WinMo 7 has full silverlight or wpf xaml support, the same code you run on the phone can run on the desktop as well (native or in the browser). Not so with Android. Think more like JavaFX, but on devices that'll actually ship.
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You might want to take a look at Augeas (http://augeas.net/) which offers standard "lenses" (ie. parsing filters) for pretty much all Linux /etc files.
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Hey - which venue? We'll check it out..
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GS is not being questioned for being fabulously profitable, but rather for the way they make their profits. (for eg. selling debt-instruments to clients and then turning back and shorting those same instruments)

"It further puzzles me that it has become trendy to attack the financial market's most successful and profitable large institution. This proto-Marxist sentiment has no place in a free society."

This is not a proto-marxist trend. The people are not questioning the profits of HP, Caterpillar, Exxon, IBM, etc. They are questioning institutions that placed stupid (and arguably fraudulent) bets, got the govt. to bail them out, and then went on to make even more money doing more shady deals (trading in life insurance, etc). These same banks are now resisting regulatory and reform efforts.

"The only people forced to trade with Goldman were taxpayers financing the bailouts"

Hank Paulson, the immediate-past CEO of GS, was the one who "forced" GS and other banks to take the money. Incidentally, he also allowed Lehman (a GS rival) to fail. All these actions might have been coincidental and without alterior motives. But you cannot blame a journalist from taking a deeper look, cos it sure does smell fishy.
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Pulling back on Loyd's bonus was a substance-less ploy. They received over tens of billion in bailouts, plus loans at 0% on MY dime, plus 100% in payouts on 5.9b on a bankrupt company. Because if this, they posted 13b in profits and paid out 16 billion in bonuses.

Do the math and they should be out of business. Instead our corporate socialist state (fascism) paid those bonuses with my taxes.
Here's my problem with Java. No one ever talks about the language, and what makes the language so great. No one ever writes articles stating something like "Look this is why loops are so _cool_ in Java." Everyone in the Java world seems to point at these big libraries built on top of Java and say things like "Look Swing is what makes Java cool!" or "Java Beans are so great!" I just don't believe that, for exactly the same reason I don't believe rubygems doesn't make Ruby cool, why I don't believe Django makes Python cool nor jQuery makes Javascript cool. On the other hand I do value opinions like, "Ruby is cool because of it's blocks.", "Python got it's package system right and list comprehensions are awesome.", or "Javascript's closure implementation works well."

The book this article is named after, "Javascript: The Good Parts", does exclusively talk about the language Javascript, not jQuery or other Javascript libraries. After reading "Javascript: The Good Parts" I was excited to use the language for all the reasons Crockford pointed out. This article doesn't ever approach that for Java, and instead focuses more on the Java libraries, hence I'm not more inclined or more excited to go back to writing Java.
From: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134810

Related:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1127461

Links to: http://mylifeandart.typepad.com/1m1m/

The question in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134810
is how many people here know of the "strategy" and are intending to use it.
http://www.highergroundmusic.com/calendar/view/

vs

http://www.songkick.com/venues/921-higher-ground/calendar

(I reported via your "Flag a problem" as well)

Edit: Looks like part of the issue is that the venue moved and you now have a dupe venue with different listings.

http://www.songkick.com/venues/532296-higher-ground/calendar
Higher Ground is no longer in Winooski, it is now in South Burlington (Burlington) like the 921 venue states.
It also isn't an open market. Did I read that right that people owning shares in a private company need to put them up for sale? So the supply of shares is limited vs a public company.

First off, many shares aren't going to be transferable due to vesting schedules, agreements, or other logistical details. Even if they are transferable, many holders probably don't know that there is even a market on which to sell them.

I've got to believe that the fraction of shares truly available make for a very short supply compared to any public company.
Also why requiring the same, not lower, lending standards is somehow a mistake. And why mortgage brokers wrote so many loans that contributed to the problem, when they aren't even affected by the CRA law. (The answer to that is: Wall Street was eager to buy them.)
The fact that we've gotten so far into this ridiculousness that the interior of a building that is open to the public is somehow considered "protected by copyright" is preposterous. This is not at all what the founders had in mind.
This is about Windows Phone 7, which was just announced and isn't out yet.
This is a baseless ad hominem attack.

I work for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. We are not a lending operation. We do not receive money from the Fed. We do not do front-running or flash ordering. The latter is legal, but we do not do it for ethical reasons. Our response to the Lehamn Brothers crisis was measured in minutes, and the time taken to close all their trades measured in days. Our money comes from being a conservative, sound organization; from traders trusting us to clear their trades, and we cleared every trade on time since I don't even know when. We have not failed to clear a trade in the last 110 years.

This is the "con" from which I make my money, but you could have figured this out yourself by clicking my profile instead of making things up.

I am not justifying "cons". I am defending what I believe. I believe in intelligence over populism, capitalism over socialism, and correctness over incorrectness. What's your excuse? I actually don't want to know what you think; I'm responding only because people are upvoting your comment when they should be downvoting it.
What follows is a constructed solution for the six-player problem, wherein the small blind always wins.

With six players, the small blind will receive the first and seventh cards of the deck, which I will denote (1,7). The remaining hands will be (2,8), (3,9), (4,10), (5,11), and (6,12). The burn cards are 13, 17, and 19. The board is cards 14, 15, 16, 18, and 20. The first and last board cards are exactly 13 cards after the small blind's two cards, so by simply permuting the 13 possible ranks and then repeating the permutation, one can guarantee the small blind will hit two pair via the first flop card and the river card. What remains is to guarantee that two pair will be the winning hand.

Because cards of the same rank will be exactly 13 spaces apart, no player will be dealt a pocket pair, and the board will never pair. Therefore, larger multiples (trips, quads, boats) will never come up. Furthermore, no other player will hit two pair.

We can eliminate the possibility of a flush (including a straight flush) by guaranteeing that, of the seven cards from 14 and 20, no three are of the same suit. This is simple -- cycle the cards in arbitrary suit order, say, spades - diamonds - clubs - hearts.

Now we simply need to eliminate the possibility of a straight. The permutation A Q T 8 6 4 2 K J 9 7 5 3 does this. Each player gets connected cards like A-2, 5-6, or J-Q, but the board hits the first, third, and fifth cards of a straight (or doesn't put one out at all), meaning one or two players have a gutshot draw but nobody ever hits.

It even appears realistic for a player in the small blind to play this hand regardless of which of the possibilities they're dealt, unless two other players both put out big raises. With a strong hand (say, pairing an ace or king on the flop) they can simply act as though they knew they were in the lead the whole time. With a weak hand (say, 3-4 offsuit) they can act like they were playing position with a Gus Hansen hand, semi-bluffed with bottom pair, and sucked out on the river.
that library is gconf, you just need to implement a different backend by writing one of those format plugins you mentioned.
I don't think that any of the master/slave and the limited master/master replication are bringing any benefits to durability discussion. These both setups will behave exactly the same as the replica pair.
The arbitrator server is an interesting option, but it has to deal with network partition and not durability. Such an arbitrator is not really useful for the replica pairs as these are self-managing the master-slave status.
As another poster said, RIM is very slow at releasing software, so by the time they release this HTML5 will probably be getting old.
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>I'm interested to know how much of a change this is, is this a new skin or REALLY a brand new operating system?

It's a brand new operating system. You might want to look up one of the articles about it that came out a few days ago.
Racketeering is collecting money to not commit a crime. IV suing you would not be a criminal act.
Making a bit of me: A machine that prints organs is coming to market
There are tools to easily convert java .jar files to .net assemblies (and the other way around).

for example IKVM.

So this really equalizes .net and the jvm with respect of libraries.
The "glowing profile" you mention may have been this 2008 article in the New Yorker, by Malcolm Gladwell: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_...
I think you are correct about the C and D. Considering replication is currently asynchronous it is clear that we cannot really talk about C.
HotSpot is built on top of the Strongtalk VM, which is very interesting in several ways. First, it's a Smalltalk implementation with optional strong static typing. Second, since 2006 it's been available as open source:

http://strongtalk.org/

I believe, along with Common Lisp and its VM, it's the only such option on the market. Clojure may have optional static typing -- which, running on the HotSpot JVM, would mean bringing this "full cycle" -- but I need to RTFM before I say for sure.
"People with a passion with nothing are the ones who are content to lead an ordinary life. They are the ones who can grow up, go to school, get married, get a good job, buy a house in the suburbs, raise children and grandchildren and die utterly content with their lives."

This isn't quite fair. This describes people who are passionate about their family, their wives, their children. Maybe passionate about home repair. Maybe about their local community. Or even spots.
And that doesn't even cover the fact that most ordinary suburban folk have hobbies about which they are passionate.

The article overall just seems to be placing labels on people, but leaving me with a question to the author of, "So What?"
Racketeering is the extortion of money under the threat of illegal violence: arson, injury, blackmail, etc. The payer has done nothing to harm the payee.

Patent trolling is the extortion of money under the threat of a legal action over a wrong done by the payer (ie, infringed on a patent).

If you hit me with your car, I can choose to sue your insurance company (you've paid them to take legal responsibility), or I can choose to accept a negotiated settlement from them.
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You are my hero. We hated typing class, particularly because they had these silly keyboard blockers that forced you to touch type.
Or the history of reform.

I seem to recall a few years ago all of the smart "capitalists"* were telling us that we should put our SS money in the market. Around 2005-2006, if I recall correctly.

Good thing we didn't do it.

*"capitalists" in scare quotes to the extent that it may describe oligarchists rather than believers in true competition.
I know from experience that most people who follow the software industry have inflexible opinions about patents and people who sell licenses for them (which, in turn, requires a legal recourse system for infringement) so I don't expect his argument to be popular here.

But I think it's important to separate his very valid points from both your preconceptions of him specifically and the squalid state of our patenting system, which I think is not irreparable. I'd love to see a liquid market for inventions, and professional inventors who don't have to worry about the practical applications and business matters related to their work.

Rock stars don't open stores to sell their own CDs. Painters don't generally own their own galleries. Why must an inventor be forced to also be an entrepreneur?
Some very very unhappy customer of Earth Class Mail put up a blog about their awful customer service. He listed some alternatives for viewing and managing postal mail online at his site:

http://unhappyecmcustomer.blogspot.com/2009/09/earth-class-m...

St Brendan's Isle is on there, as are some other ones like Virtual Post Mail, Paperlessmail, and US Global Mail. It's definitely good to check out the different services. Everyone appears to be in different states so they may offer something that may fit your usage. For example, Virtual Post Mail is located in California and from what I read, they also provide Registered Agent services for CA corps and llcs. That's something to consider if you're looking to setup a corporate presence in the State.

On a related note, if you do hire people reside in that state or supposedly do business in that state such as having a warehouse there or something, then you normally would need to register your corporation (delaware in this case) as a foreign corp in that state. So then, you end up paying basically two annual fees. Imagine what Microsoft has to pay every year. :)
That there are nice people at Microsoft is hardly the point. It's naive to ignore the reputation MCSFT has developed over the years, and Myhrvold was a senior decision maker at Microsoft. While the original posters hyperbole might be out of place, the observation that Nathan Myhrvold might be following in MCSFT's aggressive, sometimes abusive, business practices is completely valid.
There is a small sentence at the bottom of the complaint that says they will amend if any qualifying picts / information is produced.
>Calculus, literature, CS 101: C. Topology, Operating Systems, Quantum Mechanics: A.

But why isn't it preferable to have the person who goes with:
Calculus, literature, CS 101: A. Topology, Operating Systems, Quantum Mechanics: A. ?

Perhaps the C/A person was spending their time better elsewhere when they could get away with it. But even so, this doesn't really excuse them because either the C/A student:

(1) "gets it" -- in which case doing well in those easy classes would be trivial. Given that all the students know what the game is (get high grades), why would an employer trust them to take a job seriously when they refuse to perform any trivial tasks despite the high return on low investment?

(2) "didn't bother learning the easy stuff" -- in which case they probably don't actually have any deep understanding of these more advanced topics. This would suggest to me that they simply started figuring out the teachers password for those courses.

I don't see any way to interpret the C/A student as being better than the A/A student without knowing more about either the student (certainly some interaction can reveal a drone) or the classes (there are tough classes out there, which actually require understanding for high performance).

Edit: Self-awareness check -- I made the transition from "C/A" in high school to "A/A" in university. This was based on an attitude adjustment, and the realization that I'm playing a partly silly, but also partly valuable game and I might as well try to win both. I suppose this opens up a third possibility in which the C/A transition comes from a change in the student. But that should still at best put me on par with an A/A student, given no more information.
On one hand I really hope the original story is false/overblown, like perhaps the kid was using his webcam in a public setting online and the administrators were simply monitoring. (Which is weird, but not as weird as full-control spying)

On the other hand, if it turns out that the story is overblown, I am getting really, really, really, really tired of web outlets yanking my libertarian chain. True abuse needs to be confronted. If this is baseless rumor or purposeful link-baiting, it does more to hurt privacy (by making people used to such accusations) than the administrators ever may have done.
It is pointless to seek professional responsibity among IT staff when the people who hired them don't have any. Anyone having responsability wouldn't have lasted there anyway.
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"Linux does have a number of X windows related registries"

There's your problem right there. The correct number is ONE. ONE registry, ONE widget set, ONE global, standard, accepted set of keybindings.

That's what the Linux community needs to make happen in order to be taken seriously as a desktop OS.
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This is awesome. I am a big Portable Apps fan (on windows anyway), I've got a folder with most of the apps I use regularly and I just copy it to any new Windows based computer and I'm up and running. It includes:
OpenOffice
Firefox
Opera
Putty
WinSCP
VirtualBox Portable with a WindowsXP development VM (Visual Studio and SQL Server)
A ton of other apps that rock

But I love Linux and hate that I have to reinstall a ton of stuff every time I setup (or reimage) a workstation.
What's fun about the law system is that each case is open to interpretation, because of its particular circumstances.

If, for example, you trade emails with the film crew saying you couldn't get permission to shoot but was going stealth anyway, and you use the mall as a location this week and in a couple days you send funding requests using only this particular movie, and the mall has a central role (as in Mallrats), then yes, you're using the mall as part of a (soon to be) commercial venture.

But if your mall movie was filmed 5 years ago (and now the mall went through a reform), was just a gathering place because the actress lives 5 minutes away from it, and the movie using it is just part of your portfolio of dozen, than I don't think any law system would judge against you.

The law is not a tech spec. Finding the balance between the two extreme examples above is the whole purpose of a government branch :)

Edit: The mall case would probably pend to a trademark side, but the point remains. Law is hard, let's go shopping! (just not on the same mall as the movie)
If I remember right, she was forced to give up her teacher's license.
Good thing he didn't say that then!
Good point... sometimes it's better not to get much work from some people. They do more harm than good.