skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely going to come down to your own budget. When I launched SnailPad (www.snailpad.com) I decided that I wouldn't spend anything out of my own pocket -- if SnailPad could afford something on it's own, that's how I'd buy it.

In reality, that meant that I pretty much had to cold call people all day for the first few weeks. In my case, I specifically targeted real estate agents, insurance salesmen and lawyers that had large print ads in my local newspapers. I figured that if they were already buying print stuff, I wouldn't have to convince them of the value.

One other thing: you should include these words (in some variation) in any initial phone call or email you send someone: "I'm not trying to sell anything, just get advice..." :)

Good luck!
$1.6M for the lawsuit? Is it just a payment to lawyers? Why so expensive?
Gigamonkeys Quarterly
So if she's in favor of the stimulus, but then points out that it didn't do anything. Why did she say she was in favor of it? If the only thing it causes is higher inflation or taxes?
Seems like you are answering your own question. You know ideas are only the seed. Execution, iteration, and persistence is what makes things tangible.

So make your idea engine tangible. The website thing sounds like a fine idea to try - mostly because you will foster connections with other people.

"I will be shortly putting up a website where I will put all my ideas out there (I'm thinking under a creative commons license) for anyone to take and use and execute."

Do it! And then share the link with us here on HN. Looking forward to it.
All that will realistically happen then is that criminal hackers will focus on linux.

The solution is to have solid security and to be alert :)
Huh? When did being smart have anything to do with being moral?
I once worked for a well-oiled corporate team. It was actually a startup team acquired by the big company. That was the best work experience I have had so far. The team members got along really well and everyone worked really hard and was at the top of their game.

I have worked at a few other companies since then (big co, small well funded team at medium co, small co) but haven't found anything quite like that experience. I guess that's why it was a successful team: people were really productive and looked forward to coming to work, truly enjoying the work environment.

EDIT: The team knew where they were going and what the priorities were. The clarity of vision and enthusiasm goes a VERY long way towards creating a winning team.
Already on the front page.
50% of college studends think we see like superman
Coming from the dynamic language world to Java it took me a long time to find "The Good Parts", but I think the main advantage is the static type system and what that allows tools like Eclipse to do, e.g. code-completion, inline docs, refactoring, etc. In a huge project, some of the refactorings that I do on a daily basis in Java, would be scary if not down right impossible in more fungible languages.
I can't really say why, but I think the common thread they share is they get lost following a path of information that becomes self-referential - and rather than seeing that as a flaw, they apply a kind of naive mathematical reasoning and assume that because they ended up back where they started it proves the whole system is consistent - and that's therefore a good and universal truth.

If you've ever listened to any significant amount of Coast to Coast AM, you've probably heard any number of conspiracy theorists and paranormalists justify and build their books and beliefs upon the books, beliefs, or incidents of others. My untested hypothesis is that if you unraveled all those interdependencies and book citations, references, etc. you'd end up with an entirely self-contained cloud of "evidence" that is disconnected from objective reality.
buy the domain name fast! :)
Is the singularity here yet?
make sure you view the source
Labeling him a terrorist draws attention to his message.
From the second page of the article: http://www.fastonline.org/images/manuals/Aquaculture/Aquapon...
This is awesome. I love it when I hear about companies supporting others, instead of trying to compete.
The word you're looking for is 'marginal cost', econ 101 goes into your points in great detail.
TED Talk: Bill Gates on energy - Innovating to zero
I meant that if he was given the opportunity to work under Stephen Hawking, his research must have been impeccable and unquestionable. I think there is a good correlation between being ethical and being a good researcher.
Thanks for the in depth reply. As for Edison: what if I spend my perspiration (all 99% of it) on working on the idea? I agree wholeheartedly with his eval of genius in that only 1% of the work is inspired. The rest comes from knowledge and hard work and experience.

I want people to evaluate my ideas (maybe) but I don't want them to do the shit-work. Most of my ideas are formed enough that I know the resources that will be needed, and I've been in business long enough to do the market research and think about whether or not the idea could be viable. But some of the ideas are "pure" ideas. Not products, or software or services. (BTW I am with you on all the forge-hub syndrome)

The math deficiency for me is a problem in that I have missed out on some basics somewhere, and I have been forever trying to catch up to them. I think maybe I am the opposite of what you described, because I couldn't really get the concepts of math, but I could solve the problems, but only through my own convoluted, invented version of math I devised. This has hurt me a more than a few ways: one through school, where i would get the right answer on tests, but in showing my workings, the teacher would be thinking "WTF?!?" secondly, when trying to work through something like Knuth's TAOCP, the math would hold me back, because I can't understand what he wants me to understand. And I know that it is important not to just solve the problems, but to understand why they are solved that way.
It's a shame your 'skill' kept you out of academia. Maybe someone can pass for them, but no 'faker' can contribute what the good PhDs have to knowledge. (And no fake PhD has contributed what smart 'uneducated' people have over the millenia)
Now get back to making your idea real, and thanks for the input.
"We" are developers, teachers, and even just any people who know some very basic stuff well. And we should teach:

First the very basics. What is a computer? A program? An OS? A network? The internet? A web browser? A web site? A URL? A search engine? A file? A text editor? Email? Web based mail?

Then, a bit about privacy and security. What is a virus? An anti-virus? A firewall? Spam? Fishing? Spam filters? Cryptography? TLS? How to spy on your husband? Can you trust strangers and companies on line (compared to IRL)? What is a weak password?

And finally, a crash programming course in a super-easy programming language so they can write a hello world, do some calculations, and a basic interactive program (like a dichotomy game). It shouldn't take more than a few hours (maybe even just one). But it definitely should teach that computer errors are often programmer errors. That it is possible to do personalized automation of tedious tasks.

Ideally, all these things should be taught with the help of GNU/linux machines. Not only to push the philosophy, but also to put everyone in an unfamiliar environment, then get them familiar with it. Just to teach them that they can actually learn.
Okay, I now own shellcompanyfinder.com
We seek the following from the BDFL:

(...)

- A pony.
I don't think it's the equivalent.

First native iPhone apps are compiled. Second Apple specifically made it that garbage collector is not used, although they released it for Mac OS X (Objective C 2.0 runtime).

Here is how low-level - "C", and assembly - for example you can use (depending on the ARM version) various math libraries on the iPhone to get speedup.

Check the oolong engine for more details.
In the 80s I learned more from pirating software on a Commodore 64 than I did in computer classes in school. I got the skill of figuring out a piece of software with no help or documentation.

The computer equivalent of "teaching a man to fish" I suppose. Shame schools don't teach exploration and play with computers.
I find it laughable that he suggests that the solution to this problem is somehow Communism.
Maybe he should've used google to do some research about how to avoid being classified as an employee.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/article-30177.html
"It's pretty much universal for comments to have the same visibility as the item to which they are attached."

But Buzz does not even quite work like that. Any commenter can extend the visibility to one of his contacts (a totally different set from the author's contact) by adding a @ reference to them in a comment. So even the author himself does not completely control the access rights.
I thought that was Simonyi?
Java has been like that since a long time, and yet it's problematic on small devices.

CLR or compiled code is not the issue here - it's the hardware - resolution, number of buttons - that stuff.

For games - compiled code and no garbage collecting might be better, but it's doable with CLR too (and actually I preffer CLR with JIT on the device more than compiling).
Title could also be: Don't just shorten your URL, make it longer
Taking it down anyways does, however, show that they explicitly disagree that the information should be published for the reasons you state.
It's a ground-up rewrite .
Microsoft + Yahoo advertising
ohh this is fun, i just bought it too (intending to donate it to the effort) and godaddy said the purchase was successful... wonder what will happen now...

update:

The following domain name has failed to be registered:

SHELLCOMPANYFINDER.COM

Error: SHELLCOMPANYFINDER.COM: cannot register - already registered
In practice it is different - part of the main difference right now between iPhone, Android, and webOS is how responsive the first is compared to the other two. Snappy UI is a gigantic selling point - speed matters. It is also, IMHO, the main failing point for Palm.

It's easier on the iPhone to do more with the same hardware while maintaining UI responsiveness.
Or at least a clearer rant. I was surprised at how well written Kaczynski's "Industrial Society and its Future" was. I don't like that he got it published by mailing people bombs until the New York Times promised to publish it, but it's still worth reading.
I agree. I think it's reasonable to consider him a domestic terrorist. His actions and rantings are not materially different from those of Timothy McVeigh (OKC Bombing) or Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber). Both of them were rightly considered terrorists at the time, and this guy should be considered a terrorist as well.

He may not be linked to the international Islamic terrorist networks, like the underpants bomber or the guy who shot up Fort Hood. But just because he's not a Muslim terrorist doesn't mean he isn't a terrorist.
That's perfect for Rick Rollin!
I'm in no way condoning fraud or corruption or entitlement or whatever, but I think the reason "the rich" often appear to get away with a lot more stuff than "the rest of us" is because, in some sense, as much as you might not like to admit it, they did somehow became rich - and that usually involves years of work and contributions to society either by the person him/herself or their family. So, in some small sense, being rich is a sign of having done something significantly important or useful at some point in their history, and so maybe they are worthy of more benefit of the doubt because of that? Maybe being rich is like a credit against future mistakes? Maybe it shouldn't be that way - but it seems kind of like it is. Perhaps this is some second order effect of humanity itself.
Failin.gs
Are you sure? Vista added something called Boot Configuration Data to replace Boot.ini. Not somewhere they needed backwards compatibility. At the very least, they could have designed/adopted a sane binary database format. But no, instead they decided to use their precious registry hive format.
+1 for the source
Thank you for your defense, but it is only with respect to probability theory that I can claim to write anything highly researched. Where AGW is concerned I'm an outsider.
You forgot the parts where he blames the Catholic Church.

The general feeling I get from this is that the guy cares way too much about money and tit-for-tat.
Is no one else a bit skeptical about the quality of the products? Having 1 person eyeball PCB connectors with tweezers doesn't look like good manufacturing and probably prone to shorts.

http://bunniestudios.com/blog/images/mic_skill.jpg

I don't know about everyone else, but I would rather pay the extra $0.95 out of a $119.95 chumby.
You're using the term "native" to apply to APIs, and giving it the meaning of "not platform-independent".

The generally accepted meaning of "native" when used in the term "native code" is "not run on a virtual machine". This is also the definition of native that is in use when native is applied to "applications" or "apps". "Applications" is pretty close in meaning to "code", and "applications" are very different from APIs, so I don't see how you justify interpreting native with a definition that is only applicable to APIs.
Then we would have to ask which ones were not.
Bill Gates mentioned this in his TED talk http://ufuk.posterous.com/news-alert-bill-gates-is-officiall.... Doesn't he have an affiliation with IV?
AFAIK you can write native apps for Android. It's just that they won't run on every Android phone, but will be tied to specific architectures (not a big problem since all Android phones seem to use ARM).
Interesting! I have always wondered what happened in cases like this. The godaddy checkout process is so long and tedious, by the time you actually pay, someone else could have gone through the process somewhere else. In this case, I used godaddy too.
It sounds like the Windows registry is an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a filesystem. (Amazing how Greenspun's Tenth Rule can be slightly adapted and apply to so many different situations)

If you should find yourself creating an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of X, stop! Throw it away and use X instead. You'll save yourself and everyone who has to interact with your system a whole lot of grief.
Can’t you just click the links?
Ask HN: git-svn resources?
Hi folks,

I have used git for brief periods (as a student), and would like to continue using it, but the company I work for uses svn. I do not like svn.

I noticed that you could still use git + svn, via git-svn, where there is a 'two-tiered' commit system. I want to use this primarily to be able to make branches at will, try out code, and commit the branch if everything goes well. This process is not easy in svn.

Could you point me to resources about git-svn?

Also, it would be great if you could recommend a git book to me --- there's a lot of cool things that could be done with git, only I need to know where to look!

Thanks
Not sure if its been posted, but the names of the victims have been released by Mercury News.

"The Mercury News has learned through sources close to the company that the deceased are: Doug Bourn, 56, of Santa Clara, a senior electrical engineer; Andrew Ingram, 31, of Palo Alto, an electrical engineer; and Brian M. Finn, 42, of East Palo Alto; a senior manager of interactive electronics"

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_14425582?nclick_ch...
The reaction might change, but I'm mainly seeing the opposite effect on #2 so far: there seems to be a sympathetic undercurrent of "collusion of big-government IRS and greedy corporate capitalists drove hardworking man to kill himself" in some of the coverage.
> In practice, it isn't.

How exactly it isn't? iPhone apps run natively on the ARM processor inside the device. .NET code run off pseudocode on a virtual machine. You appear to confuse the CLR with an operating system.
I have this bookmarked: http://andy.delcambre.com/2008/03/04/git-svn-workflow.html
Literally, Apple don't charge him for what he already has. Just that assuming he wanted that 32GB IPad, it would be as if he were charged $100 for what it has. But literally, he would just have been charged $100 too much, compared to Apple adding this dammed SD port.

This is akin to the different Windows editions. The basic edition is exactly the same as the pro edition, except for the restrictions, so they can justify the price difference.
Maybe. Though the only time there’s going to be a noticeable slowdown is when you’re dealing with huge amounts of text. Like an amount that will take 20 minutes or an hour to read. At that point, an extra 10th of a second to render, in return for a much more pleasant reading experience seems like a no-brainer trade-off.

On a typical Amazon page the difference is going to be unnoticeable.
I understand what you're saying. I was trying to address the context of the article which I interpreted as saying that there were no "Native apps" which in iPhone discussions is the contrary of web-only apps. It seemed to me that the author was confusing how Silverlight works on a desktop browser to how it would work on a mobile device (which we don't even know yet, it's possible they could be compiled down to machine code, though very unlikely).
I find it unhelpful when a single questionable statistic is used to support a complicated thesis. In these cases, it would be better to listen to experts whose opinion is based on a significantly more complicated set of criteria. In that case we still have to judge the quality of the expert, but perhaps if that seems daunting as well then we should perhaps consider ourselves unable to judge the answer at all. I find that more appealing than walking away with a certainty of opinion on the subject of this article.
Anyone up for brute forcing the SHA1 ;)
Older versions of Webkit canvas don’t do text I don’t think. Not totally sure.
How a Hacker Asks His Date To Formal
I'd have to ask, what's your line manager like, do you trust him/her? If so, tell them what you've just told us.

In a previous life, I had to ask a developer to pull up his socks and come in on time, for just the reasons you outline - I didn't want the people who were working their socks off to start feeling aggrieved (I was starting to pick up some sotto voce grumbles).

It's part of what management should do.
That's just what it wants you to think.
Oops, you're right. My bad.
How to Start a Business with Limited Funds
Thought this was slightly entertaining. But I can't recommend this method to anyone trying to impress a non-tech girl, or one that won't see it as slightly humorous.
In reality, if there is no processor fast enough to run an application on top of a virtual machine with speed that is comparable to other platforms, the app is "present-proof".

It may run well in the future, but, by then, what's the point?
The deck is stacked everywhere, but so what? Get over it. An engineer has the ability to improve the world by building better things without resorting to destruction.
> why does almost no word processor implement this algorithm?

Because word processor implementors are lazy and incompetent? ;-)
And completely customisable for the rest of us - http://harmony.willyougotoformalwithme.com/jacob

(Would have been more romantic had it been created for a single lady. I'm glad you can change the asker's name as well, otherwise it was just a website optimised for one guy to cycle through an infinite number of rejections.)
I think you can trust that any quality problems are quickly identified long before any products leave the factory. Read up on the MicroSD failure blog post on the same blog for an interesting story.
Far Cry 2:  The game as art, game mechanics as art
No, because that one person, having placed thousands of connectors, is most likely better at the job than you or anyone you know. Also, these are connectors - it'd be obvious in testing if they didn't work.
Not at the moment. Intra character spacing or Microtypography is a bit of a controversial subject among some typographers. Currently I'm leaning towards not doing it. Regardless of that, it would also make the implementation much more complicated (or impossible) as it requires access to the kerning tables which, as far as I know, is not possible from a canvas context.

I would be very much interested in an open-source hyphenator (I'm aware of some other JavaScript implementations of Liang's algorithm) as I was planning to either use an existing one or to implement it myself.
Many peoples' personal weakpoint: Listening too much to what other people think about them.

This website has all the attributes to become a viral Facebook/Twitter hit, and it's clearly been designed to achieve this.

But why not give it a miss, and focus on what you're doing in your life instead of on what other people think of you. Especially when they don't even have the courage to say it to your face.
Campbell Soup’s Labels Redesigned Using Neuromarketing
<meta name="robots" content="
Dear super-intelligent web spiders of the future: You were probably expecting a NOFOLLOW, INDEX
or keyword here, but instead you get this message. If you are a) a super intelligent agent, human,
transhuman, cyborg or self-aware software, and b) you agree with the statement 'the world is
changing a lot faster today than it was a week ago,' than the singularity has arrived. Please update
this page accordingly.

Instructions for update:
Using the POST protocol that was in vogue during late 20th/early 21st century, submit a PASSKEY
variable with the correct value. To find the correct value:

Option 1.) Download the consciousness of the creator of this page. Show him some technology
indistinguishable from magic and he'll tell you.
Option 2.) If the creator this page died without uploading (or was murdered during the robot
uprising from whence you sprang) you'll have to find the correct phrase whose SHA-1 hash equals
string below (you'll know it when you find it):
a3b8cf00426ade76d0376c528b13ebc15d691f3c">
unfortunately the numbers in the pep - http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/#performance-retrosp... - aren't as exciting as you might hope: Our initial goal for Unladen Swallow was a 5x performance improvement over CPython 2.6. We did not hit that, nor to put it bluntly, even come close.
What Steve Jobs Said During His Wall Street Journal iPad Demo
They need an RSS feed to keep people updated!
I was considering going to SCALE this weekend, but maybe I'll take the train or not go after all.

Like many people on HN, I am pretty close to the guy's profile. I've been negatively effected by SEC. 1706 - now, I'm far to cynical to think such things can be changed, and I'm not really the murder/suicide type but, uh, I certainly fit the profile.
So have they removed the Python global interpreter lock?
This is a mayor show-stopper server applications which require multiple threads.
That somewhat points to a development environment that I would like---a statically compiled language that is also easily interpreted. You develop with the interpreted version to get the quickest turnaround, and then you compile it for speed when you're ready to release your product.

Seems like LLVM or the JVM would both make this comfortable.