skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to tell you what you really meant, but...

As I read your post, I was thinking that increased connectivity between individuals (I'm now in contact with many people I'd have lost contact with ages ago, thanks to FaceBook etc.), together with the widespread mistake that "anecdote is the singular of data", combine to create a perception that more bad stuff is happening.

That is, I'm in contact with many more people now than I could have been a few decades ago: everyone I associate with now, plus many people I've reconnected with via social media. I daresay that connects me with more people than, say, my grandfather was connected with. And if my larger sample hits one crime, then our mental inability to scale creates a false impression that the odd event is happening all around.
I've disabled both Chat and Buzz as now. Chat used to be there as a benign thing since I don't use it. Since the Buzz forced activation, I've gone through to disable all Google apps that I don't care.
So and it's basically a convenience wrapper around HBase/Hadoop or...? I'm still not clear what it actually adds on top of regular HBase.
This is the thing about SO that really works. You almost always get a good answer within hours of asking any programming question (that's been my experience anyway).
I disagree with the grandparent poster because it doesn't matter if you come off as a bumbler or a chancer in this environment - actually, Atwood's gungho informality is probably a plus. But I suspect he's getting at Atwood being routinely wrong or misinformed about all manner of developer related topics - just listen to the Stack Overflow podcast for a few weeks to get a feel for it. Joel's routinely correcting him on stuff that's not even in Joel's area of expertise. (But that, versus someone who's scared of ever looking wrong? I think I'd invest in Atwood.)
Everyone of those things is irrelevant when compared to the ability to make a girl weak at the knees with desire. Without desire, even the most technically competent lovemaking is unexciting. This is the secret to why geeks do not, and never will make good lovers.
Not as part of another site. ie site that has more than just stack-exchange. (And they don't allow iframes)
Agile Business Conference 2010 in London
People switch phones much more often though, maybe even once a year.

Consoles is something you buy for a five year period of time.
Coder on the cross
Isn't this where projects go to die? I'm not sure why companies think that they can merge open source projects just like they are divisions in a company.

This seems like a last ditch effort to salvage some sort of market for both of these projects. Neither really seemed to have much of a direction, so I suspect that together they will really be able to go nowhere fast.
My Mom is on street view. It was hilarious to see the look on her face when I first showed her.
Cloud-Appropriate Systems: Scale, Security, and Monitoring
Microsoft's New Mobile OS
In that case, you're mostly right, but I think the "using credit to buy assets" point is worth reiterating. Books, training courses, tools, etc, are usually under $3K but could be a "good" use of credit. If someone without much disposable income has the opportunity to take credit to become, say, an MCSE to find a better job, that seems a reasonable use of credit.

In terms of needless consumer goods that return little value, however, right on. The problem, then, is you either have to ruin credit for everyone (good or bad) or you need to find a way to reduce "bad" borrowing.. which is seemingly next to impossible.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/

Some things may be said in private mailing lists, face to face conversation, phone calls, IM etc. but the actual standards, the objections and the decision making process is all public.
Yes, i agree. As i said, it would probably have been a good idea to start with an invite-only beta stage. Still wondering why they didn't and why they didn't think the use cases through, that's a shame. To me it feels, like some manager wanted to push that software out before its time where i hoped google projects wouldn't be as budget-driven and as marketing-driven as the whole rest of the industry. Atleast not so much to produce such a disaster.

Although Google did some steps to open up in terms of what data they have on a user, i hope this incident pushes them to be as open as possible with what data of me they have and giving me more control over it.
Death Becomes Him
look for the shorts.
Leading Operators Unite to Unleash Global Apps Potential
I'd be quite keen to advertise my to-be-launched-soon coder community site (that's not competing with SO) on SO, but they have no self serve system and I'm not paying the $20+ CPM they'd probably quote if I contacted them direct.. :-)
checkout http://BuyersVote.com
They spent the last couple years talking about how WM7 was going to be based on IE6!
The "TL;DR" doesn't cover it, but in the chapter the previous commenter references, he does explain why it's a logical fallacy. At the risk of putting something incomplete and/or incorrect, TL;DR summary of the explanation of the fallacy is that the productivity saved by automation is always available to fuel further production.
I'd like to highlight that debt isn't so much a problem as the trade imbalance is. And the idea that no currently traded specie will have value at some arbitrary point in the near future is silly: the USD might not be the currency of global exchange, but there will still be such a currency (likely the Euro, the RMB, or a synthetic currency) or exchange becomes incredibly difficult.

China is not likely to stop intervening in foreign currency markets, though there is a substantial risk to their economy if they do so. But people forget that long before China was subsidizing US trade imbalances, Japan was. And they'd likely replace China as the purchaser of dollar securities in order to stave off the inflation of the yen.

Please visit http://www.bookstore.petersoninstitute.org/publications/inte... for more information.
I believe you become somebody, by doing. How can you become something or somebody if you don't do anything? So I disagree.
Nothing. It's not so hard to code, either, if you have time. That's why it's a land rush.
Same in the UK. However, there's a loophole, of sorts, that lets you claim a percentage of your mortgage interest in the UK if one room or area of the property is dedicated to your business.
I'm curious what the red tape was like. Did you require a visa or work permit? How long/painful was the process? I take it you had a job lined up before you went, did the employer assist you?
> Apple has no pretense at “openness”

They might control the hardware and the app store but the software stack is not so closed e.g. Darwin Streaming Server, Webkit, OpenDarwin, blocks & Grand Dispatch, libcocoa, Objective-C and the list goes on
Tom Otterness
As a user of some of the more recent Q/A sites (StackOverflow and Fluther) I find one of the most valuable pieces to be the community. I don't think that necessarily scales to a venture-worthy size or that venture capital leads to long term care takers of that community. However, clearly the founders seem to think otherwise. Joel's looking for money and Fluther took seed funding.
You might be thinking of a Rainbow Hologram[0]. The breakthrough here is in production from a virtual scene, not in quality. The "features" of the material in any hologram must be on the order of the wavelength of the light you are using. The image is recorded as an interference pattern of light rays, so good hologram has a resolution of 20-80 nm! There are some images of good holograms at the bottom of [1], and Claus Cohnen gave a good talk about the state of the art at the Chaos Communication Congress last year [2].

[0]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_hologram
[1]. http://www.3d-lab.de/25c3/holodeck.htm
[2]. http://chaosradio.ccc.de/media/congress/2008/video/25C3-3016...
I've always wondered what the great mastermind PG looks like!
A.I. through advancing search engine technology?
Assuming you're at work, and you spend 30 minutes of a day where you could be caught on camera, and assuming Google streetview vehicle passes through your road once every year, what is the probability of you getting caught on camera? Also we should take in to factor you don't and streetview vehicle work only from 9-5.
Doesn't this really belong in a bug report somewhere?
You too, huh?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=38....

Almost spooky how identifiably clear mine is.
Subway totally owes me a kickback for the free advertising.
Very good information. I didn't do any verification from outside accounts, I just started immediately trying to stop/undo.
Why do Wikipedia articles converge to such high-quality content but that doesn't happen with other collaboratively-edited sites like SO? Maybe it's because there's such a well-defined culture to guide high-quality editing on Wikipedia (i.e. projects, bots, etc.) that doesn't exist on other sites?
The death of the climate "hockey stick"?
"When you date a geek, you know the geek will be yours until you are done."

Really? ... Really?
Sovereign Defaults (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Debt)
One thing that wasn't clear from the article, what does he want to spend the money on?

If it's marketing, I don't see why they can't do that with existing revenue. It's not as expensive as say a retail location for a starbucks and they must be doing some revenue with ads and job board already.

If it's hiring more developers that might make sense, although I can't think of any huge features they don't have yet.

Overall, not sure I'm convinced this is a good play for VC. They are growing nicely without it.
I should be on Street View as one went past while my wife and I were walking along from one of our first visits when she was pregnant. That was at least 10 months ago and the area we were in still isn't on Street View (rural UK). Anyone know how long it takes? :-)
See also: "Goldman Sachs goes Rogue" http://baselinescenario.com/2010/02/14/goldman-goes-rogue-–-...
If you're really that curious: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/44/137275735_6ba4ac4e5a.jpg
The "fastest gun in the west" bug has been fixed for awhile; answers at equivalent ratings are ordered randomly. In my experience, that's eliminated the problem 90% of the time and ameliorated it the rest.
Both Australia and Estonia are party to the Schengen agreement, what this means is that you are automatically granted a visa upon arrival in Estonia for a period of three months, I lined up professional contacts ahead of time with a view to work, but nothing has been nailed down in terms of work yet.

I'm not concerned by this because with my final paycheque from Sydney at the end of this month I have enough funds to finish my experiment entirely, so worst case scenario I have to go, but I'm ok. It would leave me two months to work on my personal projects which I've wanted for a while, and an unobtrusive, peaceful and friendly environment to do so.

That said, I'm totally open to working with people over here and in fact looking forward to it if it comes to pass, I'm just not staking my game on it.
Also, I would imagine docking would be the hard part. You could have a local human crew take over that part, perhaps.
What I'm curious about is if they'll be labeling DRM/DRM-Free book downloads like they started doing with songs.

I know that at least a few publishers are willing to go the no-DRM route.

Contrast with Audible, for example. Cory Doctorow has had public arguments about the fact that they will not let him sell audio versions of his books without DRM.
Those statues are in the New York Subway at a couple of stations. I believe that particular one is at 14th St. and 8th Ave., on the A line, but I'm not 100% sure.
It's not crazy for specialized schooling, but it is another thing to suggest that it's the best way to educate a society.
The partners are probably just happy that they didn't get fucked over by a 1st party Zune Phone.

Microsoft has had several such projects in their recent stable of inept Mobile OS + hardware dev teams (along with several non-phone Zunes, WM6, WM6.5, several reboots of WM7, the Sidekick, etc.).

Google's doing a ton of meddling with their hardware partners, as they can withhold their apps (Maps, Gmail, Voice, etc.) to get their way, but even then they keep getting fucked on basic stuff like putting the hardware buttons in the same order, much less the insane issues with backporting software updates! It looks like MS is trying to dodge all of that up front.
This goes much wider than crime.

When I was growing up in the '70s I used to ride my bike everywhere. Even at 10 years old I was riding clear across town, with absolutely no supervision. What parent allows their kids to do that today?

One of the places I'd ride to during the summer was a nearby river. We'd all go swimming there, jumping off the bridge and such. But who would ever go swimming in some river now, despite the fact that water pollution is far better now than it was 30-35 years ago?

Full disclosure: I was hit by cars twice while on my bike. And at the river I once dove off the rope swing head first and let go where the water was only 3-4 feet deep, so I'm darned lucky I didn't break my neck and drown. But I did survive.
For more info about the original topic, see this documentary about the legal system in the u.s. It shows cops driving around in SUVs and using guns and stuff they seized without warrant or arrest or conviction of crimes. It also clearly shows the conflict of interest when discussing the issue with some of the police officers.

This policy was created, according to the documentary, as an incentive for local law enforcement to team with the federal government in the drug war by rewarding them for investigating drugs crimes and seizing property in the effort.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbsI1j--XaE
My problem is the mandate of the cc-wiki by attribution license, when cc licenses are not intended for code. A pessimistic reading would appear to restrict even reimplementaitons of answers.

Of course, the main problem is that individuals should be able to license their contributions as they choose.
Yeah, it's tremendously confusing. As far as I can tell, looking at it from another account is the only way to know that the profile doesn't actually show the following/follower information publicly. It really shouldn't require an in-depth, multi-person investigation to figure out what's public and what isn't.
They caught me drinking! (I'm across from the guy with the hat) http://bit.ly/Rz2GB
Can't beat these guys http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

"Walk" east!
Search for '' on the Google Chrome extension gallery. (page 99)
Writing a Gem While Developing a Rails Application (part 2 of 3)
Way to go with your sweeping generalisation.

Not like the article is any better.
You entirely missed the point. Notice the little qualifying phrase, "given time"? Yes, in a crisis, gold is not worth much to you. But if you want a method of retaining wealth that is guaranteed to be convertable in almost any country in the world, you need gold.
I think most of these are sort of wrong, especially when taken unqualified. Sure, geeks aren't interested in the stereotypical alpha-male kind of status, but they can be quite obsessed with intellectual status. Sure, they may not have bad sexual habits, but they can have annoying social habits (e.g., frequently offering unwanted advice, nitpicking factual correctness, exhibiting clingy beta-male behavior, etc). Sure, they might be good at a variety of intellectual endeavors, but geekiness is also highly correlated with a lack of athletic aptitude. Etc.

I suppose my point it that being a bad lover (or, more generally, a jerk) is an equal-opportunity social role.
Lay Off the Layoffs, They Often Backfire
I have a friend who went to South America the summer after 2nd year. Also a roommate who went to Peru after 3rd year, but she had to apply and interview to go with the prof.
No. Gold's value is in its intrinsic suitability as an instrument of exchange, far more than any other substance on earth. Can you point to any time in the history of civilization where gold has been worthless? I mean, really, any period of time from, say, the days of the Babylonian empire until today? Just what about today's times have changed the intrinsic value of gold? See my other post in this thread for just what that value is. It is by no means arbitrary.
You don't get banned, but your app may be withdrawn until the private API calls are removed
HBase is basically a column-based key-value store. It's just where we store our data. We provide a real-time query language, structured and unstructured search, processing. It's a complete data platform.
It's kind of funny how relatively little Microsoft has done to address any of these issues -- pushing apps-on-a-server via RDP instead of their old CORBA nonsense is one of their few successes I can think of. Even though the approach is ultimately "pretend you're not remote", at least it's happening at the right layers.
Cyber Warriors
While he considers himself a "french philosopher", BHL is not regarded as a philosopher by everyone. In fact, it is very common to make fun of BHL because of this. He is certainly more known as a journalist and a well marketed public figure than as a philosopher.
Sweet, I use the "site" operator a lot but I've never actually used the intitle one.
I found nothing that would give me this kind of info. Most limit themselves to how much memory the box had and load numbers.
No, it's not imaginary. Far from it. Gold is not like tulips in Holland. Not even remotely. It's value is in its scarcity, divisibility, and durability. Nothing else compares. Never has (unless you want to say Silver). That is why gold has been money for thousands of years, and that shows no signs whatsoever of changing. It is one thing that no matter what the markets do will still have value.

Is it an investment? No, and anyone treating gold as an investment is acting very foolishly. Gold is money, plain and simple. It has retained its essential value for centuries.
Somebody should do a post on why so many geeks are deluded.
Funny the sidebar ad is for iRobot! Making ad dollars off PG?
you're now © google.
Wow. If you go West once and look to the right they appear to be just kicking back reading the paper in some lawn chairs. They then proceed to chase the streetview car down the road as it moves east.
So, to optimize for positivity, be in a relationship but don't get married.
But there are also vulnerable to piracy.
Ask HN: Search engines with regular expressions?
Does anyone know of any search engines that allow searching with regular expressions?

The only one I know of is Google Code Search, but I'm looking for a search engine that searches ordinary web pages, not just source code.

I think regex search would be a really useful feature that would greatly increase the relevance and value of search results, and I'm kind of surprised no virtually no search engines have implemented it by now.
Yeah, I'm sick of seeing that idea being passed about without sources. I think most of the people talking about it haven't even heard of John Taylor Gatto, which is where it came from.

But, do you have sources?
It makes sense for Intel, because they want to get into the mobile market, which is totally controlled by ARM. So getting Nokia's platform to be not only ARM- but also Atom-compatible might get Intel a chance of entry.

I guess it technically makes less sense for Nokia. Maybe they just need Intel's money, to be able to keep up with the pace of Android development.
When I was in high school, I knew someone who later was imprisoned for participation in a slightly-notorious murder. (the murder of the University of Florida's "junk food professor", in some bizarre circumstances [1])

I no longer know this person. Thus, every murderer has been removed from my notice, and hence no one gets murdered anymore.

[1] http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/classic...
I feel like the only person not pissed off about Buzz.

Email contacts might seed your connections, but I have followers and followees that I've never spoken a private word to in person or via email.

Honest question: what information is it that people feel is leaking, other than "I clicked 'Follow' on this person's profile"?
Yes but during the industrial revolution we had a lot of unmet need. Now, we are much better off. I'm not convince there is enough need to justify keeping everyone employed.
What makes you say that geeks are not desirable - and could never be?
While I agree that this is an issue that is worthy of reasoned and careful debate, and is a difficult subject, I don't like to see these sorts of things here on Hacker News. The discussions never manage to satisfy my intellectual curiosity (even though the issues are of direct personal relevance), and certainly aren't relevant to programming or startups (except in the most tortured or peripheral manner).
Use of temps may no longer signal permanent hiring
The economic expansion when we start asteroid mining will be so enormous that most people won't have much to worry about, financially.
I enjoy using StackOverflow.

Jeff Atwood seems to get a lot of flack, but in creating such a nice site and community, he's walked the walk as far as I'm concerned.
"440 SQL Server Systems hosting over 1,000 databases" with 1PB of SQL Server hosted data. Yow.
Regular expression cheat sheets
They took mine too: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
My mother fought breast cancer for 4 years, until 2 weeks ago. Don't wait too long to start hospice care and get your mom the best pain medicines.
What's really amusing to me is when gold-nuts rail against modern currencies as fiat currencies. It seems to me gold is just as arbitrarily denoted a currency as any other, it just has no explicit guarantor.

EDIT: Also, why is it so hard to imagine taking care of the debt? Or is it because he has little faith in taxpayers' willingness to pay into it?
sad but true.
True. I would switch phones but very likely it will still be an Android phone.

I don't know that many people switching from IPhone to Android and vice-versa.

My online life is tightly integrated with Google's services so it will be tough to switch to a new platform.
I think Moblin and Maemo 5 are both using quite a few GNOME pieces. Of course Maemo 6 creates a lot of questions (the first one being "why rip up your platform right after you just barely got it working?")
If an investment is uncertain, a conservative person would not make the investment. The conservative person is therefore not afraid, because they don't have anything on the line. Fear comes after you invest in something uncertain, because then you might lose something. So, uncertainty might affect your choice to invest, but fear only comes after.
Some people always say gold is a great investment, other people always say it's a terrible one. Both sides are wrong.
Python vs. Ruby: A Battle to The Death (Video)
And don't they like to mention so all the time. It's the computer equivalent of "I don't own a TV".
It is nice to have Core Text, but will they also provide it on the iPhone?
Science blogger finds errors in Met Office climate change records
Has the book publishing industry failed to learn from the music publishing industry?

Perhaps, this is a last ditch effort at extracting as much revenue as they can by retaining their illusion of control over something that fundamentally needs to be easy to share so that it becomes viral and generates a lot more revenue...
I read a lot about the history of education for "The Age of the Essay." There are links to some in the notes.
I know people who are total geeks but have broken each and every silly statement in that article.

Geeks are also people, and not perfect.
Robot of the future == the ghost of java programs past? :p
Agreed. Its actually (shhh!) currency that is imaginary. And so, to cure the national debt, we need only declare it gone.
What makes Apple's App Store tick? (results to a previous HN survey)