skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, I prefer the look and feel of yours by quite a lot. Everything above the top adsense block needs a little tweaking, but everything below it is gorgeous.
After mastermind you should have added "Bwahahahahaha" (maniacal mastermind laughter)
This might be a stupid question, but has anyone ever considered that a higher intelligence or some other attribute might enable a species to just not end up fossilized so much?

"Hey Grok, don't go there, the gods will kill you."
What Really Motivates People to Start a Company?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Poli...
Elaborate because for a moment i thought you were comparing Cobol with Flash :-)
> How many non-millionaires would have $25k lying around

Me?
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I have a business plan for my small services business. It was a bit of a twofer - I used it as a final project for my MBA as well.

I've never shown it to any investors, but the process of doing it was pretty invaluable. I learned so much more about my industry, the competitive landscape and gained a real appreciation for my costs and potential cash flows. I think there's a ton to be gained from the process of writing a plan (even a simple 10 page plan) almost moreso then the plan itself.
FedEx and UPS have a vastly simpler model for package distribution compared to airline baggage distribution. Everything goes to a central hub and is consolidated and sent out directly to the regional distrbution center.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoke-hub_distribution_paradigm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldport_(UPS_air_hub)
Such as http://www.wikileak.org/ ?
You bet! The projects are just starting to collaborate, see: http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Google_Summer_of_Code_for_Neo4...
Because as far the consumers of media are concerned, there is no difference -- they end up not getting the information.
Only tangentially related, but my friend saw a shirt that said "Uncle With Benefits" for sale somewhere.

That's another one of those things that are hilarious in principle, but you never really want to be caught in.
A lot of wasted energy and commentary could have been avoided by simply taking a look:

http://www.theonion.com/blah/
I'm surprised they didn't come up with that solution on the first pass. I used to work for a web hosting company and I designed and wrote a similar 'dispatch' system for their private label customer portal that was used for resellers. Much better maintenance and performance.
Actually no, they are not. Rdtsc is correct that sovereigns are rated, which is why I upvoted him.
You say "our parents generation" and "our kids", but I'm pretty sure 90+% of our generation doesn't know any of this, either.
Yes, If they being written by amateurs like coders or cooks and no if they being written by experienced and trained practitioner like an acting business executives. Coders should code, executives execute. =)
I'm learning javascript now. Just for this site. Awesome.
How are these contracts being awarded? Are we talking public RFP's? If so, that should have produced competitive rates per project, no?

Unless these 'consultants' were already promised the job and the RFP was just a formality, as is in most city contracts.
Build something you personally want and need...I guess that fits under passion, but there's something especially rewarding about building something that actually makes your own life better, after it's built.
These policies are quite typical. Schools often punish students for the things they do outside of school.
There is a market for an off-the-shelf system or maybe customizable system with the same core that cities can purchase and install without the need to do development. Maybe with different levels of strictness as far as scanning in employees is concerned (biometric scanning vs. RFID cards, etc).
I don't think that writing a business plan implies being "committed" to it, or sacrificing agility, nor does it mean putting away the radar screen once the plan is written.

Eisenhower famously found that "that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." And for many people, the act of writing things down facilitates the process of analysis.

I think that history has shown that you, Patrick, have a perpetually up-to-date mental business plan available to you in a non-written form; unfortunately, not everybody is able to do the necessary calculations in RAM.
Did anyone else assume the 100 different versions were for some sort of piracy identification? Meaning 100 different versions with just a slight change that no one would notice, but Cameron or the studio would be able to identify and help round down to what theater or region would have had that copy?
It's really saddening to see those views. The last thing students or children need is cold robot-like "professional" interaction. Connecting on a human level is one of the most important ways a teacher provides value beyond that of a book or video series. I've had good friendships with 2 of my former teachers, and my life is better for it.
This in a nutshell is why the new U.S. health care bill is really a stimulus package for the IT and healthcare industries.

Integration of systems can be a nightmare.

As the UK can attest, large systems fail from sheer complexity, if the politics, internal resistance, and silo mentality don't screw you.

One of the reasons SAP succeeded was that in order to implement the software you had to rearrange how your company worked - not the other way around, modify the software to fit your unique business processes. Yes, SAP consultants make a lot modifying the software but those modifications are constrained.

Enterprise software is lucrative but you give up the freedom to do what you ever want. Design by committee.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/pbr...
Dive Into HTML5 [1] demonstrates how one can detect placeholder support; the obvious use case is to use the focus and blur events to mimic the functionality if native support isn't present.

Here's some example code, using Ojay [2].

/**
* Places the label for a text field within that field, for a simpler
* and more intuitive interface to e.g. search forms.
*/
var labelInField = function(field) {
var input = Ojay(field), label = Ojay.Forms.getLabel(field).hide();
if (!label.node || !input.node) return;

var labelText = label.node.innerHTML.stripTags(),
inputType = input.node.type || 'text';

// Don't bother setting up the event handlers if the browser can detect
// the HTML5 placeholder text.
if ('placeholder' in document.createElement('input') && input.node.placeholder.length > 1) return;

var focus = function() {
input.removeClass('empty');
if (input.node.value == labelText) input.node.value = '';
};

var blur = function() {
if (input.node.value && input.node.value != labelText) return;
input.addClass('empty');
if (inputType == 'text') input.node.value = labelText;
};

blur();

input.on('focus', focus);
input.on('blur', blur);
};

[1] http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#placeholder

[2] http://ojay.othermedia.org/
Are you seriously suggesting that "complexity" was the root problem here? Rather than say cronyism, incompetence and greed?

edit: amused to see another comment on a different thread that uses the phrases "cronyism and incompetence". Did I subconsciously read that and copy it, or is it just the most apt description?
Perhaps the most important reason to not launch in Silicon Valley is that your city needs your entrepreneurship. Here, I’m assuming you actually like where you live.

Although I agree with that sentiment, so often the policymaker is the one who decides the fate of the startup community. Silicon Valley is progressive in that sense, and it will always be a home for entrepreneurs looking to accelerate their ideas/careers/success.
If Wikileaks starts acting like a foreign intelligence agency, why are they surprised when the CIA starts treating them like a foreign intelligence agency?
That's why I said "so called". Being a graphic designer involves much more than just touching things up in photoshop.
Why is that not a good scenario? If the states are competing with each other to make investments better in their state, how does this do anything but help out investors and startups alike?

The only real downside is that you may end up going to Montana to get the best investment, but lots of people already go to the bay for investments as it is, not to mention things like tax incentives for starting datacenters in a given state.
For the media biz, iPad 2010 = CDROM 1994
s/half-hazard/haphazard
For a fairly but not horribly austere lifestyle, you're looking at ~£20k GBP to get by.

By this I mean you have a place to live somewhere in a fairly unfashionable/average zone 2 or 3 area, a place which is not that big or plush, but not a rat-infested crack den either. You share it with at least one, perhaps a few other people. You can afford all the basics of food, heating etc, plus a small amount of "luxuries" (go out for a few drinks here and there, keep yourself in clothes that arent falling apart, a few books/cds/dvds, that sort of thing) but you'll be taking the bus rather than a taxi, you'll be drinking £5 wines rather than £50 wines, you'll entertain yourself with a free museum visit rather than a pricy theatre ticket, etc. You won't starve but you will find yourself turning down social invitations due to lack of cash.

If you want to live in zone 1 and/or an upmarket part of town and/or on your own, eat out / go drinking / go to the cinema / whatever regularly (eg more than once weekly), go on foreign holidays, buy shiny new tech gadgets, dress in designer label clothing, etc, then obviously more, and more, and more income is required... With no limit!

It seems that 2600USD pcm (I assume you mean USD) is not so far away from what I earn. I find myself living a lifestyle I would consider comfortable; however I naturally lean more towards the former paragraph than the latter. My current lifestyle is certainly more free-spending than the first paragraph (for example, I can afford taxis and going out often without ever seeming skint) - but it is still nowhere near the second paragraph - however I have little to no interest in world travel, designer fashion, plasma tvs and the like and therefore I do not miss them. So it depends on your lifestyle desires.

I do not know anything about costs of companies. As for health insurance -- I cannot vouch for this point 100% but I'm fairly sure this should be a non-issue: as an EU citizen I believe once you have paid the normal income tax and National Insurance the same as I do, you would be entitled to NHS healthcare.

I hope this helps. Feel free to follow up with any further questions about London life you may have.
How the new health care law will impact your startup
The HTML5 Spec actually has a nice explanation of how to do the manifest. You can find it here: http://bit.ly/aLbKP0

I wrote a blog post a while back that talks about how browsers handle the manifest files. Forgive the shameless self-promotion, but it might be interesting background reading: http://bit.ly/9WhsO8

Basically, the manifest file is just a special text file that stores a list of the things you want the client to cache. This is the feature of HTML5 that enables offline access to web resources. Think of it as sort of a robots.txt for caching purposes.
Registering a company only costs £25. I'm not entirely sure about the taxes yet as I'm just in the process of setting up mine.

If you are sharing a flat with one or two people, you can get a good place starting from around £600 (inc of all bills) in zone 2, which is say 10-20 minutes bus/train ride to the city centre. As you go outwards, you get more for your money.

Eating and going out once in a while may cost you another £300-£500 depending on what options you go for. But in this respect, London provides a lot of options to go bankrupt in no time.

I'm currently living in a pretty good area in south London, sharing with one friend, not going out much and living on well within £1000 a month. I'm looking to move to a cheaper place in May and hope to save another couple hundred pounds.

Drop me an email (see profile) if you need any more help or want to meet up when you are in town.

Good luck!
corrected misleading headline - should be $722M to date, not per year.
...which infects Windows computers, masks itself as an updater for Adobe Systems' products and other software such as Java...

No mention of anything else. Not worth reading.
China isn't the only place where Google faces tough choices.
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, no, not the fact that it is China, but the fact that it is happening. Just a digital form of propaganda and digital rogue social influential propaganda.

But, I did find this part entertaining in the beginning "imagine how much worse it would be if the US government employed a couple hundred thousand people to "shape the debate" among online political forums. Crazy, right? What government would ever attempt it?"

Arguably, the US does. Maybe not the US "government", but the employees of it (politicians, the President's cabinet, etc.), those looking to become employees of it, lobbyists and so on...

An oversight of the last decade?
e.g.'s:
President's Cabinet - "Weapons of Mass Destruction",
Healthcare Reform Bill - Both sides of the debate guilty,
The Media - let's not even go there,
And what was that fake grassroots incident on FaceBook that was exposed last year or earlier this year?

Well, you can go ahead and add a million other examples.
Yes a small competent team could build the IT system for a fraction of the time and money. However they would only be successful if the business processes were well defined which I'm willing to bet they were not.

New IT systems often come along with changes in process, a well defined IT project should produce a system that follows and complements those processes. Instead what we often get are "boil the ocean" projects that attempt to fix process issues under the guise of an IT implementation.
I didn't go back to high school (you couldn't have made me if you wanted to), and whatever social learning attributed to it I think I made up with friends. This might not be the best transmission medium for our particular brand of culture (I am still told that I have to go to prom!), but I have a hard time believing that those who've grown up without school, either centuries ago or in other nations, were any less well adjusted or healthy. Learning from age peers is important, but I'm very glad I grew up with people of many ages and attitudes and intellects, away from the high school monoculture where age equals authority. The age of best friends now range from 21 to 55, and I am happier and wiser and stronger for it.

More important than age peers, I think, is shared experience with people from diverse backgrounds. Which seems to me to be precisely what he's trying to lobby for...
No.

See comment from apinstein above.
Good post! I always tell people if they really want to make money, go work on Wall Street. Doing a startup is quite a bit riskier. For me, it's really about doing something meaningful that I enjoy. Here's a tip I read that I really like, two things you might want to ask yourself before doing a startup: a) if you're rich already, would you still do this? And b) if you can't fail at what you do, what would you do. http://yana.com/tips/80
Yup. Most of the VCs that have raised big funds will of course struggle to make money.
Photojojo's interesting social hack on Tumblr
Take a simple payroll system. Start with basic employees. Add in contract workers. And, this is the hard part, handle the exceptions - those who get paid more even though they are at the same level, those who get more vacation, those who have legacy benefits. Scale to an entire city.

Test. Because if people don't get their paychecks, you have a very angry group of customers.
Kyocera to Release $169 Pre-paid Android Phone
> If so, that should have produced competitive rates per project, no?

What makes you think that those rates aren't competitive?

Govt projects have lots of overhead. Some comes from procedures intended to keep them from being cheated. Some comes from trying to make sure that the "right" people get the job. (Some sounds okay, such as"diversity", but is actually a cover for graft.) Some comes from all of the stakeholders. And on and on.
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I thought that discrepancy was interesting too.

You would think someone like Fred would have known that.
Human experimenters are full of themselves. See recent experiments in self awareness in crows / apes / etc.

The vivesectors would have it that it's ok to use animals because they are lower forms of life and yet assert that doesn't affect the results!
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a good deal of express packages travel in the airplanes you fly on too - UPS, Fedex et al frequently buy cartons of luggage to stick on commercial passenger routes. So it's entirely possible your luggage would get there in the same plane you would too. :)

The difference is, luggage that goes with you on an airplane has different rules than packages sent via a delivery company; you can thank the TSA and FAA for that. The assumption is that a bag belonging to a passenger is more likely to blow up than a package sent via ups.

Plus, the lag time between shipping from destination is different - in an airport, you got an hour or so to get it from the check in desk, to the airplane. That's an hour in which the bags have to be sorted, scanned, loaded and then driven to the plane, where they're inserted into the hold. I would imagine that couriers like UPS do it differently: arrive at destination, sort into priority bins, scan, etc... it would be much more oriented around tipping point load - when there's enough in x, do y.
Exposure? Create a buzz around April 5th? Get more donations?
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It's a point. But ultimately there is only a moral problem with media companies self-censoring rather than necessarily a legal problem.

We can dislike and declaim the media establishments that do self-censor but we can't decry their right to do so.
This is slightly besides the topic, but since it can be of much help it's worth to mention in case someone learns something: primary keys are indexes per their own nature. The KEY keyword is actually an alias for INDEX in pretty much all RDBMS. So, if you can't index an already large database for whatever reason, and happen to have a primary key column that could be used in a similar way, you're suddenly better off. It's also the fastest index available.
My opinion is mobile safari is still too slow for this. I did one and it was fine in the simulator, but lagged on iPod touch. 3GS was mostly ok. Maybe in a generation or 2.

Currently sucking it up and learning ObjC
One reason companies hire consultants is not to outsource the project but to outsource blame and accountability to IBM, Accenture.

"How could the project fail? We hired some of the most highly recommended and expensive consultants. They didn't deliver."
Scott Rosenberg is absolutely right - the failure of the CD ROM was that it forced the user to consume the content in the way that the publisher was prepared to present it - most CD ROMS failed to allow the user to freely search and re-purpose the content. They ended up being more restricted than the print media they were supposed to replace wile (generally) failing to add enough value in enhanced media (video etc) to make up for this.

Existing attempts by magazine publishers to persuade consumers to accept electronic substitutes for print media have also failed - I for one don't want to turn pages on my computer - and I am not happy to accept the segmentation of content - the dreaded "turn to page n to continue reading" makes no sense to the user in this context.

I suppose the traditional (failing?) media will make exactly those mistakes with any new platform that offers them the illusion of control.

Are we really going to put up with paying for content at rates close to print media when we know that distribution costs are near zero? OK - if we are prepared to pay, are we also prepared to put up with advertising? I think it is one or the other but perhaps others have different views.
You might find the book "The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You" by Elaine Aron helpful. Shyness isn't the same as being highly sensitive, but sensitive people are often considered shy.
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because reading this line is somehow not surprising at all..

"The problem is no one knew how much these people were being paid, because their salaries don’t appear in normal city records."

I've dealt with city contracts and it's a culture where the oldest members of the club always land the contracts, no matter what. Finding ways to bury the actual amounts through loopholes or channels is what keeps city officials at work. ha!
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What do you have to say about Mark Suster's take on the issue? - http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/03/are-business-p...

I agree that one can't foresee what will work or not. But, not writing down a business plan doesn't mean you don't have one. It probably means you don't want to acknowledge it for fear of being proven wrong.
In terms of fruitcakes, I was thinking more of the people that bring a political agenda or talk about "toxins" or what not.

Long story short: fructose is only problematic if you are consuming it without dietary fiber (e.g. as fruit) for glycemic control, as well as all the other modulating effects fiber has.

Fructose (and HFCS) sweetened foods are really just a sideshow to the the main issue: people making bad nutrition and lifestyle choices over the long term, e.g. drinking sodas every day. There's no easy, magic bullet that takes away one's responsibility for making good choices.

Magically eliminating fructose or HFCS from our diets won't reverse the obesity trend. It'll help a bit, of course, but ultimately humans will need to find a way to adapt to over-abundance of temping, high-calorie foods. Meanwhile, a modicum of education and self-discipline are the keys.
When I read this article, I thought for a moment about the China apologists, and those who repeatedly jumped to China's defense whenever the CCP was casted in unfavorable lights on HN. And I laughed.
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Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast.

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
I think that's a boolean value on the right: Moral != true. Does this mean Legal == false?