skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the Book Illusions of Entrepreneurship, most people who work in their own businesses make significantly less than they would working for others. However, they're as happier as if they made 200k more than they do, so in general they're happier though they make less.

Non aff link to the book (I really enjoyed it for it's real world stats on running a company and what it means for me): http://www.amazon.com/Illusions-Entrepreneurship-Costly-Entr...
I think this is big because releasing this open source moves Twitter into an R&D/software type of company who is contributing to more than just their own system. They are moving in the same direction as companies such as Google and Facebook.
I've found access to Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime and other US-only stuff more than makes up for it. It's a shame these offerings aren't available worldwide. Boo.
I am not a lawyer.

HN cannot apply the Creative Commons Attribution license to our comments. HN does not own our comments. We do. We are implicitly granting a license to HN to store and display our comments, but we are not implicitly granting HN a right to re-license our comments. HN needs to specifically ask for our permission in order to license our comments under a CC license, just like Wikipedia does with its content. It's not enough to just say that the comments are licensed under CC. This is what StackOverflow does, and it's ridiculous. Let's not have the same thing here. I would be more than happy to license my comments under a CC license, but I would not be happy at all if someone else thought they had the right to do it for me.

Conclusion: Be like Wikipedia, not StackOverflow.
With respect to "more employable", consider http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287110 and similar screeds against people not holding long-term steady jobs.

It's better than being unemployed, but may still "count against" people in the future. (Note that this does not mean I agree with such assessments, and also note that there is a difference between a startup and hand-to-mouth freelancing.)

EDIT: The second paragraph previously just said "It's better than being unemployed, but not all that much." Replaced with the above.
Do you think of learning management systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_learning_management_sys...), or do you think about it being open to all?

I know some of those systems has the option for fora, and my experiences with those has just been good. If you're looking for good ways to work with an open-for-all system, I suggest looking at the most used fora in e.g. mathematics and physics, and then take some ideas from there.

A problem I suppose you might encounter is that most schoolkids use this networking site just to solve their homework: At least that's what they do now. If you could somehow change that problem into a way of making them interested in learning how one solve those problems (instead of making other solve them), then you've got a great idea.
Holy crap, that's bullshit, after the iPad was sold with this Unique data plan as a HUGE selling point.
They said you can go to a new smart phone and keep the old data plan. If you change the data plan to a newer data plan, you can't go back to unlimited.
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It's worth looking at what OpenCourseWare are doing, as well as university-centric networks like the British Open University's OpenLearn.

I co-founded an educational social network called Elgg.net in 2004 (which later became Eduspaces.net when Elgg's scope grew from education into an open source social networking platform for all), and I've been watching this space carefully. There have been quite a few services which have been and gone that have followed the model you've outlined, but that doesn't mean you won't be able to build something that works.

The biggest deal, in my opinion, is always this: find a way to make it work for the first user. Build it around existing educational resources, or tools for an individual to learn, and then let the community enhance that initial offering. Otherwise you've got one hell of an uphill battle ahead of you. (Pertinent examples include Flickr and Delicious which both allow you to store and share resources, but are so much more when millions of people are also participating.)
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I know many companies wouldn't allow your tool to be used for IP related concerns. Perhaps you should make your tool into a downloadable service?
NB: I should have mentioned that I've moved on from Elgg and EduSpaces, and am not able to speak for either project.
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with this one http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/26/twitpic_mail/

that's two strikes.

One more copyright violation and the Daily Mail could be banned from the Internet for Life.

They are going to really regret the Digital Millenium Act when they find out what they've done.
Very interesting approach.

Is this already taking care of releasing buffers after they've been tap'ed into?
Perhaps build in some kind of game dynamic that encourages discussion and analytical thinking rather than straightforward solutions?
I am on Rogers, but right now I am on a Taiwan service that offers 30$/month for 3g and basic cell service. Free tethering and truly unlimited service. I am probably averaging a gig per day of usage and get about 100kb/sec. Skype works extremely smoothly.
It is ... more than curious.

Although I don't quite remember the early '80s as this author does, e.g. a long lag in recovery was baked into the pie when the Congress required a phasing in of the Reagan tax rate cuts (which as I recall also didn't result in tax revenue cuts, since the rates at the time were way past the Laffer curve point of diminishing returns (e.g. maxes of 50% for "earned" income and 75% for "unearned" income)). The author also forgets the massive and regressive 1982 Social Security and Medicare tax rate increases which added to the maelstrom that we exited in due course when it became "Morning in America" (the theme of the Reagan 1984 reelection campaign).

There was certainly some panic, e.g. this was the start of when reporting on the homeless depended on which party held the White House, but Washington was deadly serious about the economic and defense situation, something we just don't see today when unemployment is much larger (the official U-3 rates are not directly comparable due to Clinton changing how it was scored. Use U-6 and/or http://www.shadowstats.com/) and e.g. Iran is close to getting The Bomb.

The other big difference is that the '70s to early '80s economic situation was vastly different. Back then we had a nasty case of stagflation to cure (high unemployment + high inflation, the death of the Phillips Curve). And there was a bipartisan deregulatory consensus, e.g. it was Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter who deregulated trucking and civilian aviation. For that matter as I recall Carter started the cutting of capital gains tax rates.

Today we have a deflation, and those are much harder to politically deal with (the irresistible temptation starting with Hoover to indefinitely delay the wringing out of speculative excesses). The Great Depression and Japan's two Lost Decades and counting show one approach that doesn't work, why it's call "pushing on a string". We're trying the same approach so there's no wonder a) it isn't working and b) politically it's "OK" (FDR and the Democrats kept winning elections till after WWII, Japan's LDP didn't get turned out of office until very recently).

It's not (yet) an existential crisis for our ruling class and the danger they're in is from too much "government" (e.g. ObamaCare) and too much (deficit) spending. And as long as limited government (e.g. Calvin Coolidge following Wilson's WWI excesses) remains a dead and mostly forgotten principle there's always going to be a party of the government, so the Democrats aren't in an existential crisis.
Show me how you would write self-modifying code in Lisp and I'll be happy to show you the analog. Replacing functions at runtime in Python is just as easy as replacing them at runtime in Lisp.
Robert Yong in his post tries to speculate and pontificate. One thing about speculation is that you will likely get things wrong. And he gets it wrong on every point. He does not have any insight in to what went in IBM. Take it from someone who does.
Just because someone has a blog does not make him an expert.
this ($1500 vs $20 cost of a new movie) is of similar scale.

The examples cited are all (with 1 exception, The Hurt Locker) all of the straight-to-video $5 bargain bin variety. 50 x $5 = $250. Compared to $1500 (let alone $2500) that's quite a bit different.
Yes, I can see that as a valid approach. The differentiated test I might try though is to put pricing directly on the home page. It doesn't need to be the main item, but as a test it might be interesting. As you say, some percentage of people need to know price first of all - there's no point expending energy evaluating and understanding a tool only to find out that you can't afford it anyway.

Of course, this then gets in to price differentiation - there may be an argument to say that you could have two sites, one more "enterprise" focused, where features and capability are primary, and the price is high, and one more focused around lower level users, making the price a key selling point.
Is Google following RedHat?

http://saviorodrigues.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/is-red-hat-a-...
In France we have beebac, it's a great website, very useful. (url : http://www.beebac.com). I'm not sure about the US-friendly educational social networks..
Full text: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In_Event_of_Moon_Disaster
This visualization shows how bright it may become:
http://mesic.hvezdarna.cz/2009/06/az-exploduje-betelgeuse.ht...

On the one hand it looks pretty cool, on the other such bright star would make the other stars invisible.
I think the parent poster is complaining about the defaults not being particularly sensible, which seems reasonable.
I'd like to see iPad 3G owners sue ATT and/or Apple as a class. I definitely would have gone wifi vs. 3G if these rate plans had been disclosed at time of sale.

I wonder how much Google pays ATT to keep Android in the race, by crippling the iphone/ipad.
Just do it here already. Anyone could run with it. :)
The market is more efficient than that: the accurate way to describe the situation is that unsexy fields have a higher return on investment to compensate for their unsexiness, and thus that their undervaluation is way to quantify how much people dislike them.

Take BP as a good example of this. It's a major oil company trading at a P/E under 6. If they made a catastrophically huge one-time payment of $30 billion to settle the Deepwater Horizons case, they'd still be worth ~50% more than their current price. But who wants to say that they profited from environmental destruction? Better to invest in Google--you get a stake in the business, but you also get a stake in the smugness.
I am intrigued by what you say, but I wonder how easy the Topre is to keep clean.

Of all the things in an ordinary office or home (including toilet seats and such) phone handsets and computer keyboards tend to have the most germs. One anti-germ measure I use is to replace my keyboard every year or so, but replacing the Topre every year is more than I want to spend. Replacing just the keycaps would control germs just as well as replacing the board, but where would I buy keycaps for a Topre?
Honestly, I would enjoy this. Game theory, and motivations behind a relatively unintuitive split such as this are only understood fairly recently. That the writer(s) of the Talmud (15+ centuries old) already knew this is very interesting.
You can use that as a "defense", yes. But really, put yourself in the shoes of somebody who has nothing at stake in this argument. What position is more reasonable:one guy saying "I think my rights are being violated, I have proof x y and z of that" (logs, checksums, whatever); and then another mounting a defense saying "yes it seems like that from the outside but I just faked all of that as a joke! Hahaha!" Why would anyone put files with wrong names on their computers "as a joke"? As a defendant you then have to substantiate your claims, basically because they're so outrageously far-fetched. Let's be honest, it's in the same category as a defendant in a tort suit (e.g. car accident) mounting an "It's my evil twin brother who stole my car and then parked it on my driveway!" defense. You can claim things like this all you want but in the end it comes down to a "reasonable" interpretation of the facts by a judge. And contrary to popular opinion, they're not stupid.
I've not seen this mentioned yet, but there is a mac only version of 2) already http://macdeveloper.net
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It's not just political elites, everyone employed by state and federal governments are in a vastly different economic situation than people employed in the private sector.
That's not what the he meant. The Apollo Project inspired people to go into sciences and engineering to an extent that nothing since has done. That effect is, after four decades, ebbing away.
On the limitations of the free DB2 Express-C. We did make a very conscious decision to make REAL DB2 available at no charge and not some crippled version like Microsoft and Oracle "Express" database offerings. Why? We wanted to create an opportunity for anyone regardless of their financial situation to be able to get the benefit of all of the DB2 features and be able to use it not just to learn but to actually use in real applications. This means that without paying IBM a cent, you can use DB2 in any and all of your projects. You can even redistribute DB2 as part of your application without paying any royalties to IBM. And, if you find yourself fortunate enough to have created a very popular piece of software that needs more resources (memory and CPU power) then all you need to do is replace the license and you now have more processing capacity. Think of it. No need to rewrite a single line of code; no need to even have access to source.
Btw. the price to move up to more resources and full IBM 24x7 support is exactly the same as what you would pay for equivalent MySQL support option. http://freedb2.com/2008/03/13/free-db2-is-cheaper-than-mysql...
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Well that's fucked. Talk about a bait and switch for iPad 3G users. 2Gb is a joke.

What's also interesting is it's starting June 7, the same day as WWDC. I guess that means the next iphone is dropping that day. I can't see how the new iphone will be on multiple carriers, because I think any other carrier would win by offering an unlimited (or at least more attractive) data plan. ATT (for now) knows that their network sucks and they have the upper hand, which is why they are able to get away with offering such shitty plans.
I wonder how long it will take for the rates reflected on Apple's site (http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad?...) to change.
really poor site, i have no idea what it is, despite looking through images.
Android army steps up assault on iPhone with 2 new devices
As to the question of whether Google could exploit their search data to predict the stock market: http://messymatters.com/searchpred (summary: not really)
When advance() in BufferList gets called, the linked list of buffers behind the scene advances so that all the unused buffers can get garbage collected. Binary has a flush() method too that calls advance().
That would maybe work for a clueless old lady. The standard for someone with a technical background, of whom can be expected that he should know about these issues, would be higher than for someone who can make a reasonable case of not knowing about these things. At some point it becomes an "assumed liability" (that's probably not the proper term in common law systems) - what I mean is a liability for something not arising from doing or not doing something (like punching someone in the face - that's something you actively do), but rather from being in a certain position, like when you own a house, and a roof tile falls off on someone's head, you're still liable because it's your house (again this is technically not correct in tort-based systems but the principle holds). In the same way one could argue, in my opinion reasonably, that owning & using certain equipment (wireless routers) brings with it a certain responsibility, in this case making a reasonable effort to make sure that the equipment is not used to violate other people's rights. It will depend on the circumstances if this is acceptable.
Even though the Talmud is a religious document, the discussions in it cover a wide range of topics, including theology, ritual law, civil law (which, for observant Jews, is religious), medicine, demonology, funny stories about what happened when Rabbi So-and-So got drunk, etc., etc. It’s like fifth-century Usenet.
One of the things I like best about FreeBSD is the ports collection, since it allows me to keep software updated and current as opposed to pre-compiled packages (only Arch Linux comes close) in the Linux world. At the same time, the base system (kernel+world) stays stable. This is also why I would choose FreeBSD over source-based Linux distros, since the latter updates everything to bleeding edge, even the kernel.

Also, sometimes I get the feeling that the FreeBSD world is less about politics and more about getting stuff to work. This makes porting software easier (ZFS for example).
Thinking about enums, constants, hard coded variables and doing things right
No, it was based on the parent poster being mistaken.

> "The issue I have with the iPad is you can't really chat with friends online and do anything else at the same time"

You can chat with friends online and do something else at the same time: surf the web. The IM+ client for iPad has a browser built in, allowing both to happen at the same time.

Additionally, since IM+ and BeejiveIM support push, whenever you're not actively typing, you can simply quit the app and do anything else. When someone replies, you see the message without interrupting what you're doing. If you click "View" to type back, it does interrupt. By contrast, the IM+ built-in browser doesn't interrupt.

Also, I'm not sure "IM+ sucks" is an accurate or helpful statement.

He doesn't like IM+, which is his right, but the user ratings are quite high. I use BeejiveIM for its meta-contacts grouping, but occasionally appreciate IM+'s integrated web browser. Even though I prefer BeejiveIM, it's not clear that IM+ actually sucks.

In any case, on the iPad, you can chat with friends online and do something else at the same time.
Have a look at http://www.supercoolschool.com/

Is it what you were thinking about?
It's better to use ProxyCommand for the SSH example. This particular example allows the gateway to read all traffic.
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#2 I've been working on for 2 months and will be releasing in a week or two... I'm still debating what the name should be, any ideas?
The sign up any time you want unlimited plan is why I waited a month for the 3G to be available and why I paid a 130 dollar premium... This is completely untenable for apple to allow this to happen not even six months later. As a matter of fact, the announcement is VERY suspiciously timed exactly 1 month and 1day after the sale of the 3G ipads, making them unreturnable!!!
This site promotes a new feature of the "Visual Website Optimizer" software.

On the one hand, this is a beautiful advertisement in the style of a blog entry. But on the other hand, this unity between blog entry and ad is a bit scary.
I bought the 3G iPad but I only plan on buying an AT&T plan when I know that I'm going to be somewhere without wifi for an extended period of time. I keep "marking the spot" on my iPhone. Yet my service seems to be getting worse.
Never attribute to Google's malice that which can be adequately explained by ATT's stupidity.
I'm not mistaken, you're just being dense. Of course I know about IM+, AIM and Beejive. The experience of chatting while doing other stuff on the iPad is vastly inferior to chatting while doing other stuff on your laptop. You can't play a game and chat at the same time, you can't watch a movie and chat at the same time, you can't use any app and chat at the same time. You are limited to IM+ and the IM+ built in browser.

Regarding IM+ sucking, the latest revision is much better than it used to be.
Bear in mind that you are one person, and your mileage may vary. I'm glad you've had better luck than I.

Software changes over time (both the browser, and the flash plugin, and the flash code deployed on web pages) so asking someone to reference a particular site that will crash your particular browser won't help you understand what's going on. A better idea might be a few clever search strings:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=safari+crash+log+flash

Or, alternatively, you can look at the architecture of chrome and ask why they put tabs in separate processes, and why mozilla is also putting protection in place:

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/03/mozilla-prev...

Apple isn't just making a wild conjecture when they say that Flash is the leading cause of browser crashes. They get stack traces sent to them by the crash reporting mechanism, and they get to count how many crashes come from what region of code. Drawn from sample sizes in the millions, this constitutes measurement.
Dear god, did you completely fail to read the first part of the quote? How can he imply that KHTML wasn't already open source when he specifically refers to it as open source?

The "interesting thing for Apple" is that they chose to put their efforts into an open source project in the first place. Apple, the company that likes to control its software as much as possible. This is all he's saying. Don't read anything more into it than that.
I would say it's a tribute to Android that it has such wide applications. It's a cheap and mostly functional device. Android devices aren't fashion statements; they are commodities.
Where is the Chrome-based IDE ?
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I watched this using flash.
Can you expand on this - Till 15th June, all plans get tons of additional visitors for life!
AT&T Moves Away From Unlimited-Data Pricing
Is this just plumber's epoxy? I've been using that stuff to fix things since I was like 12 years old.
Pixel Qi demos tablet touchscreens for indoor/outdoor use
I'm all for cheaper plans and paying for what I use. But I still can't make a damn phone call on AT&T in SF. Dropping a call after getting through to my sister in the hospital or while phone sexing a lady friend brings about a rage inside me that I never knew existed.

My iPhone 3G contract is up any day now and theres no way I'll get another iPhone on AT&T without testing an android phone on another carrier.
Why all that circuits? Couldn't he have used mindstorms?
The only bit of evidence you have marshalled for this argument is Hernan Ochoa's NTLM challenge advisory, which may be one of the most clever attacks published this year, after Juliano's Java Server Faces CBC padding oracle. But unlike Juliano's attack, which busted up a whole huge class of Java web applications because of a Sun bug, Ochoa's finding required knowledge of a proprietary challenge-response scheme and the reverse-engineering of its implementation.

I find that evidence exceedingly weak.

Meanwhile: what vendor is doing a better job on security than Microsoft is? That being, you know, my whole argument and all.
Existing iPad customers, who already have the $29.99 unlimited monthly plan can choose to keep it
Think mighty putty.