skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The better way to do this is to find the other job, get that offer, then go to your current employer and say, "Another company is gave me an offer for more salary elsewhere, but I don't want to go there for reasons X, Y and Z. However (name financial reason - spouses are convenient) is pushing me to take the money. Can you help me?"

The fact that you went to your employer first, and you made it clear that you didn't want to leave, both go a long way to mitigate the possibility of bad emotional reactions. (They don't eliminate it, but they mitigate it.) And they put you in a position to renegotiate your salary. Furthermore if it doesn't work, your fallback is a new job at higher pay.

Be warned, though, that this is a bullet you can only fire once. Having done it, you've burned some social capital. If you keep going back to that well, your employer is going to eventually cut you loose.

Also be warned that if you have actually accepted a job elsewhere, you should never accept a counter-offer. In that situation your employer will be willing to offer a lot because they are desperate, but they know that it is just a question of time until they lose unhappy people. So they will work to replace you, and it is just a question of time until you are fired with no job offer in hand.

That's why if you try this it is critically important to go to your employer with the message that you want to stay, but (financial situation X) is a problem for you. (It helps, a lot, if the financial situation is both real and known to your employer.)
And the FSF's announcement: http://www.fsf.org/news/new-documentary-film-patent-absurdit...
Personally, I think it will be a great day when it becomes economical to eat things like Paw-Paws again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawpaw
just because this guy has a mental capacity of one item, doesn't mean I have to as well...
Kill your to-do list, except when you need it to remember the things you have to do.

How about "don't let the to-do list run your life", rather than 'just get rid of it' and focus on the 'one thing' that excites you.

My entire to-do list is filled with the menial stuff I HAVE to do, but that is completely and utterly unexciting. If it's exciting, I don't need help remembering to do it. Getting my oil changed, on the other hand, requires some subtle prodding.

I think this post completely misses the point of to-do lists, and conflates them with OCD task-oriented 'productivity' maximizers like David Allen and his followers.
There's some exciting work being done in our lab with a "coded" rolling shutter, where you change the readout times on individual rows to give you better pictures or videos -- high dynamic range, super-fast capture, etc.

There's no project page up yet, but this video explains most of the key parts:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jwgu/crsp_video.mp4

If you want full details, here's the paper:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jwgu/crsp_final.pdf
You can read most of the Prologue to the book, which sort of ties this article together on Amazon -- http://www.amazon.com/Big-Short-Inside-Doomsday-Machine/dp/0...
It will be interesting to see whether this is about the app (i.e. implementing similar functionality somewhere in the iPhone OS or even offering it as a extra download) or about the technology (i.e. improving voice control). I bet it’s rather more the last thing.
Can I ask you what was going wrong in the past that caused your site to take such a long time for Google to crawl it - and what you did to bring the crawl time down so dramatically?

For reference, when some sites I was tracking spiked up over a few hundred MS crawl time I grew alarmed and resolved those issues.

Also, another good way to measure things is to look at 'Site Performance' in the Labs section of Webmaster Tools (right below Diagnostics used in this post). You'll get a graph that represents your site relative to the Internet along with improvement suggestions.

Also - while the conclusion seems accurate: faster load time, better ranking in perhaps 1% of cases is something Google has talked about - I think your reasoning is off.

You wrote: .If a site can be crawled faster - and requires less resources to index, doesn’t it stand to reason that it will be rewarded with higher search rankings?

It's not resources, it is a matter of user experience. The faster your site loads, the happier Google's searchers who clicked over to you are:

Speeding up websites is important - not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we've seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there

See http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-sit...
“Is it realistic to predict that knowledge accumulation is so powerful as to outweigh the physical limits of physical capital services and the limited substitution possibilities for natural resources?”

Yes, unless we figure out the knowledge required to synthesize these elements, recapture them, or develop substitutes.

Knowledge has a habit of disrupting what otherwise looks like a zero-sum game.
Twitter isn't "over" but I'm over it
Despite regular evidence to the contrary going back for generations, so many are ready to fall in to the trap that advancement and innovation is done. If materials, goods, and skill markets are reasonably free and fair, the price signals alone will drive others to innovate and develop alternatives in resource use, resource access/extraction, or resource reduction through the use of other materials or technologies. As long as the rewards for innovation remain, alternatives are likely to be found and developed.
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It's strange, because my experience is completely counter to that. I'm 30 years old. I live in a relatively dense urban neighborhood in Denver. I have many close friends that I see on at least a weekly basis and often much more often than that. My experience is very similar to the one studied in a great book:

Urban Tribes - http://www.amazon.com/dp/1582342644

Maybe it's a generational thing? While the political and social structures have definitely changed (particularly with regards to church), the end result is very much the same. I think the 'Generation Y' (god I hate that term) is showing a very different attitude towards community than our parents did. They're (we're?) settling into more urban neighborhoods. They value their friendships and relationships more than the previous generation did. They're relying on those friendships much longer and postponing starting families.

It really does seem to me that this generation is living gasp a much more European lifestyle than generations past. Having lived in Europe myself for several years, I can definitely see the similarities.
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I think that the 'beget' style does just that. Instead of requiring a special constructor, it provides a clear way to duplicate an object - just what prototypical inheritance is meant to be.
It seems natural that humans have always reproduced until they ran into some limiting factor. No matter how much we conserve, we will just have more babies. There is an out though. Research suggests that educated woman have less babies. http://www.eubios.info/EJ124/ej124i.htm . Just imagine a life where no one had to worry about limited resources because there are a lot less people on earth. _That_ would be a utopia.
This has more info than the Scoble article
I didn't cast aspersions on anyone. I simply summarized Krugmans column: to increase consumer demand, the fed should create a housing bubble, but even that is unlikely to work.
I don't think it takes rigorous, time intensive application to improve oneself. Many of these "data trackers" take a few seconds a day. Write down some calories. Jot down sleep hours. Etc.
Well, they did sell 21.5 million smartphones last quarter, up 57% from the year before. That's nearly as many phones as Apple sold last year.
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I don't think it was the fault of "cheap energy". Oil and motor companies designed our cities to be the way there are, killed dense downtown living areas and public transportation, on purpose. So, the demise of community sociality is squarely their fault, a victim of capitalism and the political influence of money.
It's definitely one of the following three and/or all of them:

1. The app itself
2. Technology
3. Talent
I got the same impression. The article felt like two articles hastily joined in the middle. The first was some musing on the loneliness and disconnected lives Americans now lead, with some unsupported thoughts as to why.

Then it launched into a description of the problems of a local diner owner.

The article was heavy on the heartstrings, light on the facts.
'"OK, so it is ALWAYS the case that P and Q implies R", and "It's NEVER the case that P or R implies S"'

The number of real world problems where ALWAYS applies is vanishingly small. This is the reason that rule based artificial intelligence floundered. The answer to almost every interesting question is some variation of "sometimes", "often", "almost always", "except when", etc. This is why statistical techniques and machine learning have led to solutions to many problems where rule based AI was an abject failure.
By definition, Microsoft is not a patent troll.
>I think we're worse off as a society because of it.

I'm curious, why?
That's cool! I'm going to try an omaha steak in my cooler, it is already vacuum sealed so as far as I can see I just throw the steak in the hot water and go have a few cold beverages while it cooks. Mmmmmh.
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Ask HN: How should I get started with Scala?
According to amazon reviews, Beginning Scala and Venkat's Programming Scala assume Java background (which I don't have), O'reilly's Programming Scala looks like a good reference but not a good tutorial (because it's dense and has forward references), and Odersky's Programming in Scala looks pretty good?

Have any of y'all looked at more than one of these books? How do they compare? One thing that worries me is that comments I've seen that most tutorials are broken becaues Scala changes so rapidly. Should I avoid older Scala books because of that?
I didn't know this existed, tortuously bodged together my own terrible version of this, and then had that moment of mixed joy and derision upon discovering that someone had done it ridiculously better than me.

Guess that's open source for ya. Its awesomeness quickly dispelled any disappointment at scrapping my own version!
"Perhaps not FUD, but I think not releasing what exactly is infringing is suspicious to many"

Why? Think about it from the patent licensee's point of view. You are paying a patent owner money for permission to practice one or more of their patents.

Why would you want to tell your competitors what those patents are? So they can look at them and make sure they work around them, and so don't end up having to license them, and so get to offer their competing products at a lower cost than yours?
well to be fair, the genie solved the problems, the smart people are just copying.
I don't see Apple allowing an Android release of such an innovative product.
There's certainly a lot of opportunity, specifically in enabling the physicians office with more powerful and usable software. Remember, most healthcare in the US still happens within the walls of a small medical practices.
I dunno - bars/clubs haven't really solved this either. Sure yeah, you have things like no cover for women, but where I am the ratio is still not too awesome.

This hasn't really stopped men from trying, though. The gender ratio doesn't have to be perfectly balanced, all is has to be is not ludicrously out of whack.
>we seem to have forgotten how to sit on the porch as the sun goes down and have a good heart-to-heart talk about our lives and values.

We haven't forgotten, we've just changed the space. Like right now, in this thread we're doing exactly what you claim is missing. Whether the porch is physical or virtual isn't nearly as important as the actual sharing of ideas.
This is a subtle ad-hominem attack on someone making a very legitimate point about the community.

I think you've got it backwards; DHH gave a very legitimate response to someone making a subtle ad-hominem attack on the Ruby community.

Instead of addressing the rapid evolution of the Ruby community on its merits (or lack thereof), the phenomenon is reduced to "ADD," "distraction," and an obsession with coolness.

There couldn't possibly be any merit to, for instance, embracing Git or REST: we're all just trying to be cool. "Very shallow analysis of a fast-moving community" is right on target IMO.
Good luck trying to buy a phone that doesn't include patented technology licensed from someone else.
I don't think that comment is a slam on the idea, just the likelihood of it coming to pass. I expect Wall Street to screw everybody for profit, and I expect most businesses everywhere do it to the best of their ability. Wall Street is just more able.

I read that as the author longing for that fresh optimism to think that Wall Street could be changed.

I agree that if it ever were to change, it would be because (shareholders, the SEC, Congress) changed the incentives. For instance, bonuses and commissions held in escrow and then normalized based on actual vs advertised performance. Rating agencies may only accept payment from sellers or buyers but not both. Etc.
good demo page. all in one page. i like the interactive part
I've really come to like flot

http://code.google.com/p/flot/

The head revision also supports pie charts, which are pretty sweet.
Awesome, thank you very much! I can't foresee taking outside investment as this is really more of a shell company for our projects and not something that lends itself to outside investment.
Does the trivia extend to the name of the dancer? I see him biting Elsewhere! :P
Where the hell are the tips? It would really hard to find a blog post with less meat, even the first comment here in nh is longer.
It may be unstoppable in the long run but it's far from prevailing. ICQ is in no danger of extinction in the coming 5-7 years for sure, especially with parters like Yandex and Rambler. And, well, network effects, you know. Most normal* web-connected people use it in Russia, as you know.

* normal means not IT people
It does. So if you find just the name, try it out, and then report back, so the next person doesn't have the same problem.
I understand the user experience issue, but I'm trying to illustrate that there's also the issue of Google's resources. They are a business after all, no matter how they hope to not be evil.

What I did to make the speed improvements - check out the post that I referenced (twice) in the post: http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/wordpress-optimization-drea...
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If being pressured over a patent is an empty threat, then you'd be surprised how many companies you'd not be able to deal with. Most companies (even Microsoft themselves) have just settled with trolls because its not worth it to fight.
I don't think that's what he was intending to say. I remember a whole bunch of cautionary columns of his from that time period, some of which were very partisan and accused Greenspan of keeping interest rates low for political reasons.
They reached an agreement over standing patents with one of their business partners. That's hardly a dick move. Now, if they'd sued a 50 person startup into oblivion over a questionable set of patents, that's a different story. But that's not what they did.
Sounds like a calculated risk. While a lot of "twitter services" are simple and could probably be built by twitter themselves should they feel like it, measuring influence and authority is a hard problem requiring considerable resources that twitter is likely to prefer investing elsewhere.
Dropbox-style Double-Sided Incentives for Sharing
While I'm definitely willing to give the author a benefit of a doubt, I don't see how he says his writing got taken out of context... In fact, context is even worse than the quoted words.

“What is my position on pedophilia, then? It’s really simple. If the child doesn’t want it [sexual contact], is neutral or ambigious [sic], it’s inappropriate.” It omitted the sentence immediately following: “This excludes most adult/child sexual contact, but only little child/child contact.”

He wants to defend the original writing with showing the next sentences, where he writes "this excludes MOST adult/child sexual contact"? Really? Which adult/child sexual contact is ok, then?

And then: "A 16-year-old girl from Oregon, a beautiful, intelligent young woman" ...

When one uses such language to talk about kids.. sheesh.
"Federal Helium Reserve", "Saudi Arabia of Helium", "The world's lone Helium Superpower"

Wow!
I did this last weekend, it made one of the best steaks that I have ever had in my life.

I used a cheap cooler, so I cranked up the temp by 10 degrees above what I wanted the steak to be at when it finished.

One thing that isn't brought up on the page, you probably want to use a rapid digital thermometer rather than your standard analog meat thermometer, I probably let out too much heat when I checked the temp halfway though.
Would you mind explaining why Ruby makes this harder than other languages do?

The reason that I ask is because I've found the opposite; due to the massive number of easy to use testing frameworks, it's easier for me to end up writing tests and making sure my debt doesn't come back.
Back in October, SIRI's execs admitted that they had problems handling access to more than 6 APIs at one time due to "cross talk" problems with the NLP. So, they face what we all do with NLP when an "agent" has to handle too much.

The value here is in applying SIRI to very small one-off Apps to make them more intelligent.

Yes, other startups are definitely working in this space -- and, it's important to note that SIRI is only a licensed technology, not a proprietary technology, whereas other companies have wholly owned IP. If you search for AI and AI, mobile, Interactive Conversation, Mobile and Retail to mobile, you'll probably find the Others working in this area.
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This is an awesome hack, but I gotta point out that the price point on "real" SV he's using is off. It's $400+ if you buy a Sous Vide Supreme. But you can also buy a $40 rice cooker (which is a multitasker) and a $130 PID controller from Auber Instruments.

The only downside to the beer cooler hack, besides the fact that it's not precise enough to do eggs, is that it won't work over very long cook times. It looks like it'll kill on steaks, but it isn't going to work for medium rare short ribs.

More Hacker News on Sous Vide, another topic I seriously will not shut up about, is here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1093433
Chicago.
That rule, to reproduce until you reach a limiting factor (food, money, whatever) applied until the introduction of birth control. Today, we see that in places with good access to birth control people end up being quite conservative about reproducing, trending to replacement rates or lower.
The problem is that some resources we just aren't getting any more of, no matter what the birth rate is. When they're gone, they're gone.
Investors are not benevolent technology incubators. They need returns on their money, and the quality of the software side of ICQ is largerly irrelevant here.
I'm not sure what you base your statements about Europeans on. From my experience in both cultures, there is very little difference in this respect, except for the provision of greater societal safety nets in Europe.
Thanks. I'll start putting up transcripts in the next few weeks.
This is sure to get down-voted, but the first thing I noticed after reading about her supposed brilliance was -- she's very pretty.
I think it's great that she investigated the issue and wrote a well put together article, but the heart of the problem has been known for a while:

* No money down loans

* No proof of jobs required

* Fannie & Freddie bought this junk

* Repeal of Glass Steagal

All the talk in the world won't change the fact that the solution requires legislators and law enforcers to have a strong backbone and prosecute those who committed fraud.
It'd be really cool if this could be bridged server-side -- there's a bunch of Python libraries on bitbucket that would be nice to be able to track as git submodules without adding a client-side burden.
Oh my. This resonates with nearly everything I'm experiencing after migrating to the US 2 years ago. I grew up in a city where most of my friends live within a 1-mile radius around my house. Those friends are still there after all these years growing up. My old home was a small apartment unit in a building where I personally know most of its tenants.

Though I don't largely blame it one the US as much as I blame it on my introvert attitude, living here seems a lot lonely by comparison. Living in the suburbs, I've probably seen more squirrels outside my current residence than there are humans (quite an exaggeration, but I do feel that sometimes). Graduating from college or high school meant that most of your friends will be living in different states with a huge chance of losing contact from them afterwards. I originally thought of this as culture shock, so I'm glad even natives are experiencing this.
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You mean, except for everything the app leaves under Library, and except for any application that used an actual installer instead of drag-to-desktop.
You might find it more interesting if you could access and analyze all the data buried in your daily affairs. :)
My experience is similar, but an inverse, of your own. :)

I didn't have your childhood experience - my childhood was much like your current situation. I knew a couple kids in the neighborhood, but we mostly just played video games indoors (when we were younger, we would climb trees, explore the creek, or play with an extensive collection of GI-Joes). And then they all moved away, and I didn't know anyone anymore (and neither, I suspect, did my parents).

Then I moved to Brooklyn. Not Park Slope, not Red Hook, and definitely not Williamsburg. I moved into what was up until very recently (in the last decade) one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the borough, and which laid claim to the most dangerous block in the five boroughs: Bushwick.

I moved in three years ago, several years after the neighborhood started getting safer. It's still not that safe: you have to keep an eye on who else is on the block with you. But now there's a nice coffee shop, a delicious bistro-bar, a wine/beer bar, and a coctail/dance club within five blocks.

I don't work with anyone in my neighborhood. But I know several painters, several musicians, several photographers, a puppeteer, and several businessfolk. I'm also on a first-name basis with most employees of the coffee shop and bistro-bar (who, incidentally, do all sorts of other things as well). I met the woman who cuts my hair at the bar (price? bring a six-pack of beer over) - and she does a wonderful job. One of the guys who works at the coffee shop put on a play/concert with his band at the local performance theater.

A small music venue (official, as opposed to all the ad-hoc venues scattered throughout the [il]legal lofts off the Morgan stop) is opening in the next six months: I know the proprietor.

I've never known a community like this. It's fantastic. I don't know of any other neighborhood in this city that can claim a community as active, as friendly, and as full of vermont transplants (I'm from the opposite direction, however).
I think the opportunity lies in helping large health insurance companies becoming more consumer oriented. With the health reforms, these companies have a pool of 30 million customers - most of whom will be buying health insurance directly (instead of via an employer). So health insurance companies now have to figure out how to serve this customer base.