skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feels almost like a virtual version of the party game mafia. It seems like you would be able to memorize the different missions and then watch for them, but I'm sure the developers are aware of that risk.
The only problem with Google and GoDaddy's movement out of China is that we're tipping the economic scale in the wrong way. We're taking away the products and services that make us money from the Chinese, but what we ought to be doing is taking away the things that give them money, such as manufacturing. Dell definitely has it right by pulling in the other direction. The trade gap is enormous and we need to fix that.
It's even constitutional sometimes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_v._Frederick
So they spent $60k on snacks. Let's say they could have gotten by with a third that budget. So they're saving $40k now. Not only is that only 0.0002% of their budget (the equivalent of someone who makes $50k a year wasting a dime), it probably cost more than that to put together and present the report. Small problems should be solved with small solutions (such as telling the conference planners that things seem to be costing too much, so they should try to be more budget-conscious: a solution which would take 15 seconds and cost nothing). Solving a wasted dime with a 26 page report is like spending 2 weeks improving the speed of a function by a few milliseconds when the function is only called once.
I don't understand the point on hedging. Both turning an aircraft around faster and a successful hedge on jet fuel result in higher profit. But not sure how the two are related?

Regarding hedging, Southwest gets too much publicity for being so slick to hedge fuel before oil prices shot through the roof years ago. Hedging is not part of its core competency, or at least it isn't unless they are pioneering a new business model of providing a service and then leveraging for profit on the futures markets. As in, they could have lost money on the hedge as well. Unless Southwest could use their understanding of the airline industry to predict a huge rise in oil demand, hedges should only be used as a tool to smooth out expense lines.

Here's an oversimplified example to illustrate: A gas station owner hedges oil futures. Might be smart because he isn't going to change his prices every day to reflect the spot price and customers appreciate it. He has a better forecast on his profitability because his expenditures are smoother. But it isn't really his core competency to predict oil prices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_hedging

TL;DR: Hedging can really help your profits but you don't read about the companies that lost money on hedges. Maybe Southwest was able to build a team of brilliant market researchers but I'm not sure it's a good idea for every company to buy futures.
ponzi, would be just too cute perhaps ?
"What in the world makes webmasters think it's okay to fail to maintain their mappings between URLs and live content?"

"I have trouble believing any CMS author could fail to support them"

It almost sounds like you are assuming that The Onion has some sort of duty in maintaining ancient URIs. IMO, they should maintain their redirects as long as deem it necessary - there is a cost in doing so after all. Sure, the cost of not maintaining outdated URIs may or may not outweigh the cost of losing vistors, but that is for them to decide, not the peanut gallery.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that isn't so entitled that I wouldn't forgive The Onion if the links from my 2001 bookmark.htm export fail to land on the original content.
Tell HN:  DODD is trying to Kill StartUps...follow for info
This was not marketing, easy, or common - this was exceptional attention to detail and focus on getting the highest quality experience to the customer, which Cameron should certainly be recognized for (whether you liked the film or not).
Thanks, my boolean approximation for abbreviations so far is:

def abbr(short, full):
return re.match(''.join(c+'.*' for c in short), full)

Actually what I'm doing now seems to be working, so far I can't see any pattern in the things my algo can't match by itself.

Also thanks to ramanujan, who deleted his comment for some reason, but besides pointing out orgmode which I want to check, his proposition reminded me that I'm trying to deal with my dataset incrementally while a batch mode might work better.
"we can't really cut scope now"

Why not?
There are parts of the industry that have been assembly lines for years. COBOL wasn't the height of intellectual attainment, and people were doing that in 1980.

Doesn't mean the whole industry has. It has just gotten much larger, and does obviously now include some assembly line type places.
I would pay $100 for this game. I don't play games because I have below average skill, dexterity, and coordination. Last game I played till finish was the first Splinter Cell game in 2002-2003. I hit save after every shot, movement, and action because I really suck at shooting targets, especially if they fire back at me or move. What I love are solo games where I can take my time, plan my course of action, and hit "go!" This game seems exactly what I want. Another example is one of the original variations of Desktop Tower Defense where you couldn't buy/sell equipment/weapons once you hit 'play'.

I divide games into two types: frying or baking. The frying games are where you have to be active throughout the course of the game from start till finish and you have to race against time. There may be preparation beforehand but execution during the main act is critical and if you slow down, you get burnt veggies. The baking games are where preparation is the only thing that matters. There is no race-against time and if you prepare well, you're almost guaranteed to win. I prefer baking games.
Man it must really suck to be the guy thats only making 100k but doing all the work, and finding out that some guy in the next cubicle negotiated 600k, and he spends all his time dickin' around with the secretary.
A very similar game was released in 2006 called The Ship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ship_(video_game)

You can even get it on steam today http://store.steampowered.com/app/2400/
The most Badass alphabet ever
This is very high level, but: take a step back and remember who it is you are trying to serve/help with the problem you are solving. If it is a particular market/industry, often the answer can be found by trying to focus on how to help them than by trying to solve a problem. I think there is something about focusing on a problem that makes it bigger, whereas focusing on a solution can make the solution more evident.
The 30-40 minutes is not per passenger, but how much time is wasted overall in the loading/unloading process with carry-on baggage. The theory is that if no passengers had carry-on baggage the load/unload times would be reduced to near zero and turnaround times on the ground would be minimal thus reducing cost. For each person with a carry-on that turnaround time increases thus costing the airline money.

Next time you fly time how long it takes for the first person to get on the plane until the last person boards and vice-versa. That time should total to around 30-40 minutes.
That's definitely always a risk, and although nothing jumps out as a violation to their policies you're right that it would be nice to learn this sooner than later.
Keep at it. If your product is better, you will win.

Try not to give those "coming soon" promises, you don't want to be under even more pressure.

Good luck
Because
a) we're mid-way through all of the modules we're building.
b) Those are the pieces that would differentiate our offering. If we didn't have those, it would be the same as the competition which means we're late in the game with almost the same product and no customers yet
c) if we cut, we would have to start over again for the ones we left hanging - or at least have to do quite a bit of rework

Note: we have a team of 6 developers working on this, so it's not a 1 person thing.
(all true) - I still think the premise of the article has merit. I'm wondering what the employer can/will do to offset this turnover?
Yes there is some tuning to do yet in regard to the UI (especially the app picker!) and I'm sure there will be changes once I can test the app on an actual device and see how some of the controls function first-hand.

Thank-you for the encouragement, it's been tough cranking something like this out so quickly but from the feedback I've received so far I think it will be worth it.
300 million Indians go hungry everyday
The Big Four: Culture, Innovation and Sentiment
I think you are right - and we're leaning towards that. Just get the conversation going so we can get some traction since the sales cycle will most likely be 3 months at least. Our product will be production ready by then.

My only worry is talking about products and someone really wants to go and we won't be able to right away.
None of those I would consider "big games"
The product is "much" better. However, once they get a few key customers - it's all about traction and they can sell others based on the first few. That's the worry here.
There are multiple meanings of incremental progress. Just fleshing out a test suite is only one means of defining progress.
I'm curious, what's have been the actual market size ?
Using mechanical turk to filter undesired content
If the pool is formed for the purpose of making the investment, it does not help. The law in that case requires that each individual within the pool be evaluated to determine his or her investment status.

In other words, forming a pool does not allow otherwise non-accredited investors to get around the accreditation requirements. It does not take them "over the line," to use your phrase.
So I'm the Russian intelligence community, and I've had the U.S. launch codes for several decades.

I decide to wreak some havoc inside the National Command Authority, possibly as part of some larger strategic objective. So I go to Wikileaks and release the codes.

In this case, in whose interest is Wikileaks acting? Not the U.S. citizen's. Not the rest of the world. Clearly their acting as an agent for the Russians. (Russians are used here as a prop. Substitute any players you like)

The more I think about it, the more the idea of anonymous information leaking seems fraught with lots of problems. Overall, yes, a great idea. But I have some serious questions. As a third party with access to sensitive information, I can play all sorts of games using Wikileaks.

EDIT: I'll add a couple more examples so we don't get lost out in the weeds.

The Chinese decide to invade Taiwan. As part of that, over a period of several weeks Wikileaks "discovers" several documents detailing how certain Taiwanese officials were caught doing drugs/molesting children/robbing banks/beating old people. Most of these stories are true (but old), and generate quite a bit of negative press in the United States. Mixed in at the end, however, are totally false stories guaranteed to cause the greatest public outrage. The MSM has no time to vet the stories just before the Chinese invade, and since it's a 24/7 cable news world and since Wikileaks has a good track record so far and it runs them the MSM runs them too. Public opinion is sternly against giving Taiwan any assistance, creating a decisive edge for the Chinese.

The Israelis decide they are going to have to attack Iran to prevent it from developing nukes. Over a couple of weeks, suddenly documents are found from the French and Saudis "proving" Iran has a nuclear prototype bomb. More documents are "found" showing that the Iranians are prepared to use it on Israel. Let's assume these docs are real, although from the Israelis standpoint it doesn't matter. Finally docs are found that show the Israelis have decided to go through the United Nations and have given up trying to stop Iran with force. These last docs are released just a day or two before the attack.

The difference between a newspaper and Wikileaks is that a newspaper deals in credibility. Wikileaks just deals in leaks. That makes the model horribly broken and easy to manipulate. Just think of the fun an intelligence agency could have with something as simple as marital infidelities. Used to be you'd have to set up an entire operation to get stuff published with some kind of authority. Not anymore.
Making a bunch of guess about market size and revenue in five years is pretty much a waste of time. That doesn't mean that you don't need to plan. You want to have everyone in agreement about a few key points:

What product are we making?
Who is paying for it, and how?
What is our marketing plan?
What is our budget and what are our costs?
How long is our runway?
What is our attitude towards future acquisition and investment?

Writing these things down can be a worthwhile exercise. If nothing else, it will get the founders considering the issues.
JQuery’s triumphant march to success
What's your competitors site?
Government is a giant Principal-Agent problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem
hey can put you on my page
The Monad Zipper
Startup wisdoms are plenty, but data is scarce
Photoshop's CAF (content-aware fill) - unbelievable? Not quite
That'd be a nice trick, considering it hasn't even been debated or brought to a vote yet. Repeal is the process of reversing an existing law. Anyone who doesn't understand this basic concept isn't qualified to have an opinion.
Avoid stress and distractions. Do not multitask. Take breaks to eat (healthy foods), exercise, and sleep. Feel free to discuss the problem with friends and colleagues but minimize emotional investment with other people. Read books and articles on the subject. Study existing tools and study similar problems. If you can't make incremental progress on a solution you can incrementally increase your chance to solve it all at once by getting smarter and getting better tools.

No facebook, television, hacker news, video games, twitter, dating, drinking.

I would not say this is a particularly healthy lifestyle in the long run. When possible incremental progress will make it easier to live a happy fulfilling life. But if you really need to solve something...
Web Design is for "Hacker" News Pussies
NoSQL vs. RDBMS: Let the flames begin
Thank you for your response!
Go sell your product now. Get some evangelists. The worst thing to do is wait, because unless your product is going to save someone time/money - there won't be a real value in switching for some nicer features if they've already put the effort into registering with your competition.
IPhone hacker thinks he has cracked the iPad too
Building a Hackintosh? There's a netbook compatibility chart for that
Similarly, Ruby developers are flocking to easier technologies like Passenger in droves rather than sticking with the older (but often faster) technologies like NGinX and mongrel_cluster.

It's nice to have the powerful technologies for more "serious" deployments, but it's really nice to be able to easily get a quick project up and running.

Heroku, as he mentions, is fabulous for that.
Appreciate the legal explanation grellas.
All this means is that the US has managed to achieve a propaganda state without the explicit threat of force...

Do you recall when GWB took office and long time members of the press core were kicked out if they asked tough questions?

This happens all the time which is why you don't find certain stories/angles covered in the mainstream press.

Consider that Tim Russert was considered the most hard nosed journalist because he had the gumption to ask a tough question or two... usually all he did was quote a few things the person had said in the past and ask them to explain their current claims (which usually turned their faces quite red). If this is hard nosed journalism we're all in deep trouble.

Most news today is full of stories that make Americans feel morally superior... stories about how women are mistreated in all sorts of other countries... how politicians are corrupt, and how the economic opportunity stinks (elsewhere).

There is also tremendous deference paid to titles and institutions in the US that should not be -- and would not be paid to titles and institutions of another country.

Why, for example, should we take the term "Chairman of the Federal Reserve" seriously, but take some other country's "Minister of Economic Affairs" less seriously?

All this is part of a media whose purpose is to help Americans feel that they have the moral high ground so that wars can be waged whenever necessary. The media doesn't have to overtly support a war -- in fact it is expected to question it (but by asking the wrong questions).

There are a lot of things you decide not to say/think if you expect to be on a national TV show, quoted in a national paper, be appointed to a cabinet post, etc. Why the voluntary censorship? Because all that stuff is such a downer. Why worry about it when we can just order another burger and get free healthcare and feel good about our google searches because google is taking a stand against horrible china. Why would anyone fight these memes when they make everyone so happy?

In the US the entrenched interests have been so successful, in fact, that we see all of this as perfectly normal and reasonable.... and, of course, we amplify differences with another country (like China) out of moral superiority and righteous indignation... Nothing makes us feel better than feeling sorrry for some poor victim of a propagandizing state, after all.

This isn't a conspiracy (or a conspiracy theory) it's just what you get when entrenched interests flourish in a stable, prosperous country.
I actually know more people who gamble than who have investments outside of a 401k or their own business. Not even counting people who just play the lottery.
At present, an accredited investor is defined as someone with a net worth of over $1mm or net income of over $200k. Dodd's bill would increase that to $2.3mm and $450k respectively.

Untrue. The bill would direct the SEC to review the existing financial thresholds in the light of inflationary changes since 1982 but does not mandate any particular change. The SEC might, for example, choose to leave the limits about where they are at and simply index to inflation from now on.

I am not in favor of shrinking the pool of accredited investors unnecessarily. I am, however, in favor of accuracy when discussing the contents of the bill.
No. http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-dev/2010-February/002...
I'm getting bored of ex-MySQL guys pontificating. Your one-hit-wonder days are over and, tbh., it wasn't even that good a product.
Nice move. Names matter. I like it.
Old executables, web sites, mailing addresses, and module names will forward to the new ones. We will work to make the transition as painless as possible and to preserve old references for as long as possible.

So folks using Arc can probably expect

mzscheme -f as.scm

to still be supported for some time.
Researchers sound alarm on Web app "side channel" data leaks
TRIZ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ
-"TRIZ is a methodology, tool set, knowledge base, and model-based technology for generating innovative ideas and solutions for problem solving."

Generations of Soviet engineers were educated on that methodology. Many western companies use it as well.
If I'm missing something, please tell me -- but the whole scheme relies on obtaining a fake SSL certificate. This type of attack has always been possible with a fake SSL cert. I don't see how this little blue box changes anything.
China, which allegedly employs 280,000 people to troll the Internet and make the government look good.

...Many more people do similar work as volunteers—recruited from among the ranks of retired officials as well as college students in the Communist Youth League who aspire to become Party members...

That's truly a staggering number.

Key up "but everybody does it" posts...
brilliant analysis
Looks like a great app. I'd spend a few hours to pretty it up... but I say go ahead and submit it!
Geek Humor: “Star Wars” Quotes That Are Not Good Things to Yell out During Sex
A sucrose molecule is just a glucose and a fructose chemically bound as a compound (so it necessarily has a 50/50 composition). But the fructose is HFCS is free, not bound to glucose. This is an interesting hypothesis for why HFCS might have such an effect compared to sucrose.

From the article:

"Second, as a result of the manufacturing process for high-fructose corn syrup, the fructose molecules in the sweetener are free and unbound, ready for absorption and utilization"
I'm with you Max.

Unfortunately the Chinese didn't seem to think that honest opinion differences would result in the outcomes they wanted.

Now anything pro-China is tainted. And rightly so, unfortunately.
I use wikis for my personal use quite a bit, as a holder of notes and scribbles, organized by project. I guess you could call it a document manager, but nowhere did I ever push the system: I only use the basic features and that's sufficient for me.
Canada actually uses this system -- we have 13 SEC-like entities: one for each province and territory. The consensus view seems to be that this adds a lot more headache for very little gain.

The federal government has been trying for ages to get the provinces to give up their regulatory authority in exchange for a national regulatory body, but they've never been able to get it done.
This article which starts with the idea that people do read everything this author writes, is horrible. The grammatical and spelling errors alone stopped me after 3 minutes. Besides the fact the topic itself is without basis.
A Retrospective on PAIP (1997)
You wouldn't tolerate a stressy messy job for a fraction of 722 million? Say, one tenth?

Sign me up.
It's hard work and it's innovative, but how is it not marketing?
I don't know much about TRIZ, but it seems the core idea is to "look for trade-offs, and find a creative way to avoid them". It also has a lot of general problem-solving tools .... but most methodologies do.
This is part of Geoffrey Grosenbach's project to use a different design for each blog post; see http://blog.peepcode.com/tutorials/2010/about-this-blog. (Not that I'm endorsing the rather orange design, but that's the motivation.)
This seems similar in aims to the Firefox fork Flock, not sure if Flock is still in active development though. It also seems very “un-Firefox” considering Firefox (Phoenix…) began as a slimmed down Mozilla/Netscape Suite.

Maybe short sighted of me, but I don’t really like my web browser to do much more than “browse”. Email, contacts, news readers etc. all feel much nicer as their own dedicated applications. Chances are I’ll come to eat these words within 10 years, though.

Feels like Mozilla are floundering a little on ways to innovate in the browser space. Google really shook things up by improving the core browser technology, rather than adding loads of end-user oriented features. Essentially the same thinking that lead to Firefox originally.
1. Ryanair do not charge people to go to the toilet, but you might have a good idea there. Having toilets cost money - to service between flights and by taking up space that could be used for seats. Either way you pay for them, in a charge for those who use it or as part of each persons ticket price - take your choice.

2. They can will either fill it with cargo or leave it empty depending on demand. In the first case, Ryanair get paid to transport it and in the second the flight will use less fuel. In either case, the result is cheaper tickets for passengers.
Why not pay somebody to solve it!!!!.
What about your trusted customers? Do you have any customers you are working with to develop your product? If they still believe in your product, keep working hard on it. Release a version - with fewer features than you planned on - sooner. What do people think about this suggestion? It sounds reasonable to me but I'm basing it on others' advice (Steve Blank on customer development) and not on experience.