skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd pay for information that helps me make money... I don't think I'd pay for information that's just a different presentation of the same news that everyone else is covering.

I WOULD however pay a subscription for Glenn Beck to be TAKEN OFF the air, and the threat of having him come back on would be enough to keep me paying regularly.
How often do you email confidential business data? Or log into a company intranet or VPN? How often do you send love letters or personal notes to a (potential) significant other? etc.

There are lots of uses for the internet where privacy is expected. Perhaps a better thing to say is "If you don't want it shared, don't put it on a social networking website".

It's true that once digitized, content can be very difficult to contain, but there _are_ ways to communicate over the internet and maintain a reasonable expectation of privacy.

The thing with Facebook is that they've promised certain things, like that you'd have to authorize anyone before they had access to any of your data, or that certain things would remain friends-only, or whatever, and then they've renegged on these promises. They betrayed and jeopardized their users for their own immediate profit. Do you think that's something we should just write off as "well, don't put things on the internet"?

It's not like a bunch of nude photos that someone uploaded to a server in a public directory and hoped no one would ever stumble across them. For that, you can say "well, be careful what you put on the internet, because it's just as accessible to everyone else as it is to you", but when a company makes a covenant not to share certain data and then breaks it, I don't think it's really fair to expect users to expect that behavior.
[T]he crisis in Greece is making [the] people who opposed health care reform and are itching for an excuse to dismantle Social Security very, very happy.

Krugman is a great economist, but this isn't economics. It's mostly about Republicans. He mentions Death Panels.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics"
Jolie,

I have had my commercial real estate license since 2006 and I recently found a job as a retail, office, and industrial broker and advisor for Sperry Van Ness Commercial real estate- a national commercial real estate brokerage firm. When I began researching the real estate market I found that doing online research was very helpful, resourceful and surprisingly expensive if I wanted to subscribe to the services that I needed to be able to advertise my properties and research online. Nationally approved and recognized brands and websites like Loopnet, CoStar and DMCAR (a professional Denver resource) are paid services. Since I was limited in what I wanted to spend towards online marketing I began searching for ways to market my listings through alternative sites that were free and considered to be social nine months ago and only now have been transformed into advertising powerhouses. Facebook, Twitter and search engines are excellent ways to advertise a business online and they are resourceful for their simple digital functionality and mobile access. Simultaneously these online resources are not necessarily money makers. It's easy to spend $100 or more per month on search engines and Twitter and Facebook can take up a lot of time without paying a dime. While it's important to advertise on search engines and have an online presence through networks like Facebook and Twitter to gain brand recognition and be accessible through online searches, these services don't always pay the business owner who is advertising the same hundreds of millions of venture capital dollars that the developers invest in creating the technologies. In other words, there is a strong distinction between the advertising consumer who pays for the online services and the companies online who are generating 100% of their revenue from online business. Online services can demand a lot and provide practically nothing in return, so it's important for the paying advertising business decision maker to balance how much money and time they invest in online services so that they can have an effective online presence at a descent price.

Jonathan Pratt
Commercial Real Estate Advisor
Sperry Van Ness ROI Commercial Real Estate
1871 Folsom Street
Boulder, CO 80302
Office Phone (303) 302-6484
www.svn.com
Twitter and LinkedIn - the best way to start a conversation with a VC/Angel.

LinkedIn is most powerful because gives more info and context (background, business network etc.).
19 years old and millions of dollars before. People change. I know I have over time and money - especially money, more money makes you more tame.
I wonder how many of us are on HN sometimes...
Google Says It Mistakenly Collected Data on Web Usage
Yeah they're improving it to be more in line with some set of values (which will vary depending on their ethics). When they don't say which values are important and just say "changing the world" I am not inspired.
http://aleembawany.com/2008/12/04/minimalist-design-guidelin...
The iPhone debuted on Jan, 2007, YT became publicly available mid-2005. When was your internship, I'm curious? Did they have a separate mobile version of videos? I thought they only had one version of videos, but maybe I missed it.
Pretty much. Legal language has some fun nooks and crannies (with my favorite, of course, being "To all whom these presents shall come...").
Good example of how to handle a screw-up. Well put.
How did they find the evidence in these random places? I suppose that Hogan told the police where they were... I can't imagine the police went all CSI and traced it to bushes and churches (!?).
What a brilliant way to discard evidence.
He lost me immediately with the first box entry for Managers. In my experience there's been a stronger correlation with morality and contribution in hackers than in managers. And note he is using the definition of hackers as "programmers" not as "breaks into systems". If he used the latter, I could agree with his generalization. But in this case it seems backward.
+ a bushelful for pointing out that Facebook's UI is deliberately disingenuous: It encourages people to share information while carefully obscuring how widely that information is being shared.

Do people who share their status with "everyone" really understand that their entire history of updates are being scraped and aggregated by "partners," or do they think that it's only being read by people who happen to search for them personally?

As the author puts it, it's a case of a lack of informed consent. And that is unethical.
Agreed, I'm a sophomore now, but that doesn't stop me from working (and getting job offers).
"Even more important, however, is the fact that we have a clear path to economic recovery, while Greece doesn’t."

It really doesn't get much more subjective than this.
In light of this, Gizmodo would have most likely done much better overall if they would have beat a path right to Steve Job's door and returned the phone when he personally called and asked them to.

Why?

First, Jobs himself would appreciate the ethics and honesty that could have been prevalent throughout this "transaction." Second, you can bet that what comes around, goes around, and Gizmodo would have most likely been rewarded in July when new products are released.

Instead, Gizmodo took the low road, and directly snubbed Jobs in the process. I bet Jobs told his legal team to do whatever it takes and whatever it costs to bring Gizmodo down. If someone had a lost prototype of one of my products and decided to extort/ransom me, and I had 40 billion dollars of cash reserves, I would release the hounds.

This does not look good at all for Gizmodo.
A surprising amount. I quite like it because it adds a little gravity or austerity to the situation.
Voyager 2 uses X-band radio for communications, more modern systems use Ka-band radio, so with the same size antenna that would increase received power by about a factor of 10. Also, more modern communications technologies such as turbo-codes, which are significantly more efficient than the Reed-Solomon codes used by Voyager 2, further increase throughput for modern systems.

Overall though, yes, there are some pretty harsh limits to radio communication across the outer solar system (Voyager 2 is nearly 3 times as far away as Neptune, and well over twice as far away as Pluto's maximum distance from us). But this is fairly easily remedied by switching to yet higher frequencies or using optical communication.
Google also controls Android, which benefits from being able to play h.264 youtube videos. Google has perfectly selfish reasons for undertaking such an effort as well.
Maybe "economics" should be added explicitly to the guidelines? I've seen very few stories on generic macroeconomics here that produce interesting discussion beyond a general libertarians vs. liberals pop-economics debate.
By citing CBC-MAC as "DONT USE", do you include CCM mode (which is popular)?

I see clear practical reasons to avoid CBC-MAC (there's an incredibly easy and devastating keying mistake to be made with it). But you have more insight into the theoretical problems than I do.
I love it. compared to any other web clipping service I have tried so far. One question - how do I delete my clips?
Wow, this just goes to show how irrational some of the hate for Apple's policies are. A framework is very similar to a library in C. It can also include data such as strings and documentation.

You can read the formal definition of what a framework is here:

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/c...
Sure it can. Here's a simple response: you have can book an appointment for any available time slot, but you can reschedule only within a limited number of slots.
On the other hand, two thirds of 18yos don't know what kind of life they want. And of those that do, two thirds will probably have completely changed their minds by the time they're 25.

Some people are incredibly driven towards a particular set of goals, but the majority of people just sorta drift through life figuring things out as they go.
I have to thank you, "insufficiently imaginative" is one of the phrases I am going to remember for a very long time.
This seems like an overreaction, but I think they probably know that, and still like the PR value of the reaction.

Frankly, of all the entities out there with the means to listen to wifi signals in bulk, google is amongst the less intimidating.
You should connect with Jeff Clavier (@jeff). One of the top users, to great effect.
My parish does the same thing with something called "Callpost", but it's outbound-only; there's no schedule component.
Sorry pal, if you write spaghetti code JS will bite you in the butt, but I've been coding for 20 years and I'm used to declare everything before using it and to be very careful when choosing names for my stuff and never do silly equalities.

So no, I've never encountered such problems.
I'm so clueless as you.

From http://rubini.us you can read "An environment for Ruby, the programming language that provides performance balanced with accessibility, focusing on improving programming productivity"

The thing is, in this context, what is "an environment for ruby"?
talk about taking the Long Tail strategy to the extreme!
I'm 19 and I know better than to make such foolish cavalier statements. Why shouldn't I take his inappropriate approach to personal Harvard information and assume that he is willing to do similar things at Facebook.

God knows from past stories that they lack the internal controls to prevent abuse of private information and as I've ranted recently on HN, the blantant abuse of user trust in regard to privacy is enough to warrant any and all scrutiny of both Facebook and Zuckerberg himself.

I can't believe that TechCrunch is arguing that Facebook respecting free speech (via the Holocaust Deniers) is bad, but is defending the fact that my privacy settings were laxxed at someone's command other than my own, and that I was opted into Instant Personalization (which over the course of 2 days added half a dozen apps with access to my personal information to my account). I really don't appreciate Queerty being linked to my account or my account being accessible to Queerty, for a vast variety of reasons.
Give people the choice between a free phone and $60 a month or the same contract for $30 a month and no free phone, and I see no reason why many people wouldn't choose the second option.

That's because you have a basic understanding of math and finance, unlike an alarmingly large percentage of the population.
Like the use of Grace.
And of course the most important data he left out: did she actually click through and buy the baby?
Possibly. I'm a Python guy doing this is Pylons so if you have experience with that, I would take some help. Also, if you have any experience with interfaces, that's my weakness.
Or you could invest in an electric blanket.

As a bonus you will get more sleep in winter (because it takes time for your body to warm the bed otherwise).
That was one section where I felt that the divide was somewhat odd. Also, the part where he says (referring to the managers)

...and wants to connect with society and contribute.

really threw me off.
It was mentioned in the affidavit. Warner was the one who went around hiding the evidence. When confronted, he divulged the secret locations. Both Hogan & Warner seem like ultra sketchy people. It's funny that Hogan made the remark "Sucks for him. He lost his phone. Shouldn’t have lost his phone.” when referring to Gary Powell who might lose his job over losing the phone. Hogan & Warner will probably have a felony record stamped on their foreheads for life.
Very interesting. I would love it if mysql server natively supported a json interface like this. The db would become a web service... how trendy!
He did not say, or even imply "not until." He said it doesn't make sense to give Apple the phone until Apple says that it is officially theirs. But, they didn't refuse to return the phone, conditionally or unconditionally.
If someone had a lost prototype of one of my products and decided to extort/ransom me, and I had 40 billion dollars of cash reserves, I would release the hounds.

Yes, very stupid on Gizmodo's part. They are lousy business journalists if they don't know who has a bigger legal war chest.
I'm sure that adds something, but half seems a little high. The invitation tree must be highly valuable information when it comes to fighting spammers.
Brandon may be a professional web developer, but at PyCon he gave a talk about the internal algorithms of the dict, he knows his stuff. It's just, as Jesse points out, a lot of work.
I'l go further and suggest that many American founders would do well to move to Toronto. Ramen money goes further here and you have a big talent pool available who aren't all planning to quit your company as soon as they get an interview with Google.
They're not natural born killers, that's for sure. If they killed someone, they'd hide the weapon in a church and just throw the body behind a bush. I've always wondered why most criminals are so stupid sometimes...
The DOM and built in libraries are of course terrible, but I really am talking about the language. Mainly it needs an object system where different programmers' versions of objects can interact with each other easily and seamlessly in the same way. It also suffers badly from not having a real dictionary type. (Objects are slow, and checking for hasOwnProperty() is a pain in case you import something from someone who thought it was brilliant to extend the Object prototype.)

The magic 'this' parameter is a complete mess. Global scope by default for variables and no block scope is terrible, as is changing scope of variables from global to local if I later add a "var" version later on in the function. (Sure we should avoid global variables but they shouldn't be so easy and encouraged, without a real namespace system.)

Newlines acting like semicolons bites people a lot that I've seen as well. I hate the inconsistency in the object literal syntax. I need to quote the left side of them anyway, e.g. {"interface":"my-interface"} will break otherwise, so why not make it consistent and allow a variable, so I can pass {key: value} into a function requiring a dictionary? I also hate the inconsistency of keywords. Why can I redefine "undefined" and "NaN", but not "interface" or "super"?

Some of these are warts but not having an agreed on object system is a show stopper for general use, imo. Who rolls their own prototype system in Java? Nobody. Who rolls their own imitation of classical objects in JS? Most people.
Thanks for explanation! I do understand your logic and I agree with your math. However the real question is, what is the intention of the discount item? My intention of a taxable discount item is to reduce the taxable items and not the non taxable ones.

Now let’s clarify the events that lead to this blog post. My use of the word “error” came after contacting Intuits support team and being transferred through two levels of support team members. At the end of my conversations with both team members, I was left with what they also called a “workaround” solution, which I have provided here, and told to submit a feature request to address the “problem” in future releases. Now considering you and are an Intuit employee, I don’t have to tell you what a full service plan for QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions costs on a yearly basis. Without arguing over the other benefits of buying this plan, wouldn’t you expect to get a better answer/explanation from at least the second level support tech?

So here is what I propose: If a discount item is used, and there are taxable and non taxable items, allow the user to determine which items the discount should apply to. There may also be an option for default QuickBooks behavior that will use the proportional reduction for all items. This approach should cover any and all circumstances that may arrise and allow for greater control of the discount process without having to group the invoice in a particular order.

Let me thank you for taking the time to involve yourself with this blog post. It speaks volumes for Intuit’s staff and the pride you have in your products.
I doubt Jobs would have lunch with him.
Unfortunately, you might be less happy as a result: http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2009/08/m...
Google drastically overpriced the phone.

The Nexus One is cheaper than a contract free (but still locked!) iPhone 3GS. Their "mistake" was being honest about the price, and not explaining how it would more than pay for itself in lower monthly charges if you used T-Mobile's non-contract rates. Even that may not have worked, because consumers are generally really bad at math.
I've read most of the OReilly, Artima and Pragmatic books, and read Pollak's book a long time ago (you can read 1/2(?) on google books).

The Pragmatic book is a very gentle intro which makes the type and object systems seem like a ruby- or python-learning exercise. It's not. The Oreilly has the most comprehensive info, and is also quite blunt about 2.7's shortcomings (the animal-trap icons). It's a very dense read but I think it's definitely on the path of least resistance (i.e. not reading it will make learning the language more difficult. Course there's no reason not to read it free, online.

The Artima book, IMHO is really a nice introduction, explains clearly but keeps going at a good pace. It's just a lot to read. The Artima book is also one of the only well-indexed software books I've ever countered, kudo's to authors and production people for that, that's a huge time-saver.
There was nothing extortive or coercive about the email. In the email, Gizmodo didn't ask for any compensation. And, they didn't make any threats. The email boils down to "Give us an official confirmation that the phone is yours" and complaints about their relationship with Apple. That's it. In particular, they didn't even say that they wouldn't return the phone if they didn't get an official confirmation.
I think the fact the US dollar is a reserve currency has a little more to do with confidence than the other factors Krugman mentions. The US is basically banking on the idea that they can debase their currency to buy their own debt (http://bit.ly/78TtQc). Faking demand keeps the interest rates for their bonds lower and there is the presumption that the US dollar won't collapse because other nations are forced to buy it for their reserves.
You can't go by averages. Average wages are low in India. But India also has more billionaires than UK or Germany.

The market for smart phones is pretty big in India.

(Don't have the sales numbers at hand. But Admob metrics report shows that in the first 3 months of 2010, they served 2.8 billion requests to cellphones in India. 63.1% of them were from smart phones. This doesn't mean that 2 out of 3 cell phones in India are smart phones as folks without smart phones don't usually go online much. But it does mean that the Indian market for smart phones is bigger than the Australian market - where Admob served 656 million requests in the first quarter of 2010.)
I think everyone assumed he "found" the phone... until now. Previously we didn't have the whole story, so we just gave Hogan the benefit of the doubt.
The problem if that there aren't very many alternatives that are as "secure" as going to college. Bachelors to grad school or the work force is a easily defined route and is proven to provide most people with the long term financial security they desire.

The solution should be to integrate alternate forms of education and preparing for the job market (ie starting your own business or apprenticing for a job) into the college track.

I know there are several pretty glaring differences, but ultimately what are the difference in goal between being a founder in a company and say getting a "Masters in Entrepreneurship".

On a separate note, I know the family of the girl in the article. GO BRUINS!!!
Pal, please learn how to read carefully.

Nowhere did I complain about needing to declare things before using it. Having variables be global by default is really poor design.

And about silly equalities, it will inevitably happen once your programs get bigger, and you become frustrated with a bug that has been suppressed through multiple function calls because Brendon Eich thought weak typing was a good idea.
Yes, and I'm sure you never have memory management problems in C and are an above average driver. But for the mere mortals who occupy most development positions, having behavior silently and radically change when you forget a "var" is not a good thing.
It's only a partial paywall. A redirect, referer change or resetting cookie file would be able to fix their broken website when the time comes.
it has everything to do with a .com.

Same SEO methods on a .com and .net, will always have .com beating out the .net.

All those examples you give, there is no competition, those are BRANDS that choose to reside on a .net/.org domains, there is no wikipedia.com trying to outrank the .org.

We are not talking about brands here. We are talking about keyword centric domains that are targeting keywords people actually search for. So to give you an example, you should be trying to find a bluewidgets.org that outranks a bluewidgets.com, where bluewidgets.org has the same or lower page rank.
Here's Wayne Seguin's take on Rubinius (he's the developer behind rvm, and he puts it nicely, I think):

Rubinius is a ruby interpreter written in C++ using many advanced techniques and technologies such as LLVM, a "precise, compacting, generational garbage collector", a compatible C extension api to standard MRI Ruby and many other awesome ideas that will give any language nut a huge nerdon.

(from http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/interpreters/rbx/)
Good idea. I agree it would be nice not having to download audio files (a la Huffduffer) since mobile devices have limited storage capacity. I know of no service that streams personalized queues of video either.