skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The models certainly do enter into it if you want to predict what the consequences will be of having higher CO2 concentrations. Knowing that we belch a lot of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere may tell us the cause, but not the effect. That has to be done with modeling or educated guesses.
It is not google news but sites which aggregate search terms. A good example is www.eudict.com which repeatedly puts up other peoples' search terms as real words.

(If you are searching for some words, you are flooded with EUDicks search spam)
Poorly written article you didn't agree with is poorly written.
Are customer acquisition costs killing your software business?
OK, negotiate directly with Steve Jobs if you can afford to lose what's at stake, and then everyone else will seem easier by comparison.
You would not use tabs either if it took three seconds to open a new one.
You answered your own question- hire people from 'real' software companies where they ship to customers that can't afford several iterations and need their software to 'work' the first time around. With TDD it's not too hard to make sure that software 'works', while still playing around with clever approaches. You just need to make sure you're testing for every possible condition the customer might try.
ctrl-F2 and ctrl-F3

Did you try the Apple Magic Trackpad http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/ ?
This slideshow gives a mile-high overview of chef, which is at the core of opscode's services.

http://wiki.opscode.com/download/attachments/2883634/Chef-10...
It's not that risky. The most likely outcome is simply that the fiscally responsible states will be forced to bail California out.
I think it is extremely important to have at least one developer who has been a sysadmin in the past. One of my closest colleagues started his career as a sysadmin. At first I was a bit distrustful because he didn't have a lot of "real experience" or "education". But as I got to know him, I realized his sysadmin "spidey sense" was a godsend. He has a knack for knowing when things that should just work will in fact fall over. He also has a lot of deep OS and platform knowledge, so frequently when we would want to throw piles of code at something, he would suggest and OS tweak or similar to get the same end result.

So yeah, sysadmins on all development teams from the get-go are now a must in my book.
"It's a recession when someone you know loses their job. It's a depression when you lose your job."

True, U-6 and beyond unemployment, underemployment and just plain given up searching is so high (22% according to http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...) that we're seeing something akin to Great Depression levels. It's just that we're wealthier, have much greater safety nets (as I recall 40 million are on Food Stamps), we're more flexible, etc.

For that matter, our government is a lot better than in the Great Depression (Hoover/FDR), e.g. we aren't doing stark raving mad things like driving up food prices by destroying food and preventing planting when 1/4 of the nation is malnourished....
Neat! Did you use a templating system? And if so which one?
The EB-1 does not require a sponsors, as far as I understand.
They often just get refused service, even after paying way more.
As always, Thomas, I value your feedback even though I'm not going to take your advice. :-)

Just to set the record straight on one point, though:

Last I checked, you were consulting instead of full-timing Tarsnap.

Yes, I do consulting, but it's a very small fraction of my time. And honestly, I think what I learn from the consulting is worth far more than the money I get.
I see both sides of this.

On the one hand: I have subscription fatigue. I've reached a point at which I'm hestitating to use services because the number of current $10-$20 subscriptions I have no longer fits in L1 cache and it often isn't worth it to me to evict cache lines to figure out what I'm spending --- and so I bounce.

On the other hand, next to the cost of having employees, my rational brain knows I can't possibly be spending real dollars on these things. Put in perspective: every Matasano employee has an Amazon account for which they can buy any book they want ever --- we even have a rule that says "don't worry if someone else bought the book, if you want the book it's yours and you keep it and you can share if you want to but don't worry about it" so that people won't waste time coordinating books instead of just getting what they want and getting back to work. This policy, which we concluded won't cost us "real" money ever, is much more expensive than all my $10-$20 subs ever will be.

But the subscriptions "feel" more expensive.

The answer to the original poster's question is: these things cost $10-$20 because the people running the service feel like they will generate approx. $10-$20 worth of value, and those are the terms under which being in business to generate that kind of value makes sense. In many cases, if the service actually turns out to be worth $3/user, they'll shutter it and pick something better to work on.
In less urban areas where land is available, developers can easily build apartments--but in urban areas where land is unavailable, my theory was that students just increase demand on the existing housing market with supply less able to react.

Here in Pullman, Washington, student housing is cheap and readily available just because there's so much room to expand. There's always a wheat field you can turn into an apartment complex somewhere.
That's really a huge news. This is the first time I see a big american media company bringing such an offering apparently worldwide (correct me if I'm wrong). I mean it's working in Europe!! - Hulu, Netflix etc aren't. I think that's quite as important as the introduction of YouTube itself.
My mostly mouse-less OSX toolbox:

1. SizeUp, small window management tool with keyboard shortcuts

2. QuickSilver

3. Ctrl + tab

4. Things quickentry ctrl + alt + cmd + space (that one is actually very helpfull)
"Uniquely American." is the correct phrase I believe. Just an example of how out of touch the wealthy are from reality.
I think this is a good indication that the right to privacy is obsolete. If an investigator can hear a conversation you're having in your house using amplification technology, who needs a warrant?

The whole point of the right to privacy, as I understand it, is protection against over-zealous police forces enforcing unjust laws. If you're doing something in private, and it doesn't affect anyone, you should be allowed to do it, regardless of the law.

We need a right to anonymous private activity, regardless of where or how it takes place.
> That is what many climate warming deniers like to claim will happen. Doesn't have to be so, Sweden for instance has increased its wealth steadily while at the same time reduced its environmental impact.

It does actually have to be so, especially for developing nations like China and India. If they were forced to stop using even 20% of their coal plants it would devastate their growing economies. It would take thousands of Swedens and their (frankly) mediocre efforts to reduce their carbon footprints to offset China and India's contribution to global warming.

I think that's a point made in this article too, that even if we are destroying the planet that there really is very little we can do to stop it without encroaching on the human rights of every person on the planet.
This was one of the main topics of Orwell's 1984 as well as some of his essays.

If you restrict a language, you make it harder to think about certain topics. Making it impossible is far too strong a statement. Even very rudamentary languages can express virtually any concept. But it can certainly make it harder to think about those concepts, especially highly nuanced ones, with precise words fitted for it.

Mathematical history provides a good example of this. There is nothing you can express with Hindu-Arabic numerals that you cannot express with Roman numerals. Yet, the Hindu-Arabic numerals we vastly easier to work with and think about, and their importation into Europe facilitated mathematical development there.
The powers that be have to be optimistic. That is a prerequisite for growth. In fact, the real powers (CEO's and boards of the big corporations) are pessimistic, and therefore the economy is in danger of dying.

The whole thing is largely psychological. It's not like we actually have crumbling infrastructure that would be difficult to repair; it's just that the social structures (money, corporations, banks, government) we have in place are not properly arranged to spur allocation of wealth to new projects.

So I find all this naysaying essentially to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's entirely in our collective minds that we can't build enough for everyone to be prosperous. Naturally, it's a real problem, but when people say that specifically the stimulus money is "phony" it seems very myopic. It's all phony. The question is, how do we convince ourselves it's real, and how can we harness that?
I'm glad you're consulting. I hope you consult a lot more, so you'll come around to my way of thinking on the futility of advising generalist devs on writing crypto primitives. So look at it this way: if you'd stop running Tarsnap like a subsidized metered utility, you could hire someone to compensate for your weak spots.

It is, as Patrick will testify after many an evening conversation in Chicago, "all love" with you & me & these critiques. Your project should be epic by now, and it's driving me a little crazy.
Similar to what http://www.appsumo.com is doing. :)
The Little Schemer.
Whether you believe it or not, a large portion if not a majority of the nation believes the MSM is strongly biased to the left. If with a Democratic President and Congressional super-majority, something not seen since 1977, the reported news is this bad, they know it's truly bad.

Anyone who's old enough like me to remember the Carter years (1977-80) knows that it's bad (ADDED: especially those of us who remember how poor Carter's relationship with the media was).
What Does Your "About Us" Page Say About Your Startup?
Depends. Can I gzip it?
Where do you live?

Vancouver, Canada. (Well, Burnaby technically, but close enough.)

I want to get a coffee some time [...]

Sure! Let me know if/when you're ever in Vancouver.

If you have customers who value your service less than a cup of coffee, fire them.

I disagree. The money I get from Tarsnap's $0.01/month users is insignificant, obviously -- but they're worth many $/month for their willingness to proselytize. The utility pricing model is like the freemium model, except it weeds out the people who aren't willing to pay anything at all.
Rumors of 7-inch iPad persist; Apple parts with developer of tablets
Everyone who buys California state bonds (which are income tax exempt) is loaning the money. The interest rate California has had to pay to entice people to buy these increasingly riskier bonds, has increased accordingly as the state's financial condition has deteriorated. It is a risky deal, and buying CA state bonds to hold until maturity is basically a bet that the state will get bailed out by the federal government.
Malaysia is right up there! I am Malaysian and I am surprised. In 1993 I had to apply for a visa to visit France, which gave me the impression that it's difficult for Malaysians to travel. (I've only been to China since then.)
Your amazon policy is quite amazing. I figure that goes only for 'job related' books? Or any book at all?
It most certainly does if the government is paying them.
it's all in the code.

ask to see some large-scale code samples. if they can't provide any (which is understandable, as these are often the property of former employers; and a lot of people who lead real lives don't have a lot of spare time to work on open source projects), just see how they actually do on an actual, real, end-to-end project.

it doesn't even have to be terribly deep or complicated. but the main thing is, it should be VERY non-sexy. the unsexier, the better.

because that's what distinguishes the (supposedly) clever ones from the careful ones: they just don't have the patience or willingness to "sully" themselves for the sake of, you know, that "other 90%". particularly for something that just isn't all that cool, and that they can't get bragging rights for.

so you'll find that their stuff works, umm, "mostly." except for this or that (frequently and naturally occurring) corner case. and for all the extra manual housekeeping it requires. oh and that it also just tends to break. a lot. (to which they'll always be able to say, "oh, I'll just fix that"... for as long as they're around, that is.)

and for the fact that you'll just be able to see that everything's done in a slapdash, one-off way that's hard to read or generalize.

and I DON'T mean in the pragmatic, "worse is better" sense; but in the fricken' careless, "I'm too good for this gruntwork" sense.

ultimately the real distinction isn't clever v. careful; the smarter programmers, in my experience, are always, without exception, also the very careful ones.

it's more a distinction between those who talk -- and like to get credit for projects that are really collective efforts -- and those who simply do (and take pride and satisfaction in simply doing it very, very well.)
I was going to make my own reply, but as usual patio has succinctly made the point. So I'll give some examples of what $15 really means.

- I spent $18 a month on Netflix without a second thought.

- $15 is one less meal per month at Chipotle (for 2 people). I'd gladly give that up for a decent service

- Average cable bill in the US is probably $80+. Give that up and you not only waste less time, but can afford at least 6 of these services.

- Once you're out of college, you will GLADLY give up $15/month to save time. Time with family is precious and anytime I can spend a small amount of money to gain more time I consider it a win-win.

- Most middle class families probably spend more than $15/week at Starbucks alone.

- From a business standpoint, $2/user/month is simply not sustainable.
I have to agree with you whole-heartedly. I cannot believe that the sensationalist media and its continuing push to make this economy really in a recession. Yes, joblessness is up. Yes, credit is getting harder to come by.

I don't think you can honestly find 8 out of 10 people that have been affected enough by this past year or two to honestly say their spending habits is one of someone in a recession. Restaurants are still full on the weekends; amusement parks are still busy with tourists. I just don't get it.

Though this is coming from someone who still has a steady job and is not in financial problems due to the current state of the economy.

edit: finishing thought.
It's perfectly legal to enter the U.S. for business reasons, including meetings, conferences or even to raise funding. You're not allowed to become employed by a U.S. corporation, but you can certainly consult for them and do on-site work. I'm a Brit, and I've done all of the above several times under the VWP without border control even batting an eyelid.
i like how the 2nd graph is totally wrong: those numbers aren't in billions, but in millions. i guess no one understands how to read graphs anymore
True, but most developers aren't writing code that attempts to bypass Kernel Patch Protection[0]

[0]http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/kernel/64bitpatch_FAQ.m...
I ran the numbers a while ago on using Tarsnap for our business and it's not as cheap as you make it out to be.
For Canadians, there's also TN-1 visa, which is a simplified way to get a work permit for a year. It has limitations compared to H1-B in terms of occupations, but it is much simpler to get. You need to have a letter from the company stating that they intend to employ you.

Now, how that relates to startups and whether your own corporation can sponsor you - I honestly do not know.
How to save money running a startup
To the extent any of this is true, it's probably no more eggs than most people would break in the making of a 500 million person omelette.
Sure, if you think you can get binary data across the Twitter api. Otherwise you'd have to base64 encode it :D
I'd recommend waiting for a beta, it was quite unusable for me.
As a foreigner, this is like bizarre fiction.

* Arnold Schwarzenegger, a former bodybuilder champion now politician
* Governor of nearly bankrupt California
* A state scammed out of 40 to 50bn by Enron and pals
* AS career was supported by Enron (from Forbes)
* Writing an opinion column on Fox owned WSJ against state pensions

My sympathies to all californians. The world owes you so much.
> except it weeds out the people who aren't willing to pay anything at all.

And those with just too much data and too little budget :)
Considering the time most of us spend on a computer, the cost differences between a Mac and a PC are negligible over the lifetime of the purchase, people should use what they prefer and what they're most productive with.

A $300 to $500 difference over two or three years of primary usage is probably a difference of pennies per hour of usage, and that's assuming that you won't waste more time maintaining a Windows or Linux install and that you're equally productive on each OS, which generally isn't the case.
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"- Brazil is a third world country.

- labor is dirt cheap"

Land is as well, which is why Americans are moving down there, buying up land, and going for it:

http://politics.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2008/06/25/am...
Where's the source of the 2nd graph being wrong? It's labeled as billions and the article mentions "This year, retirement benefits—more than $6 billion—will exceed what the state is spending on higher education."

That statement is in agreement with the graph.
This doesn't allow us to work in the US. We still don't have working visas, and we spend most of our time back in Australia, coming and going from the US on Visa Waiver for meetings etc.
Yes, but I was comparing against freemium models, and people with lots of data and little money would need to use (and wouldn't be able to afford) the "premium" side of "freemium".
Inheritance, Part 2 (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Parents)
Yeah I knew it would be bonds, just seemed like a risky proposition. I guess any responsible economic action here isn't going to be popular so it's not going to happen?

Hypothetically what would happen if the state decided to reform these pensions, slashing them right back to something they could realistically afford?
About 25 years ago in California, Orange Country went bankrupt and public employees had to do "give backs" of (if I remember correctly) about 1/2 of their retirement funds and other concessions.

I think that this will be the model for the future, but a state levels.

It may not seem fair to change the rules on public employees, but effectively the rules have changed for private employees because the economy at federal, state, local, and personal levels will keep getting worse.

When I was younger, I worked with techs working for the federal government and they received much lower salary, but a retirement. Now, they tend to make equivalent salaries and have more job security. I am as disgusted with unions lobbying Congress as I am with corporate lobbyists.
But your private property isn't necessarily protected. For example, police don't need a warrant to fly a helicopter 50 feet above your fenced in back yard while they're searching for marijuana plants. The court says they're in the common airspace and you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in the common airspace.

Similarly, if your car is sitting in the driveway you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in your car--everyone can see it; everyone knows where it is. Presumably the police could not sneak into your locked garage and plant a tracker. Presumably.

The jurisprudence gets a bit tricky when you start talking about what's inside your house. See-through-wall heat guns, for example, are not allowed without a warrant because the home is the paramount protected place under the 4th Amendment.
GM crops only lack taste if they are designed with other goals in mind. For example, the McGregor tomatoes are infamous for looking great, having a long shelf life, and tasting like cardboard. I think it's possible to have a high-yield crop that tastes good, if the market can convince the growers (who convince the labs) that it's important.
Can someone confirm that indeed 80 cents of every tax dollar goes to pensions?
Well ... let me just comment that it's long nasty times like this that force the reallocation of capital to areas that can use it. It's particularly long and nasty when the bubble is leverage based (as compared to the dot.com crash which did no lasting direct damage), since deleveraging is so painful and dangerous.

The real trick is to negotiate the crisis. Spain didn't and they've been poor for centuries. I don't think the Japanese did and I suspect they truly are dying (in a very literal sense, I will be surprised if they still exist as a nation by the end of this century and demographically there well be none left by the end of the next).

The Netherlands managed (don't know that history well). Great Brittan may have depending on how you score it, as I recall it took 100 years.... We did, but it took WWII to pull us out of our tailspin; who knows what would have happened without that?
I really dislike the fake and pretentious "politically correct" style that refers to anonymous people in typically male-dominated occupations (in this case, management) with feminine grammatical person (she), to "balance" things. It is simply dishonest and implies to me that the professional honesty of the speaker is, at least, questionnable.
Adam Leventhal: The future of Solaris
(2008) WSJ Editor's Resignation Is Criticized By Committee

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120949530982953531.html
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