skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least you make the top 10.

Somehow Common and Emacs Lisp as well as VB make the list without any users or repositories...
Those two services are NOT equal. UVerse/Comcast/whatever deliver cable TV to your house via real multicast with a shared tree all the way from the distro point to your door.

There is no multicast in the public internet so every stream is actually unicast. There are some tricks you can play but it's nothing like PIM on a private network. The public internet would simply fall over if everyone started streaming unicast TV stations from folks like Hulu.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Hurd+stepped+down+in+disgr...
Catastrophic health coverage is not particularly expensive. It would be much more reasonable for the government to cover catastrophic costs (say, those in excess of $200,000) and otherwise leave private insurance alone.
I won't pretend I'm predisposed in its favor, but the arguments in this article are really pretty terrible.

Take this paragraph from the first section, just about the only attempt to present big-picture numbers:

"Between 2003 and 2007, California state and local government spending grew 31 percent, even as the state’s population grew just 5 percent."

The article doesn't say if the 31% is inflation adjusted - which makes me suspect it's not. Also, what's happened since 2007? That was three years ago. Why cherry-pick numbers from the height of the housing boom, which presumably saw steadily increasing revenue? Is that the only way to show a dramatic spending increase and validate the article's thesis?

"The overall tax burden as a percentage of state income, once middling among the states, has risen to the sixth-highest in the nation, says the Tax Foundation."

No periodization here at all, and then we get...

"Since 1990, according to an analysis by California Lutheran University, the state’s share of overall U.S. employment has dropped a remarkable 10 percent."

How much of this occurred over the 2003-2007 period that saw increasing spending? From anything the article tells us, the answer might very well be none. What was the population doing in the meantime? Again, for all I know, it might have changed proportionately.

If one was to look up numbers that all covered the same time periods, I don't know what results one would get. But the numbers in the article really don't set up the case it goes on to make, that the problem is spending and regulation.

And then that case has its own independent issues. Though again I don't have quick access to the real numbers, it's not plausible to me that "bureaucratic pensions" are really a substantial proportion of the state budget, unless teachers, firefighters, and prison guards are all alike "bureaucrats", a characterization which would be pretty tendentious. And are carbon-emissions regulations really likely to have contributed more to those 400,000 lost manufacturing jobs than a nationwide trend towards outsourcing?
With Skype, Marc Andreessen is the new king of Silicon Valley
Wow, that's unexpectedly neat. I don't know if there's a market, but I think, probably, it should be there for such a thing.
Your understanding is not in keeping with the historical uses of these words. We get the term 'left-wing' from the French Revolution, where in the Revolutionary Assembly, those who gathered on the left side of the Assembly were more radical than those who gathered on the right. During the height of the Terror, the left side killed the right side and the center moved to the left. At their peek, the Jacobins were every bit as dogmatic and psuedo-religious as Greenpeace, (they were in fact explicit about their attempts to create a new religion.) Soviet Bolshevism presents a similar story but I won't get into it.

'Conservativism' is different than 'right wing,' and 'liberalism' is different than 'left wing.'

The standard polisci definition is that (small 'c') 'conservatives' seek slow organic change in society while (small 'l') 'liberals' seek deliberate and intentional change. In addiction we have 'radicals,' who seek total change and an overthrow of the current system, and 'reactionaries' who either want no change, or to reverse the flow. ('Radical conservative,' is an oxymoron') Big 'C' Conservatives and big 'L' Liberals are different still, (and both are different than 'Progressives.')

Greenpeace is radical, left-wing movement. They are such in the same way that both the French Revolution and Bolshevism were radical left-wing movements.
I'm not sure how difficult it would be to create, but you could have an XMPP bot request presence subscriptions from all users who enter usernames.

Hmm, this sounds like an interesting problem.
Your top navigation looks like a slyly placed Google Adsense link type unit

~ I would go back and freshen up the other two money makers cause they will need to last for this one to get the steam I think it needs...
Actually, I agree the last study looks ok. The problem is it's about a completely separate discussion.

It's about MUFA, which nobody is talking about. Fully saturated fat is the recommendation.

I don't think there's actually much debate the old recommendation to guzzle olive oil was garbage. The problem is people are still advising against butter and bacon, which is wrong.

An issue with the study is they're claiming a diet that's over half carbohydrates is "high fat". No, over 60% fat would be high fat.
Ask HN: Why is European/German Dedicated Hosting So Much Cheaper Than US?
From another Ask HN thread about where people were hosting their sites I found the Hetzner Root Hosting packages:

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-eq/

You can get a quad core i7-920 with 8G ram and dual 750GB disks for 49EUR per month, which works out to about $65/month.

By comparison, RackSpace's "Basic Series" dedicated server solution with a dual core Opteron, 3.G ram and 2x250GB disks goes for $419/month.

http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/configurations.php

Am I comparing apples to oranges or is there really that much of a price difference between dedicated hosting in Germany and the US? What's the story?
"I don't understand why anyone would think it would be impossible" ~= "Who would be dumb enough to assume this isn't possible?"

If that's how they feel about themselves they shouldn't take it out on me ;)

Back on topic, can there be multiple objects on a layer? If so what happens when you drag one on top of another object on the same layer? I haven't used the app, so this may be a dumb question. These are the sorts of things that gave me headaches when I made my audio player UI, and it seems to lead to the same sort of data shuffling that you'd have with multiple matrices.
All I can think about is: the time and energy expended sifting through Apple's red tape is time and energy spent not creating new apps and improving existing ones.
Precisely. First they say that no broadband provider may provide priority to any given service, then they create a loophole big enough to drive a truck through. Any broadband provider that wants to offer IPTV, IP telephony, or any other new service can just do so and give it priority over other Internet traffic.

Google is officially evil.
Definitely going to need to get all of the typical gloss/apple styles in there. Look to the open source Aristo (Cappucino's UI) for inspiration -- http://github.com/280north/aristo

Not sure how well your idea will take off, but good luck. Similar sites (you probably already know of these):

http://www.brusheezy.com/
http://www.vecteezy.com/
But it still outputs something that is only consumable by web browsers. It seems to me like the potential productivity gains you'd get out of Fun would only be for tightly coupled systems where you're not worried about exposing an API, and all clients use web browsers.
Yes.

I know people who cruised through High School and then a Bachelors degree without working. They were accepted on a doctoral program and found that they had no idea how to work. No idea at all.

At least this character knows to ask for help.
My experience is that the more you try to trick the system, the less likely it will work. Advertising is one thing. If you do something like fake accounts or make yourself bigger then you are, you loose the grass roots first users who become your biggest supports when you want to grow from spam lists. You should read what economists say. Know your customer. If you can't find any don't do it. Know your competition. If you can't define it, don't do it. Know your business. If you don't love what you do, don't do it.
We had a buy/sell site aimed at university students. At the same time, 2 other sites cropped up. So we posted links to items from one site on the other. Those two sites got in a pretty nasty fight ("We didn't do it" "Yeah right you ^&^&") Meanwhile we just continued growing as usual.
I'll actually even go to my school's computer lab for extended periods of time if I have a lot of work to do since their chairs are so comfortable to sit in while working.

So what chairs do they have? Probably not Aerons?
If those work fine for you, why not buy just that.
Huh. Now it's appeared.

Odd.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but where do you get $250K revenue from?

Also, who is using these layer styles now and are your layer styles protected by IP?

The styles look a little like those I would find on Word's word art function.

These were the thoughts that popped into my head.

Good luck!
* RSA and all our other current crypto algorithms breathe a collective sigh of relief
I was part of a startup years ago that did many of those things and much more. I still won't go into the details of what it was that my cofounder did, but it made a big difference.

It was a social networking site, before social networking sites really existed (circa 2000). I remember when the site consisted of me, him, his mom and our kindest friends. Got maybe a few hundred unique visitors per day, at best.

Then he did X and suddenly traffic spiked. It was a thousand uniques a day. Then tens of thousands. Then it got picked up by google. He did even more questionable things and traffic increased even more. Next thing we knew, it had 200,000+ registered users and was making $50k/month.

None of those things he did ever came back to haunt us. The site itself was kind of sketch (much more myspace than facebook), so that might have helped. I wouldn't do any of the things he did for any legitimate startup that I found. At the same time, it seemed like it worked. Once you have "critical mass" then the entire situation changes.

Just an anecdote to answer your question. Obviously YMMV.
Yes, a GlassWorks style pack is in the works, should be ready in a couple days.
I'm not arguing that you shouldn't exercise, merely that it probably takes more than exercise alone to lose weight. There are many other great reasons to exercise.
> [...] Microsoft was (again) caught trying to redefine standards based on their own perception of those standards.

Or, more simply and less nefariously. They put a management droid on stage. The person answering the questions likely wasn't aware of the nuances in ksh implementations. Hey's just the Microsoft equivalent of a used car salesman.
I've made about 5 attempts at starting bootstrapped businesses, in the end i've realised that i'm not giving each business long enough to mature and to turn it into something that can perform real value creation.

I've also learned, that if allow myself to believe, then there's no such thing as competition, even if google enters the same market, in fact, that might even be a bonus, since that validates the market for me.

Not trying to dampen your spirits in any way, just wanted to share from a fellow serial bootstrapper ;-)
Looks cool, my question though is where are the free styles or a demo?

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/freebies/best-free-photoshop-l...

Even if you don't want to give away your styles you may want to compose a list of free styles others have produced so you have something they can try.

You may want to create some free ones just to post on sites like that.

I have to say thanks though because I had no idea such a thing even existed until I saw your start up and when I googled I found some free layer styles that can really help me.
I don't think this is a good precedent. What happens when you want HDTV and each channel is 20 megabits? Well, your Telstra connection gets upgraded to 50 megabits but only 40 is available for TV - 2 HD channels at the same time, and the remaining 10 Meg is for Internet. Now, you have a situation where you can get 2 simultaneous HDTV feeds from Telstra but you can not get a single feed from an Internet TV provider, because they only give you 10 Meg for Internet. This is EXACTLY what net neutrality is supposed to prevent.

I'll say it again. Google says they want to push network neutrality but they just created a loophole big enough to drive a truck through.
you made two assumptions here which are false.

1. projects on github get correctly labeled as the right language
2. github search shows accurate results of what is on the site
supposedly, there are some third party apps out there that provide skype services, like nimbuzz.
0-click. To buy an item, just press the "b" or space key, rather than having to move the mouse to a certain small button and having to click on it.
I've lost 30 pounds over the course of 6 months by eating more reasonable portions (No more downing 2 cokes, 1 lb of chicken wings, and fries in 1 sitting) and exercising more. I did this gradually, never too concerned about it. Sure it wasn't as quick as Paul's story here, but it works fine and requires very little effort.
I get 20 Mbps in the US- from Cablevision in CT. It costs 29.95 a month. For $20 more a month I could get it upgraded to 30 Mbps. Btw, my upstream is 2 Mbps.
> Friendships were real and lasted a lifetime in many cases, family ties were fairly closely knit and children were on the whole loved and safe, much safer than those 'free' children in the west.

That is what I miss. We used to spend more time together. It is not that we didn't work hard, we did, but there was just more time to spend with the family and friends. Then after the collapse for some reason people, even in my extended family, changed. They started hating each other more. There is less sencerity and closeness. It is hard to explain.

Interesting that you noticed that as well. I thought it only happened to my family....
Thanks for noticing.

We also got adgork.com.

Ha!
I used to crash our main competitor's email & login server at 6.01pm when free dial-up calls started at 6pm. They ran on NT and if you opened tcp/ip port 0, the kernel crashed. Happy times.
Clearly, this is beyond old school. It's building an old school inside of a new school. With a middle school.
I'm always surprised by those that will hem and haw over something that's not open-source.

I'm the first one that initially doesn't care if the tool is right. It's just something weird about web middlewares. Maybe we got spoiled by the abundance of good free solutions. I'd never reason about game engine middleware for example.

You've put in a lot of hard work and I hope it pays you off. Good luck!
Depends which part you are looking at. Fortunately, there has been some activity against farm subsidies lately.
Spamming comes up a ton in my interviews. Most recently, the founder of Match.com said that's how he got his site's first users.
Lack of support for this claim in that NY article is not proof for it's falseness.

Author in his rebuttal also did not show that suicide rates of women correlate with their happiness nor that their average happiness of all woman in the country has anything to do with amount of child care provided free if charge. I think it's far worse because he claims that more people help you with your burdens the less happy you are which seems paradoxical and tries to found this claim with suicide rates which seem to have some apparent correlation with how much sunlight individuals get.

I personally know young mother who gives her 3 year old daughter all her awake time and I find it hard to believe how she could not benefit from easing up getting child care for her. 24 hours in a day is for one person just barely enough to take care of the kid. You need other peoples help and I don't see how making it easier could lead to lower happiness let alone increasing suicide rates.
You could alsos try to create an open marketplace for styles so anyone can submit/buy.
I brought this up on last night's CouchDB thread but it bears repeating here.

For No-SQL in .NET there's also RavenDB, which is a schemaless document DB implemented natively in .NET.

http://www.ravendb.net/

[Edit: ah, I see that RavenDB was appended to the end of the article after a user comment - didn't notice!]
I see this happening in more and more articles, e.g., the Ask HN nutrition post that asked for more scientific versions of 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.' and received highly upvoted comments like 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.' I don't think there's much we can do about it.
The "Good, not Evil" clause.
The "striking" drop-off for Perl can be explained by the gitpan: http://github.com/gitpan

There are also similar statistics skewing users, like the emacsmirror: http://github.com/emacsmirror

It'd be nice if GitHub had a way to exclude such users from their statistics.
So Google loves net neutrality except when it doesn't.
We're an all-Mac company and most of our customers are Windows Office standardized, and, no, it's definitely not the case that Office interoperates fine on the two platforms.
That sounds interesting, but without the interesting part it's much less so.
So does anybody still use pen and paper outside of school? It seem to me that the entire school supply industry is propped up by old school methods of education.
> The notion that these were reached by plucky engineering and can-do spirit rather than, largely, oppression and coercion is absurd.

All the oppression and coercion in the world will not produce good engineering without competent engineers. The USSR, for all its faults, did produce some impressive weapons -- such as the T-34, Il-2 or AK-47.
"I lost 20 pounds...How? I drank bear piss and took up fencing. How the fuck you think, son? I exercised." - @shitmydadsays
There was a defense slide where they only said FW about 20 times :)
This is of course a much better explanation of things.
Im still shocked people, people likely paid to be sysadmins, even, are actually opening-up the memcached port to the world on EC2.
"It seems to me that the US spends 46.5% of all money spend world wide collectively by all nations on military spending."

Which is probably the real reason that we're in such debt -- it should be blindingly obvious to the entire world that there's no longer any valid reason to dump such an astronomically large amount of money into armed forces that we clearly don't need. Unfortunately, the magnitude of that spending is probably related to the fact that a sizable chunk of it winds up in congressional (etc) pockets, and has nothing to do with the actual military itself.

"In addition, the US spends a fortune on education and gets very poor outcomes."

Which agrees with the author's assertion that high school graduates are less skilled now than their predecessors, a trend that I've been seeing as well.

"In addition, the US spends far more per capita on health care than any other country in the world and has far worse outcomes than most countries,"

This is probably a combination of excessive organizational bloat and decreasing quality of the medical staff themselves. (The stories a close friend of mine told me about his medical school compatriots were nauseating... these people obviously didn't understand a single bit of the chemistry that they studied in college, and it became blindingly obvious that neither did most of the biochemistry professors at Johns Hopkins of all places.)

We're heading into a downward spiral, since these are the people who will be taking over and running the show as well as "mentoring" the next generation of educational victims.

It's a breakable spiral, but it won't happen unless a lot of people get a clue and recognize what's happening. Sadly most of them have been culturally conditioned to be automata, and avoid thinking for themselves, which is going to make this tailspin hard to break out of.
Apple Buys Out LiquidMetal Patents To Stay One Step Ahead In Materials Game
Old Spice Sales Double With YouTube Campaign
> The problem is it's about a completely separate discussion.

I'm pretty sure that's not the case. While there may be additional effects, the general results strongly suggest that barring pre-existing health conditions, it seems very likely that a modestly restricted diet and regular exercise is the best way to lose weight known to modern science.

And keep in mind: specialty diets don't work. So even if we do discover some clever metabolic hacking that lets people lose weight fast, it's not of much value to the discourse at hand about public health. People can't maintain diets.
Rackspace is kind of pricey in general. Look over at http://interserver.net/ for some more reasonable US rates on a decent backbone.
I've been thinking about this too - some sort of site that allows high-reputation users from trusted communities access to other highly rated people from other areas of expertise. Eg. if you've got great rep on Stack Overflow, you can join and ask for help from someone with a huge Twitter following. Users with high rep automatically have a lot of credit for getting favours, while new users need to earn credits by doing favours before they can ask for much. Very basic - but still maybe too complicated.
The story reminded me of an analogous experience I had some years ago. A client asked me to help negotiate a software license agreement drafted by the other side’s lawyer. I saw that the other lawyer had selectively copied and edited a set of model software license provisions developed by an ABA committee. It amused my client when, on the negotiation conference call, I pointed out to the other lawyer that he had left out certain language that had been included in the model provisions to make them a reasonable compromise on the issue in question. The other lawyer was a bit discomfited when he realized that I was the lead author of the model provisions and the chairman of the drafting committee. (This actually happened twice, in the space of just a few days, for two different clients.)
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I was wondering if I should write that all out, I wrote it a few hours ago, then decided not to post it because it's overlong but then changed my mind because I think this needs to be said.

I hope you find the picture on the whole accurate, it's from my no doubt faulty recollection, I hope I haven't romanticised or glossed over the bad parts. There are plenty more paragraphs that I could add about for instance the army, the jokes, the police, the drinking and so on, but I think it's enough like this.
Does anyone know what a "user" associated with a programming language represents? Is it an owner of a project, a contributor, a follower, etc?
You might want to get in touch with some of the various design blogs, like Smashing Magazine and some of the blogs they commonly link to if you're interested in getting some reviews. They also sometimes do prizes and whatnot.

I'm not affiliated with them, just a regular guy who follows them on twitter to try to keep on top of whats 'cool' in the design world.
Honestly, its embarrassing that I didn't remember RavenDB before writing up this post... my bad.