skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oracle sues Google over Android:  What's up with That?
Those scribd pages with ads are really annoying. This is much better - http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/carmack/plan.html
It is often recognized as bad design - though I don't think that's always fair. I thought of this because I was just reading some Java code that passed around a context object with all kinds of random things stuffed into it. It was, in effect, a way of simulating dynamic scope. There's a time and a place for everything. I'm sure dynamic scope can be horribly abused, but it's also nice to have in the toolbox for when you actually need to do what it does.
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Ask about grad students at a good local college.
>Happiness comes from inside, not outside.

Unless of course it's your perspective to believe otherwise. ;)
If/when we achieve negligible senescence, and the social order becomes frozen, it might become pretty important to find oneself at the top of the heap.
About two years ago, spam and abuse were firmly among Justin.tv's biggest problems. It turned out the worst offenders were using tor for all network traffic. Unfortunately just configuring all of our servers to reject traffic from tor was by far the biggest bang-for-buck thing we did to kill the abuse.

If there's a better way, I'd love to know about it.
I don't know where you are, but one thing I'm noticing a lot of in this part of the world (Southern Ontario) is local, outsourced IT companies. GeekSquad, sort of, but independent generalists. You can help people figure out their desktop computers, and put together a small website for them and maybe program their phone system, etc. Any small business has a ton of tasks they could benefit from having a 'digital handy person' type of role.

So you could start one yourself, or look to the ones that already exist to see if they're hiring. Being a generalist, having experience with a lot of different disciplines, being self-taught those are all desirable qualities.

I also think that generalists make for good community managers, especially with a bit of experience developing and support. You're able to translate well and understand both the community's point of view and that of the developers.

With a few years of technical experience, if your resume isn't opening doors - for either experienced or entry level positions - I think it's worth considering some extra help. Consider a resume expert or consultant. Requires money outlay, so possibly hard to justify but you might be able to fake it out a bit by working with recruiters and getting their feedback. It is subpar, but free.

Google for 'Let's All Find Awesome Jobs', it's a cheap digital book that has a ton of great advice.
Without trying to sound like an absolute ass, this article shows EXACTLY why most of the founders of the biggest empires and hottest startups are in fact men. I say MOST as I'm sure there are many women as well, but clearly they are overshadowed by men in this case.
and the solution is, 99.999% of people don't care.
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this is the only way to make an ipad useful :p
I am happy to not see Ruby represented here.
15 people seems like a rather small sample size, but still... looking through the study I don't see any obvious problems with it. Good to know if I ever get any pain in my joints.
What First-Person Shooter Creators Think About Subscriptions
Designing UI is like cleaning
Understood...

It was still not very convincing for the time length though. We are not talking of Verizon getting a phone a few months earlier but a full year.

At that point most chips are not even out yet, nor is the Android OS, etc... 18 months before release seems WAY too long.
Companies would be afraid of the whims of Oracle. I honestly believe that most individuals would trust Microsoft over Oracle. Microsoft is no longer a huge evil empire. Their goal is to augment their bottom line, and in the case of the .NET framework, their goals and yours would align.

Additionally, the languages in the JVM are not better. Anyone who has used C# can tell you that Microsoft did an extremely good job designing that language. It can almost be stated that C# is hands down better than Java as a language (its dependency on Microsoft products aside).

Also, what do you mean by "languages" as a plural? The other JVM based language are free of Oracle's control. If they wanted, they could use IcedTea, so Java's really the only platform at stake here.
In my experience, startup founders who want to get rich want it more in order to have the freedom to work on what they want than to impress people.

That could be because we prefer startups whose founders include hackers. On the other hand, we don't just prefer that type because they're more fun to hang around with, but because in our opinion they're more likely to succeed.
In my experience there is no direct correlation between a developer being good or bad based on whether they had a degree or not. However, what I did find was that someone who had completed their undergrad is generally capable of thinking at a higher level and can work through harder problems. IMHO, a University shouldn't be about training students to go into the workforce but to teach them how to effectively think and solve problems, regardless of discipline.
Your viewpoint seems to be that those who do care must be have a malicious intent. I don't and I know of many others who don't. So you are ranting into nirvana, really.
I think one has to realize that being strong does not equate directly to having large muscles. Lifting heavy weights allows you to life heavier weights over time.

I think I would rather have the benefits of being strong, rather than just having large muscles
If at least ZFS can be salvaged from the wreck...
Not sure what your point is. How many users does a non profit service need before it's no longer niche and worth pursuing? Even if Tor only had 100 users who were safer for it, I'd say it was worth it.
Or, more importantly, something light hundreds of times. Way way harder to ever reach muscle failure with a really light weight.
The problem with "Don't be evil" is that it's subjective. Google isn't a hardcore idealist because people that refuse to cooperate unless all of their demands are met never really get anywhere (see RMS). Compromise is a fact of life for everyone. Principles shouldn't be compromised, and you have to draw the line, but you also have to cooperate with people who have a different perspective than yourself.

I don't see either censorship in China or the net neutrality proposal (which I don't know much about) as bonafide "evil". You may disagree, but it's hard to say that they are evil or done with evil intent.

Oracle, on the other hand, is pretty easy to call evil because they act out of cruel self-interest practically exclusively. Oracle is always taking cheap shots.
Exactly. Reading a comment right next to yours, "Are lower expectations supposed to be a good thing?". It's become ingrained in Western and especially American culture that money is one of if not the most important measure for judging success. We don't all see each others paychecks and bank account balances, so this manifests in various ways from wanting prestige jobs to conspicuous consumption

People need to ask themselves - what do I want out of life? What are my personal measures for success, that I can explain and justify to myself based on my beliefs. Instead almost everyone simply avoids thinking on that level and instead absorbs and adopts the measurements promoted by society

It's not that making money is bad. It's that far too many people blindly focus on making and spending money without considering the amount of time and sanity and other opportunities for living that's being consumed by their consumerism
Yeah, but you don't have to be a super rich billionaire for that.
Yay! Thank you for saying that. All the armchair grammarians in Twitter-land tut-tutting over this has been bugging me but I couldn't put it as eloquently as you have. Nice job.
Highlights from Emerging Languages Camp
Encrypted Search / Google is no slower, in my experience
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/search-more-securely-with-encrypted.html

I know there has been a lot of chatter about whether encrypting the entire Internet would make things slower.

In my experience, using a 2.9 GHz machine over medium-speed unencrypted wireless connection, SSL for Gmail and Search doesn't seem to be any slower at all. And I have the confidence that only the big boys can spy on me or introduce redirections ("302")
If this would be OK then HN would lose most of its users. :)))
Don't be silly. She wrote that her friend, "could easily bring in a low six-figure income"

If you save wisely, you can retire just fine after a career at a tech company making 2-3x the US median salary. And most companies have good health coverage for the cancer.

She is talking about the pressure to make $10M or more through a startup, not getting the money to retire comfortably.
Thoughts:

* split test your font and colour usage. A lot. I'm pretty sure the green/orange combo is going to hurt your conversion rate

* The black box around the YouTube thing is kinda fuzzy. Crisp is good

* The social element seems slightly random. There seems to be too much latitude for it to get spammed. Maybe feature blogs, instead of posts? Or aim to be the flip side to Kickstarter - I've made something (book, blog, album, book of poetry), enjoy it and then pay me

* Share the love - you're focusing on the wrong thing - people aren't going to share stuff they love in large numbers; content creators will share there own stuff. So if you're appealing to the masses, then it needs to be about supporting the stuff you love. If it's geared towards sharing, what's this got that Twitter/Digg/Fb hasn't got for promotional purposes? Split test the messaging

I don't mean to put a downer on it, just trying to pick it apart a little so you can make sure it works as best as possible.
Fact check. From the study mentioned. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ipad-kindle-reading.html

"The iPad measured at 6.2% lower reading speed than the printed book, whereas the Kindle measured at 10.7% slower than print. However, the difference between the two devices was not statistically significant because of the data's fairly high variability.
Thus, the only fair conclusion is that we can't say for sure which device offers the fastest reading speed. In any case, the difference would be so small that it wouldn't be a reason to buy one over the other."

Also, that study wound up being based on 24 subjects reading for about 17 minutes. Hardly a comprehensive test.

Really it comes down to personal preference.
Didn't Quake: Enemy Territory have megatextures for the maps? Is that iD Tech 5?
A standard multiple for consulting shops is 3.15. As in, bill your contractors out at 3.15X what you pay them. Anything lower and you won't be able to keep up with overhead.

It sounds like they're doing that with this guy, so he probably won't be able to get much more out of them.
Posterous is being DDoS'd
OpenSolaris was dead long ago, this only opened the eyes to the people optimistic that things will change and there will be a future OpenSolaris release.

"We will determine a simple, cost-effective means of getting enterprise users of prior OpenSolaris binary releases to migrate to S11 Express." -- Says enough.

"We will continue to grow a vibrant developer and system administrator community for Solaris." -- I really wonder how.
it is very well accepted that low rep/heavy weight sets build muscle/strength vs. high reps/lower weights.

the sample set is small to suggest anything empirical and to challenge the set notion that i just described above ..

a nice read on the role of lactic acid w.r.t. muscles:

http://www.csmngt.com/lactic_acid.htm
I think it's about the freedom to work on what you want mixed in with the ambition to build something great. I care more that what I am building makes an impact on people and businesses than if I get super rich, but they usually go hand in hand.
I feel the author really meant that it's ok not to be obscenely rich.

Of course having a sizeable amount of savings is important for all the things you described. Yet the "low six-figures" income of her first example is probably largely sufficient to handle these.
I think it's important to remember though that in most countries freedom of speech explicitly excludes stuff like hate speech.
Flattr is Swedish, so I'm guessing English isn't the copy writer's native language either.
The video of implementing Conway's Game of Life in APL is awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
It seems as though licenses these days, to be truly free, should contain a clause giving up all rights to patent claims against said code.
I cannot say much about people who don't show themselves and seem to not exist. Or who may be high skilled but where I cannot see the code. Isn't it always like this that if we evaluate someone as very good or even being one of the best that we mean of all people we know and where we can evaluate the skills?

The best way I can rate someones skills is by reading his code. Just seeing the result makes it much harder to evaluate how intelligently it was written. Small exceptions are graphic engines which can do stuff which was never possible before in such a radical new way -- Carmack also did this a few times but in most cases, the code was also released a few years later. (Only exception I know was Commander Keen. But it was obvious that he introduced something very clever and new here. And it was also not unknown how he did it after those games were released.)
pick up two 3 lb weights and hold tem out in front of you with your arms straight and perpendicular to the ground. You'll reach muscle failure pretty quick
higher reps help in cardiovascular endurance. on the other hand, heavy weights/ low reps is much more of an effective stimulus for the body to produce HGH.
If you're an ectomorph like myself, this is good news. I think I'm going to change my lifting routine to 20 reps and work more on good form.
Here's my fave: http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...
An interesting article that talks about an entire nation's views on marriage, status, and success is: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2010-06/25/content_1001855...

It is so ingrained that one of the women described her marital vision: "I'd rather be miserable sitting in a BMW than be happy riding a bicycle."

It's no surprise that an extension of this is that the most desirable man, and bachelor, in China is the founder of Baidu, the largest search engine in China, due to his wealth.
Yeah
My coach told me this ~25 years ago:
- "low rep/heavy weight" if you want to look strong
- "lighter weights/higher reps" if you want to get fit
I suppose we could look at this from an external perspective and actually see some good: Deprecating the subjunctive makes English easier to learn for non-native speakers.
this is a fantastic resource - been doing some research to build my own business plan
My original point was that I don't understand the stratgey of pandering to a very small niche market, that is notoriously impossible to monetize (see Reddit).

Anyway, seems my views are falling on deaf ears.
Having never used OpenSolaris this is no hardship for me. However, it's looking like Oracle is a company that is quite hostile to open source, so this also raises concerns for what will happen to the likes of OpenOffice and VirtualBox. In general it also raises questions about the wisdom of open source developers assigning their copyrights over to a particular company, who may subsequently choose to betray their generosity. If I'd made significant contributions to OpenSolaris I'd probably be feeling as sick as a parrot right now.
There's a difference between "getting rich" enough to be able to retire and handle health issues and building an empire.

All of the possibilities you mention are much more likely to be handled by
a) Good budgeting
b) A solid career as an employee or an independent contractor

The reason to start your own business is because you want the challenge, and the satisfaction of building something important.

If you have a desperate need to have a few million in the bank, your best shot is to to get a good job, learn about investment, and start living cheaply.
Cloud Computing adoption among SMBs - Some figures
I'm curious. How come no one claim APL being expressive?
1. Are you claiming there are millions of spammers sending 10 each? If so, your definition is different from Twitter's. If it's just a future worry I'm going to cross that bridge when we get to it.

2. I don't know if it's easier, but it's certainly not easy. Otherwise gmail and twitter wouldn't have spam anymore. It's easy for spammers to pretend to be somebody else. Get a new username, a new IP address, forge headers.

Even if it's only 10 spammers, Twitter can't see that. What they see are a million different spammers. So they already have to deal with the problem you claim is harder.
New Demographics for Mechanical Turk
for an easy install, use the PCBSD installer (all graphical). Choose to install just vanilla FreeBSD and format your primary disk as ZFS
For the love of Money - Thanks OJay's. Thanks again Trump

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll3uipTO-4A
I think the author meant to depict what happened to him and not necessarily what's his take on life.
To be honest, there's no such thing as muscle toning. Lower weight at higher reps won't do this. Muscles respond to resistance, and you need to consistently and constantly increase that resistance if you want to get larger/stronger.

This is why all of the abdominal infomercials you see are bogus.
Neither has given me anything that I didn't pay for, either directly or indirectly.

That's not strictly true. I would argue that Google provides a greater amount of consumer surplus than Oracle. Consumer surplus pretty much amounts to value you obtain from a product or service that the producer can't capture in the price.
Why is that? Isn't ZFS part of Solaris? Or at least has the same licensing restriction as OpenSolaris?
Trust your data, not your gut
Ask HN: Selling an iPhone application
I am currently bootstrapping a startup and have primarily been using an iPhone application to fund myself, but currently we need a serious investment to get going - and I'm considering selling the application.

I've got no real reason to hide any details, the application is Spit a.k.a. Speed, which is a multiplayer (non-turn based) card game available on iPhone/iPad. Its pretty much been earning a solid $60/day for the eight months.

Recently I released a patch to it which seems to have a bug I have been unable to reproduce. I feel if this was fixed and/or application improved (tbh there a lot of flaws) it could boost the income - but I quite simply don't have the time to do it.

The actual experiment was a learning experience (first time) in Objective-C / Mac so the source isn't very good - but it is reasonable.

I'm basically looking for estimated price (full income is available on request) or a place where I can sell it effectively

Any suggestions?
I still can't believe that 53% of Indian users have (or claim to have) bachelors degrees and 26% graduate degrees. I guess it's becoming viable. Also interesting would be these numbers for Fiverr.com
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What term of the GPL or other OpenJDK distribution would require them to use the whole thing?

Adding a few lines, or even just saying "we peeked at OpenJDK as a model, so Dalvik is a derivative work" means they'd be relying on the OpenJDK's GPL, and relicensing Dalvik as GPL as well. At that point, OpenJDK patent grants (either explicit or implied) could make further alleged infringement moot.
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Being rich is a sufficient, but not necessary condition for relative economic security in a developed country. It's perfectly OK to pay for your retirement and provide for your lovely wife by taking a standard career path from one salaried job to another.

You don't need to start a company to have enough money to retire. And of course if you choose to start a company you're trading increased likelihood of being severely short of funds at some stage in the short term for the possibility of being rich later in life.

How many founders on here can honestly say their main motivation is maximising their chances of survival in old age?
Much as I hate to say it, seems like this ought to be a facebook app. One of the problems with our family address book is keeping the addresses up to date, and moving that responsibility out to the people in the book would be a win. Of course you app would still let you enter in people who aren't on facebook or aren't in the app, and there is still the private aspect. Tags shouldn't be public unless you want them to be.

Biggest problem there is that if you're successful, Facebook will probably preempt you.
I agree with Schmidt that our privacy is our own responsibility. That's why I am switching my search engine to DuckDuckGo and whitelisting JS and cookies in my browser to the bare minimum.

Thanks Eric!
Is there any possibility of inspecting the code beforehand? I've seen some pretty atrocious code on the iphone.
I think he's referring to how he can use this incident to brag about how he's right with his views on open-source-but-not-really-free stuff.
Ectomorph
Mesomorph
Endomorph
This one especially bothers me:

"11. I had a long list of emails that were not separated by commas. I had the
VA “clean it up” so that the emails were separated by commas."

... this is achievable in so many ways without resorting to a virtual assistant that it's counter-productive to assign the task, not to mention that even in the Phillippines, grep is cheaper.
Money they make (through ads) by having Google as the default search engine
The "French language" may follow, but the Quebecois sure don't... (so, yes, French has exactly the same issue).
Both algo and paid results at Yahoo! are still powered by Yahoo!

We have a deal to transition both of them to be powered by Bing. It is still in testing. Algo results _in US_ are planned to transition in the Fall. Other countries will follow after.

Paid results are planned to be transitioned in 2011
And be much less likely to injure yourself than trying to do three sets of military presses with heavy weights. It just requires a different type of exercise, I wouldn't want to do 300 curls with light weights either. I can reach muscle fatigue with some seemingly simple yoga exercises very quickly.
The path to starting a successful business is littered with advice like this. It's certainly not easy, and the price is typically high (relationships, time, health...) especially when starting from nothing. But from observation, it's obvious that for those who do make it, failure is not "okay."
i think the more correct statement would be: there's no way to spot reduce fat. that's the reason most ab informercials are bogus. You'll see the abs if the overall body fat percentage is low.

When i say toning, i mean aerobic exercises to lower body fat and weight training to firm up muscles. maybe i put it incorrectly in the original post.

this is a nice read:
http://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/Myths.html