skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Double tap to the head to be sure (ie shoot them twice in the head). In this case, I guess that translates into not just defeating their claims, but someone needing to sue SCO so that its continued existence is given a high negative utility to those who own it.
Packing for a backpacking trip.
NSA Hooking Up Ominously Named 'Perfect Citizen' To Watch The Internet
"they look for promising founders rather than good ideas."

This is even more true in the gaming world. Everyone that's played a game has an idea for a game, a small number of them are actually very good ideas, a tiny fraction have been written into well thought-out designs, and a miniscule sliver of those ideas come from minds that can actually manage to create those games.
"I lose sleep over people suggesting it is unethical not to tip your waiter. That is buying in hook, line, and sinker to the propaganda these labor providers would like you to believe. Deciding not to tip your waiter is a tactical business decision...

TL;DR: I would trade the ability to return to this restaurant and get good service for $8 in a heartbeat."

See the flaw in this argument? There are established standards of behavior in our society; tipping your waiter, paying off your mortgage if you are able to, etc. Sometimes circumstances give you the ability to flout these standards without contractual consequence, but that doesn't make it ethical to do so.
Finishing touches (I hope!) to an automated aggregation & report system written in Perl which produces multiple excel files (group level) & PDF reports (sub-group level) using clients customer insight data which are sent to relevant stakeholders each week.
My digital strategy? Dry my eyes with two pieces of cloth?

On the serious side of things, I guess this would be useful for some people but when I read the article, I assumed it was about how you would notify friends and family online - I doubt that many young people read the arbituary in the local newspaper often enough for you to find them there.
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Sukotto. Unfortunately, no, I didn't publish the financial calculations that we made. But I can walk you through the basics of the analysis. We modeled out a few different scenarios:
- Real estate appreciation at 1%, 3%, 5% compounded.
- Whether we stayed with them as primary residences, or convert to rentals. Assumed that rental rates are mostly flat.
- In primary residences, we accounted for tax deductions from mortgage interest.
- We then made assumptions about the debt cancelled by taking the fair market value of our homes, minus the debt we owed, plus another 10K for unknown selling costs we would incur.
- We then estimated some sort of "cost" that we would both incur for having low credit for up to 7 years.

We then modeled all this out, and took a look at our net worth in 10 years on the assumption that we sold our homes at that time. We assume a 7% transaction fee for selling the homes.

In both of our cases, we came out ahead in all scenarios by pursuing a foreclosure. We figured out that we needed our houses to appreciate at 11% annually for 10 years in order for holding onto the home to be more profitable.

One last note, neither of us have large families, so we don't have the history, memories, fondness, and attachment to the homes that would have made this choice much harder. Fondness is something that can't be reasoned in spreadsheets.
Continuing to improve the technology that is powering my newest business. Almost daily it seems to get better, make more money and provide new ideas.
I work in Eagan, but live in MPLS.
A CSV parser in Javascript with support for embedded commas/quotes/newlines that can yield rows as they are parsed.
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Banks and businesses have been doing this for years. They weigh the economic impact of supporting an unprofitable entity versus the impact of letting it go. I don't see why people insist that other people are "morally" obliged to continue to pay a mortgage.

A mortgage is a business contract. The banks evaluate you in terms of risk of not paying and you evaluate the prospects of the mortgage contract they write for you. There's no blood oath or secret brotherhood you join.
Reminder: The email field is only visible to mods, not other users. If you want your email to be visible to other users, add it to your "about".
Amazon tried this a long time ago, and people were upset.

See http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/4188108-1.h... for confirmation.
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Why can't I vote comments down? I think it's bad form to kick a comment while it's down :)
Automating AMI creation across all four Amazon regions so it can be part of continuous integration. Goal is to integrate continuous deployment with EC2 auto scaling groups.
No, just markup. Much easier to parse...
Sorry, Updated. I had an impression that the email field would reflect in my profile info.
Today's my last day as an employee at my job of 6 years. I'll become a consultant starting Monday so if they need me, it'll be hourly billing. I'm just reviewing my emails today and reassigning my regular responsibilities.
Finalizing a budget, Creating job postings, Ordering company signage, Helping plan a company trip, Fixing exceptions in a Ruby/Rails application, Mapping out an asynchronous cache proxy solution that speaks JMS, Riding on Amtrak for 3 hours
I'm working on implementing theme-support for a new travel journal app.

I'll also attempt to integrate FusionCharts in http://www.cashbasehq.com, a personal finances app.
"Adding comments has been disabled for this video."
But enabling comments for the budget deficit won't result in a stream of inane trolling?
I did this years ago with an HP-48 calculator (serial port connected to laserjet): not only did I fool with the LCD panel, I generated postscript and printed, too.

Here at work I've found that many of the newer all-in-one laser photocopy/scan/print machines support this HP PJL feature. I drive it from a cron job to give a countdown to major events (trade shows, holidays, etc.)

The best part is when the copier dude comes in to service the machine: "how does the copier know when your trade show is?"
I spend between 0 and 20 minutes a day on customer support for BCC, with most days (particularly in the summer) closer to zero.

Previously I used something which macroed responses (20% of the issues are 80% of the time, always) but I forgot to reinstall it, and support these days is fast enough that I don't really care enough to install it again.

My biggest tricks for decreasing the number are a) switching to a web app versus a downloadable app (< 10% the support burden, seriously), b) aggressively rewriting anything I need to on the interface to answer common questions before they arrive in my inbox, and c) optimizing the admin controls for common support queries.

I have a support page ("FAQ? Is that Arabic?") and some self-help support tools, like a password reminder system and a Registration Key lookup. (Support issue #1 for four years running.) My impression is that they help enough to justify creating them, but they're palliatives rather than solutions. I have no desire to use GetSatisfaction or any other third party which will confuse my customers to no positive purpose.
I got the chance to hear Matt talk about this in person at my college. He said what was really interesting was that what people fill in for what they would pay in "a perfect world" is very strongly correlated to the price they're offered.
Specially in Quebec, where productions costs are highly subsidized by the provincial government - http://venturebeat.com/2009/12/04/canadian-government-is-buy...
Learning how to make a driver to OpenSolaris. Yeah, OpenSolaris.

Since I've never done anything close to that (I'm mostly a Rails guy), it's being kind of cool. College stuff :)
Developing a statistics system for the football premier league in the UK.
Yes, like entrepreneurship.
It's nice to see new perl apps getting some press

Some Perl press as appeared on HN before. For eg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=565152 (though sometimes the Perl community have done their best to keep head low on this one :)
When did HN become twitter?
Using Clojure to sanify and convert doctor's notes from a giant Oracle instance on a EMR to a simple CouchDB instance.
I still don't see anything. Does changing about box needs time to update?
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(note: The post above seems to have been deleted. For context, it was asking whether this fund was only for games.)

It is. From the website:

"Indie Fund aims to support the growth of games as a
medium by helping indie developers get financially
independent and stay financially independent."

It's founded by a bunch of people who have done pretty well with their indie games. People like Jonathan Blow (Braid), Ron Carmel and Kyle Gabler (World of Goo), and a few others. They're trying to help others do something similar.
I believe he's referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation

Much of that has been confirmed more recently by somewhat more humane (and more than somewhat more voluntary) experimentation by folks like Gordon Geisbrecht (U of Manitoba) and the Canadian Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM).
you may not like this answer, but working in the tech industry is probably the best way to meet great people. you need to be in a trust relationship with people to start a company.
Why would I become a farm worker when I could just collect unemployment checks?

A proposal for reducing unemployment: anyone physically capable of doing farm work is not eligible for unemployment benefits. Obviously this is a non-starter with the current political leadership...

[edit: to be clear, this only applies until there are no further vacancies in farming jobs.]
What Amazon was doing was a little different. They were trying to figure out how much people would pay based on available information that Amazon had. They were actually figuring out how much a specific individual would pay for something. Cool, but a little creepy.

This is just simple price testing and is done all the time with minimal fanfare.
Just to toss this out there. The OKCupid guys have(it's currently down for a reworking?) site called CrazyBlindDate.

And basically they gave you a tiny bit of information about the person and a blurry picture and a location of one of your choosing (a coffee shop/bar/restaurant). In my experiences she was the one who chose the location to meet. We would meet up and have a drink or two and talk. They generally were really quite interesting. I didn't run into any women who were particularly creepy. A couple who were absolutely terrible dates (unable to converse, etc).

I can't speak for the women, but of the ones I talked to who had done it prior to meeting with me were generally pleased with their experiences also.
Trouble is people that need jobs like this probably will never hear about the campaign.

FWIW, I'd take a job if 1) I needed one and 2) I couldn't find anything more in my line of business within a period of time. I'm not opposed to working at a farm; I just think my skills are better used elsewhere.
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Migrating from my old mac book pro to my new mac book pro! Maybe some work if there's time after lunch. :)
Prediction: the highest rated comments will be extremely naive and rightly should be ignored. Go look at a Digg or Reddit... or YouTube.
Today I released my three-day project "I Write Like". You paste some text, it analyzes it and tells you what famous writer you write like. Link: http://iwl.me
Interesting.

I'm a native English speaker, living in a foreign country, so I spend most of my day working with a language I'm not completely fluent in, and I find I do the opposite-- I'm trying to put the meaning together word by word as the sentence unfolds, which makes reading things with long, Proustian sentences very difficult.
Finishing up a milestone build of an iPhone game for a client, and if I have any time in the day after that I'm going to keep digging into CouchDB/Couchrest.
I'm three weeks into an internship on the Google Maps tile-rendering team.
To all those who rail against HTML emails ...

Yes, I agree that almost all email can and should be plain text. And yes, I agree that most people who use colors and fonts and formatting should be prevented from doing so, because so many of them do it in a way that detracts from clarity.

However, some of us deal with real people as opposed to those who are interesting in and competent at technology. I often deal with people who can't fill in web forms because they can't click in a box to give it focus. I deal with people who can't email me if I use an anti-spammed email address such as my_name(at)domain(dot)com. I deal with people who can't find the underscore ("_") and don't know the difference between square and round brackets. I deal with people who sometimes put a space after a period, and sometimes don't.

I deal with normal people for whom computers are a mysterious tool that does inexplicable things unless they stick to the very few things they've been shown.

Trust me - they don't know how to tell their email client not to use HTML.

And "normal" people want colors, and fonts, and formatting, and bullets. They won't use plain text, even if they could.

ADDED IN EDIT: I've noticed that this comment has had a down-vote, but no reply. That's a shame. I'd really like to hear a considered and well-argued counter. Please, if was you who down-voted this, or if you simply disagree with it, let us know your thoughts. Thanks.
That would mean that anyone who was out of a job in the city would either need to leave the city or prey on the people within the city who still have money.

Your proposal would lead to a huge de-population of the cities. It would also mean that if by some weird series of events you became unemployed for a while, and could not find a job, you would be forced out to work the fields.

It's much easier to start working the fields than to get back to society. When you need to work for minimum wage every day, you don't have time to find that programming job you're looking for.
* Page attempts to load malware *

This site is linking to some shady shit. Some embedded page tries to load a Java app from:
extraditelbds.info

Too many arguments supplied: {http:, -J-jar, -J\\extraditelbds.info\smb\new.avi, http://extraditelbds.info/e9t/l.php?i=2, none

Edit:
Symantec claims this is:

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"I do not rule Russia; 10,000 clerks do."

Attributed to one or more Russian Czars.
I disagree... after all, these same banks (and there are only a handful at the end of the day) precipitated the crisis that led to these homes being so far underwater in the first place. Why is only one side ethically bound to play 'fair'? After all, these same companies you are 'obligated' to pay chose to engage in business practices that greatly contributed to the huge run-up in housing costs while at the same time leading to this huge crash (while shorting against it the whole time in some cases).

So if one side gets to operate as a business with no ethical standards, why should I as a homeowner be held to a different standard? At the end of the day I'm responsible to my shareholders (myself and my family), and I have to make the decisions that put me in the best financial situation I possibly can.

Note: I currently own a home in Plano, TX that is around $30k under water. It's currently a money-losing rental, but if that rental income where to stop... so would my mortgage payments. I'm more than prepared to walk away from that catastrophe.
Why create this site when a GIS site is quickly approaching beta on stack exchange. I'd imagine most people would use that site over GISQuery.com, and the quality of Q&A sites is directly related to the size of the community.

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1425/geographic-in...

Honest question. Why make this site?
And I completely agree with you here.

The progress in programming language design is going to come from eliminating human unfriendly syntax. The closer you can get to something that let's someone express their intentions without restrictions, the better. The computer is, uh, servant of a human.

There are many barriers in the way of programming languages or computers in general adapting to human functioning. But whenever someone takes the line that says humans must-adopt-to-computers, it is a fail. And that fail is going to be swept away by the next technology which just works.
But there are different levels of NIH, where "I already had working code" is probably less bad than "I wrote my own because I felt like it".
I'm in Omaha, but may be willing to pop up for this.
Genuinely curious: how is eBay not a real-time auction?
A conference room sounds awkward, why not a bar?
I suspect jl has better ways to see anybots than videos ;)
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Perhaps, but it's a different legal situation (at least at present) and plus we're getting Elon's side of the story now. We may be tempted to pick his side because he makes cool things but that doesn't make what he says true.

Which is why, honestly, outsiders should know as little as possible about these situations. We can't know what actually happens so why do we want to be in a situation to demonize one person and feel sorry for another based on this lack of information?
Trying several approaches to get a screenshot of a known rect on the screen that has a flash video in it (that is loaded from an external site) with the click of a button and then save/stream the resulting image to a PHP script to be saved to the server. The end users are not very technically savvy so teaching them Jing or even image cropping is out of the question. Currently experimenting with Flash and Java appplet solutions.
Reverse engineering the communication protocol for a Thorlabs stepper motor and writing a Linux driver for it.

Planning my road trip to CERN from Scotland next week and getting to know a Monte Carlo simulation for physics reactions for when I arrive!

Deciding where to go for dinner...
Sub-minimum wage, I would imagine.
There was a local news story (in CA) about this initiative last night where the reporter was asking random people if they would work as a farm worker.

It was interesting in that most folks said yes they would, with many citing illegal immigration and how it is ruining the nation. Funny moment was when an unemployed person also said yes, then was offered a job on the spot, and answered 'but I'm still collecting unemployment.' The reporter then asked when his unemployment runs out, the good citizen refused to answer and walked away.
As for Moose, he (DDG author) answered this here

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bbqw7/i_am_the_founder...

Having written an indexer in Perl for my current startup product, I really can't see the need for using something like Moose. I'm biased though, as I'm not a big fan of OO programming. I gave it a try in Perl years ago but it really sucked. OO programming that is, but I guess Moose was designed to fix this, but it's a little too late for me.
I was taught C in school and I've learned to live without OO.
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I wouldn't be surprised (I've read enough of Kurzweil's Fantastic Voyage for a friend to impeach it WRT chemistry/biochemistry), perhaps because I pay attention to Vernor Vinge and company on the concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity#Histo...
Looks like my morning is going to be figuring out the status of a few clients we have, afternoon is going to be hacking on one or more of them. Murphy willing I can work on GSOC this evening in peace.
Great designs are almost always bespoke: created for a specific task of a website.

However, a great generic design is generally based on a grid. Check out Grid systems in Graphic Design by Müller-Brockmann.
This is a good question. I think StackOverflow is great for what it is, but I think the success has come from the founders being rooted in the topic at hand.

Now that StackExchange has changed its view and are attempting to start other topics in the same vain, I feel that there is room for someone more invested in the topic to moderate a Q&A type website. I have no fear that the "Web Applications" "Gaming" and "Pro Webmasters" topics are going to work great, but I am interested to see how "Food and Cooking" is going to go.

Also, I am a big proponent of letting the website try and live. The GIS StackExchange committal project has been going on for almost a month and it's only at 81% there. Hopefully my connections in the GIS world can get GISQuery more than 500 people interested in it.
A web app for setting up group buys for Steam games (ties into Valve’s OpenID implementation).

But has to take a detour to pick up a free book on cognition my psychology professor had. What a nice lady.
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> It's founded by a bunch of people who have done pretty well with their indie games.

Reminds me of the fund that one of the creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles setup to help independent comic book artists publish their own comic books.

"The Xeric Foundation has awarded in excess of $2,000,000 to comic book creators
and non-profit organizations since its first grant cycle in September 1992."

http://www.xericfoundation.org/
Trying to convert some gnarly test fixtures into a Machinist file in JRuby on Rails. After that, 10% time, but probably still on test-related topics. If I don't think of anything that needs it more, installing Cucumber and getting it hooked up to our build server, so we can use it for testing.

This is all in JRuby, and my editor of choice is emacs.
This leaves out a couple of use-cases. Most of the "great tools" I use help with project development. And even if not, I'd rather argue it the other way around: Great languages allow for great tools to be built around them.
Negotiating the purchase of phone numbers for http://www.hellofax.com.

Telecom companies are great at hiding their cost structure. With just one company, I had a preliminary call, plus a conference call and I'm still waiting for their price sheet.
Price elasticity testing is about the simplest thing you can do to drive substantial gains in profit - wrote up an article about this a while back here:

http://conversionvoodoo.com/blog/2010/06/one-simple-secret-f...
There is absolutely no moral or ethical dilemma in "jingle-mail". These banks handed out huge no-money down loans like candy to people who bought way more house (and in some case multiple houses) than they could legitimately afford. Both parties were complicit in a transaction that should never have occurred. Now that the inevitable has occurred and the music has stopped, the only thing that matters is the letter of the law regarding the contract. If the bank proposed/agreed to a no-recourse loan, just walk away.

Morality aside, jingle-mail is also the healthiest solution from a market perspective. The faster banks are forced to take their lumps, move these foreclosures through the market, and return lending standards to their historical norms (e.g. 20% down), the sooner the housing market can return to normalcy.
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