skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something to consider: if Kottke really is right, and people are going to begin reviewing stuff according to form (over function) - then would that not make for an extraordinary startup opportunity? Current reviewing systems - in Amazon and elsewhere - aren't built to handle these kinds of reviews. And the product pages would be made a lot more helpful if there's a better way of filtering such information (i.e.: wait for the Kindle version, don't buy the hardcover; buy the audio book - it's got a sexy voice in it).
"A million times" because there are millions of people whose stories are like this right now, thanks to our failed society.
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From the article it seems that most of the people are still at Oracle.
Wow organichealthwellness.com is an awful site. If you couldn't tell from the horrible post by "ADMIN" in 2009 you've been linked to, check out some of the other posts! Eek. At best it seems like it is just copying a lot of other sites' content and at worst it feels kinda like blog spam.
I agree, and politicians agree more and more too, even the left wing wants to make it easier for new companies, especially technology companies (and in many ways center right wing in Europe is left of left wing in the US). Unfortunately it's still int he "talk" stage and it's unclear if they will enter the "do" stage soon. But the numbers show that the US is currently consuming a lot more wealth than it is creating whereas the EU is producing more. Why is this despite US's focus on economy and EU's focus on welfare states? This may be because of a higher standard of living in the US and not because of lower productivity.
oh come on froo, you can't drop "I'm making 18k/month passively" and not give at least a tickle as to what your doing ;).
It's demand media with a different name.
It's an "entitled" person being failed by society and realizing that a lot of others who were similarly failed are neither lazy nor stupid (refuting the economic Calvinism that characterizes American conservatism) but, rather, are unlucky people much like her.
The United States will always be a first world country because that is the definition of first world. First/second/third world status never changes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_second_third_worlds_...
Sophistication is significant.
Says the guy who created a Delicious clone in 2009! http://pinboard.in/about/

(I admit it's a bit ad hominem, but putting other people's stuff down for being derivative when your thing is the epitome of that seems lame to me.)
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I don't think this was meant to bash DBAs. Only "Certified DBAs" who think they're smart enough they don't have to listen to reason.
Gopher. Usenet (whatever client). Stacker. HP made some replacement desktop for Windows that I really liked, not New Wave.

Tapcis addon for Compuserve.
PFE - I dearly miss that editor
Not that he's any safer if he doesn't accept the money - local limb breaker may come and try to convince him to take it or more probably won't even know whether he accepted or not.
There is a massive audience for games outside of Facebook.

Several sites on the internet number below or around Alexa 1,000 catering to these players - ArmorGames.com, AddictingGames.com (MTV), Kongregate.com, MiniClip.com etc.

For as many users as Facebook has it's still only 1/4 of the internet.
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it's a personal choice - nothing for us to be judgmental about.
DrScheme (included with PLT-Scheme) is best for learning Scheme IMHO - the different language packs are really helpful, the stepper is AMAZING (using the stepper was the only way I was able to grasp/see a continuation and collector in real time).

Emacs is my primary programming environment but thus far DrScheme beats Emacs with it's visual debugger and stepper - it is perfect for learning.
Just in the sense the phone the average customer buys off the shelf may be just as locked down as an iPhone and that Google does allow carriers/handset makers a lot of power over users. (stuck with Android 1.5 on my HTC Hero for example)
NewsLabs sounds cool. There may be a lot of journalists out there frustrated with the constraints of working with a big media organization and want to do their own thing. NewsLabs could create the next Arianna Huffingtons.

Data Marketplace is promising: market research firms charge ridiculous fees for their reports which are usually overkill for what you are looking for. Data Marketplace could solve this problem.

Greplin sounds cool. 500Friends sounds like it'll generate revenue straight off the bat.
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I am a student entrepreneur who would like to start my first company this next quarter (when I say company I mean I will be forming an LLC).

I have some questions about traditional hosting versus cloud

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2) Scalability - Which is better for scalability? (Or should I even worry about this yet)

3) Backups - If using a traditional host what do you use to backup everything? What about on the cloud?

Thanks!
Journalism is pointless?
I'm not so sure it's merely that this person is entitled; this is exactly what society sells people. Every child is told that they should go to college, get a degree, and they'll setup for life. So people study for years and pay tens of thousands of dollars -- it would be totally irrational to do all that without the expectation of getting something for it.

If whole thing is a big con then this person is just a victim.
okay, many non university students are now working and making good bucks online or offline. A university degree may make it easier for you to knock companies doors, but it won't give you money. Blogs are looking for writer and looking to pay $50/$80 per article. You don't need to be a master degree owner but just good enough to write something interesting for the community. This is what school doesn't and won't teach you (or you could just start and bypass them).
Well they earn a lot of money from licensing their own patents and sometimes use them to sue (e.g. Apple vs HTC) others
But her entire point was that she was that she no longer feels as though her "self-identity is crumbling" and that it was stupid of her to think like that in the first place.
IANAL, but I'd suspect it becomes criminal trespass once you're lease is terminated. FWIW, here in the UK there is always the possibility of going to jail if you paint your house pink: http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=3118
I mostly agree with your point, but my comment about free speech was in regards to the perspective of the developer. You may not consider it relevant, but I think its important to gain a complete understanding of the issue.

Regardless of who owns the publishing channel, some developers are being shut out of the primary outlet for their creative expression. Again, I am not arguing that everybody should have unfettered access to the Appstore. Apple built it into the success that it is today. Kudos to them! However, its important to understand why some developers feel constrained and limited by the system

I do wonder about viewing Apple as a publisher. How much responsibility does Apple have for the content, and does this responsibility differ from that of a newspaper?
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How is he selfish? He doesn't owe anyone anything.

> Perelman has given fruits, but being as selfish as he is now makes him as good as dead.

This is one of the dumbest and offensive thing I have read here in YN.

> Imagine if Ramanujan had went back to India and given up just after the Ramanujan conjecture. Or if Erdos had called it quits shortly after working on the probabilistic method.

And what would happen? Nothing. Humanity will still be here without their contribution.
I've started telling people, look at what the median result is for whatever you want to do. If that is something that you would enjoy doing/think is worth it then continue down that path.
The US is in rapid decline.

I think the US is diverging into two camps: a well-educated, well-off elite, and a permanent underclass. This story is about somebody who always thought of herself as the former, and then found out she was the latter.
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Mostly me too products.

like...

"Google.com: A search engine that looks at link popularity to find the best search results. It's going to revolutionize search."

Talk to investors from the starting days of Google, and they'll cite you a dozen examples of similar sounding pitches. It's hard to tell from few liners about the future of a company.
"fighting the chain is soul-deadening"

...not to mention a career-limiting move. PHBs tend to not like it when people complain to them about their bad hiring decisions.
I don't know if they have anything specific planned. Google hired a lot of former Bell Labs people, several of whom are working on Go. They are probably letting those people working on new ideas as they wish, with the hope that people who made stuff like Unix will make something else game-changing and worthwhile for the rest of Google eventually. Sort of like MSR, except not just academic research.
She's not being failed by society -- she thought society owed her, and that she was better than those around her. She then realized that people are people, and that we should respect all of them regardless of the job they do.
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I think you're being a little harsh. At least she realizes this is how the world is and accepts it. In my book that's far better than those who scream the world should be changed because it isn't working out perfectly for them (See pw0ncakes reply)

Then again the undertow of the story (which the author is clearly too embarrased to say outright) is that she thought she was better than house cleaners before she became one (and met someone else who thought they were better than her). So I guess there's a certain poetic justice to it.
Lonely deluded males spend money to impress girls paid to be there. Heartless mercenary females pretend they might be interested in the lonely deluded males if only they spent another $20.

So it's an online strip club slash chuck-e-cheese. Too cool.
This is written in a humble tone and does a good job of addressing the difference between reality and the message we are sold as high school and college students that getting a degree in any field guarantees you a career, and that you will love your job. It is impossible to know which field will ultimately pan out at the age of 18, and those you trust (professors, teachers) will mislead you, albeit unintentionally.

I think the other message is that you shouldn't wait for something big to happen to start enjoying life.
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SMS?
Do you know where the language is in terms of industry adoption?
I read that, when he gave technical talks away from Caltech, he would have to use a pseudonym, so that the room wasn't packed full of people wanting to see "Famous Nobel Prize winning Feynman" give a talk. This way only the appropriate people in the physics dept would come to see his latest results.
With that definition it makes the term first/second/third world nearly meaningless. "A is A because it is". I prefer the definition that implies that "A is A because [INSERT REASONS]" and "A is A but can become B if..."
People should be free to do whatever they want. If a lot of people want to go to grad school that's fine, it means we have people with more training. If that training can help them earn more, then more power to them if not well that's life.
Yes, that is what I had in mind.
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I think they'd be about the same. But Outlook users certainly aren't rushing to replace a PIM with a badly integrated and badly UI-designed equivalent, web based or not.
This is the what society sells people who are in the upper middle or just plain upper classes. I grew up poor and my parents taught me to work hard, keep my head down and hope for the best. No one ever promised me an outcome and I never expected it.
> But seven months later, after getting rejected from every permanent job I applied to, I was feeling pretty discouraged.

Seriously?

Either he applied for 5 jobs in seven months, or there's something seriously wrong with the guy (horrible personality, horrible grades, can't answer interview questions).
Why would it be pushed to the client?

Seems to me you can do this just as well on server side, and work more on ensuring Server<->Client interface security. Crypto tokens would be a start.
Sadly I see this mentality with my peers, particularly among those that go to what are considered good private universities and have affluent parents. A sense of entitlement bred throughout their lives from being told things like "you're smart, you'll get a great job and a great family and be happy" continually. It totally leaves out the work and luck parts of the equation.

A few of my friends (more like acquaintances) are going through this type of experience, although unfortunately I doubt they'll learn the lesson that this girl learned because of being propped up by their parents.

This reinforces why places like this community as well as the startup world in general is so great; a sense of entitlement leads to immediate failure. It's a reality check to those who think this way, and they'll either be humbled or get out.
I bet that a pretty high percentage of some of those sites' userbases have Facebook accounts.

But that's true that it's only 1/4 of the Internet.
Not that old school but I miss Winamp.
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... which is a pious, self-congratulatory cliche. I don't mean to attack the sincerity of this particular author, since this might be a perfectly honest and genuine account, but for an educated liberal young person to write about accepting a working-class Spanish-speaking working mother as her peer is not really any different from writing about how pretty, thin, or well-educated she is. That is to say, whether it's true or not, it's in bad taste.
I see no evidence for that belief. And even if there were, I don't think that would mean our society has failed.
The whole article read like it was straight out of The Onion (a parody newspaper). The caption under the photo had me cracking up: A rare photo of bearded and reclusive genius Dr Grigory Perelman.
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So it's society's fault for not taking care of her and the University's fault for giving her a degree in a field where there aren't enough jobs but not her fault for getting a degree in a field that is in rapid decline? Yea, that makes sense.
Another one from the 'lost unix utilities', I never even realized I had this until I stumbled in to it by accident today. Very useful!
It does make sense. What do you do when you have a surplus of extremely talented programmers and engineers? Give them the freedom to do anything they want. I think Google's 20% rule is an excellent idea.
Only commenting on the last line, that doesn't really put it in perspective at all.

A user could, if he so chose, have email addresses at their own domain, on Gmail, AND use Outlook to access it. There's a VERY blurry line between the usage patterns of the average mail user.

That said, I agree with you in thinking the parent was underestimating Outlook's prevalence.
Rather say that it is "overbooked" from an employment-seeking perspective.
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Software has been 'social' for 10-15 years at least though. We just didn't call it 'social' until the last couple of years. I think that's why it's an irritating buzzword. It suggests there's something new and revolutionary, when it's actually just more of the same.
In this case, 'people' would be writers, not readers.
Definitely +1 for LapLink. Sure it required a null modem cable, but at least it beat sneakernet!

QBASIC that came with DOS. The built-in context-sensitive help is how I taught myself how to "program".

Also, Norton Commander and Norton Disk Doctor. In the bad old DOS days of no tab-complete and dodgy floppy disks, Peter Norton was a hero.
I had some broken (junk, seemingly random bytes rendered to screen as text) responses coming from IIS yesterday, and ended up with some very confused users asking me "why is the page in arabic?". Turns out, Chrome was telling them it was in arabic, and offering to translate it.
That is far from obvious, because a partner that's only in it for the money will drop out as soon as he spots a more lucrative opportunity. They are just as much a liability as the other categories: they don't give a shit about you or your goals.
Chances are, you wouldn't recognize something original if you saw it. You'd probably say, "that sounds useless" or "why would anyone want to do that"?
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Indeed. It's a general question of what you'd rather do: spend all day doing grudging, necessary work with alongside people who happen to do the same kind of grudging, necessary work as you do, then go home and "unwind" by spending time alone—or do all your grudging necessities on your own, and then unwind by spending time having fun alongside people who like having the same kind of fun? One social group seems much more likely to promote emotional health (though both can be intellectually stimlating.)
Do those browsers ship with and use their own rendering engines? Or do they simply delegate the rendering to webkit?

I ask because every iPhone app I've ever seen which offers any form of web-browsing ability does the latter; offering the ability to browse is fine, shipping a complete stack including rendering engine violates the app store terms.
It's been blocked from my apartment in Wuhan with the instant "Connection Reset" message for the last 6 months, whereas the rest of the Python.org site has been available. Perhaps the national Firewall can target geographic areas inside China, and someone in the Firewall Bureau wanted to restrict Python's available somewhat, but hide the fact by limiting it download page outside the main cities. Though I can't imagine why! Or perhaps it's being blocked at a more local (ISP) level, but I think that's unlikely. I'll check it next time I'm at Starbucks with my laptop.
I don't think they'll be bumming if they get to be as big as Gmail.
She was wrong that she was better, but society still failed her by having nothing more productive for her to do than cleaning rental apartments, and no means of providing income/retraining in the event that there was no suitable work for her.

120 IQ people should not be doing 80 IQ work. This isn't about "better"; it's about suitability to the work. When the 120-IQ person is doing 80-IQ work, it's an injustice for two reasons. 1) She's bored, miserable, and underpaid relative to what she'd be earning in a functional society. 2) The 80-IQ people who want and enjoy jobs cleaning apartments now have her as competition, and can be paid less and treated worse.
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ha, I think this is how we got into this mess ;)
Stuff I'm still using:

Windows Eudora (nothing I've found has the features from it that I really want).

All the rest are from the '70s:

UNIX and cygwin. Specific utilities I started using in 1978 include dd, du, dc, ed/ex (death before vi!), tar, ls and ps.

EMACS, of course ^_^.

Scheme.

A bit later, command line FTP and dbx, the first unix debugger with source line correspondence (mid-80s, and it was a godsend).

Stuff I've stopped using for whatever reason, although I might get back to it: nroff, Scribe and TeX (before LaTeX). ITS and it's COMSAT equivalent to sendmail. Multics. Lisp Machines. Chaosnet, with its named ports (not numeric). UUCP email. Lex and yacc ... as long as I can rope someone else into writing their inputs ^_^.

Adventure, first generation Zork and Peter's Langston's 3D porthole spacewar and empire. Xtrek, the maze games on the graphics machines attached to MIT-DM and the Alto version. Rogue, rogueamatic (sp?) and nethack. The Artic Fox Amiga game.
I found the story to be a well told description of what many will discover during this "lost decade" the U.S. has just begun.
Great news! I usually use Rails for medium and medium-large projects but I like to use Sinatra for small web apps and web services. Sinatra seems like a better fit also if you want to use JRuby on AppEngine (at least for now).
People should be free to do whatever they want.

This contradicts your argument that society hasn't failed this woman. I'm pretty sure that cleaning up rental apartments is not what she wanted to do with her life.
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I think the argument to your point is that the Appstore and the iPhone device are two components of one product. Following that analogy, the other outlets would be the Android marketplace, Blackberry AppWorld, or Microsoft upcoming app market.
If Opera had gone through difficulties getting their browser approved for the Wii, would you have made the same comment?

If not, why?
If you think it's not social failure for highly literate, qualified people to be doing menial work, then you, sir, are a mean-spirited and unpleasant person.
It seems to make perfect sense. Its like storing and retrieving objects in a database. You can do it by hand, but its more of a pain -- better to leave it to something else and use the abstraction: storeData(key,value), retreiveData(key). We can directly map this to nice shirts. Normally one has to buy and iron shirts, which is a pain. (assuming you don't like buying or ironing). Now if you have a lot of money, you can pay someone to abstract that all away. You just look in your closet and grab whatever shirt you want. At the end of the day you just put it in the dirty clothes bin, and poof magically it will appear clean and ironed again in the closet. Money provides the person who abstracts the mechanisms that allow the shirt to exist. We could even do this experiment to harvesting the cotton, producing the shirt etc, which is abstracted away using money as trade for the various levels in the manufacturing.. mmm.
Side-Channel Leaks in Web Applications
Despite encryption, the contents of web application traffic may be inferred by side-channels. Some features like auto-completion can be especially susceptible.
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No takers? It's not a lot of work. With a little bit of thinking it's 1 line of Python code, or maybe 10 lines of C/C#/Java because they don't have concise support for math structures.
Please start here: It was thirty years after bogleron emancipated the children of the shadowrealm...
Thanks for sharing charley, It sounds like you were looking more for a tour or an outright demo of the app, ya?
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Why should the FBI and our criminal judicial system be used to protect a business model?

So far as I can tell they haven't. And, yes, the judicial system will get involved if you run afoul of your gated community's regulations: you'll be evicted by an officer of the law, and you'll be arrested and jailed if you attempt to remain in your former home after the eviction.
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Despite using encrypted channels, web applications can leak contents through side-channels. For instance, the response size of query auto-completion can reveal what you're searching for.
A few months old, but interesting nonetheless.