skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't saying that comparisons between Denmark and the US are always valid, I was saying that comparisons between Denmark and the USSR are idiotic.

In the case of this particular comparison to Singapore, Singapore is a manufacturing-oriented export economy with low consumption levels. They benefit directly from stimulus in any other country. So the comparison to the US is entirely beside the point -- instead someone should ask, why are they growing? Ok, there's your answer.
Humans are not necessarily more important than anything else. It's a common delusion that, because one is human, humans are the most important species. Basically a more grown-up form of the common belief of children that they are the center of the universe.

The problem with "collateral damage" is that we don't know what it includes. It could include humans, for instance, or it could bring the world closer to humans becoming collateral damage - and we're bringing the world in that direction quickly enough.

EDIT: Instead of downvoting me, please refute my claims. I love being shown how I'm wrong, and take mere downvoting as an acknowledgement that I'm right (as I don't think that I'm trolling - I'm just trying to get interesting conversations going, and to make people think). Focus on the second paragraph, if you would like, it's easier to refute or argue against.
It would be useful to identify the primary driver for this increase in demand for HTML5. Is it iPad/iPhone compatibility? Buzzword compliance? How many clients understand what they're getting when they hire someone with this skillset? And have we defined what the HTML5 skillset really entails?

Can I say I am an HTML5 developer because I know to change the DOCTYPE and wrap items in <header>, <section> and <article> tags? Or should the expectation be the ability to produce Flash-like entertainment-oriented sites with audio, video & canvas animation, or web apps that make use of local storage and offline capabilities? It's a pretty wide range of skills.
TechCrunch is fun...

# X-hacker If you're reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header.
With my alumni discount, I had setup a booth at the Columbia Engineering Job Fair, looking for fresh talent.

Good idea. Has anyone else here ever recruited for a startup or a small company at a university job fair? How did it go?
Try to refute yourself mentally before you speak. If you can argue on both sides of a topic, then you aren't really sure.

The best way to proceed when you're not sure is to ask the others. Don't say, "The internet is made of turtles," instead say, "hey, I heard it's turtles all the way down, do you know if that's true?" And listen. That's how you fill in those gaps in your knowledge.

I live by the axiom, "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove any doubt."
There are a few (Google "fuse windows"). In particular, Dokan (http://dokan-dev.net/en/) seems to be a good one. The project is quite active recently.
Overpopulation is a drawback, and a pretty major one.
People don't do the same when the arguments suit them.

That does happen but I hope to be not one of those people.
I see. My point was that good advertising should increase sales not slow the decrease of sales. But I guess when you're running a business that's tanking the OP would be correct in calling the ad effective.
The thing that really bugs me about Google profiles is that they're directly connected to email addresses. I guess Google thinks their ability to deal with spam is good enough that putting millions of their user's email address publicly available isn't a concern.
Great comment pedalpete. I will work on the interface and focus of the site. What I want to realize is a site where people can discover content, interact in a topic to share their ideas on the content, and read interactions in other topics and past topics they have created. This is why I included a 'bump' feature where empty topics can be bumped and are arranged under the 'bumping topics' heading so that, content you enjoy, you can promote so that others will come and talk about it. The site is meant to be broad but you are absolutely right that there needs to be a focus so that users can use the site more easily and have an idea of what to do. Looks like I have a lot of work to do lol.
sfall, yea thats true, just a giant lookup table of i.p address to location and longatude, latitude cooridates
That was pretty idiotic. First, he insults them (" bunch of hyper-rational introverts with no friends, who are massively arrogant about their math skills"), then wants to hire them.

Dan, no one wants to work on BlackBerry's retarded cousin.
Did I miss something? How do I start this thing? Couldn't find it on Documentation..
"the ecological scar left by a missing mosquito would heal quickly as the niche was filled by other organisms."

Would the replacement(s) be more deadlier? I don't think anyone or any simulations can answer that.
I'm very surprised that with the amount marketing and promotions stuff on twitter, that the results haven't been skewed to the happy side of the scale.

Or is most of twitter really that negative? It appears to be mostly unhappy with just a few brief spots of happiness each day.
Is that really how most people live?
The New Dating Tools: A Card and a Wink
slashdot.org gives you fortune output in an "X-Fry" header, much like the site itself.

EDIT: on second look, they're Futurama quotes. That explains why "X-Fry" changed to "X-Bender" when I went back!
How to make your original vision and beta product resonate with users
I am wondering how startups in the past have marketed "in store" apps/software. By "in store" I mean, startups that are creating products that are used/bought by businesses, but also revolve around having the customers of those businesses as users of the app/software. How or what are some successful marketing plays that get the original vision of the founders across to users in a great way so they immediately see a need to use this product when introduced to it at a business owners establishment?
Yeah, I'm not sure I'd want to work with this guy. Working at Google may not be like a starup, but you're with some of the most intelligent and well respected developers in the industry working on products that when launched, will instantly be used by millions of people.

Also, Gmail, Android and other Google platforms haven't innovated anything and they probably should have never been made.
$ sudo apt-get install bpython

$ bpython

Or similar if you have a different package manager. You can also build from source: http://bpython-interpreter.org/releases/bpython-0.9.7.tar.gz

ie, this isn't something you can run in your browser.
Many States Adopt National Standards for Their Schools
get it hooked up to goolge index, that can take a few months tho, kinda goes of the point a bit i think soz, but then keep write a blog about your service the hits will come im sure.
This offering sounds like a hybrid of Crashplan and Dropbox.

Could be quite good for the use cases they specify.
"“[It] is a device that allows people to get together and control their own destiny, much like our nation-state,” says David Post, a law professor at Temple University, Philadelphia."

I am so happy I didn't have any professors so dense as to think that "coming together" on a social networking site had anything to do with the kind of "controlling one's destiny" that a nation-state provides.

I'm hoping the guy was seriously misquoted.
What happened to philg? Is this just what he does now, spends his retirement writing quasi-political rants?
So it sounds like the real problem is that we need to create some sort of unified updating system for third party apps, so you don't have to deal with ten different programs complaining they need to be updated. Something so simple, it only needs a single command to run. Like apt-get upgrade. Maybe they should have that for windows/mac.
Argh... my mother used eWallet to store her credit card info... I deleted it as adware and she was extremely upset.
Just wanted to point out that Dokan has its own version of SSHFS - http://dokan-dev.net/en/2010/01/18/open-source-dokan-sshfs/
> 3. No, mark-sweep garbage collection can be made to coexist with C++-style memory management.

GC depends on being able to find all valid pointers. C++ allows pointer games, like the xor trick for doubly-linked lists, which hide pointers. (It uses a single pointer field in each element to represent both the forward and backward pointer.)

GC can't collect things that are algorithmically inaccessible. There are algorithms that are efficient because they don't kill pointers to objects that are no longer in use.

I like GC, but there are costs.
Colors, Comics And Cutouts: What Roy Lichtenstein Saw
Single page:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727692.100-die-young...
...if somewhere else will take you in. This can be non-trivial, especially if you are planning on working for a living.
Pulseaudio is perfect for this nowadays. A bit more modern than esd, I'd say.
Anyone know what it would take to get this on the amazon store in the kindle format? That would get it in front of a huge number of people.
It's difficult to imagine how one could have a "Gov 2.0" in analogy to a "Web 2.0" without massive decentralization and disintermediation, two critical aspects of Web 2.0. But that's not happening. Power continues to centralize in DC and we continue to step-by-step lurch ever closer to the sort of failure you get when you completely centralize all power.

At best, transparency is an enabling step towards Gov IIX, perhaps even a necessary step, but right now I see no evidence that any aspect of our Gov is actually decentralizing or disintermediating (since after all it would be disintermediating itself). Until that happens, "Gov 2.0" talk is just "Gov 1.0"'s attempts to rhetorically dress itself in the glory of the Web so it can use it as cover to grab more power while telling credulous webbies that it's actually them getting the power.

Kind of getting closer to the ideas in the original essay, the interesting question is whether the 2.0/IIX social forces will sweep away the current governmental structure even if it doesn't like it and actively fights it. Obama's election involved the left coming together in a 2.0 style to elect him, though the coalition seems to have fallen apart after that, and the Tea Party is no more and no less than the conservatives and the libertarians in temporary alliance doing the same thing, but in both cases just feeding their energies back into Gov 1.0. Neither of these forces are going away, even if they're still only starting up in fits and starts on the year scale. At some point, do they become so vital that they begin to truly control the government, and truly start forcing it to decentralize power? There are some good ways that could turn out, there are some bad (localized tyranny-of-the-majority is still a tyranny-of-the-majority). Or will Gov 1.0 finally centralize enough power in the industrialized western world to completely shut that down? (Are they "on the clock"?)

Interesting times.
Reminds me of http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/
There are actually thousands of these types of project, almost all abandoned. One of the longest lived, and perhaps not coincidentally the simplest, is Core Wars.

I started working on something very similar to what you describe a few months ago because it's a fantastic idea that I don't think has been implemented well in a while. It was Java-based but the idea was that you had a team of robots with 64k RAM and a simple CPU. You could configure robots with different types of equipment, (radios, weapons, sensors, etc.) that would be mapped to memory locations for control.

To play you'd write an assembly-language program to control the robot and set it loose on the world.

You could write compilers and such to compile down to the robot machine language if you wanted to get sophisticated.

Each "round" would consist of running one machine cycle for every robot in the world.

The problem I ran into, other than not having enough time to work on it, was that you could really go down the rabbit hole on "realism." For example, the radios; should I implement actual antenna propagation patterns and delays, or should a transmission just be instantaneous and recievable everywhere?

There's a tradeoff between realism and fun, and between limitations of the world and longevity. If you make it too limited, you end up with gameplay that essentially favors a single strategy. If it's too complex, only the most hardcore players will put in the effort to play. I think this is a fundamental problem with a game like this.

Maybe something like this would be fun and accessible if you eliminated the competitive aspect of it.

Edit: if you decide to pursue this project and want some (intermittent) help, send me an email at [my username]@gmail.com
What he neglects to realize is that projects officially supported by Google, first must gain recognition within the company itself. I don't think any of them think that Google has the same monetary issues as a startup, but they do have to convince people inside of Google to recognize their project, devote time to it (whether its their 20% or their actual job). Also, the idea that Googlers don't contribute anything new to the playing field is ridiculous. I think a simple browsing of http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html should be enough to refute that idea.

While Google isn't exactly a startup, I think there are certainly analogies to be made.
Innovation comes in many forms... just because someone has made something already doesn't mean you can't improve on it. Companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple etc... give startuppers a platform, an idea to improve upon or a hole to fill.

Your life is an representation of cookie cutter, no? Starving entrepreneur, writing on his ghetto web blog like a million other people trying to be...unique? If I were you I'd get over the rejection of your last interview, lift your head high and move on.

Leave the Googlers alone, they just want to code.
Ironically (for a site about UX), you have to click on the Quince logo, then a menu drops down and you can choose to see "All Patterns".
Emerging Languages camp - day 1
When The Cloud is Not Enough
Every time you feel tempted to jump into a conversation with an assertion or statement, first rephrase it as a question, then try to answer it.

That will give you an idea of whether you really know what you're talking about. Then decide from there whether you can submit it as an assertion (yes you do know what you're talking about) or as a question (maybe not as you thought).
Interesting Reply To The "Windows Phone 7 Is A Disaster" Article
Just thought this was an interesting reply to the article from Galen Gruman. The article didn't really have any facts to base his statements and this article kinda calls him out on it.

Personally, I wish that WP7 works out as it will add more competition to the landscape which will cause all the companies to move forward faster hopefully!

FYI the "Disaster" article:
http://infoworld.com/d/mobilize/windows-phone-7-dont-bother-disaster-211
Automated systems put your production closer to your customers, decreasing shipping/transportation costs and making product localization or fast responses to changing tastes/fashions possible. Depending on where suppliers are located, automated systems might speed up any turn-around times in some production pipelines. Automated systems can run 24/7. Automated systems can be a cost-effective way of keeping critical parts of the pipeline in your control or at least in a jurisdiction where you have some confidence in the rule of law. CapEx can be depreciated and qualify for other favorable tax treatment.

Right now the balance may tip towards outsourcing to a low-wage country, but there is no reason to believe that any of the factors that contribute to this will remain constant.
Just thought this was an interesting reply to the article from Galen Gruman. The article didn't really have any facts to base his statements and this article kinda calls him out on it.

Personally, I wish that WP7 works out as it will add more competition to the landscape which will cause all the companies to move forward faster hopefully!

FYI the "Disaster" article:
http://infoworld.com/d/mobilize/windows-phone-7-dont-bother-...
Antibody Neutralizes 91% of HIV Strains, Strong Step Towards a Vaccine
The Four Sirens that Prevent you from Succeeding
Unless the crops are crucial for something else, which is crucial for ten other things, which are each crucial for ten more things, and so on. That's the danger.
damn, i have always been saving the files explicitly:

curl http://foo.com/[1-1024] -o "#1.txt"
There's a lot of design forums but like dev forums, they can be pretty specialized.

Also, most of the best are private or invite only since ppl are looking for feedback or critiques for large clients.

Here's a few you could check out:
http://www.qbn.com/
http://forum.howdesign.com/
http://www.designerstalk.com/forums/
America's Ruling Class
Elon Musk showing video of his spaceship going off (pic)
I met Mr. Musk the other night at the Silicon Valley Founder Institute in Palo Alto. After the session he was showing off the video of his spaceship launch to Aaron Patzer, Adeo Ressi, and the rest of us founders.

Of course I had already seen the video from a HN link, so it was old news to me, but thats besides the point :)

http://twitgoo.com/19p5av
It happened to me as well.
The lead-up to your quoted phrase is it is excruciatingly hard to find talent describes why this is the case.
Minimum Respectable Product
Clickable: http://twitgoo.com/19p5av
The bit regarding the winner getting to make a new rule has long been tested since the industrial revolution and likely far before then: In that context, of course, the new "rule" is essentially a law through lobby efforts, etc.

It becomes a competitive advantage to win early for express purpose of introducing protectionist mechanisms that would favor your particular technique or more likely, blocking the approach used by one's greatest challenger.

This may degenerate to "dirty tricks" early for the sake of an early win.

Therefore, to counteract that tendency:

Consider an "evolving" world. Take a card from artificial life techniques or randomly permute some attribute of the environment; e.g., terrain might become a more rocky, introduction of a natural predator, or perhaps switch from land to sea.

Mythology is rich with scenarios to draw upon.

I'd recommend NOT revealing the change until the round begins! Between rounds, let participants experiment only with the previous iteration of the world.
Default, Blank and Weak Username/Passwords
My gut feeling is a lot of it is buzzword compliance. More and more I'm finding clients who believe that their site isn't going to work on iPad/iPhone unless it's HTML5. Even when we bring up their site on our iPad and show them that it looks great they still say "but I need it to be in HTML5!!!".
NoSQL should mean "Not Only SQL"
An extensive dive into the NoSQL landscape, with a focus on where these new databases fit in the application stack.
Ask HN: Anyone have a good experience getting office space in NYC?
I'd like to hire some interns and I think it's time to move my business into an office. With regards to finding an office space, there seems to be a lot of options. Anyone have a favorable experience?
I'm curious to know more about the technical details about how this works. Like what protocols and technologies you're using. If that information isn't too sensitive that is. :-)
After playing with it for a few minutes, and throwing some intentional errors at it, it seems relatively stable.
Veracity, SourceGear's new, enterprise-friendly DVCS, is out
If you have the money saved to support yourself, take a few weeks off. You'll get so bored that your mind will start coming up with lots of ideas about things you can work on. Then pick the best one and start work on it.
A New Way To Embed YouTube Videos that Supports HTML5
Perhaps they were going for James Earl Jones' "This...is CNN"-style emphasis.
Ask HN: where can I make the most money as an iPhone programmer?
Are there countries where I could make more money than I make in NYC as an iPhone programmer?
AMZ does have a self-publish service, so it would be up to bearwithclaws (who's behind the HN magazine) to do it.

OTOH, he'd have to deal with getting it in the right format himself (right now, we do it as a courtesy for listing it on Fifobooks.com), and he'd get a worse deal in terms of costs, rights, and royalties, etc.
I think your friends may have just pegged you for a BSer and now anytime you say something that doesn't sound right they are going to call you out on it, even if they don't necessarily have the facts to back themselves up.

I like to infer. Read a little bit and then infer a lot from it. To reduce being called out on something, explain how to jump from point A to point B. This actually serves 2 purposes.

1) Reduce the chances of someone jumping on you because they think you are a BSer based on your history of BSing.

2) Enhances your thought process because you become aware of errors in your thought process when you are called out.

Ultimately #2 is most important. When you are called out or corrected, you gain insight not simply in your own thinking process, but how the person in your conversation thinks as well. Listening to your criticisms and implementing them into your thought process to correct for them in the future makes you seem way more credible and increases your ability to infer in the future.
It's simple enough to fix. Just stop making assertions and ask questions instead. Not only will you no longer have to worry about foot-in-mouth disease, you will also be more liked! And yes, I know I just violated my own advice.