skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I was down and out, and somebody offered me a pair of bootstraps by which to pull myself up, I do not think 'he insulted me' would be on my list of reasons to reject the offer. Of course, that may just be me.
Why is it ethical to punish someone after they have committed a crime if they had little say in the matter?

In both cases, some method should be used to ensure that a crime does not happen (e.g., using mandatory medication, isolation, etc.).
Picking up some pre-IPO options in a Facebook would also be a nice reason to become a Facebooker.

Google had 2,668 employees in September 2004, just after it IPO'd, and at the beginning of 2010 it had about 20,000.

eBay IPO'd in September 1998 with only about 30 employees and revenues of $4.7 million. In 2008 it had about 16,000.

Facebook will definitely IPO at some point, its VCs will demand it, and this recruit is perhaps more for IPO marketing than anything else. It now claims to have 1400+ staff.

http://investor.google.com/corporate/faq.html#employees
http://www.swivel.com/workbooks/27740-Google-Number-of-emplo...
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet
Best use so far for Readability.
For a company founded in the 70s like Apple, Texas has much higher property taxes. Prop 13 means that Apple's grandfathered in with extremely low property valuations in California, while Texas has both present-day valuations (no equivalent of Prop 13) and one of the highest property-tax rates in the nation.
Of bugs and purple wires
Exactly! The core issue is lack of hope. When hope is gone, all is lost.

And then you see someone driving by in their brand new Mercedes, and you can see in their faces that they've never had to work a day in their lives, it fills you with a boiling rage at the unfairness of the world. To hell with law. To hell with society. I'm gonna get mine. To be honest, it's difficult to blame them.

Note, I've never been poor. Growing up, the only times I went hungry were when I was too lazy to cook - there was always food in the house. So I was kind of naive. I remember my father (he was a pastor) once telling a congregation that he told the Lord that if he ever reached a point where he couldn't feed his family, he would just run away. So I didn't really know the facts of life.

Now, the veil is being lifted.

This, perhaps, is where religion is most useful. If you can convince the poor that there is some sort of 'divine plan,' then people can come to terms with their suffering.

On my way to work each morning, I pass people in the streets, begging alms. They gather at the stoplights, and come to the car windows with their hands outstretched. That is their life, day in day out. Are their lives really worth living? I'm not sure. I'm just not sure.

Maybe Schopenhauer was right about life. I tend toward nihilism quite often these days.
There are already versions for laptops if you use a mac or windows (and at least you can VM this if you run linux and it doesn't work on a linux android VM)

Mac: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...

Windows: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...
Facebook has released a wide selection of forkable code: http://github.com/facebook
Totally agree. Talk is cheap.
Sorry for implying that, and you were correct on the semantics. The fuller explanation would have been more helpful, though.
What you're looking for is referred to as a MiniDump.

Check out the following links for details:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/debug/postmortemdebug_standalo...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680369(VS.85).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680360(VS.85).aspx
Microsoft purchased SoftGrid some time ago, and you can get a SKU of Office running in this sandboxed environment:

http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=130
How are you an authority if you've tried five of them?
The other shows seem to be much better. For example they had Charlie Rose interview DST’s Yuri Milner.
Truly helpful thank you. I was considering posting images of the GUI. What do you think?
The article essentially observes that millionaires in Asia now collectively control more money than millionaires in Europe. So there is a lot of economic activity going on and some people are rapidly getting rich. But the average asian citizen still has a much lower salary than a westerner, and public infrastructure is pathetic. A disproportionate amount of wealth is going to those on top of the economic food chain, and that's going to stunt their development.
I think the "right thing to do" for shareholders is probably a better way to describe the situation. Duty so much as to reduce their costs (with taxation being a cost).
It sounds like you are new to the area. It has been unusually wet recently, but give it time. It will be back to hot and dry soon enough.
Airline offers free lounge access to Foursquare airport "Mayors"
I have a http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Asus_RT-N16, which I bought mostly because it has a whole lot of RAM (and flash RAM).

Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried hooking up an external drive, I just don't have any reason to believe it won't work.
> Registering a handler for a file extension means writing to the registry, as does (ironically) registering for visibility in the Add/Remove Programs UI

But it doesn't have to be that way. Microsoft can deprecate and replace those outdated mechanisms while still supporting them.

OS X's bundle system is indeed elegant, but it's been around for 20 years (!) and its benefits are well understood. You have to wonder how long it has to take for Microsoft (and others) to catch on.
It seems like a licensing issue. Periodicals aren't available on any of the non-Kindle device platforms, IIRC.
I was making 2 separate claims - a. cheapo routers can use external drives to do NAS and b. there's lots of functionality available for cheapo routers via DD-WRT.
I bet it has to do with the whispersync. Also, it could be to cover their asses-people associate whispersync and data with phone sync.
It seem this hit too close to home with many of the developers here. (I don't care about my karma)
Leaked Slides Reveal Windows 8 Roadmap
If they had provided APIs for every function that is part of the registry, they could changed the implementation at will. Instead, the registry is just another file system with all the same problems.

Unix also suffers from the same problem of convention over API. They do have a better convention and "everything is a file" is sort of an API onto itself but the concept is pretty much gone once you reach the level of Windowing System.
Poor guy uses the Insert key to get into insert mode. My wrists already feel pain just from reading that.

A lot of his keybindings are are similarly nonstandard.
Android 2.2 Froyo FRF85 now available for any Nexus One build?
I too wonder this question. I have a CMS based php/mysql app where essentially every object derives from the db. Aside from ensuring type in function args and doing some instanceof's, i feel like I'll eventually have more of these issues creep in as the scope of the app increases.

I am pretty diligent with testing, but sadly I am only human.
Made me smile a few times. Especially the ergonomic desk chair part
In Aus I've never had a job where either the annual salary or hourly rate was not declared in a contract, except my first retail job where it was under "the award rate" which is a public document specifying the minimum rates of pay for that industry.
That's interesting. I know little of US tax laws but in my country if an arrangement has no legitimate purpose other than to minimize tax then it can be seen as tax evasion and the tax department can choose to tax under an alternative regime that they decide matches its "true" nature. Similar to how if you claim to be a contractor but you do all your work for one company they can decide to treat you as an employee. Of course, it is fairly easy to work around, so this does not have a lot of teeth, but it still weeds out the most egregious tax avoidance schemes.
Thanks.

So at least there's that. Meanwhile, google for "exxon subsidies us" brings up a 3 billion subsidy last year and who knows how much over the last 10. But at least we're probably not in the red. Although I'd say Exxon is getting a better-than-fair deal with all that the State Dept and US Military do for them.
but does it "enhance" the photo?
If you can't bend it, model it
Yeah, but that's a crappy thing to do. Lots of unethical practices are legal but we don't encourage companies to do them. Why this?
openbsd has had kde4 for quite some time.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/x11/kde4/
leiningen works on a project level, whereas this works on a global level.

Think rvm's gemsets vs normal rubygems behavior, if you're familiar with that eco-system.
"I had happily come to office at 7-8-9 AM to meet an higher up or attend an important meeting or whatever. That doesn't happen everyday.

In an startup, quite contrarily, I had want my co-founder to schedule meetings taking my timings into account. When not possible, I had come happily."

I think coming in late is fine, as long as you can handle the early meetings when needed and the work is getting done. It doesn't seem like this is happening with the co-founder here.
If there isn't actually a legal duty to the shareholders, though, then you're basically in a territory of normal ethics, with subjective tradeoffs and competing interests, aren't you? There might be some ethical concerns about being "fair" to your shareholders, even beyond what the law requires, but there's also concerns about paying a "fair" amount of taxes to the state you reside in, and all sorts of other things to balance.
Thanks for the heads up. I was already bookmarking it to practice.
Windows is currently all things to all people. But that assumes that all users have the same needs and they don't. Most users struggle daily with stuff that we take completely for granted.

I too hate it when Microsoft adds a feature that assumes I'm an idiot. Every time I install Windows I have to go through the configuration dance to get it to "power user" settings. By default, it's not setup for you or me. It's not really setup for the average user either -- it's somewhere in the middle.
It's so telling that a slide like this is needed somewhere at MSFT: http://msftkitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/All-Eyes-o...
Inexpensive Stick-On Whiteboards
Bad link, it should go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hick%27s_law
Yep, that would do the trick. It's like porn for some of us. In the end people want to work with other cool people. Hence the Ninja and Rockstar post, when you are not cool, the best way to try to fake it is with some Ninja or Rockstar slang. But in the end posting some shots of the UI and talking about the people / work environment will reflect a more positive light. Then trying to "cool up" your job posting.
Same for Esc to leave it, C-[ works much better.
Ask HN: iPhone Video Geo-data
Does anyone know of a command line tool or ruby gem that can extract the geo-data from videos recorded on an iPhone?
Cookies now allowed on government websites, milk optional
Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind
I remember reading about replying to all offers that have business reply mail, and putting heavy things (like strips of lead) in the envelope so they would have to pay the postage charge - but still wouldn't get your information.

I love the idea, but am not willing to take the time. If there were some (legal) way to guarantee this would happen on a massive scale I'd be game.
Ask HN: Simple idealistic idea. I want opinions.
Hi,

Every city and town in the U.S. has unannounced and implicit and subtle ways in which individuals can maintain a good existence through hard economic times.

An example would be the time and place where food not bombs is active. Another would be how a local free clinic near where I live allows a referral program for children who sign up in which the members parents can get a discounted rate at the local "real" hospital if (for example) their child breaks their ankle or something (even if they never go to the free clinic for anything other than just to sign up for the referral!)

So the point is their are subtle and helpful location based nuances that only a handful of people who live in said area may even know about!

I'm thinking it would be cool to have a project where you take 1 small city, say Berkeley, and for a year just research and add these kinds of helpful nuances and organize them (maybe in a wiki-manner). Then if it's a success see if you can take what is learned and apply it to other cities/communities.

Ok...that's all.
You’re right: it is indeed fraud. The OP is wrong saying it’s legal. It’s called false billing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_billing
CodeProject.com and StackOverflow.com are two good sites to research and ask questions on.
Depends whether you think you can do it "better", for some segment of the market.

There's no point in competing if you're just going to do the same thing as the entrenched competitor, but worse. Why would someone use your product?

There's a big reason to compete if you can do what someone's already doing, but better. And it doesn't have to be better for everyone. It just has to be better for some population of existing users that are currently dissatisfied with their existing experience.
Who Should Write Tests?
Tempalias - Temporary Email Aliases
Magic of touch
I used to do inbound customer service for a very large phone company, and I was on a line dedicated for people who were calling to dispute an 83 cent charge. I got plenty* of calls on that line from very angry customers.

* the 83 cent charge was passed on to the consumer by the phone company. It was to cover a large fee the FTC made them pay.
> 1.2 GHz Sheeva (ARM)

OK, this is more powerful than my eee PC (900MHz Celera) - assuming clock speeds have some legitimacy across cpu architectures. Not much storage, but you can plug in a 4GB flash drive for $12.50 from the supermarket.
Thanks for you response - I didn't think about that at all. Unfortunately most textbook purchasers don't have the ability to "avoid" bad texts....

I wonder if there were a way to rewire the textbook market so that teachers assigned different kinds of things...in other words, so that the teacher assigned a student to read a credible source of information regarding geometric identities rather than section 23.6 of a stated text.

Imagine how much more interesting learning would be if students all came to the classroom having reasoned through the knowledge differently? It would be really neat to set up a system that was basically a "hacker news" for whatever piece of information...educators could comment on in-class efficacy & kids could comment on comprehensiveness.

You'd need to charge for it (Unless you could source the books for free) but this is interesting conceptually.
Btw.. I set up a wiki awhile ago for the idea in case I decide to run with it. Helpknow.org

There is nothing there.
The Knowledge Economy [Wikipedia]
Or C-c.

Also pretty popular to remap capslock to esc, I tried it but never got used to it.
Although I'd say Exxon is getting a better-than-fair deal with all that the State Dept and US Military do for them.

No doubt. I'm always amused by claims that nuclear power or alternative energy is "too expensive", when they ignore the huge explicit and implicit subsidies that oil gets.
Does anyone here know signal theory well enough to explain wavelet transform vis a vis audio data compression? I used to follow the talk around audio compression algorithms and I remember wavelets were often described as a (potential) holy grail.

Any DSP gurus here?
The site looks tossed together and the first couple videos aren't very impress -- its strange they'd release such a seemingly unpolished product.
I am sorry, I don't agree with this at all. I have never had a car, I have never had a problem with laundromats, and I have never bought bulk amounts of food to store in a freezer. For almost a year, I didn't even have a fridge.

These are not the reasons that people are poor, and they did not keep me poor. These DO NOT make it harder or more expensive to live.

Most people I know do the washing once a week, whether they have a laundry or not. I can not conceive of a way in which washing ever day can make your life better or richer.

Catching the bus actually makes things cheaper for you, no need for parking, insurance, gas, cars, etc...

And bulk buying meat is not going to save you that much. There are a lot better things you can do for your diet that will save you money, and improve your health.
Has there been a good writeup of what HFT "Is" at any point?

What is your impression of them as a pernicious/positive force? Are they essentially market making?

This is the kind of stuff I really should have an opinion about, but I haven't found anything to lean on in the public domain.
speaking for US-ians: would the Texas State School Board actually allow the rest of us to switch from BC/AD to BCE/CE? :)
"I want an IPhone 4-- I don't care" Satire
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Better to launch and get some traction than keep putting it off till it's "perfect."
Try to aim for exciting but serious (like kls said, no Ninja talk).

My personal bugbear:

Make sure you clearly differentiate from things you are not prepared to live without (eg. must have written iPhone app currently on sale at the App Store, or must be prepared to relocate to Outer Mongolia, etc) and stuff that you would like but are willing to forego for an otherwise attractive applicant (eg. having already developed on the iPad)

If you aren't specific about the difference between needs and wants, what can happen is that people who do actually have a realistic grasp of their abilities self-censor and don't apply. Then you don't find the ideal candidate and are forced to compromise and hire from a pool of people who think they are object oriented programmers because they took a class in Java once.

Highlight anything that would be particularly attractive to a developer (above average compensation, non-moron project manager - rephrase that one - , partial or complete telecommute, longevity of the position, high end computer/laptop provided, flexible hours, etc).
The potential for abuse is staggering. Yes, it would be good to have to benign purposes, but unless you trust everyone on the internet to act honorably, it's a terrible idea.
alternatives since tau is taken: pe, pau, dau, twopi
Ask HN: How to charge for a white-label web app?
A couple of years ago I built http://www.boostcam.com Ever since, I've been getting a request every few months from people asking to license the technology or white-label it. For a while I just couldn't be bothered. I thought it was going to be too much work and I was already more than making back my hosting costs through my AdSense revenue.

After I got another request today, I figured I might as well cease the opportunity and try to capitalize on it. I really don't feel like licensing and letting people run it on their own hardware since that seems like too much because it could turn into a support nightmare White-labeling as a hosted service, on the other hand seems like a much better option. I really have no idea how much to charge for something like this though. Should I charge monthly? ($50/month, $100? $1,000?) or should I charge per video chat session?

What do you guys think?
Doesn't doing this kill your SEO?
That's a damn good idea. Takes away the pain of the alternative (throwaway addresses). Good landing page too, I thought, as was the "what is this good for".

Nice job.
I used to believe that the IT department at my work didn't need more than 10 programmers.
While we might be able to justify one person paying orders of magnitude more taxes than another, based on the overall benefit to society as a whole, let's not pervert language by describing that system as 'fair'. In fair systems, people get the same service for the same price.
Advocacy journalism is still journalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy_journalism
If you launch a new video site and it's tech-focused, you'd think it would play on an iPad. Not so much.
Interesting. Sort of like a coupon site, but for civic services rather than cheap TVs?
Why does selling shares to the public produce a duty to do anything possible to make a profit?

A share in something could be a share in any social contract. A share in a nation, for example, accords one vote and a host of other rights and duties. A share in Whole Foods implies a share in some of the profits going towards nonprofit activities. A share in Google implies only a 1/10th control over their direction -- they come along for the ride.
I'm fairly sure we're going to go with Selenium and start on tests to automate base functionality. To keep sane we'll stay away from fringe cases and make tests as simple as possible. With a majority of the user base and functionality protected, we should be fine by continuing running basic manual tests for new functionality, and relying on users to find special issues that could be introduced over time that we miss.
I believe that. It's just that I'd rather play Nethack than sit in front of a TV.
2,000 Watercolor Paintings + 3 Months Hard Work = 1 Amazing Animation
Presumably you could get one of those and use it with a SATA to USB adapter, like this one from Monoprice that I have:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=103&c...

It works great on my laptop.
Pandora’s Guide to Mobile App Platforms
Yes, this also happened at the startup I was working at. Every Monday we'd assign tasks for the week. The founders were happy -- or in any case they never mentioned it -- but everyone else (there were five of us) were working at 10-20% capacity.

This is a bad sign. It probably means the founders don't have a clear vision for the company, otherwise it'd be clear to them and everyone else what to do. Or they have information they're not communicating -- also a bad sign.

This is a startup. You have to approach it with complete, unadulterated honesty. Don't hold back.

The founders, if they're good, should thank you. If they're bad they will get defensive or angry. They need to see it as getting valuable information, giving them the opportunity to improve the situation.

Of course, if they don't have a clear vision then that's the root cause. It's really disrespectful to hire people with no purpose, IMO, never mind a waste or resources.
New Research on Plato and Pythagoras
Hey, at least he has his pride, right?
They updated the post to say it will be available in about a week
If clients knew there was a boxed solution available they either 1) wouldn't need you or 2) would tell you up front to use the boxed solution.
How does having a legal duty put you outside the realm of ethics? If you have a legal duty to do something unethical, you're still doing something unethical.
I dunno. His whole "BluRay + Regular DVD" analogy leads me to believe that he is really that clueless.
There is a critical distinction to be made between mental defects that compromise one's ability to think rationally vs defects that simply overpower one's motivation to act in a rational way.

If you can think straight and accurately perceive your environment, you are responsible for your actions. As a rational being, your plight is to see beyond all those powerful monkey emotions and do what you know is right. Welcome to humanity.

If you really are out of your mind and your brain is just playing tricks on you, you're off the hook morally, though if it can't be fixed then ultimately you can't play in the human sandbox, sorry.

Since none of us are even close to perfect rational-observation machines, we have to cut ourselves some slack. How much slack is an incredibly difficult decision, but that's the decision at the core of our practical ethics.

Without making some distinction between motives and choices, our ethics are pretty meaningless.