skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why, the other way, of course. But my point was, the authors have not considered all the (potentially) important aspects, and we may help them with this. Or just have fun.
I'm not sure I'd attribute it to a fast-paced lifestyle. My guess is that most people plunk down and just watch TV (or surf the web these days) after supper. After dinner walks would be a step towards a faster-pasted lifestyle :P

It seems more like it's tied to the importance placed on property ownership and lack of public common spaces. (Well, there's probably a feedback loop going on) We convince ourselves that owning a home in the suburb is so important and so wonderful that naturally we stay at home and enjoy our house.
Insulin is not evil. Studies have shown that proteins elicit the same insulin response.

http://www.weightology.net/weightologyweekly/?page_id=319
Additionally, the article's author gave no indication that he knew how arithmetic works.

Round number from memory, paying someone 59k, gov't takes 20k, and healthcare costs 12k, so everything is 100% government's fault. And Obama's fault. Even though he cut the taxes for that employee.

EDIT: Hi downmodders. 100% factual post here. Obama cut your taxes. Sorry.
I would use them but I only hire ninjas.
I feel like you're trivializing the barriers to first match basic services provided by ISP giants and then provide competitive differences on top of that. One of the reasons people are clamoring for net neutrality legislation is that the relevant markets don't have significant competition to make neutrality happen naturally.
I'm in this position right now, actually. After being unemployed for a while, my resources are finally almost depleted.

About a week ago, I found a job for a software tester that asked for experience with a number of programming languages, so I assumed it would at least be a technical position and it might be a nice change of pace.

They called me for an HR interview n Thursday, and that's when I discovered that they apparently no longer needed anyone in my area. They said they could need me in another city relatively nearby (4-5hr. drive from here, so I'd need to relocate), but the position was just black-box, no-code testing. They also asked me for my salary requirements, and when I hesitated (as I knew it would likely be below my expectations), she spoke up and told me the typical range for the position - about $10k less than I was making before.

I decided I needed the money, so I did their technical interview the next day. I think it went really well (there were at least two instances where I answered a question she was about to ask as part of the question preceding it) so I'm expecting an offer, but it still feels like a major blow to my ego to even be considering taking the job.

I figure I'll set a one-year limit on the job, training however I need to in order to get out of there by then, and I'll use my salary to help fund a project I want to build. Lemonade from lemons.

The point is, sometimes you just need to do what you need to in order to keep going. If an employer is offering insulting wages or seems abusing/untrustworthy, or if the job would be too big a burden (uprooting your family for relatively low financial gain), that's one thing, and I fully understand declining those jobs. If the job is reasonable, and you can't afford to be out of work any longer, then your ego needs to take a back seat to survival.
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College undergrads study ineffectively on computers, says research
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=11...

http://inari.aerdan.org/gallery/chromeopts.png

The initial request is the GoogleURLTracker class, which manages what Google TLD you're on. On the trunk, this won't happen if your default search engine is not Google, and even if it does happen, we won't save/update any cookies as a result of the update request.

Also, the reporter is using a binary downloaded from the continuous builder, that's why RLZ is included.
Ok. My strategy is clearly not suited for a netadmin. There is probably an order of magnitude difference between our "many different machines" :)
2. Putting in a day is a long commitment (so as byoung says, you should offer #1 for free and no signup, and make a convincing case for using #2. The benefit is having a centralized control panel for multiple different social media sites with different interfaces and tedious junk.

Make sure to generate an email address so that all the resulting welcome/membership/spam emails go through your clean and professional tool rather than cluttering up the user's inbox. And don't let them use it to spam HN, of course :-)

I would do graduated pricing. $25-$50 for a week of promo, which should be long enough to get some analytics traffic (did I mention it auto-signs-up for analytics?). $100-250 for a month, $1000+ for a longer campaign. Lower prices limit you to 5, 10 or 20 outlets and 3-4 updates over a week, higher let you do more frequent or structured updates.

I can see some definite potential for this. Lots of businesses want to do internet PR but don't want to devote major amounts of time to it. The multiple different interfaces and signups are the biggest time killer - if you can perform essentially similar or related functions in many different contexts and give a clean top-level action/report interface, it'll be a winner. Just make sure the starting price is cheap enough for people to get their feet wet, ie no bigger than a petty cash expense and a few hours of work. Once they see that pay off in terms of gaining eyeballs, they'll be hooked.
Not intended as linkbait. I think its an important trend to recognize, especially for developers targeting the education marketplace.
Yeah, except taxes have gone DOWN for that employee under Obama, and healthcare premiums have been skyrocketing for the last 10-15 years (and most of quote "ObamaCare" hasn't even kicked in yet).

So the author is either a total idiot or willfully dishonest. Hence, the article was poop.
But its the tone of that response that's the problem. Even if the fact that the WSJ chose to publish it is worthy of comment, its certainly worthy of more thoughtful comment. MJ looks as bad as the WSJ by responding to a clumsy op-ed with such a petty, ad-hom piece.
An even more unusual UK example would be the "copyright" claimed over the football fixture lists you'll find on any popular sport site - they're supposed to pay a large licensing fee to a company called Football Dataco even if they source the data independently.
Performance might affect pay, or it might effect a change in pay.

Or neither, of course.
I still have to find one.
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You might like the dy/dan blog http://blog.mrmeyer.com His focus is on elementry/high school but I think his approach would also make college-level classes much more interesting.

There's also this delightful post from btilly http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-linear-algebra... that I found wonderfully informative. Make sure you read the q/a in the comments.
Don't Be Ugly By Accident
None of those settings seem to apply to the case in question:

It seems that on first request it query google for unique client ID (getting NID Cookie)

Requests to safebrowsing are not anonymous. All of them signed with cookie, getted on the first 2-3 requests

EDIT: You added those two sentences. The guy claims changing the default search engine didn't change this behavior.
Tee-hee.
The office depot ad says the pencil is #2 equvalent.. so I'm thinking it does work on scantrons..
So, you basically want to capture 9TB of network traffic (2x10GBx30Minutes).

Does it have to be on a single machine? You may have better luck splitting the task across 2 machines.

What NIC are you using?

I would think I'd start with a test run of a 64bit linux build on a quad-core box with just "tcpdump -i en0 -s 2000 -nn -w text.cap" and see what you get.
For desktop linux....

Servers and Embedded Devices it's one of the easier alternatives.
Interview with Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot
Well maybe those physics PhDs are a lot better at socializing than me. I remember spending years of my PhD trying to make friends, going to bars/rock climbing/dances/running clubs etc to try and meet friends, but never got any where, and just feel this crushing depression every day I have to go to work and sit down at a computer for 8 hours. I feel roughly the same in a corporate or academic environment, it's the result of so much being by oneself. Perhaps I shouldn't have gone into computers?

However, Academia for the most part I think is just that sort of environment, I have commiserated with numerous PhD students who say the same thing. If one is into computers, both academia and computer engineering as career tracks are rather isolating, but some seem to like it, vs some get lonely, perhaps it's something psychological, and I'm not really intended to be such an introvert. Who knows.

I don't think academia is a bad career as long as one can get tenure at a good school, or in a good industry lab, so as to work with good people. I guess whether one can take it psychologically just depends on the individual.

Although I do agree that maybe if one had kids+wife or worked hard to be social, the 8 hours of isolation a day wouldn't be that bad. It might even be relaxing! So maybe professor is a good job for one in old age. But still I would worry about causing my students to suffer through isolation.
It would benefit Apple greatly if they were to distribute classroom apps for free- at least the basic stuff needed for student/teacher interaction. Second, they should promote wiki-style development of textbooks and associated materials. The textbook market is a huge sham and a leech upon our education system. Apple could make tons while simultaneously saving schools tons if they could free them from the textbook companies.
That's a pretty selfish but understandable point of view, I'm not saying that he should disappear completely or continue as before though, that's a false dichotomy, there is a third, and arguably better alternative.

Personally I'd like him to understand that not everybody that disagrees with him is out to get him and to become more civil in his online dialogue.

In the end the person he's damaging the most is himself, which is his good right of course, but I think that with very little work on his part that he could amaze us all by being both productive and an easy person to get along with.

I've gotten quite a bit of feedback that Zed in person is the nicest guy which really makes me wonder why he seems to expend so much energy by being nasty to people online.
Passively standing in the vicinity of a BMW doesn't let you drive it. Passively standing in a Wifi network space lets you transcribe the traffic. You don't change the system (in a loose sense) by recording the signals or not, while stealing the BMW, you do.
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Chrome 6.x should be able to work around this on all platforms at the cost of making the site slower.

This sounds, uh, weird. Got a link to more information? I'd like to see the rationale for having the browser subvert misconfigured servers; this would seem to undermine the already precarious SSL state we're in.
It's rare to have connected walkways in the US. They often stop suddenly on their trail off to nowhere, have big gaps between disconnected sections, lead up to bridges that are meant for driving on, etc.
He specifically addresses the 'default search engine' possibility, and that's not it:

gulbrandr: Can you please redo your test with a different default search engine than Google?

Alexey: Already did it. Result is the same, nothing changed.
That's got to be the funniest thing I read all day, thank you Gaius.

We're often on opposite sites of various fences but with this one liner you've definitely made my day so thank you very much for that. :)
Absolutely.

We have two options for high speed internet here. AT&T and Comcast. Comcast is the only option that gets me above 10Mbps.

The only alternative on the horizon? AT&T's new service. At least that'll be a viable alternative to Comcast, but it's still hardly what one could call variety.

Where do I live? Atlanta, in the city limits, less than three miles from the heart of the city.
Thanks, looks promising. I'll try it out.
On the basis that they've gotten far enough to open a branch, I'm going to guess "no".
only if there is an audio recording being made.
The strongest benefit of static types for me is: You can have different forms of polymorphism if you have static type information. For example, the visitor pattern from OO-languages is obsolete in languages with enough type information available, because they can just dispatch on all argument types. For example, python or ruby cannot do such a multiple dispatch without any extra effort.
About that video.

I was going to write something scathing about it, but that'd be useless. All I'll say is imitating Wes Anderson is tired and boring. Looks like it was fun to make and some people will like it for sure, but I think it pales in comparison to the Etsy recruiting video:

http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/07/09/etsy-is-hiring/

I hate to bring this up this tired discussion, but is this a NYC vs SF thing? The Etsy video could almost be considered dark and pessimistic, while the Twitter video is full of whimsy and infantilization.
Here's the official formatting info - http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

The indented quote blocks you've seen are simply code blocks - just indent with 2 spaces.
Or more of our GDP is going overseas rather than into American pockets. Or more money is being taken up by various sources of financial friction (taxes, fees businesses need to pay, etc.). Or all three.
Netflix to Stream Films From Paramount, Lions Gate, MGM
if a job is in Dubai then it is surely not worth it. I have heard horror stories of people who went to work there.

Indians, Europeans (My guess mostly from western poor countries) go to Dubai because 30K $ a year is a huge salary jump, but for US citizens its not much different from they would get here.
Threads built on events - new epoll I/O manager merged into the main GHC
The grandparent indicates that this is corrected in trunk.
Interesting. Do you keep a separate log for each activity, or add a note with what activity you're working on? Also, any easy way to make that work if your default program for .txt files is not Notepad?
To anyone using fuzzy-finder or Jamis' fuzzy-finder-textmate, I highly recommend checking out Command-T. I find it to be much faster and more stable. I was never all that thrilled with fuzzy finder, so this has been a joy to use.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3025
I am a pretty pretty princess. How is that?
Getting really tired of conspiritorial hand flapping posts from people who have no telecom / network engineering perspective.

I give both of these companies some credit for using their leadership positions to at least offer a framework to the industry and public at large - something the FCC and all the other carriers heretofore have been completely unable to do.

Of course that doesn't jive with the whole, "they're trying to destory the internet" meme.
If you bring the can, I'll call you partner ;-)
Without appropriate design, yesterday's success is tomorrow's straightjacket, since today's great applications are tomorrow's legacy systems.

Bill Buxton in Sketching User Experiences, page 209
It is interesting that he does not mention any plans to fix the several egregious type soundness holes in Scala's type system.
Be Inspired (By Everything) 08
This is the eighth edition of Be Inspired and the last one for a fortnight while I’m off on holiday in the Lake District, and there isn’t an Internet connection where I’m staying, I’m sure I’ll cope now I have my shiny iPhone with 3G connection. Anyway, this collection is all nice and full of print, photography, illustration and animation inspiration. Enjoy!
I hate to sound all macho, but you have two options in your case:

If you're new to the workforce, and think your underpaid, get a new job, or shut up.
Amazing, indeed.

It's too bad the guy did the illumination with LEDs, instead of using matches for that, too. (Although that would have worked only once.)
It seems to me that progress in computers is much more incremental. Meaning, step N+1 is pretty well visible from step N. When dealing with energy and propulsion, this does not seem to be the case. I realize this is pretty hand-wavy, but it's how I get myself to sleep.
Naturally, he neglects the other side of the coin, which is that our authority figures need to EARN that trust and faith -- he just assumes that if someone becomes a cop, they deserve it.

Some of the things that went on in DC and Baltimore (I personally witnessed police breaking traffic laws more than once in Baltimore) severely undermined my faith and trust in the police.
god i hope some of the crap i wrote when I was just starting dies in a pit of flames. To see it live for 30 years would be a nightmare spanning generations.
Best not to ask for a raise, just keep working hard and good things will probably happen. Karma and all that.
In the suburbs you can walk in the street or through people's yards ("gardens") along the edges and no one really minds. Everyone tends drive instead, though, since there aren't any well-connected walkways that lead to any place you'd really like to get to.
If the police can't handle being photographed or recorded in public places, then they can't be trusted.
This is internet history in the making.
If you _really_ want more money the most effective method is to to "play hardball". This play can double or even triple your income from a entry point salary if you're worth it and you play it right.

The deal with hardball is that you have to leave your current company. You may not actually leave the company but you must be _prepared_ to, otherwise it wont work and you will back down too quickly.

As usual, look around the market for better pay and try to get a job interview and a position for pay that you like the sound of. Once this is done and dusted, hand in your resignation and state that the reason you are leaving the job is due to pay. State a figure that would keep you at the company but obviously keep this very private between yourself and your manager. You can be a little cheeky with this figure, depending on how much you want to remain there.

If they value your work sufficiently they will accept your figure and modify your salary to keep you there. If they don't you leave for the other job that pays better.

For best results you need to get the timing of the hardball perfect. You need your employers to either be desperate, guilty or a bit of both. Desperation is achieved by doing this at a critical moment. Say, the most senior member of staff on your project leaves, thus leaving you with the most knowledge of the system. Or in my case, regulation of the mortgage market was about 8 months away and I was the only member of staff with sufficient knowledge to implement their new system.

Guilt can be even better though depending on the type of manager you have. Essentially you want the manager to feel as though they owe you something. For example, if your pay review was supposed to happen six months after your start but it has been twelve or eighteen months then they will feel guilty about not doing it sooner. If they have cancelled a project you worked hard on or did you some other kind of disservice your guilt ratio increases and you can cash in.

I managed to push my salary from £12k to £36k in one fell swoop this way about 8 years ago. It's how I started contracting.

For context, the company had cancelled my own software development project (which despite being poor code (when i look back on it) was fit for purpose and worked). They replaced this with a system bought in (which they had to buy on a management agreement from joining a particular group) that was just a confusing mess of VBScript and SQL stored procedures. It didn't work, wasn't built for purpose (a common operation would lock up the database server for 2 minutes+) and I only _just_ managed to stitch it together in time for regulation day (actually it was a few days after, I had to manually do a lot of the quotes in the first few days of regulation.. ). And when I say stitched this process involved a bunch of programs I had also hacked together to cover the gaps.
Ask HN: GAE + Django, is it worth it?
Hi,

I'm wondering if you have any experience running Django on Google App Engine? Any problems making it work?

I'm wondering if I should jump to GAE in order to use the new Mapper API. I could really use some cheap Map/Reduce (only map for now). Do you think it is worth it to learn a new language + framework?
As someone who has been tinkering in Ruby for a couple of months, I can see where the author is coming from.

Personally, I tried to spend time on what was stable (Ruby 1.8.7 and Sinatra). This allowed me to focus much more on the language yet still feel productive.

Once you get past getting started, the decision on what to use (or who to ask) become much clearer.
I just checked this guy from your link and WOW! I didn't know such people existed. Will listen to his music tonight. Thanks!
> The tax burden in this country is lower than European nations, lower than Japan, lower than Canada.

Actually, it's about the same in terms of dollars per person.

When I buy something, I don't ask "what fraction of my income?". I ask "What value am I getting for my $."

Why should we treat govt any differently?
We'd be remiss in not mentioning this:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lcars-internet-media-reader/i...
What about the merits of what Doctorow has written? I'm not sure his background is terribly relevant here. What if PG had written this piece and it was a defense of someone who invested lots of time and energy reading HN articles and making comments? Would you then agree "That guy has too much spare time"?
The blog post he links to:

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/in-open-for-rlz.html

says "Chromium will also continue to exist as it always has, without any RLZ library included. And, you can still download a Google Chrome with no RLZ behavior at www.google.com/chrome. But now that RLZ is open, Google Chrome distributed through promotional means will include this open-source implementation of RLZ.".

So what makes the continuous Chromium build a "Google Chrome distributed through promotional means"?
My personal opinion is this goes back to the same mentality that gives everybody a trophy for playing soccer. We are trained from first grade that you just need to show up to succeed. Almost every experience from kindergarten to a high school diploma emphasizes that.

Can't let it stop with college or a job, now can we?

I love teaching a room full of interested, motivated people. It's too bad I can't become a teacher to do that. :(
Rewarding the Passionates to get Customers for your Web App
This is at bit.ly world headquarters in NYC.

I'm looking forward to seeing you there!
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Thanks for the announcement. I'll be there with a new MathPath hat if I possibly can, but this is not yet a promise, as I have to check my evening schedule. Last time we were in two groups; I hope we can all gather in one group this time. I appreciate you setting up these meet-ups.
Go for it!

I think you're better off using more like my examples than making political statements, like the Iraq withdrawal etc.

I'm sure you can find more humorous items to add to the list.
Just Google Obama meets with.. and find your next target
In general, people do not walk down the street at all. I used to live in a place that looked a bit like this (except spread out a bit more) in Alabama, and while you'd once in a while see someone walking down the street, it was pretty rare except for kids too young to have cars (under 16, basically).
Speeding Up Ruby on Rails
Advanced Functional Programming - The Expression Problem
Relevant comic strip: http://wondermark.com/638/