skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about field-wide RSS feeds, but SSRN does have author-specific RSS feeds like http://www.ssrn.com/rss/authors/1997/0701/998.rss for Eugene Fama.
"college is a great place to recruit for a future startup"

Indeed. I've seen this in several startups, and saved LMI in 1983 by recruiting a fantastic engineer who was just graduating. He'd built a baby Lisp Machine for his 6.111 final project and finished the design and debugging of LMI's first in-house designed machine (something Greenblatt and the physics graduate he'd hired to do the digital design weren't capable of).

And it's worth pointing out that he learned the skills necessary to do this by finishing his formal education.
I'm guessing that a large part of this is about SEO.
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Prosecute, without a doubt.

In the chat transcripts, they explicitly discuss the possibility of getting caught. The perp knew the risks, and made a conscious decision to proceed. The Friend's discussion about getting paid for links reveals a pattern (albeit not in this case) of doing this for personal gain. And they also show clearly that they understand the effects of their behavior on the victims, and just don't care about it.

If you want to prevent these hackers from mischief, there must be a credible threat of repercussions. Letting them go will not discourage all this guy's friends. But maybe in a similar conversation next year, when they're talking about getting caught, someone will mention "you remember last year when Xyz got caught, and he's still in jail!".
I care about REST because I remember SOAP and I am very happy that REST mostly won that war, at least in the public API space. I suppose there's something to his article about diverging from the idea of resource definitions but I hope that API providers stick to REST as closely as possible and don't do things such as require cookies in their API or have the app manage state some other non-RESTFUL way that isn't simply passing a token as a POST or GET value for example.
I am not a financial whiz or even moderately edumicated, so do not buy or sell stock based on what I write here. Clarification sand corrections eagerly solicited!

> I'd be grateful if some financial wizard could explain to me why it has $33 billion of goodwill on its books when Apple, by contrast, has only $480 million

One source of what accountants call goodwill is free spending on companies. When HP buys Palm for $1.2 billion, it will add up all of Palm's cash and assets and put those on its books. If all that adds up to less than B$1.2, the rest is marked as "goodwill."

Later on, HP can decide that they really didn't get B$1.2 out of Palm and adjust the amount of goodwill to reflect overpaying. This is called "writing it down." It's very embarrassing but it's also prudent, as having too much goodwill on your books makes you look like a financial pufferfish. A writedown trades one-time embarrassment for long-term attractiveness.

B$33 is a lot, it probably reflects HP having done a lot of M&A while not writing the goodwill down.
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This is one of the main reasons I sell to teachers as opposed to selling to school districts: I just could not possibly keep ahead of the sales cycle for educational purchasing, with pushing the sale through multiple layers of bureaucracy, getting the PO, and then chasing down payment, all while otherwise occupied with everything else I have to do.

I'm hoping to be in the 37Signals-y sweet spot for my next product: zero marginal effort for the typical sale but sufficient value to have lifetime customer values in the $X00 range rather than $29.95.
Bad example?

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sketchbook-pro/id364253478?mt...
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The mess Django's in
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Did you see Agora yet? In it the mathematician Hypatia in 4th century Egypt (played by Rachel Weisz) makes the radical announcement that circles are not really shapes in their own right, they're just a type of ellipse, and everyone wigs out - everything they know about astronomy and physics will have to be rethought. Anyway, awesome film.
I cannot wait to rub it into all the "but H264 is already standard, there is no way that there will be another format supported" zealots. For a patent-free better future!
So it is Cassandra then?
Huh, so there are secrets then? Because just a couple of days ago Andy Rubin was interviewed by the New York Times and I think he repeatedly said that Android was open and there were no secrets. I guess he just informed us that Andy Rubin was full of shit.

Nytimes article:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/googles-andy-rubin-...
This raises all sorts of interesting questions about the implications of software updates on hardware platforms that are governed by consumer protection laws. And none of them I want called into question, since I dropped $600 (and then a $160 repair two years later, after the GPU burned out) on this stupid shiny Foreman grill, and am tired of Sony dicking around with it. I would like them to buy it back from me.

And it's not even a frivolous suit. It says right on the fucking box that I could install another OS on it. And now I can't. What the fuck? If I don't update, then my multiplayer games stop working, I can't watch Blu-Rays that access the internet, and I can't play new game releases or patch existing ones. That's not even borderline wrong, it's clearly wrong, and probably illegal (though I'm not a lawyer.) Otherwise, companies could advertise whatever features they wanted for some product, and then claim they were "disabled in a software update" later on when they don't have those features.

Which is what Sony did. Fuck you, Sony.
>If it is true for matter, and the universe is the sum total of all existent matter, why wouldn't it be true for the universe?

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

http://www.logicalfallacies.info/relevance/composition/
http://braintrust.io is targeted for teams. It's not about project management, its about idea and conversation management within teams (a.k.a. we're not another 37signals-copy-winning-basecamp solution).

I've created http://braintrustcommunities.com -- which is designed for public communities like HN (based on the same platform) -- alas, I'm a single founder, and haven't gotten around to making the rest of the copy updated yet. I'm hoping to kick off a private beta of Communities over the next few weeks for Braintrusts that are public.

If you're truly interested in getting this going, lets chat and we can make it happen.
Actually, you can't play many existing games now, either -- some rely on a PSN connection, which you can't make without an updated console. So the claim that the removal of the feature is optional is a lie; either way, features which have been used to advertise the console have been removed.
I think he means that he shouldn't be obligated to sign up for or get involved with any service that he doesn't want to just to protect his reputation. Sure, you don't have to pay the mafia protection money, but what happens if you don't?
Some of us (programmers) are still upset over 3.3.1. We don't have the platform that the Daily Show has, but Apple will never receive another dollar from me. My brand new Studio XPS 16 is wonderful (the 1080p RGB LED screen is slick) and I'm glad I bought it instead of a MacBook Pro. Apple is free to screw over developers, and developers are free to vote with our wallets.
Off-topic, but wow, that site is a promo for AdBlock if there ever was one. I wonder how frequently authors of cogent, well-written content (like this article) feel frustrated that they have to

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compete for their readers' attention with scads of distracting ads, some of which are placed smack-dab in the middle of their content.
Thoughts on Flash
Agreed, this totally validates our experience of the game.

He mentions in the article that the game has 205 5-star reviews out of 238. I heartily recommend this game - it's one of the most mentally challenging games that is equally accessible to children from about 6 all the way to adults - pretty much everyone competes at the same level.
Drop it off the top and time how long it takes to reach the ground!
Or save them - use it as a splint on a broken leg!
Really? Why do you think that? I know plenty of teenagers who got jobs outside of retail or food service, did meaningful work, and got paid decently for it. I think if given a challenge, most teens would do surprisingly good work -- the problem is that we expect teenagers to be useless, so they behave accordingly.
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Honestly have rails 2.2.2 and old rubygem, along with rails 2.3.4 and rubygem 1.36 has never been easier. Thanks goes to the RVM project for simplifying keeping around different stacks of Ruby.
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Division of labor.

He's found a handful of younger people including his 29 year old son who he trusts to do the idea due diligence and he focuses on the people part of the equation, both the founders he invests in (which everyone I respect agrees with, including myself :-) and the network that he's built to help everything work.

Someone who replies in 3 minutes to an emergency "saving throw" email and delivers the setup of a key meeting for a sale to Verizon the next day doesn't have time to do everything.

And as he and many others note, the initial idea is iffy; "no plan survives contact with the enemy" and you'll find that a whole bunch of startups have ended up changing something significant about their business plan on the way to success.

So bet on people and deal flow. It works for him and has worked for a number of famous VCs (especially the no BS ones that took little time to decide to invest in e.g. Apple and Sun).
Agreed, it basically solved the having a really old rails and a really new rails on the same machine issue.
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One more online invoicing system.<p>It was released to solve a problem we had in Portugal, due to complicated fiscal law none of the existing services (like freshbooks or invoicemachine) work here.<p>Now we are releasing internationally, can you give us some feedback? Does it have a chance outside Portugal?
I wonder if invoicing alone is worth paying for...

Although I know my feelings are inaccurate, I've never minded invoicing because I am asking for money. I actually somewhat enjoy it. It equates to income.

By the time invoicing becomes a serious drain on productivity, I'm already doing well enough to have that function covered either via an accountant or just an accounting software system.

So yes, you are solving a problem -- but a pretty darn minor one... will people really pay for that?
Apple enables hardware-accelerated video decoding, Flash Player beta now has faster video rendering on Macs.
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I never meant to imply that I don't LIKE REST-like APIs on the web. Holy opposite day, Batman, I think they're fabulous! It's really just an exploration of the ways in which the popular definition of REST diverge from the actual definition, and what we can learn from the original definition to make our REST-like APIs all the better.
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Unless you change the "size" of the space between them - then they are getting further apart without moving, which is what is happening.
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I wonder why Jobs felt he had to explain this situation, which (in my opinion) was fairly clear to anyone involved in technology. Perhaps the criticism was getting to him?

Also, I found this to be a brilliant snipe:

> If developers need to rewrite their Flash websites, why not use modern technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript?
Cool graph of git commits in a text console
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Just some advice for anyone going on to interview with Facebook.

1. Know _why_ you want to work there. Really think about that one.

2. Crack open an algorithms and data structures book. They ask some seriously off the wall questions.

3. Be prepared to fail gracefully.

4. Have an ivy league degree. Not saying that's a requirement, but it certainly helps.

5. Do some of the puzzles for Facebook engineering. It makes the interview process go quicker, and you'll be a little more prepared for the technical interview.

That said, I failed my interview earlier this year. Your mileage may vary, but good luck!
It shows commits in a similar way as gitk but works in a console.

Well I never could visually parse the output of git show-branch, so the above is really nice.
Not sure I could disagree much more with this. Firstly, I think the power of Django's inbuilt functionality more than makes up for whatever aesthetic problems there might be (I haven't checked) with the underlying code. That's a trade-off I'm very willing to take. Secondly, I'd rather go with messy code and an active bug-fixing and development team than beautiful code that no-one touches. Plus, there's no 'kool aid drinking' going on here. In fact there's surprisingly little razzle-dazzle about Django. All I know is that it helps me build what I want to build, fast, and the documentation is the best I've ever seen for just about anything.
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So are you saying there is a maximum speed which is less than half the speed of light, for objects that have mass.
What is that max speed ??

From what i know, a great deal of energy is required to accelerate it, as the speed increases, but its still a finite amount.
Facebook used to make it possible to forbid their APIs to access your profile. They dropped that a few months ago, which has been my biggest concern. It seemed a silly thing for Facebook to do. Despite my frequent attempts to encourage people to opt out of the API, I estimated that only between 1 and 2% of my friends list had done so. By removing the option they hardly changed anything but antagonized the tiny fraction of privacy conscious, probably vocal, people.

To (attempt to) prevent linking my Facebook account to my browsing practices I currently block the following in Adblock Plus:

* connect.facebook.com*
* facebook.com/widgets*
* facebook.com/plugins*
* api.facebook.com*
* apps.facebook.com*

running Facebook in a different browser instance would be another option. Neither fix stops random people from accessing my friends list and potentially other information anonymously and programmatically. This is making me think about ditching Facebook.
I say it is pretty fair. There hasn't been another blog that successfully catches me with its titles then after reading I sit back and say, "what did I learn there?" as much as this one.
This site is great, I plan to use it soon.

I wish it said something about paypal more clearly on the home page. Finding out whether or not you provide payment processing options took some looking. Overall it looks great.
That's what I thought when I saw the chopping and sawing parts. I seem to recall that in the Great War book "All Quiet on the Western Front", the author mentions that sharpened shovels get used as weapons extensively on the German side. The author makes some offhand comment about chopping deeply into someone's neck and chest with a sharpened spade or something.
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While there are certainly some bad CEOs in this list starting out with Jonathan Schwartz is not good. He merely failed to make the improbable saving throw that was required for SUN in 2006, which does not make him a bad CEO and certainly not a "worst" one. A total failure to recognize the terrible shape SUN was in at that time indicates a very superficial look at the issue.

Some of the other examples where I know something of the story seem to be sound, but I just can't trust the author on those companies and CEOs where we're depending on the author's judgment calls.
No facebook + palm = facepalm
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Yeah, also fits Wal Mart, Microsoft, McDonalds, Goldman Sachs...
Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain.

I think he states the major reason, Adobe seeks to characterise Apple as against the freedom of the developer. This campaign adds weight to developers that are jilted by the iStore. They can find a home in Adobe. I think that this should clear up why Flash would not be the friend of the iPhone developer.
There is an even more expressive quote for Adobe to peruse: "Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind."
I was under the impression that HTTP was only a one example of RESTful system. The OP suggests that HTTP verbs must be used to interact with a RESTful API.
The politicization of government-mandated health thus begins.

Costs will never be controllable so long as lobbies push for increasing the minimum coverage levels for their pet coverages. People are all different, with different needs and widely ranging values. Why can't we let them decide what they need?
It's called control over the experience something that really shouldn't be a surprise for Jobs.

There are literally millions of experiences out there that can't be done with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. if you want proof, go to theFWA.com and have a look around.

For every bad flash solution out there, there are some quite fantastic ones.

Flash gives you control of the experience in ways that by any metrics outcompete HTML5.

This might not mean something for most people here at HN, but for quite a lot of people (the same ones that Jobs is catering for with his iPad) it's given them many great experiences. Experiences that are not going to be matched even by the best HTML5 developers out there for quite some time to come.
I love this. Apple clearly laid out their reasoning, using facts and persuasive argument. The world needs more of this.

Obviously, there is some spin in the post, and I don't completely agree with 100% of it, but I love the level of discourse.
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I'm more upset over the HTC lawsuit (though aspects of 3.3.1 and the Gizmodo thing aren't helping). Apple is dishing chilling effects all over the place.

Right now I've switched software, not sure when I'll be getting new hardware, but it most certainly won't be an Apple product -- for the first time since 2003.

I realize they don't care about people like me and our perception of them, but that's not the point for me.
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An amazing future development would be to have the motion capture with a certain level of ad-hoc task intelligence. For example, suppose I need to move 50 boxes onto a truck...I manually move the first box with the robot "watching", then tell it to move the rest of the boxes.
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All his reasons are fairly obvious for the technical user and have been discussed in the blogosphere, but I think hearing it from the horse's mouth and at a very high level will benefit non technical users.
Also note the solution is not to insulate exterior pipes as said in the video: insulation without a heat source simply delays the freezing. No, you have to put heat tape around the pipes. Or drain them.
Running water is also not a solution - now instead of your pipes freezing, your drain will freeze. My friend the plumber was always gleeful when the newsmen would pass along that old urban legend: a long, profitable night for him, replacing drainpipes in mobile homes!
What a brilliant explanation! It summarizes all the main points that different bloggers have come up with against flash. And if the death of flash means a boost for HTML5 then I am all for it.
It's a blog post on a three year old article - the first comment to the post by Adam starts with the following...

(I'm the author of the 2007 article.)
I disagree with you about the Django codebase. Overall, it's well-written, well-tested, and extremely well documented, so much so that I consider it a case study of "what to do with a free software project".
It's interesting to see Steve Jobs on the FUD side of things. On the upside, at least Apple has now officially addressed the conflict. Kudos for that.
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Apparently CS5's Flash development suite can export to HTML5's including canvas support: http://www.9to5mac.com/Flash-html5-canvas-35409730

So that's one less reason to support Flash itself on an emerging platform (iPhone is pretty mature, but it is still very young compared to desktop OSs - see the bounty of new features and UI changes coming to iPhone OS4).
I stopped reading when I got to the part where the author expressed an apathetic ignorance about the concept of "goodwill". If the author can't be arsed to research an article, I can't be bothered to read it.

That said, the article did motivate me to do 10 minutes of research into United States GAAP and conclude that the $33 billion is probably a result of the Compaq merger.

Edit:

The Inquirer says HP valued the goodwill from the Compaq acquisition at $14.5 billion: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1019181/when-hp-bou...

That leaves another $18.5 billion that is probably explained by this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Hewlett...
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More good news about 3.3.1 "must write in C, Objective-C or C++" clause: it's made even more obvious here that Apple only cares about commercial middleware UI-driven applications. Those of us with custom toolkits and compilers (and games developers) can probably relax. Though, I wish they would still change the wording. I dislike having to wait for my friend's cat to click the "I Agree" button, since I cannot actually agree to the terms as worded and not break them.
They're in "downvote first, ask questions later" mode.
Its so pathetic, how little money they actually gained..should probably consider switching careers, knocking over convenience stores.
What scalability/server-side performance issues are you referencing?
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