skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We _know_ that the UK, and while it isn't within my direct sphere of knoweldge, it seems common knoweldge the US too are in a fairly dire financial situation, though their AAA credit rating and various other orchestrated advantages cover that for them (oil bought in Dollars for example). Also we can see that plenty of other countries that don't have similar advantages are closer to real trouble (Greece being propped up by massive EU funding, Spain also are cutting a very fine line).

What exactly is there to find calming about this smoke-screen information? That China might not be in as much trouble as us? I guess considering the incredible amounts of Dollars they hold that might be comforting incase they start to sell them off. Or that if they aren't in so much trouble then perhaps we aren't either? I can assure you that that isn't the case whatever the truth about China.
1: Since 2004

2: No, didn't apply.

(Sidenote: we're #29 in "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund" http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html)

3: No, bootstrapped.

4: http://www.sitezoogle.com
At first, I thought that it was closing for a "bad" reason but what you say is logical. But, why would they list alternative services if they would eventually come back?
hehe. Yeh ok (ironically there is one just round the corner from here too!). There are plenty of "escort" websites as well. But it's still illegal.

In terms of a viable business you couldn't really hide it under coy terms like "massage parlor" and "escort services" if you had VC funding :D
SXSW: Is Twitter the next Napster?
A free-flow toll road operator in Melbourne did something similar for the licence plate verification operators - they only hired deaf people, and their bosses learnt to sign.

The system automatically identifies the licence plate for tag-less vehicles using digital photography and OCR, but they are supposed to be verified, so the operators flip through the images quickly and look for mismatches.
HN Effect Takes Down Kuler?
I agree. oDesk has been great for me - nothing but good experiences. The key is to set up a good profile that differentiates you from the cheap workers.
Are you still there? I am going to be there later this year.
Hey folks, I didn't realise this made it to Hacker News (I guess I should have been on top of that).

The reason we're shutting down Go Test It is because the founder is moving full-time to Rapportive (rapportive.com). They've had some amazing growth there and it needed him full-time. It was a really difficult decision but ultimately the guys at Red Gate decided that GTI couldn't succeed without him, hence the closure.

I hope that helps explain it.
Berlin based start-up allows anyone to print their own newspaper http://niiu.de/
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Writing a bit of code that'll find the first valid ISO date should be easy enough, then we'll just need to find someone who was born that day…
Oh please. Since when is something published on the opinion pages on the WSJ -- or any newspaper for that matter -- anything other than a political hit piece?

I vote we leave this stuff to the Huffington Post, and get back to what HN does best: ^Top (3|5|7|10) (ways to|most annoying|tips for|coolest) (dropout|VC|programmer|hacker) (under 25|in just one year|teen) (founder|failure)
Frankfurt is a financial center and has a huge airport hub. Since these rankings are based around 'executive-level' compensation, these things make a major difference.
Google appears to drop censorship in China
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Solitude and Leadership
Why is it so often that the best people are stuck in the middle and the people who are running things—the leaders—are the mediocrities? Because excellence isn’t usually what gets you up the greasy pole. What gets you up is a talent for maneuvering. Kissing up to the people above you, kicking down to the people below you. Pleasing your teachers, pleasing your superiors, picking a powerful mentor and riding his coattails until it’s time to stab him in the back. Jumping through hoops. Getting along by going along. Being whatever other people want you to be, so that it finally comes to seem that, like the manager of the Central Station, you have nothing inside you at all. Not taking stupid risks like trying to change how things are done or question why they’re done. Just keeping the routine going.
We've got a few hundred people signed up to Go Test It and it just felt rude to turn the service off without any info as to what a user might do next.

The other services I mentioned in the email are Selenium based so hopefully users can transition. Even if GTI comes back later, we felt it was right to offer users some alternative.

Edit: Just to clarify, there are no plans to include GTI with any of Red Gate's other products. Forgot to mention that when I first replied.
In the article, Moscow's drop in price is attributed to the drop in the Rouble against the Dollar...this feels right to me also since Russia has been less openly aggressive recently, which would lead to a cheaper cost of living I guess.
Here is a site with cost-of-living figures for a lot of places. You can also help by adding data for your current location.

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/
Self-executing rules may have issues, certainly, but this is the first time I've heard a fuss being made about that part of the Slaughter rule.

Everyone else is focusing on the prospect of the House "deeming" the Senate bill as being passed without actually voting on it. If you look at the actual "Right Wing Media" words that are quoted by Media Matters, you'll see that none of them include "self-executing".

This is an attempt at misdirection that doesn't hold up to even minimal examination.
If you don’t remember it happening before, it’s because nobody has made this much noise about it before. When Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House, for example, this very process was used 90 times. See the link I posted in my other comment.
I seem to remember that beer everywhere in France is comparatively expensive to Germany or the UK, for example. I also seem to remember that really good wine is surprisingly affordable - certainly in France I would always drink wine and not beer.
Please tell me if I'm wrong, but quickly skimming this it seems this only applies to dynamic laguages with no static typechecks what so ever at compile time (if there's even such a thing).

While I see the good stuff about dynamic, less strict languages, especially during the modelling & exploration phase, I still say that the fact that these kind of problems cannot exist in a statically typed environment is still one of the reasons I don't feel like converting to more dynamic languages for any production-class code I write.

When even your tests can pass without revealing broken class-interface contracts, you are way beyond what I find reasonable to check for myself. Your dynamic freedom forces you to do checks which even with a decades old compiler you could have taken for granted.
A process of "deeming" a bill passed without actually voting on it?

As I noted in my reply, "self-executing" is a red herring.
Look at the quote from the CRS report:

This means that when the House adopts a rule it also simultaneously agrees to dispose of a separate matter, which is specified in the rule itself. For instance, self-executing rules may stipulate that a discrete policy proposal IS DEEMED TO HAVE PASSED THE HOUSE and been incorporated in the bill to be taken up. The effect: neither in the House nor in the Committee of the Whole will lawmakers have an opportunity to amend or to vote separately on the "self-executed" provision. It was automatically agreed to when the House passed the rule.

That report is from 2006.
Sometimes when a system is broken, hacking is the only way of getting something useful out of it.
Wait a minute. Snakes don't eat humans and are not predators for humans. Snakes have no interest in attacking humans, they just don't want to be attacked by humans. Snakes also avoid going where there are many humans as they are likely to get killed quickly.

So when there are two predatory species that try to avoid each other as much as possibly, how can there be such a strong effect by one to the other?
It likely has a dependency on HN: looking up users, karma, etc., which is just simpler to do on the same machine.
You still need to come up with an example where the final language for a bill was "deemed" passed without actually being voted on. As far as I can tell from these excerpts, they apply to the process prior to final passage.

ADDED: if the Republicans had "deemed" the final language of a bill as being passed without actually holding a vote on it don't you think the Democrats would still be screaming about how they had "shredded the Constitution!" etc. etc.?
This is really quite disappointing. I really wish Google would have done two things:

1) Released the Nexus One on Verizon already and not just T-Mobile. Yea, yea... I know you can use it with AT&T. I have one, but you can't use 3G.

2) MOST IMPORTANT: A large marketing campaign on Android. I don't know any mainstream user that knows what the "Android" is, everyone knows what the Droid is.
Furthermore, as Isbell points out, of all the species, only humans point declaratively, and we are much better at following the pointing of others to our visual periphery than to our visual center, and while looking down rather than up. “What was it outside central vision and in the lower visual field that was so urgent for our ancestors to see that it caused neurological changes to enable us to turn automatically in the direction of a gaze and a pointing finger?” Isbell asks.

Her answer: snakes. “I cannot think of any other object in the lower visual field that would have been more difficult to see and more unforgiving if missed. The relationship between declarative pointing and the evolution of language is so strong, neurological and cognitive studies find, that the two are, to a degree, interchangeable. And so, Isbell avers, Genesis has it right: the snake made us human.”

I disagree with the assertion that only humans point declaratively. Other methods of "pointing" could include a variety of behaviors apparent in the animal kingdom: perked ears (cats), nose / "catching the scent" (dogs / esp. bloodhounds), flickering tongue (snake).

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"It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves - the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public - has stopped being a problem."

Clay Shirky, "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable"

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking...
Tokyo is up to number 2? No wonder I'm constantly poor.

Been thinking about this lately though, it looks like Tokyo is home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_Global_500#2009_breakdo...

So it might be the best place for a B2B start-up.
Ask HN: Tips for Building Customer Survey Forms?
I'm planning on going out into the wild this weekend to hunt down some of my future customers and find out how likely it would be that they would sign up for my service. They'll be congregating in parks and other recreation zones, so I'll be bringing bottles of water which I will be offering in exchange for their time filling out a form.

Does anyone have tips for how I should approach this project? How about the types or number of questions I should ask? Currently, my plan is to open up (the form) with general domain related questions (games, recreation and sports in this case). I'll follow that up with internet related ones ("Are you on Facebook?", etc.). Then I'll close by trying to get their email address.

I just got a copy of Steve Blanks's book in the mail. I plan on cracking that open tonight and studying up.

Thanks!
in honesty, as a designer, you should refine your own taste. Know what you like, what you don't. Be unashamed of this: it's what separates your work from others'. Once you do, you'll have 'the angry years' where you go off and rail against this or that to everyone you know (blah blah lucida blah blah poor attempt at contrast harmony blah blah composition not dynamic blah blah).

But all the while, this is developing your internal taste barometer, things you love and things you won't stand for. This will influence your work in every way possible, from things like stroke width (looks too constructivist!) to decisions about texture (halftone again?!, what is this, the 50s?)

I'll agree that it's good to keep up with what other people bitch about (gotta keep up with the zeitgeist!) but it's often funnier than informational, and more often, their posts lack substance or rally around some shallow point that you no longer care about. I mean, yes, i've seen the golden rectangle, i studied maths, but i don't buy the whole "look! look! the golden ratio is EVERYWHERE!" argument that is basically what this webpage boiled down to. But that's my own taste talking.
To answer your original question anyway: yes your right it's kind of like Virtual box - but they do specialty products. Data center virtualisation for example.

We use the VMWare workstation product and it's a really solid piece of kit (as others have said; they know their technology)
You can't find 1/9 in pi. 1/9 precludes the possibility of any other sequence.
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It's silly to rail against this when this situation is being caused by the filibuster being used by Republicans in the senate.

I recently found out that it was in the last 50 years that the Senate implemented dual-tracking, which lets the senate just move on when there is a filibuster threat, drastically reducing the consequences of doing so for the minority party. Some details are here:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/03/how_dual...

I suspect the democrats would have fared better if they forced the republicans to filibuster 24/7 until public opinion turned against them for delaying work on other bills. It's important to remember that you only need 50 votes to pass the bill; 60 people only have to agree to let a vote happen. However, the democrats seem to have a much less effective political machine, so I can't imagine them making a move like this.
Meetings with beer work well as a time limiter if you don't let people leave to use the washroom. The lenght of the meeting becomes bounded by the participants bladder size.
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29021960 appears starting at digit 713.

Wikipedia lists Khaled, Algerian raï musician; Richard Ramirez, American serial killer; Tony Robbins, American motivational speaker as being born on 29 February 1960.

Oddly searching for 29021960 doesn't return a result. But searching for 2902196 does and shows there's a zero after it.
Moscow was #1 in 2006 & 2007. It's the drop of the ruble and the impact of the economic crisis that hit it so bad.
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And HN says that MBA's aren't valuable ;)
Strange, I've read elsewhere that the cloture process was established in 1917.
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Happens all the time.

It isn't nice, but it seems to be a reality and since there is no way of looking in to the heads of those that downvote you can't really know why they did so.
In that case, explore those realms, and see what opportunities arise.

My career has been successful largely because of my domain knowledge, in a few different domains-- but it's all come about accidentally. I've just kept my eyes open, tried to soak up the things that interest me, and (most importantly), tried to see how I could apply the knowledge in new ways.

Put another way: don't wait for some guy to come up to you at a party and say "Plastics."
Not immediately related to the topic at hand, but this is why reading things aloud is so different than silently to yourself.

Right from the second sentence: "Coolly testing hypotheses and assessing evidence across an impressive range of disciplines[…]." Read aloud, that's a lot of 's's in an article about snakes. Fun!
Even the economist has opinions and untested assumptions borrowed from the conventional wisdom. They just make a better effort to disclaim their opinions and give the other side a fair hearing, which is probably the most honest approach.
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Most cases of snakes biting humans occur when the snake is stepped on. Most cases of snakes eating other animals is when the snake can get its jaws (unhinge-able jaws) around a warm-blooded critter.

[edit] grammar fix. too early in the am
happy birthday, rms!
Baby boomers are starting to retire. That's a large demographic that isn't good with computers. Maybe find an industry that caters to them where technology can help. It doesn't sound like fun to me, but where there's muck there's brass.

Also, you may not have to be "passionate" about the domain, but you've got to at least tolerate it since you'll need to spend a lot of time doing it.
The statement
(infinite && not periodic) ==> (any finite sequence is in it)
is not true. \a number could have a decimal expansion that is not periodic but does not include certain digits.
E.g: write Pi in binary and consider the same sequence of 0's and 1's as a number in decimal
This is amazingly true.

As a startup you have to do an insane number of things, and usually a very limited amount of resources (people, money, etc.) - so you can't be perfect at everything, but if you get a few things right and people fall in love with you, they will overlook all your weaknesses. It happened to Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, etc. Hence the focus on doing one thing, but doing it really really well.
I'm upvoting this because as a political junkie I believe a historical change is underway in how the United States government operates. As such, these changes should be important to small business owners from here on out, no matter what your party or policy preferences are. i.e., it's not just about the current party or current proposed law.

But heck if I'll make a comment about the politics. While the overall story is historically important, bickering over the individual case here doesn't seem like a good use of time for anybody.
Yes, yes, yes, right in every regard. Don't forget one of the biggest examples: Apple. You see price discrimination across all of their product lines (MacBook Pro -> MacBook -> Plastic MacBook), (27" iMac, 24" iMac, 21" iMac).

I'd definitely pick up a good book/econ textbook to learn about price discrimination if you're in a business selling to consumers.
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To be more precise: if it weren’t for the filibuster, the House and Senate could have just reconciled the differences between their health-care reform bills in a conference committee, and the whole thing could have been passed the way we learned about it in Schoolhouse Rock. But the conference committee’s version of the bill could be filibustered again, and the Republicans are determined to do everything in the power of their 41-vote minority to block the bill.

The House could just pass the Senate bill and then pass a separate bill (through the budget reconciliation process, which may not be filibustered) that incorporates the compromise, but House Democrats seem to be afraid that once the Senate Democrats get their bill passed, they won’t cooperate with the second bill. (“The Republicans are the opposition. The Senate is the enemy.”)
Drupal is becoming an important player here because RDFa is now baked in. Both the US and UK government data sites run on Drupal (as does Tim's own site).
edit: Oops, was wrong about the jobless bill, n/m

Newt and Hastert have also made extensive use of this provision as well. It's tough to dig up news items on it as it wasn't controversial back in the day. Hastert was particularly keen on using it and the zenith of Bush's unpopularity as it allowed him to shield the president's massively unpopular legislation from house votes.
> [...] but I also wish that people would only leave a negative review after they unsuccesfully tried everything with the seller.

As a consumer I don't want to try everything with a seller. So even less warrants a negative review. (Though some good-faith effort is OK.)
You don't need them, but I do find them extremely useful for at a glance parentheses matching, especially if the expressions span multiple lines.

So, the value is as a visual aid - just like any syntax highlighting, highlighting matching parentheses when the cursor is over them, line numbers etc. Non of these things are strictly needed, but they help us comprehend code more easily and quickly.
Headline: "Privileged straight white male technology executives are dead wrong (again)"

Oh yes. Only working-class, black lesbians ever get anything right regarding technological social policy.

Seriously, what's with the prejudiced headline? Privacy is good. You don't have to diss entire categories of people to argue for that.
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how can facebook organize 400M people to tell each other what they ate for lunch, and yet we can't get ourselves organized to put pressure on the 535 people who are so interested in protecting their career politician status that they won't solve a single long term problem?
I think the parent was talking about sequences of digits, i.e. integers, not just "any rational number"
It was a very very hard decision. I was working on Rapportive (rapportive.com) as a side-project, when suddenly a few big blogs got hold of it and we found ourselves with 10,000 users in 24 hours (and continuing to grow). It became clear that Rapportive is a huge opportunity. Go Test It is a good product, but Rapportive is just in a completely different category. And dividing my attention between the two looked like it would just be harmful to both.

It's hard to kill off something you love, but sometimes it's the right decision. I am very sorry though.

Martin (Founder of Go Test It)
It is conjectured that pi is normal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

If the conjecture is true then any finite sequence of numbers can be found in the digits of pi. As others have noted, infinite sequences are not guaranteed or even likely to appear. As zackattack points out, for example, the decimal expansion of 1/9 does not appear in the digits of pi.
I'm the blog post author. I just uploaded the reply to the language speed article. I was actually very surprised when I woke up today and saw thousands of entries in my access log and referrals from social news sites.
I thought this was a re-post of his "Raw Data Now" talk, but instead it's actually a follow up. Especially interesting is the Open Street Map demo, especially for Haiti before and after the recent earthquake. (Then my browser locked up with about a minute to go.)
Vim and emacs are just text editors in the same sense that visual studio, eclipse, netbeans and so forth are just text editors.

Offhand, the only feature I can think of that eclipse has that vim doesn't is the ability to display images and graphs - all the normal editing features (auto completion, code folding, syntax highlighting, integrated debugger, file browser, plugin system, remote editing, integrated repl, multiple editor buffers, compile&run function, etc etc) can be enabled pretty easily. Also, you can run vim and emacs over ssh - cant do that with eclipse or visual studio :)

Really, vim and emacs are full blown IDEs with all the features you'd expect from a modern IDE - except it doesn't use a fancy GUI.
I wonder how this connects to the recently announced thing where they hand out free Ones to top app developers. I also heard that speakers that the recently-held Game Developers Conference also all got Nexus Ones, courtesy of Google ...

If you can't sell them, hand them out for free as a PR move?