skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you could be right, long term.

In the short to medium term I don't think it is clear. To grow employment, the US needs to grow its manufacturing sector. Many people think that is impossible because of lower costs in China.

However, Chinese manufacturing costs are under increasing wages pressure (see http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2010-07/19/content_101...). For some thing that isn't going to matter - the cost of labor is the main cost in manufacture, so China will be cheaper.

For some industries, though, there are significant capital costs up front. China doesn't necessarily have such a big advantage there, and it's the kind of thing that properly targeted government stimulus (direct or in the form of tax concessions etc) can make a big difference.

Unfortunately it seems that a large part of the political dialog in the US revolves around how bad any form of government intervention in the market is.

The US's competitors don't have that weakness, though.
This is a feature, not a bug. There are many great articles that 1. are very helpful to read again; 2. you missed the first time; 3. newcomers haven't even had a chance to miss yet. Especially for newcomers, considering the rate that HN grows (an endless summer). But even more importantly, there are some articles that represent what HN is all about. There's a limited supply of great articles. If they cannot be reposted, how can newcomers ever learn what great articles are?

Therefore, I suggest the opposite: automatic reposting - but only for those "great" articles, in the "HN library" (membership being defined by a special-case vote - i.e. vote for this article to be in the library). These would be reposted on a 6 month cycle, and include the old comments. Biannual resurrection. And to be marked as "library", so you can skip if you want.

But this won't happen, because the existing "bug" already does it (if people vote it up, it was a reasonable repost; the present repost checker act as a low barrier). And pg advocates iteration only for things needed.
The market probing should be done wisely. If the business idea strikes gold, pitching about it may blow the advantage to be first on it. The probing should than be done in a way that does not disclose the business idea. Probing is definitely required.
Not much, apparently.

It knows my Twitter network, of course, and that's helpful for search results (someone I follow on Twitter blogging about some arcane JRuby tidbit I'm searching for is great).

If this is what Google's leaning on for their new social graph stuff, though, they're in trouble: it knew very little about my real-life friends. In other words, the friends that Facebook knows about. You can't glean that from Gmail contacts necessarily, since I don't really use email for that type of correspondence. If they really do want to flesh out a social graph of their own to combat Facebook, they have to roll their own social network. Maybe it's coming, maybe it's not; I just think they're only getting part of the picture right now.
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Absolutely!

That's one of the top criteria (right up there with type of license) when I evaluate whether to include a library in my game: is this library actively maintained?

Incidently, it's one of the things that worries me about the pthreads for Windows library: it hasn't been updated in quite some time.
So what does that mean? What resolution do you design for? 800 x 600?

Also, if you design for 'the lowest common denominator', how does your site look when people view it in a 1920 x 1200 monitor?

Do you ever consider spoiling the experience for them?

Not being rude, but seriously curious.
Ack. Just the size and variety of industries whose operations are defined by patent law (medical research, for example - both drugs and equipment) makes this kind of proposition a lot more complicated than we can comprehend, I think.
A version of Graphing Calculator (as Grapher) still ships with every Mac today, so it seems about as available as ever.
I definitely agree that growing manufacturing is a short-to-medium term solution to unemployment.

However, I think it's only a partial-solution going forward in that a) employers won't need to (and therefore won't) employ as many workers per plant and b) the skill-sets required for those positions will be more demanding[1] than those in the past.

As for the long term, I think it's safe to say that robotics and automation will eventually remove entirely the need for human factory workers and (nearly) all manual labor. I'm intensely interested the type of society that this will give rise to and I don't know if it's possible (I suspect not) for this type of market to sustain our current population.

[1. I could probably find you an article saying this, but I heard this on PBS Newshour about a week ago.]
1280 x 1024
Perhaps you should refresh =)
Twitter.com is not a protocol, it is a service. I think it is also important to note that it isn't a public utility either.

right now it is dangerous to place all your eggs in a single basket. When you only have one service provider you lose control of things such as dependability, namespace, access, etc. These are things that most may be willing to let someone else provide for them, but some may want to control these and other aspects of microblogging. A federated design with multiple independent service providers would go a long way to help fix these shortcomings.
Back when I was a kid in High School, I was proud of the fact that I could enter enough words into a search string to find what I was looking for on AltaVista. I was guessing what words might appear in the article / paper / search result I intended to find usually, but it worked. When a professor at college first recommended Google I resisted changing because I felt like a pro at AltaVista, but in the end Google searches were just too easy to find what you were looking for. Long story long, the only way you're going to beat Google is making search more efficient than Google.
DanielBMarkham started that using 'quotefeed' but it didn't really take off.
Amen. I am more than a little sick of people opinionating about the greatness of all things HTML5 when they've clearly never tried to develop anything for either Android or iPhone, but simply wish that their existing experience directly translates.

If you're downvoting, please shoot me an email with your html5 mobile app to prove me wrong: einar@lcrnd.com
Oh my. There's so much more to learn:

Finance, accounting, strategy, legal, HR, time management, sales, marketing, management...

The list is endless. I don't have an MBA. I have many friends who do and are spectacular entrepreneurs. I've acquired most of what they know over a decade of being an entrepreneur but another way to do it would have been to drop everything and dedicate 2 years to learning.

Here's an example of what you don't know because you don't have an MBA: Out of all of your sales prospects, the customers most likely to buy from you are those who just bought something from you.

Perhaps that comment on Reddit invalidates many viable businesses that could have sold an $100 loss leader to those prospects and then up-sold them on a $10,000 product a few months later.

Never underestimate how little you know.
Alternate title: $40 billion deal blown by unprofessional company who couldn't be bothered to show up on time.
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The main problem with tv is not the fact that a person watches video, although I think the video medium is one that tends to manipulative because it combines a lot of emotional elements. The problem is the linearity of television. You turn it on, something is on the television, and you watch it if you want, or turn to another channel.

You hear it in the language, you watch tv, not watch Law and Order, or watch Friends (with some exceptions for really popular shows like Lost) Where Hulu/Netflix/DVR/Dvds come in is that they direct the watching experience. You choose to watch something, making it much less of a block of time everyday.

Part of what Shirky's book, Cognitive Surplus, which was mentioned in the article, is that the cost of organizing people has gotten much less since the invention of the Internet. People now do things besides television watching, like Etsy, or discuss politics, or having communities of artists, because doing those things is more rewarding that television, and about as easy to set up as watching television. Note all of the startup advice hear on Hacker News.

I agree with the author a little in the end, that the activities won't always be positive. The same abilities that allow us to coordinate disaster relief funding from the home also all pro-anorexia support groups to flourish. I also think the reviewer missed one of the better points in the book, that the difficult part will be getting people to do something more valuable than television. It's great to create, but most people will create lolcatz pictures, which isn't that much better than television.

Overall, pretty good book at describing the Internet phenom of online groups being able to do a whole lot given the right circumstances. I imagine if Paul Graham was ever in any type of trouble, the denizens of Hacker News would probably turn out in a similar fashion to some of the examples given in the book.
Amazing demo for JS. I was really hoping it would work on any iOS device but all they i've tried 3GS/IPAD don't work, but it renders beautifully in chrome.

On a somewhat related but off topic note, I've had this strange idea for a while now that if one had cassandra bindings for JS and a VM image that joined a cassandra image on boot and executed a JS file via Node.JS stored at a well-known key that you could build clusters of almost infinite size that would be accessible to almost every developer. Yes, I think that per node performance would be horrible initially but that the sheer scale and accessibility would make up for it.
I have a friend who works with chimps at the zoo and she says that spitting water (mostly at people) is one of their favorite activities.
6 people... not impressive at all.
Ask HN: How would you store 5TB of data for 50 years, untouched?
Let's say you were thinking of putting digital data in a time capsule where it couldn't be touched for 50 years. How would you store it? How would you ensure it was readable at the end of the 50 years?
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I'm not a designer, simply a consumer. I have a 24" monitor, consider myself a gamer so I run at 1920 x 1200 and I'm not blind so my vote is 1920 x 1200 as I value the real estate on my desktop. I'm surprised to not see 1600 x 1200.
It doesn't know much and what it knows is based on one other person who is connected to many other things. Poor Google.
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one of the other great scientist from the Max Planck Institute is Michael Tomasello http://email.eva.mpg.de/~tomas/ (he works with Chimpanzee too and make the same experiments with human children to explore what is specific about humans). Many interesting of his lectures/interview vid online.
If you don't have hardware acceleration, 640x480x16color. That's what God told me. You try full-screen 60FPS graphics at higher resolutions using a corei7 with no GPU, wiseass.
A Stitch in Time: The Rise and Fall of the Sewing Machine Patent Thicket [pdf]
I was wondering about that...is Grapher based on the same code base as Graphing Calculator?
It's not that difficult to optimize your page for several different screen sizes. A mobile view, small, med and large without having to create any new components. Also fluid design looks pretty decent even large if you do it right.
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The author of this paper, Adam Mosoff, has written many papers on intellectual property. They are available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3456...
If you're going make a decision based on existing patents, the only possible decision is "don't go into the software business." Hard to say how often it happens.
The abstract of the paper:

The history of patents begins, not with inventions, but with royal grants of industrial monopolies in the fifteenth century. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, patents represent a legal right to property in a novel mechanical or scientific invention. Commentators today maintain that this radical shift from royal monopoly privilege to legal property right occurred solely in response to economic or institutional demands. While political, economic and institutional conditions certainly played a role in this story, this article maintains that the ideas of John Locke were the fountainhead behind the evolution of patents for inventions.

Although there were fits and starts toward a new patent doctrine in the seventeenth century, the watershed moment occurred when the common law courts acquired jurisdiction over patents from the Privy Council in the mid-eighteenth century. The common law judges - learned men steeped in the traditional rights of Englishmen and the philosophy of natural rights - redefined the doctrine of patents by drawing upon the ideas that formed the basis of their own political and legal philosophy. The result was the novelty and the specification requirements, which are first described by Lord Mansfield and Justice Buller in terms that reflect John Locke's labor theory of property and social contract theory. In surveying the historical record, i.e., in looking at the ways in which royal councilors, judges and inventors conceived of patents between 1550 and 1800, the influence of Locke's ideas upon this important legal doctrine is evident. This provenance of patent law thus suggests that an inventor's moral right to the property in one's invention should play a role in the ongoing debate concerning the protections afforded by the patent laws.
Twitter is overrated, first of all. Secondly, I don't think we can say they've succeeded. They are the new hotness and probably will be for a couple more years, but they aren't profitable and their only money comes from investors enamored with the idea. They're just riding the hype train and soon it will be their stop.
Did you read the post?

> I would love for people with enough traffic to make a statistically significant recommendation (i.e. 10K uinques/mo+), to look at their Google Analytics and use that information as their vote.

I don't think he wants to know what you personally prefer as a desktop resolution. He wants to know what is the best to optimize for his audience, which isn't gamers.
I wonder if they're going to change the text on their website:
"A DNS service with a 99.9999% uptime history is just the start! DNS Made Easy is so confident of it's uptime record that we offer the best service level agreement in the industry. That is why all businesses that require stable DNS decide to use DNS Made Easy. We have an industry leading 100% uptime gaurantee and will credit all accounts 500% of the downtime."

Maybe its a rival DNS provider behind the attack?
you a probably right, but you still can't directly compare the full time efforts of the BBC with this single developers part time project. It would be interesting to see what the BBC themselves could produce in HTML.
Hypothesis: In the early days of the internet, people used the search engines their geek friends recommended, which meant that the best search engine (Google) became the most popular. Now computers are better established, and people use the search engines that come bundled with their computer/browser or the ones they're used to using. It'll only be smart geeks (who don't click on ads) that try out new search engines (just like they're the only ones that try out new browsers, like Chrome).
OTOH some colleges are easer to get degrees from than others.
I'd be more impressed with a CS degree from MIT than pretty much anywhere else.
For starters you were no mug to accepted there in the first place. While there you would have benefited from interaction with a high achieving peer group.
And the teaching would probably be pretty good as well.
Actually if you were from MIT and you wanted to work for me I'd be wondering what's wrong with you!
Or cooperating with them. You will pull them, they will pull you.
Python has

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
You’re thinking of a W-2. The W-9 is what some U.S. companies (like Apple) have to create for bookkeeping purposes, when the government suspects the payment mechanism could be used to evade taxation. Since my company is a sole proprietorship without a payroll department, I wasn’t exempt from the W-9 deduction, so I needed to fill one out when I applied as a developer.
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I'm not as familiar with the Firefox extensions, but in Chrome all extensions are turned off by default in incognito mode -- only those extensions that you've explicitly enabled will be active in incognito mode. Furthermore, the docs for Chrome explicitly encourage developers to have their extensions whether the browser is running in incognito mode, and adapt appropriately.[1] So it seems likely a few of the top extensions using the various storage mechanisms (localStorage or otherwise) are already doing the right thing; it would be interesting to see an analysis of this, however.

[1] http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/trunk/overview.html...
Though the tests were conducted with Postgre, I suspect these results will be interesting to anyone running a database.

This is the sort of thing that causes me to inquire about the possibility of accessing external hardware from my VPS on Linode. VPS hosts should really consider offering SSD options for a premium, IMHO.
Anybody that plans a business on a mobile platform based on app sales should take note of this, even if it isn't there yet I really think that it is the future. We've already seen this movie before, and if google docs is possible on a desktop/laptop + serverfarm you really have to wonder how long it is going to take before history repeats itself and 'apps' will go the way of a large number of desktop applications that are now 'web-apps'.
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I have to agree with you.
Engineering efficiency always shows up especially when you are looking up things.

Search is a different business from entertainment and other things.

Right information at right time can truly change your life.
it would not be too hard to find out for yourself; google china wages rising...
Maybe no one if actively trying to build and get approval for them?

There are probably a few entities doing research, but I could not find any that actually had a schedule for submittion for approval.
It's a personal project of mine that I do during my freetime. I did everything by myself so I guess it's a project.
Coenzyme Q10 was brought up by my family doctor when we were talking about brain maintenance.
As a complement, here is an article about China university admission development program:

http://www.espacestemps.net/document8305.html

The context is clearly different, but the contrast seemed interesting.

An excerpt:

"The reasoning behind this decision was economic. The government reckoned that every million new graduates would raise China’s gdp by 2%. Not only did university graduates make skilled employees and attract higher incomes, but education itself was an engine of economic growth."
Computer games and marijuana also have a lot of the characteristics you mention.

Patterns of success and failure are a little different for businesses that provide value through entertainment.
A reduction of poverty is not the same thing as the elimination of poverty (and the debate re: the British Raj specifically seems to be more about whether it was disastrous or merely more or less a continuation of the Mughal era status quo, hardly an endorsement). India is much, much better off today than they would have been had colonialism continued. One of India's biggest and most successful economic transformations was in ending the Zamindars (landlords that were effectively feudal lords), that almost certainly wouldn't have happened under the Raj. Not to mention the severe down sides to exporting massive amounts of money overseas due to taxation and the innumerable issues related to being a second class citizen in your own homeland.
The hosting facilities where I have my servers would class this one as 'just another days work'.

Sites that are routinely targeted for blackmail because they make lots of money have dealing with attacks like this down to a science. Of course they're not going to go out of their way to advertise that it happens all the time to protect their business interests, so that's why you may not have heard about it.

Banks and other financial institutions, gambling sites, large porn sites, top 100 websites and sites that are either vulnerable to brand damage or that have a lot of turnover see an awful lot of this.

50Gbps is at most 50K zombies or so, that's really not that bad.

The largest attacks against sites that I know of used a million ips and more. That's a wholly different kettle of fish and starts to be a real problem because even hardware based packet filtering (Thanks force10!) has its limits.
That's pretty cool, especially if you go fullscreen in Chrome. I can really see the potential for a JavaScript demoscene here.
Paper ? It's possible to print binary data on paper now. I'm not sure at what 5TB would look like though. It's probably better to keep the data at hand and migrate it as the world and the technology evolve.
My life is in a text file. Org-mode FTW
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It's an interesting approach I've noticed in a certain kind of deployed-in-practice AI system--- rather than trying to solve the problem in an ideal correct sense (in the sense of statistics, decision theory, etc.), deploy systems that instead aim to just make sure the most obvious mistakes don't happen. The reasoning seems to be that if you keep people from making the 5 or 8 or 10 or whatever most common kinds of errors, you get a huge win for relatively little cost, whereas deploying a system that actually solves the problem fully is much harder. It also integrates more easily with the human decision processes--- a system that just says, "hey, have you thought of this pitfall?" is easier to get people to at least accept input from than a system that says, "AI has determined that the right answer is X".
"It takes a special sort of daring to provide a product that does so little."

I'm hanging on to this one. :)
"Why does this merit an article or a book?"

Most popular nonfiction books written nowadays can be summed up in a few sentences. So this example isn't really that unusual.

Blogs > books
It's not expected to be the same quality as the BBC app, it's a demo. More precisely a proof of concept. The message here is that if the BBC spent as much money making a high quality "mobile" html5 version of their site as they spent on the iPad app they would have just as good an end user experience with a lot fewer issues. For one you save all the money it takes to get an app into the app store (remembering that developer time and effort == money). For another you get the benefit of supporting more platforms instantly, iPad, iPhone, netbooks, android phones, etc.
Runs awful for me in Firefox, but looks and runs great in Chrome. Really impressive - I think this is the first 'pure HTML' demo I've seen that really sells me on what can be done with Canvas, <audio>, etc - it doesn't feel like a compromised or 'it's cool because it's in the browser' experience, it's a legitimate demo that stands on its own without even considering how it was made.
The economy is not a zero sum game. After all, the population of the United States was 92 million people in 1910, with vastly inferior technology and productivity. And yet, there are still jobs to go around, and things will improve.
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386 secondary connections. Impressive. Is there an API to access these infos?