skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, it's an opportunity, and there's already a certain someone on HN who would already have all the agreements with IRC networks in place too (they usually don't allow multiple connects from one IP address).
Most corporations don't offer enough stock in their employee stock ownership plans for this to really be effective. You have vesting (which means you have to wait before it can be sold) and dilution.

You can also have situations in large corporations where your performance was incredible, and by every measurement you brought millions into the company. However, some guy in division X lost billions and the stock tanked.

There was an AIG employee who wrote to the NYTimes about how his bonus was retroactively taxed 95%, and he claimed it was because of this exact situation. He had nothing to do with AIG's collapse. He was part of a highly profitable division, and was asked to stay on to help turn AIG around faster. That people were upset that he got his contractual 1.2 million bonus was lost on him.
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Actually, I think that's his appeal. Too much of the tech writers are a little too generous on the tech they cover (MSDN magazine, etc).

What you need is someone with decent taste to say this sucks, that's cool, here's why.
it annoys me that staring at a computer screen kills my eyes.
Although this article reads like a paid ad for IBM (journalists, like everyone else, have to eat) I did a summer internship in Almaden in 2000 and the place was awesome, albeit not as quite open-minded as described here perhaps.

The important thing many companies don't realize is that having 20% (or "wild duck") projects is only the first tiny step in the right direction. Many tech companies have these and it means nothing by itself. It needs to be coupled with a healthy way of percolating these ideas upwards in a combined peer-manager controlled way. Doing this is hard.

When I read comments from their managers I get the feeling that they are just doing it for the looks/fun/PR, i.e. they're not taking it as a serious source of their future revenue. Well, with this approach, it will never become such a source.
Accelerometers or gyroscopes.
I have had accounts with 3 banks and they have all had similarly terrible experiences, if anyone has suggestions (UK based) more than welcome (halifax, lloyds and natwest are the 3 I have tried)
God forbid clever hacks we may want to run on our own hardware.
Isn't the Volt around $33.5k with tax breaks?
People with tiling window managers seem to IRC a lot.
http://html5rocks.com
Best class I took - Creativity and Innovation. I learned more in that class than any other.

Everyone in program wants to be in finance or work for a marketing firm.
A Twitter spam test (wow, what a lot of spambots)
Also: "payed" vs. "paid"; in grammar, "well" vs "good".
"I faced the same question at the beginning of the GNU Project. I decided that I would rather do something good with no monetary reward than profit by mistreating people."

Bang! Nailed it. This I think is the source of all problems in the friction between open source philosophies and the general populace. At his heart, RMS is an economic theorist, not a social or technological one. This is because software takes time to make, and time = money. Yet he continuously fails to understand this because he's never personally had to feed himself with the fruit of his daily labors. In RMS's mind, making money from your effort = mistreating people.

The analogies between RMS and various communist thinkers all derive from the simple fact that none of them ever had to feed themselves in that way and simply don't understand how basic economics work and all come up with various economic ideals that simply aren't modeled on how the world works.

By his model, all people have to do is write software, give away all their labor for free to be "ethical" and then feed themselves off of reward payouts and speaking engagement fees (or some other mysterious source of money RMS has left unspecified because he simply doesn't know how people actually make money in the real world). This is clearly a model that doesn't scale beyond maybe a few dozen people on the planet. The rest of us need to eat, arguing that we are bad people because we demand our supper after a day of work is what makes RMS's arguments ultimately unethical. He would rather people starve to death than charge for software -- this is ultimately what his equation balances out to.

If I ignore this type of prattling nonsense, I have to say that RMS has been on the balance a force for good in the world. But he's fantastically out of touch and seems perfectly oblivious to it.

Now, if he changed his message and said "it's a good and useful thing, it's 'nice' for people to release free software, and we all can benefit from sharing and pooling our labor together" I don't think anybody would have a problem with him. But like many here have said, RMS represents the extremist goal posts of the idea, and on the balance, that is a good thing, just so long as everybody is aware that a world at the end of the field is not one conducive to people eating.
The lack of people (or my inability to find them) who want to do the same thing as me. This goes for almost anything from playing board games to finding help for a side project.
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I would love an urban cafeteria serving a handful of healthy, cheap, fresh meal options.

There are hundreds of delis like this in midtown Manhattan, they just don't have much seating.
Wow. Certainly an interesting idea! I'm curious about what the motivation was here?
More like tribalism make sense in a stone age environment, but not so much when you're trying to build a civilization that last.
how many are active? IRC is usually full of many decent sized rooms with limited chat and mostly inactive users
first thing i thought of too
Patents and the Exponential Growth of Technology
I've often wondered what it would be like to work on Open Source projects and contribute to something like that, but I've never done it before. This post piqued my interest, so I read it and followed the links and read the comments and, in general, spent more than an hour on reading the discussion.

Which leads me to my question: is this normal, widespread behavior in Open Source? I'm honestly interested in answers, because, frankly, to me this looked like a boatload of politics. I get enough of that at work.
Some things never change. Those were the most popular goals for my peers back in 1994 when I finished mine.
Also I'd love to get email notifications from my bank when someone pays me, so I don't have to constantly poll their clunky website.
You mean you actually keep a chat window open all day long? Isn't that ridiculously distracting?

I check my email twice a day, and HN the same. Anything else that could potentially distract me from what I'm doing gets turned off. I couldn't imagine giving random strangers the ability to intrude into my train of thought whenever they wanted.
Anyone have a transcript? I tried, I really did.
Downvoted for FUD. Android is not Java ME.
Tribalistic thinking is something I've been trying to break myself of over the last few years.

When I avoid it, I end up being better off. I used to be firmly in the "all conservative republicans are gibbering idiots" camp, but was able to break out and have a genuinely useful discussion with one.

He and I still don't agree on most things, but we did convince each other of a few things (he no longer believes atheists are inherently amoral, which I consider a big success). Tribalism wouldn't permit that.
But the irony of the whole crash is that the HFT traders actually fanned the fire on the crash and then later rode the wave all the way back up (for the trades that weren't busted anyways).

You are conflating two separate groups:

A) Conservative HFT funds who left the markets due to a fear of broken trades.

B) Risk taking HFT funds who stayed in the markets, hoping to make money off volume/higher spreads.

Group A "fanned the fire" by pulling liquidity out of the market. Group B "rode the wave", and in the process mitigated the flash crash [1].

It's a fallacy to lump all HFT firms together.

[1] The market crashed and corrected itself in 10-15 minutes. Without HFT firms, it's likely that it would have corrected itself much later (if at all).
Actually, he'd make a fantastic tag-team with _Why. It would be a little like Abbie Hoffman & G. Gordon Liddy on the same speaking tour. Not to say these guys are on analogous points of the political spectrum (couldn't care less) but that they have markedly different points of view and would have a very interesting antagonism.

I have no idea how those two would ever co-write a book though. I bet that would sell, however.
So was I. But technically "No Support Staff" means no one, on staff, doing any support. Thus the customers would have to use a stack exchange or some other type of self-sufficient system.
And 100, 200 or 300 years ago, some people were undoubtedly saying the same. It might be intellectually trendy to slam modern things, but it doesn't necessary make such criticisms universally true.
Isn't $41K right in line with what people were paying for Hummers? People didn't seem to think that was a "massive price", and Hummers were ridiculously impracticable and ridiculously expensive to own/run.
I lurk on Freenode on various project and language channels.
The video had that as a slide. Even at $500, the point remains that they are not positioning it as a midrange phone.
Did you create this account just to post this?
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Most of the meaningful (and most interesting/worth talking about) events in humanity's history have been because of an us-vs-them mentality. Even something good and benign like landing on the moon was partially because of a desire to best, and differentiate from, another world superpower. The critique ("wrong with the world today") is if this is a good way to go about it when it's used in the extreme (or tending towards being extreme), not the quality of the results. Does the means justify the ends?
I recently switched to 1Password. Now I realize that I'm basically unable to use any sites that require login with my phone, since I don't know my own passwords.
I use IRC all day long. Every day.

Freenode. If you're into perl, they have an IRC server of their own.

I have been working remotely for the past year or so and we use it to keep the team in touch with one another.
And if there are lots of programmers who can do that once the algorithm has been given them, then the position will be filled by lower bidders who are willing to take salaries and don't demand slices of the cake. It doesn't matter economically how much it feels like artistry if there are lots of people who can apply the same artistry and who all want the job. Supply and demand.
Not thought about this before, but what is the state of accessibility on smart phones - particularly with touch interfaces?
Americans Buy IPads While Broke in New Abnormal Economy
If it turns out that the reason for losing money is the faulty code from a developer, he can lose his job. So I don't see where the security is.
Do you make markets yourself?
If I take the trouble and make markets for your exchange, will I be competing with another market makers and market participants only or with the exchange too?
No, you're exactly right. In fact, when the iPhone was first released, all the pundits and bloggers were practically screaming that it was so unfair that Apple didn't allow developers to write native apps and that HTML web apps were a poor substitute for what you could do natively. They pointed to how Google got to write a custom app for maps, and how it was unfair to competitors who would be locked out.

It was like that for the entire first year of the iPhone. Then, once the app store was announced, it's like all the bloggers and pundits suffered coordinated, selective amnesia. The irritating thing about this article is that the tone suggests this is somehow something Apple would be upset about, when in fact, Apple promotes HTML apps as an alternative to the restrictions of the app store.

The success of the App Store is 80% linked to the fact that it's a frictionless purchasing environment. I can buy an app from some random person for 99 cents and not have to worry that he/she has my credit card number. Furthermore, you're likely to think twice as you go to purchase a 99 cent fart joke app and you're entering your credit card number into a web form. That feels like you're spending money. But punching your password into iTunes rarely (if ever) feels like spending money. Apple is excellent at separating consumers from their money. Developers of App Store apps get to use "the hand of Jobs" to ply your cash from your wallet.

I suspect that if Apple allowed web apps to bill against itunes accounts, you'd see a huge explosion of pay iPhone-optimized web apps that would otherwise go into the App Store. With a little bit of Safari integration, you could allow developers to put little "buy now" buttons on their web apps and it would feel just like an app store purchase. I doubt Apple would ever roll out such a feature, since it sounds like it would be minimal benefit but have a fair number of headaches.
Freenode, Notably #Startups but also the different subject areas (JavaScript, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Jquery etc)
Mine eventually died of sea-water immersion - the only thing apart from a stake through the heart that can kill it.
And even then it's only the speaker that failed.

Can I buy a replacement - no it's only available in Africa!
So I had to buy a Motorola - great sales strategy Nokia.
My irssi remains open all the time I'm in front of the computer - Shadowcat's primary internal co-ordination means is IRC, plus I'm on a dozen or so irc.perl.org channels, plus a handful on freenode.

It does not, however, alert me in any way as to whether somebody's tried to contact me or not - so it only gets my attention when I want it to, usually because I'm thinking about something and can type responses on autopilot while I do.
Woah there dude. Maybe my sentence structure was off, but I know a thing or two about the difference between the two.

What I'm trying to say: at least if you're doing Java ME, the OVI store is a very closed shop, as evidenced by my unfortunate experience with it, and Android (which is not Java ME) is way more open and pleasant to deal with. I don't know as much about C++; although I think it may be less miserable in some ways than the OVI Java ME experience, although it has other, serious drawbacks.

All in all, Android is where it's at for me in the future.
Excuse me. I work as a programmer for a large investment bank, have dignity, and am respected by my users (commodities trading, sales and operations). I am also respected. However, I also took the time to learn my users' business and product-lines. One major problem that software developers have is that they don't take the time to learn their users' product. If you don't take the time to learn about what they do, why should they take the time to learn about what you do?
He might just be better off writing his own and self-publishing. I would definitely pay for anything by Zed on .net - I've not found any readable alt.net authors - Ayende just confuses me! Can anyone recommend anyone?
Agreed, I believe even small businesses could save hours each month if all the relevant receipts related to a month's bank transactions somehow magically got gathered in the same place.
Standards for email markup would be really nice for starters.

I think it would be great if email had a sort of simple XML data structure, it would be a lot easier to tie it in with modern day document formats.

I highly doubt both of these will happen in the foreseeable future, The standards for html email alone are still terrible
A networking class and a poetry class have few expenses in terms of equipment. The main expense is faculty salaries if you take a look at the budget(and my state is cutting budgets so people have scrutinized them). My point is not to argue who is favored and I have no grudge against the liberal arts or the sciences. I only point to the equal tuition and salaries to show how completely isolated the system is from anything like free-market forces and to suggest that this equality is far more likely to be caused by political and social forces.
or why it's a bad idea to pick a conclusion first and then come up with arguments for it

Unless one had to start one's thesis with null hypotheses (increasingly less common, but still a notable approach.)
http://ioke.org/wiki/index.php/Guide#Macros
I'm sure the "A Bit More" button does what every other crap toaster does when you depress the lever: takes your toast from "cool" to "warm," or from "warm" to "blasted in nuclear hellfire."

I don't know what happened, but it's very difficult to find a decent toaster any more. Buy a $10 Great Value or a $100 Kitchenaid, it's all the same useless trash. The only differences are cute design touches -- the guts are all terrible. The only brand left seems to be Hobart, and those suckers are $300. As a result, I buy the same lousy toaster every three months when I get tired of my toast being uneven, untoasted, or charred. The new toaster starts out with mediocre performance and invariably slides downhill from there.

I'd happily do without the "A Bit More" button, brushed metal accents, sculpted cover, and every other elaborate design measure if I could just get some decent toast.
No, but shit happens.

Update: Added Forrest Gump wisdom.
There's a whole bunch of us active on #hackers-india (irc.oftc.net). Drop in sometime :)
An interesting related piece about Nokia's strategy:
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/07/obituar...
Dave McClure: Invest Before Product/Market Fit, Double-Down After.
Here: http://blog.ted.com/2007/12/04/starck/
This is a feature. Most of the people on an IRC channel are lurkers. And the channels are very quiet so that people can hear you when you do speak. Believe me, I wish they were quieter, because even as they are they tend to be too distracting for me to lurk there while working.

It does seem creepy. Our company's salespeople laugh at the programmers because we really love to gather in one physical room, then sit silently next to each other typing on laptops and communicating largely via Jabber chat and IRC, even though we are two feet away from each other. If you've never tried to concentrate on programming this seems like alien behavior, but it actually makes a lot of sense, for the same reason that it makes sense for all the Drupal devs to sit in one IRC channel but almost never speak.

If you crave more chat, join more channels in parallel.
IRC network actually - irc.perl.org is 6 servers, four of them on Shadowcat's hardware, the others donated by individual members of the perl community.
He starts off by saying tribalism is the root of racism. Then he says it's judging people on choices they've made. These are obviously mutually exclusive definitions!
Would appreciate your feedback on this.

Do you get the concept? Does it makes sense? Is the pricing appealing and does it seem reasonable?

What reservations would you have to using a service like this?

Thanks
Just have the irc window on a separate virtual desktop.
The problem with Nokia is they have a huge sunk cost in Symbian and it will never be able to compete in the high-end. They'll never catch up because of that. Going to Linux is an interesting choice, but they have to develop that platform and ecosystem as well. It will be difficult for them to catch up when they're starting 2 steps behind.
"The efficiency gains are enormous, much larger than if every computer needed a buggy, licensed copy of Windows that automatically updated in the middle of your slideshow (happened in the office yesterday)."

yawn, welcome to 1995 again.
It depends on the project. They all have different flavors. And of course if you create a project, you can set the tone.
#startups on freenode and a small private channel with 10 or so friends on IRCNet. LimeChat powered!
It's only distracting if you allow it to distract you.
I really can't stress how important these types of pure R&D incubators are for future tech. Almost every major piece of technology we use today came out of one of these types of labs.
I'm running an informal "Learn Python the Hard Way" study session on Tuesdays at Antidote Coffeehouse in Houston with some friends of mine. I have some nerdy non-programmer friends who have long expressed an interest in learning how to program, and we've tried a few different things ("NAND to Tetris" and a a different type-in Python games tutorial) but "The Hard Way" is much better focused on the complete programming newbie. I've also taught Comp Sci 101/102 as a grad school TA. I have to say that "The Hard Way" is markedly better than all the other attempts at a tutorial for the complete programming newb I've seen.

A valuable area to target: Concurrency Optimization. Another: Low-Level Optimization and Memory Hierarchy. Books on these already exist, but Zed has the attention of a large swathe of the programming populace that could really use more awareness on these topics. That potential energy could be converted to book sales or sales of some sort.
To give it some credibility, here's mazda doing something similar.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120942873506551291.html
Story:

Guy Screws Up

Paranoid Anti-Apple Fundamentalist Moron immediately blames Apple

24 like-minded retards remind me that HN is no longer a place where intelligence or thought are rewarded.

YOU are the cancer that is killing YC.
This exact same argument could be used on the theoretical pacemaker in another question. But he believes the pacemaker should free software. His response there could have been tongue-in-cheek, but I can't quite tell.
I tried using pyre2 and experienced runaway memory usage. I was using re.split. The behaviour went away when I switched to the standard re module. (without changing my code.)

Did anyone else experience this?

The code in question was:

(a, b) = re.split("\n\s*\n", text, maxsplit=1)

Thank you for any insights you may have regarding this.
"your" and "You're" is my pet hate
Minimize it to the tray.
Ditto. We also have a wiki and a tumblr site where we post immature nonsense. We all (except one of us) used to work at the same place, but now we're geographically and employmentologically spread out.
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Another example: Citrix opensourced xenserver some time ago. The basic version is free as in speech and bear.
I think YC is great. As long as the risk in early stage businesses is misvalued by the market, it doesn't really matter if they hit singles, doubles or home runs.

Incidentally, Farmville was not a crazy bet -- the game was a clone of a Chinese casual game called Happy Farm that was seeing insane traction in China. The US innovation was hooking it up to the non-transparent mobile subscription services that Zenga got nailed for later.
New Samsung Windows Phone 7 named Cetus?
Anyone that follows the smartphone industry knows of Microsoft’s new mobile operating system Windows Phone 7, which is generating a lot of buzz on the internet, add Samsung a close launch partner into the mix all that equals magic. Bluetooth certification is now all-but-confirming a name: Cetus.
At my previous workplace, a web devshop, we had a company channel where everyone hanged, even the CEO (when he could). Plus project-channels where we could discuss details of each project, and where we invited clients and partners that used IRC.
I would be interested in reading your book, as well as a summary if you have one somewhere.
With today's technology there are enough technologies to scale a great teacher. youtube(especially with it's minute by minute engagment measurement), stackoverflow (for questions and answers), and others.

And you can see this happening, slowly.