skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did know about the express versions, but in 2010 I do not want to track feature matrices for dev tools (http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products). Some things like test driven development and source version control are not enterprise features anymore imo, theyre required. My earlier post was not clear about this, sorry about that.

Developing software today typically requires downloading a framework or two, checkout out code from github, code.google.com etc. Often to start developing using a particular framework foo on ubuntu requires just "apt-get install foo", on windows it still involves 1990s style chasing of dependencies.

In retrospect all the features that I ask for matter mostly to developers so there is definitely a bias in what I am saying.
I can see both sides of it. These companies do provide jobs (income taxes) to people who can then buy homes (property taxes) and consume local goods & services (sales taxes, creation of more jobs, etc) but it's really unfortunate the tax system seems to be setup to put the biggest burden on individuals and small businesses that can't find creative ways out of paying taxes. There should probably be some sort of minimum tax for these companies posting billions in profits even if it only exists to break even and take some of the tax burden off small businesses. It certainly doesn't help that the state has been cooking the books for years. If the state can't even be honest with the people about budgets there's no hope of having a fair tax system.
I'm not really that interested in fanboyism. The principles at stake in comparing open vs closed systems are orders of magnitude more important.
History has taught me enough to be worried about that.
It's not tax evasion, it's tax avoidance.

Tax evasion is illegal. Tax avoidance is not.
Over 20 million VoIP subscribers in the United States
Why a multi-glyph symbol 2π when a single-glyph symbol 2π would be better. By creating a new symbol by joining the bottom-right of the 2 to the topleft of the π, we can make a new one-glyph symbol, perhaps put it next to € in Unicode.

And instead of saying two words "Two Pi", we could say it as one word "Twopi", with stress on the first syllable, much like the word "teenager" used to be spoken and written as two words a century ago.
That may be true, but the simple fact is that it's a lot easier for a large corporation to minimize its taxes than it is for a small business or individual. For example, a company like apple can afford to pay 10 people full time to move around money and assets in order to minimize taxes. Those people will save Apple far more than it costs to employ them. A 5 person company not only can't match that effort, but if they tried they would find that the necessary expertise cost more than the actual tax savings would bring. That gives large corporations a pretty significant advantage in the marketplace.
Using Mutt with Gmail
I don't know if my comment is valuable, but in Brazil we have some good laws to protected the employee, but the salary isn't so high as yours, from outside Brazil. (sometime those laws work well)

Here, it would be illegal...

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I'm not sure how well you would get ZFS working on it with so little RAM, although it may work better on OpenSolaris.

On the other hand, I've got an Intel Atom processor, running with 1gb of RAM, and it runs ZFS reasonably well on FreeBSD. Mind you, this does have a much larger footprint, although it does have some advantages (mine has 3x sata ports built in, plus a pci and pcie port for more if I wanted, plus a dual core 1.6ghz processor). It was only marginally more expensive ($80 for the board/processor, $15 for the ram, spare PSU and case).
Does anyone know why this app needs to read the Phone state? According to the Android documentation it's used for location, monitoring incoming calls, and SMS. I can't think of any reason Amazon would need that information to let me read books?
Designed in California.
Made in China.
Taxes avoided in Nevada.
Ask not if there are competitors, ask if there is a body dissatisfied users.

Such body may exist due to lack of competition or due to it's inferior quality or due to their different focus but that's tactics and only helpful in defining exact places to focus on, the strategic question you shoul care about - are there people with unsatisfied need, and how can find them?
Just thinking it would be interesting to use in conjunction with an iPad / iPhone, maybe extend some of the capabilities for file storage, local web dev environment, etc
Funny fact via http://www.storiesofapple.net/braeburn-capital.html:

Like the McIntosh, the Braeburn is a type of apple, known for a unique combination of sweet and tart flavour and its ability to store well.
"Do Not Seek To Follow In The Footsteps Of The Wise. Seek What They Sought."
We went over this a few days ago (also it’s described in the article, in case you missed it). You are mistaken.

sin(pi) = sin(3.14...) = sin(tau/2)

cos(tau) = cos(6.28...) = cos(2 pi)

etc.

The sin and cos functions are functions of radians, and the arclength of a radian does not change when you start expressing a circle as 1 tau instead of 2 pi.
As much as I like comics as a form, I'm not sure the images add much here. I may have preferred to read this as just straight text. (Though maybe I wouldn't have read to the end in that case?)
Wow, for all the "hiring and spending" that went on, the site is surprisingly bad. I realize a lot of effort must be going into production and the video side of things, but the site blows.
Haha. Great point.
When I read it, it came across to me as scare-mongering that we'll be "letting all of these murderers and rapists loose" because the court won't hold them accountable due to neuroscience, which seemed to come out of no where at the end of the article. That's why I found it to be so out of place.
Steve Jobs: 'There Is No Reception Issue'
Good point, and it all comes down to whether Oracle wants to play hardball. I saw a good discussion of this a while back, even touching on the disposition of some of the MySQL forks. Can't seem to find it anymore.
In my experience, most companies that have rigid security/compliance policies against using simple web services like babelfish, google translate, etc. also have rigid purchasing departments that make it almost impossible to sell them a simple, inexpensive desktop app. They only buy "enterprise solutions" from "approved vendors". Now admittedly there can be a lot of money selling those "enterprise soutions", but it's hardly a low barrier to entry game. IMHO unless the OP wants to get into the business of selling labyrinthian "enterprise" software, he should probably just ignore companies who have compliance policies that would prevent them using simple online services.
> Perhaps it was clever Soviet disinformatsia!

Either that, or it was the usual cause for rumors: sciolism.

It could also have started as a dumb joke, which was then taken seriously by people who didn't know better.
Don't read this as a ding in some way on biotechnology in the US.

The machines were made in the US, in San Diego, CA and Hayward, CA http://www.illumina.com/company/locations.ilmn

China is just buying a bunch of them, but quantity is not a substitute for quality.
Movies have taught me enough to be worried about that!

:)
The old way doesn't make your tests look like a spec?
I like the idea of "Twopi". Looks like it could be pronounced like "Toupee". (yes, it'd be a mispronunciation, but people do that)

Do you also favor the almighty interrobang‽
Ikea is so good at not paying taxes that I would say the whole company is a tax evasion hack. The number of subsidiaries in random countries and crazy charities that make up the company is astounding.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA#Corporate_structure
an incorrect/incomplete assumption will almost always lead to an incorrect/incomplete conclusion. The premise of the entire post is the fact that Knight Foundation rejected Wikileaks' request for funding. Now, unless the reasons have been made public, writing such a piece that is one-sided and highly opinionated.

Now, what wikileaks does can be up for debate but a debate based on facts nonetheless. The comparison between the 2007 video and the abu ghraib lawsuits is incoherent at best. There has been enough uproar and reactions upon the public release of the video. As long as Wikileaks doesn't hinder any undergoing investigation by busting the dam a bit too early, i believe the idea does work towards greater good and opens channels of information that would have been hushed up.
Pretend you're a local locksmith in a town of 10k, or an auto mechanic, or hair dresser. You're been paying the Yellow Pages $199/mo for 20 years but less and less people are coming in from that ad. Now, you have two options: one, do you go with Google or Facebook, or YP.com, or some other company probably from "California" that you just don't trust; or two, go with your local newspaper who has a very similar product and who you've done business with your entire life?

These people are our customers. I've actually heard folks say "I don't trust those California people"--wrap your mind around that and get back to me.

The truth is that by partnering with newspapers Seeing Interactive has a potential sales force of 30,000 trusted-local reps. Even if the newspaper industry is dying--which is a ridiculous claim--we still have the feet on the street and technology today to sell markets that Yelp or Google will never reach.
Anybody knows why you newspapers, magazines and blogs are currently not available? I own a kindle, and the only reason i would really need a mobile reader is for the magazines.
Yeah. Poor company name. Maybe we should have gone with "Newpaperly".
So many of the comments are "You're describing [something that already exists", and most of them are wrong.
Well what if you could give your self a brain upgrade via gene therapy? What's so bad about that? I guess many would be upset as it would go against our ideology here in America that frowns on any suggestion that intelligence has innate components.
On my EVO I had to turn off wifi and the batter now seems better than my old iPhone 3G. There are supposed to be updates soon to fix the power/wifi issues.
The problem with mandating self-contained applications is that there are some useful features associated with applications that are INHERENTLY not self-contained. Shell integration is a good example, but basically any kind of integration or shared functionality (or even data) with the system or with other applications falls in this category.

The manifest approach described by Miguel could be a good compromise, but it's not immune to problems.
Too many people would get confused, forgetting to substract 1 from the BC-tagged number, or unsure whether to add or substract 1, or wondering if the other person remembered to subtract 1.

I suggest adding 7000 to all dates, as well as using negatives. So...

2010AD -> 9010

1AD -> 7001

1BC -> 7000

31BC -> 6970

5000BC -> 2001 (except people talk about year ranges, not years, when refering to events that far back, so there'd be no confusion with our current AD references)
meanwhile, on twitter...

"@Skitzzo here is the truth... http://jc.is/cyTdfu

jason links back to his announcement on mahalo of the new system that now has 50+ comments. the truth is certainly in there.

"The terms of service of Mahalo always had people wondering if something like this could happen. I actually encouraged other people to join Mahalo and defended Mahalo on other writing sites like Absolute Write. I just hope those people will forgive me."

"The entire guide system is based on the premise of writers being so desperate that they'd be willing to sell their time for a few dollars an hour with no rev share to provide long-term quasi-passive income."
Yes. Your current simple privacy policy ("We will not share your email address with anyone.") is nice, but it doesn't address the privacy of users' content (i.e. the images they send you).

I don't doubt that you intend to do the right thing, but still, I was honestly a bit wigged out to not see any mention of the privacy of my data in the privacy policy.
You know, I really don't care that much about the 2pi thing, but this is just cool enough that I might be able to get behind it.
This should work well, but need lot of work from the Microsoft and other parties part:

- Microsoft create a development environment as powerful as Visual Studio. You create "native" Windows applications that has full but controlled access to disk files, system resources, Internet connection...

- Application are native in a way they integrate nicely in the sidebar, menu, have nice graphics and animations...

- Type of these apps can be for example "Drop Box"

- Microsoft build an online app store and a desktop app store app. where users can download, purchase, rate and review apps.

As a user, I browse apps and select the one that fits the need. The app should blend with my Windows theme, be user friendly and fast.

Considering the huge number of Windows users this can turn into a multi-billion dollar market. This will especially make decent profit for single developers.
This is absolutely fine: a creator who has no ‘style’ will not only fail to care enough to create a quality landing page for their creations, but it’s quite likely that the creation itself will have no style as well.

That means, for you… difficult-to-use APIs, obtuse / nonexistent documentation, a lack of quality (if any) support… the list goes on; and worst of all, it will likely attract a user community of the same type of people, leaving you with an extensions/libraries/modules ecosystem with exactly the same problems in abundance.

The spices, my friend, are what matters. (Also, I personally see a very close correlation between when the current, beautiful, website was contributed to Ryah’s work, and when it took off and gained massive “popularity.” Coincidence? No.)
It would be nice to treat the response as a reply (preserve subject, etc.) so that Gmail can do threading properly.
Hopefully, China is going to contribute a lot to basic research in the next decade. Shipping cheap junk to the US isn't nearly has beneficial as doing hard science, along with R&D. If they pull it off, we'll look back in the year 2020 and laugh at how little we knew.
Oh, and on that same topic; as a personal friend of the creator of this library, I can very very much vouch for his sense of style. ;D
Be careful, there's a limit on how many total cookies you can have per domain too.
When we moved here the house we moved into didn't have a working heating unit. We stayed warm with a wood-burning stove and a tree from our property. We had well over five feet of snow that winter. It was cold.

The computers worked fine. A computer can tolerate cold better than heat.
Well, if the device were a file and the driver were allowed to request (once) unlimited access to that "file" ...
WOW Who the hell turned on the Windows 8 faucet? [Updated]
The headline is almost certainly inaccurate. I'm fairly certain that Baylor, the Broad Institute, and Wash U (doing the Thousand Genomes Project) have more than 120 next-gen sequencers among them. This is not to mention the dozens of other medical centers with next-gen machines.

Perhaps it is true that this Chinese facility will have more Illumina-brand sequencers than have been sold in the US.

Edit: Here is just a taste of evidence to support my assertion: Illumina just sold 51 new machines to the Broad -- http://investor.illumina.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=121127&p=ir... I'm beginning to wonder about the fact-checking...
Jikes RVM : JVM in Java
Science historian cracks "the Plato code"
Groupon Brazil confirmed that the majority of the deals are not real
With respect to what issue? We already have laws for dealing with mentally ill criminals.
But it's activism not journalism.

I don't understand the distinction you're trying to draw here. If the journalism industry did its job properly, there would be no reason for Wikileaks to exist; they would (literally) have nothing to add to the conversation. But journalists are not doing their jobs properly, and so there are opportunities for Wikileaks to contribute to the public discourse. Wikileaks does some journalism. They might be doing activism at the same time, but that does not mean they're not also engaged in journalism.

I think Greg Sargent's perspective on the "partisan" versus "objective" journalists might be relevant here: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/06/a_little_...
Totally understandable--a weekend project. Just love to see something positive when I visit a site for the first time. Hope you keep working on this and it evolves, I think it's a great idea.
Money is needed for living of founders, for paying salary, servers, rent and above all with money you can feel some freedom and take tough decisions, when you know you have those dollars in bank account you can be little relax and work.
They're activating 160,000 Android phones a day. (http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-20008661-251.html) Sounds like their marketing is all it really needs to be. You can find a lot more in depth analysis of the numbers and trends here: http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2010/05/27/deciphe...
Right, with cloud services, the customer never touches a server and may not be aware of the nature of the servers being used.
An Unexpected Apple Ally: Porn Industry to Drop Flash
My biggest concern is that he's focusing on one part of the brain, there are several other parts of the brain, such as the right parietal-temporal area that result in sociopathy and impulse control problems.
That is not even close to normal for a startup. The problem should be figuring out what you can let slide, not how to fill your day. Something is very wrong.

I've been there before, but I was working for a defense contractor, not a startup. You seem to have found the worst of both worlds.
>> Jikes RVM is unique in that it is the first self-bootstrapped virtual machine written entirely in the Java programming language, i.e., its Java code runs on itself, without requiring a second virtual machine.

Whoa... how does that work?
Sounds like a money-laundering setup, honestly.
MS brings in far more money for the state then these tax right offs, which is why the state is so nice to its largest employers. Wa would much prefer to keep MS headquarters here, then pocket a few hundred grand in taxes and lose MS. The state is equally kind to Boeing, who regularly makes threats to move their headquarters elsewhere, and very recently Boeing did just that. So i think in the immediate future WA will continue to bend over backwards for MS.
I have to side with the late, great Kerry Packer on this one: “I am not evading tax in any way, shape or form. Now of course I am minimizing my tax, and if anybody in this country doesn’t minimize their tax they want their heads read because as a government I can tell you you’re not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.”

EDIT: Granted, he was talking about Australia, but the same applies to every government.
Couldn't the differential tax rates for big corporations vs. individuals account for this?

An example with invented numbers: if the US Govt wants to tax corporations at 30% and individuals at 25%, but corporations are 10% better at avoiding taxes, than the actual corporate tax would be 33.33%.
Your example is just an economy of scale. The same could be said of engineering support infrastructure.
Note that the employees are still stuck with the full tax load.
Or we can just adopt the Discordian Calendar and, by increasing confusion, reduce disharmony.

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

Hail Eris!
Hah! Appreciate the thoughts. Thanks.
As a Brazilian I can say that I have never heard of this "Clube Urbano" before.

But it's not like their offers say anything. The current one being displayed is "Beautiful smile for half the price!," mentions that it costs R$ 200 and you are saving R$ 200 and among the benefits "Everybody will love!," "Modern techniques." It also bears no mention to any business name aside from their own.

Their registration page seems to be working, but it doesn't even mention any charges. Actually, credit card info is not part of the form.
Well I don't have one (is this a US thing? you get email for life when you get to college?) but I wouldn't anyway - I don't self-identify with institutions as a rule.

Edit: Really I would recommend you get your own domain (not a joke one) and use an email address there which you can carry around forever. You can always forward to gmail or whatever if you don't want to deal with spam filtering etc.
The author conveniently inserted a "so it is claimed" there, which probably means you are right.
Critique My First Start-up? (Not yet public)
I am just finishing up all the code for the entire site, setting up my analytics, and awaiting my site design (the current one you see there is a temporary place holder).

What I am looking for is some critique, advice, and anything else that you could see that would help my site out.

It is not public yet (not officially) as I am awaiting a web design for it, but I thought I'd see if I could get a few people to look at it, and feel it out, and tell me what you think except about the site design of course ;)

the site is http://www.algxchange.com/
I am just finishing up all the code for the entire site, setting up my analytics, and awaiting my site design (the current one you see there is a temporary place holder).

What I am looking for is some critique, advice, and anything else that you could see that would help my site out.

It is not public yet (not officially) as I am awaiting a web design for it, but I thought I'd see if I could get a few people to look at it, and feel it out, and tell me what you think except about the site design of course ;)

the site is http://www.algxchange.com/
Don't you mean that we should have gone with "Newspaperly"? The .net is available!
Why does enterprise software so rarely have good APIs?
Autoplaying video... (large) pixel fonts for the nav... no clear structure to the links in the center.

Someone please hire a UX designer.
The images provide visual stimulation. I probably wouldn't have finished it had it not been for the format. This is an incredibly smart way of spreading information (and I think quite a number of people understand this - Google, after all, used comics to explain Chrome when it was first released).
Founder of Swatch dies age 82
The current interview with the CEO of Yahoo is so awkward and offensive. Arrington starts it out with "How the fuck are you", which Carol Bartz tries to respond to while seeming cool. But its just awkward.

Then later Carol Bartz says "I want to own it... I would be the queen of {something} computers". They both come off as arrogant.
How long do you recommend for the meditation?
That was my first impression. Anyone could have put it up in less than a day, it seemed like they put very little effort on site design. Horrible.

If you are going to spend so much money, make it right.
Not available for some countries, had to switch with a global sim so I could download. Also for Project Gutenberg books you have to search for them by name (meaning you can't browse free books) and on top of that you actually have to purchase them for $0.
I'm not that much into buying ebooks but this crappy UX definitely won't help on me becoming one.
Luckily there are other options on the Android Market.
Hehehe. No, I think your name is great. I say more unintentional headline poetry!