skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consultancy is an easy business model.

In companies there are people who are paid to decide things. They also have budgets. Often they are called managers. There are consequences with decisions.

Managers learned a trick: Give the money of your budgets to consultants to make the decision your company pays you for.

If the decision was a good one: The manager was the one who hired the consultants!

If the decision was a bad one: Who could blame the manager, even the top consultants of BCG/Berger/McKinsey couldn't make the right decision, he hired the best!

Either way: The manager outsourced the work he was supposed to do but still gets paid and freed himself from the consequences. Heaven!
> It is heavily restricted in what you can do with it.

And that's what makes it more useful to more people.
I imagine that the compression is only for saving time during transfer.

That, and hopefully you could decompress just what you needed. I.E. a tarball of compressed articles.
Unfortunately, what he talks about is some yet another scripting language, not a system, close-to-hardware-level programming language.

Go is just a C 2.0 developed by its fathers and it's based on early works on Plan 9 project (if I understands correctly).

So, it is language for OS-level programming and, perhaps, google's own native client, and community will code and release lots of high-level libraries, as it happened for C or, say, perl.
FWIW, the fine was to Microsoft, not Bill Gates.
Pair programming is an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together at one work station.

I would add:

Often employed at consultancies where it allows them to charge twice the rate for half the productivity
Erlang on a Mac (for the lazy)
I see what you mean about there still being a barrier, however I would describe it as a trailing barrier, rather than a leading barrier. Most people will never encounter it and if they do then they have already invested at least a little of their time to creating their content.

It's been my experience that once they are invested in the process they are more likely to commit to following through and completing the process, even if that means getting rejected several times (I get to see the progression because the systems in production email me every time content is rejected). Those that don't follow through are the one who were just creating throw-away content anyway, which is what I want to discourage.

From what I've seen the trolls do make it through a percentage of the time but they tend to be well-written, entertaining, trolls. Those who spout short comments full of racial slurs don't tend to understand why their comments are getting rejected and they either give up or their comment morphs into something marginally more useful.

In that case the voting and flagging mechanisms built-in to the posting system come into play, the majority of users who are reasonable tend to be able to swarm out the trolls, just like they do here on HN.

The pivotal piece there being that the rejection mechanism tends to discourage people from posting that have no investment in what they're writing, which means the remaining users have a vested interest in keeping the trolls at bay...

If you are interested in seeing examples of content progression from a live system just shoot me an email!
What i would really like to see is the geographical distribution of those users, just to see if there is some underestimated market that could be reached (e.g. what is the percentage of chinese/taiwanese/japanese users?).
Library of Congress to acquire entire Twitter archive
If you are considering using Python, Beginning Python Visualization (http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Python-Visualization-Transfo... ) seems quite good to me. It is of course a niche product targetting though who intend to use Python though. If you are looking for a more broad based grounding in visualization it is probably not your best choice.
I wonder if they could be fixing the WiFi issues?
A sample of 40 may well be enough to indicate a difference, depending on how large the effect is.

But more pointedly, it's not clear to me that saying that girls play with dolls is not a fact and not just an unfounded stereotype. That question seems very different from the racial one.
The funds are going to, or related to, the IATAC program, depending on your point of view.

Folks in the DC area might be interested in:
http://intelligencesquaredus.org/index.php/debates/cyber-war...
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These kinds of UI tweaks can be amazingly frustrating to users if you're not careful. For instance: When I click on an empty input box, I expect the cursor to load on the left-hand side of the box. In the date box in the demo, it populates the mask and places my cursor in the exact part of the mask that I clicked (usually toward the middle). I have to click again (on a much smaller target area) to move the cursor to the beginning of the input box.

I filled out a 3-page form yesterday with this exact problem. It was memorably annoying and had a significant negative impact on my opinion of the company behind the form (ING direct).
Honestly sounds like some sort of regulation is necessary, maybe?

(– edit: could you please explain why that seems wrong or like a trollish comment to you?)
Complete tweet is: Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive -- ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006! Details to follow.

I'm guessing they'll be announcing this at Chirp today, definitely an interesting milestone for Twitter.
Guile has a "linking exception", explicitly permitting you to include the interpreter/compiler in a proprietary product. You do still have to release any changes to Guile itself you make, but that seems like a pro rather than con for popularity of a language, since operationally-different commercial forks with no source available are hardly the sorts of things that give a language value. The intended case, where you just embed the interpreter as-is and use it as the scripting language for your app, is perfectly fine to do from proprietary apps.
Shh, don't tell ;)

Guile is licensed under the LGPL, by the way. In a normal dynamically-linked environment, the only restriction this imposes on you is the requirement to redistribute any modifications to Guile itself. You probably knew that, but I just wanted to be clear.
...which raises the question: do these people lack the capacity for racial prejudice, or do they lack the intelligence required to determine what race a person belongs to?

The boundaries between races are, after all, determined by culture (a hundred years ago, Italians, Russians, and Jews would not have been considered “white”), and culture has to be learned. To make matters worse, Williams is associated with severe deficits in visual perception (http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2004/WSDrawingslg.jpg), so it’s possible that someone with the syndrome would have trouble even recognizing the facial characteristics that neurotypical folks associate with various races.
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I do a lot of charting for financial services software. The best practical book that I've found is The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures. Simple but practical guidelines for displaying pie/line/area graphs.

But for your situation, check out some of these sites which focus on more complicated graphing techniques:

http://www.perceptualedge.com/examples.php

http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2009/04/50-great-examples-...

http://interface.fh-potsdam.de/infodesignpatterns/news.php

http://patternbrowser.org/

http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/15-stunning-examples-...

http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/
Fun fact - Tufte's in Arlington giving a talk and we're taking a 15 minute break right now. Compelling speaker and thrilling read (he's giving away four of his books to every attendee).
The license I like the most is MIT, but since we are startup with limited budget, there is always fear of someone taking our source code and building competing SaaS to ours. It is the situation we would like to avoid if possible.
And I wonder if Apple's insular corporate culture discourages certain kinds of top quality software engineers from joining? I've been reading about Robert Merton's idea that a key motivator for practicing scientists is recognition, so I'm thinking in particular of software engineers who are accustomed to the norms of open source projects.

This might tie back to John Siracusa's recent observation that Google is "a huge gravitational sink for engineering talent," and Apple is not. There's a small discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1257201
That used to be the case, up to Guile 1.6. Guile 1.8 is LGPLv2+, and 2.0 (next month?) is LGPLv3+.

The only (?) common license that is incompatible with LGPLv3+ is ironically GPLv2 (without +).
What you call "the talent and the 'knack' for it" is simply acquired skill. Anyone willing to put in the hours of deliberate practice will get the skill. There is no inborn 'knack', except simple stuff such as being taller helps basketball.
It could be claimed the vagueness of the contract leads the writer to think the company will do it on the cheap (if they don't allow scope creep). Maybe it will cost the company 1 million somehow, but ultimately it shouldn't cost even that.
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Back when Jonathan Ive had hair.. and a mustache
According to Steven Weinberg's essay in "Lake Views", Bush's idea of returning to the Moon etc. was never anything but a smoke curtain, i.e., they wanted to cancel a number of scientific projects planned by NASA (e.g., an experiment aimed at detecting gravitational waves) but didn't want it to look bad. So they came up with this ploy of announcing we're going to Moon and Mars, and all the cost cutting was justified by saying that all other NASA efforts had to be deprioritized to focus on the president's vision, while in reality never even a half-hearted effort was made to make the vision any closer to reality.
This must depend on the application. On most sites requiring a name feild, I just type gibberish. I'd much rather be greeted by my username.
Yes. I can easily imagine a maximalist-geek solution involving a weatherproofed enclosure, a webcam, a solar array, a wi-fi antenna, and a server script with ImageMagick that exposure-compensates and additively composites each new image for 10 months.
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I think we can all accept that this is how we are. Its pretty consistent with what we see.

At the same time, its in our interest to treat people as individuals. Understanding our natural impulses can actually help us discount them when trying to assess the actual character of the people we meet.
Hrm - GuestListApp just sent the confirmation, saying "error in parsing this message..." :-|
can't agree more!
I'm just not convinced that the "proprietary fork" thing happens that often in languages to justify a license that scares people who only have a superficial understanding of it. For example, Tcl has had plenty of problems, but companies doing that was not really one of them, despite its popularity, and despite being included in a wide range of proprietary products.
I would highly recommend learning R (http://www.r-project.org/). It is very easy to directly query databases and R has many visualisation packages, including the awesome ggplot2 (http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/) based on the grammar of graphics. I'm writing an R graphs cookbook and my startup's visualisation product is also built on R (see profile and feel free to email me if you need any help).

Also, look at Ben Fry's Processing books (http://benfry.com/). Here's an introductory tutorial - http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/your-random-numbers-getti...).

If you're familiar with Python, check out Matplotlib (https://www.packtpub.com/matplotlib-python-development/book).
Apple to Unveil Next-gen iPhone on June 22; Evidence via online logs
Looking forward. Don't forget there's a StartupDrinks the night before at Elephant and Castle - if you don't mind hearing the latest about, er, Rails...
That's because, despite what the 14 year olds on digg and reddit think, this isn't for you to download on your computer at your house. This is for archival or data-mining purposes.

I apologize for the minor insult at digg/reddit, I just remember a few years ago a link to the archive was posted on digg and everyone started downloading it...unnecessarily wasting wikipedia's limited and donated resources.
Gawker finds making it harder for comments to be seen leads to better comments
So, anyone who sings (deliberately trying, I'll grant you) for long enough will be a great singer. Anyone who swings a golf club long enough will be a great golfer. Simply trying hard at something for a long time leads to greatness.....I completely disagree.

Talent is a word with meaning that is separate and apart from experience.

Witness, I ask you, the legion of mediocre talent that fill the halls of Corporate IT. Many of those folks did just fine in their Comp. Sci. programs. However, the talent to create and devise is not achieved by 'practice'. For many -- the curiosity fades and it becomes a 'job'. (For those, the pairing idea might actually help a lot, by the way)

When an individual has _both_ talent and experience, they're worth something. With only one, they're not.
Oops, I missed that change. Are there practical differences between LGPL and GPL-with-linking-exception? I thought the GPL with a linking exception was more or less what the LGPL was...
"Meh -
One of the best onomatopoeias ever"

--Nice.
Guile also runs on the NanoNote http://zedstar.org/blog/2010/02/25/guile-on-a-ben-nanonote/
Do you think Microsoft would have come about if Bill Gates had got laid earlier?

Yes. Basically I think this is a false comparison. First, there's nothing saying that Sergey Brin didn't have a pile of friends -- they were probably just not the guy who made this youtube video. If you're serious about your work then you will treat it as you do anything else you enjoy. You might as well ask if Michael Jordan would have become a great basketball player if he had a bunch of friends--he probably did.
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I will do almost Anything for a JSCONF ticket.
7zip, like many other compression schemes, is optimized and designed so that decompression is typically (much) faster than compression.

The web page (http://www.7-zip.org/7z.html) states that the default "native" LZMA format decompresses at between 10 and 20 times the speed that it compresses.

So, 15 days / 15 is about one day to decompress, then.
And yet, the kernel and chromium are excellent codebases under healthy and active development and are running on tens or hundreds of millions of machines. We should all 'Fail' so well.

People are happy to rant and rage, but the value of these large projects persists.
Public companies are not interested in being profitable. Public companies are interested in being more profitable than they were last quarter.

Think about that the next time you adjust your 401k holdings.
Blogspam?

Original article from original author:
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If you don't want someone else to be able to build a competitor site, it sounds like you don't want an open-source license.

The best you can do with an open-source license is the AGPL, which will force any competitor site to release all of their modifications -- this means that they can't gain any advantage over you, because you'll have access to all of their code as soon as they deploy it.
Here is a good article with tax advice for individuals:

http://www.biztaxtalk.com/node/3#ruIC
It reads to me like he is defending his team. I would bet that the people behind the scenes are feeling pretty down and for the most part unfairly: there was so much hype built up about this company, if they didn't completely nail it the first time they were doomed to fail in the eyes of the community.

I agree with the others here that he would get more sympathy if he was less snarky, but I imagine he's dealing with a lot of emotion from his team. I couldn't imagine trying to build a company with so much pressure, such an intelligent group of people and all of the negative press at the same time; what a nightmare.
well, the best thing might be to just combine all the project listings you can pull from all the sites together. for what it worth you can try to only pull recent projects, or projects passing some minimal threshold of 'usage' like download count on sf or watch/fork count on github.
but w/o counting the github you are severely undercounting ruby projects. the ones on google code and freshmeat are a statistical aberration to the real count :)
ruby people just don't care enough about freashmeat to use it much. all that matters is really just on the github.
'releases' announced on blogs/mailing lists and by releasing new version of a 'gem'. no need to duplicate it on some horrible 'releases' site still stuck in the 90-s :). rubygems package manager does a great job of informing people of new versions.
I would love to see it play out like this. But it would only work in a competitive landscape, and ISPs are typically local monopolies. Which is probably why the ISPs can even consider such ideas in the first place.
If "fostering collaboration" means a unifying databases, replacing legacy software etc, then yes it can be close to 14 million. At a previous employer, changing the bug-tracking system was yearlong project.
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We are like prisoners... We do not have a life, only work.
I'd actually love to hear some concrete examples of this ... I feel like I'm missing out!
Which is a problem orders of magnitude easier to solve than designing a language from the ground up.
This reveals the possibility to gain control over $EIP.

Wow, it's Gibson's Black ICE for real. We live in amazing times.
Wait... is it a joke ?
What I meant was to shy away from approaches that are PURELY based on statistics if you have no background in it, because it can get overwhelming quickly.

Of course, if it's worth it to invest the time required to have a fundamental understanding of statistics, by all means do so -- but if this is a one-time or a short-term project, I'm not sure the time commitment is worth it.
I'm turning hip hop goblin into an open source project and I could use a mentor as I have never been involved in open source before. I have many questions. For example: how do we keep track of which person is working on which task, such that people's efforts aren't being duplicated?

I put the source on Github btw- http://github.com/zackster/hip-hop-goblin
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Yeah, that's a good point--- Lua is another example of an MIT/BSD-style licensed embeddable language that in practice doesn't seem to have produced proprietary forks.
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The entire tech community is a little confused and pleasantly surprised today to discover that Opera Mini, the mobile browser with over 50 million users across platforms has just been approved by Apple.
The sad thing is that it is a bad business decision to not submit changes back to an open source project. If your company makes a change, the best outcome for the original project to adopt the code and assume the cost of maintaining the code. The worst (most costly) is your your company maintaining a fork. Never mind the loss of recruiting opportunities.
I appreciate that it's a hard project and I appreciate the work that's gone into it. NLP is hard, and any progress in it is always amazing and a worthwhile endevor. However, the measure of a product is not how hard you worked on it, but how well it works.

Cuil/cpedia doesn't work. They shouldn't be releasing it as if it were a product. Progress towards the solution is great, but unless it reaches or almost reaches the solution, it should be published in an academic journal.

By releasing it in the wild, you set an expectation for how much progress has been made. Blaming the user for not understanding the problem is incorrect; the user is not supposed to see the problem in the first place. If your users need to understand the problems that you've had under the hood, then your product isn't ready for prime time.
We use Braintree (http://braintreepaymentsolutions.com/) as our credit card gateway and merchant account. I can't say enough good things about them... they're one of the rare companies now that offers an excellent product and excellent service. (Although I sound like an advertisement, I get nothing from them for saying that. :)

Our system interacts with their API when people sign up, and for recurring billing, we implemented a simple nightly process that also uses their API.
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"China does not have unions ..."

Oh the irony. A communist country that exploits its workers like a true capitalist.
Moose and standard/old style libraries are entirely and transparently inter-operable.
Agree completely: which is why I wouldn't worry about 'proprietary forks'. For almost any reasonably popular language, the community version's progress will quickly outstrip almost any company's version. If the company's smart, they'll try and stay as close as possible to the original, submitting patches and so on.
I like Processing, and you can do pretty much anything you want with it but I will point out that it was not necessarily built with charts, graphs, and plots in mind; it's relatively "low-level." Any type of graph or visualization you want will have to built pretty much from scratch with the primitives available. This might not put you off, but it's something to keep in mind.
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I'm assuming the green timezone is your current timezone? Perhaps that could be spelled out somewhere.
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Guile being LGPL allows its code to be _included_ into other LGPL software. Other than that it's the same, just a bit simpler to think about.
Doesn't work in IE7 I guess? All I see is a green bar that isn't draggable. I already noted in the comments that the UI isn't necessarily obvious, but I've tried pushing, pulling, dragging every visible element on the page, and haven't seen anything happen.
I attended a one-day seminar of Tufte's one time and agree that it was pretty good. But he was by no means "giving away" his books; they were built into the (considerable) price of the event. I also recall being amazed at how many people showed up. This was in a large hotel ballroom in SF and we were jam packed in there.

Another fun fact: when he couldn't get his first book (VDQI) published the way he wanted, he mortgaged his house and published it himself. Respect.
I'm using Chrome on Windows (don't ask) and I get a featureless black screen. What am I supposed to see?
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Yeah in that sense R is a better choice, but to make good looking graphs in R takes a bit of learning.
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QA with Nokia's VP of MeeGo Devices
Impressive, it's currently at the top for every country (for Free Apps). I guess that's what a very public review process will do for you.