skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trade unions are devastating to the people they're supposedly working for. I know here in Ontario, in the middle of a recession the Teacher's Union was fighting like hell to get a strike going in the midst of the government funding reeducation programs for the recently laid off. It was stupid, most of the teachers were worried about supporting themselves because the college and university association wasn't budging.

Unions make themselves relevant by always pushing for a strike. If a union doesn't strike, people stop caring about going union in trades where it isn't mandatory. The careers where unionization is essentially mandatory should be seriously be overhauled (IIRC crane operators is one here where unionization is mandatory).
Here on a startup site, how many of us have purchased domains to start a company? A lot of people here bootstrap their own businesses, which often can't make any money before they own a domain and put their site up. In that case, 1000 dollars is a lot.
He misspelled "Simple" and "Traversal" in prewritten text (when defining STUN and TURN).

I find a good indication that someone who doesn't understand something is they spend a lot of time defining acronyms.
I would pay not to get on that list.
"High taxes and expensive social programs seem to work in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, ..."

Give them time. Talk to people in those countries. It's very difficult to find a job right now in any of those countries.

Not to mention the fact that 70%+ of our monthly income goes to the government (which means less freedom and choices for you).
Create a community - I'm sure if you created a separate section for people who would love to call your customers (and maybe even make a couple bucks), it would be therapeutic for them as well:)

Pricing?
would this be a good place for me to complain that San Francisco, home to Gavin Newsom's green initiative, just charged me over $150 for a permit to replace my old windows with energy efficient windows?

sorry for the diversion, just needed to let that out.
"That concerns me about having private parties in private homes (pretty typical use case)"

I'd be interested in finding out how they calculated popularity in this case. How many parties and how well-attended would they have to be in order to automatically make a home a public place?
Modern landfills can actually be used as an energy source to some extent:

"More recently, it has been recognized that this landfill gas represents a usable energy source. The methane can be extracted from the gas and used as fuel. In the North Wake County Landfill, a company collects the landfill gas, extracts the methane, and sells it to a nearby chemical company to power its boilers."

From http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science...
What could Asus really do to make a netbook better? This is a problem of working within the constraints of x86/Windows. They can't make them faster because they're relying on Intel for parts. They can't do a whole lot on the software side because they're relying on Microsoft for software. I know they blamed the iPad for poor sales but I think it has more to do with better competition from Dell, HP and overall saturation of the market. One thing that is always overlooked with netbooks is that they are a usability nightmare for a lot of people with the small keyboards, postage stamp sized touchpads, and super tiny text on a small high resolution display. Those people don't want netbooks.
I'm still wondering how all of this location based talk even arose between Gowalla and FourSquare...I feel bad for BrightKite, which was around at least a year before these two.
Can you keep a Zebra as a pet in the US?
> I know a lot of people that hate SUVs because they can't see around the damn things which makes driving more hazardous.

Not to mention how much worse it would be to end up in an accident with one of them.
What always amazes me on reddit is how Imgur has seemingly convinced the entire community that it is some sort of friendly not-for-profit. Having talked with someone who runs a much smaller image hosting service, they are usually quite profitable and I'm sure Alan Schaaf is bringing home a healthy paycheck.

And good for him, by the way. I appreciate Imgur's simple interface. I do however wonder how much the reddit community (which seems violently anti-capitalist anymore) will stand behind him as they come to the realization that he's likely making a fair amount of money on the site. Maybe even more money than reddit. ;-)
epub version:

http://github.com/downloads/ieure/sicp/sicp.epub
These comments are probably true. And I say this from experience having worked at a large corporation for the last 6 years. Yes it might be one or two guys writing negative comments but it'll also be someone who has been really wronged and cannot let go of the pain. But you can believe that there would have been others who were also wronged during this guys tenure who are just too meek (as we engineers usually are) to say it out in public.

Reasons why its probably true:

A) The comments by themselves would not have been enough to fire the guy. There must have been enough complaints by their own staff. In my corporation we managed to get our manager fired in the same way. Everyone complained to HR. Though it took like a year. This guy actually had me on "communications performance plan". It was right out of dilbert.

B) Its very very difficult to be a good manager.

This is because its easier to play the political game than it is to actually be a leader with morals, the technical chops and great communication/relationship skills. So most people just kiss ass and shit on their reports and climb up the ladder.

The higher you go in a corporation the harder it is to be a good manager. Because the amount of communiction/relationship/leadership skills necessary really rises exponentially rather than linerally. I say this from my experience of having worked in one corporation for 6.5 years. I have had MANY managers but only one good manager.

C) Sucky indian managers (selection bias). But yes there are many.

Now, I'm indian but I have to say that most indians SUCK at being managers (I've been a sucky indian manager myself :) . I've tried to figure out why and the only ponits I can think of are :

1. In tech companies there are a lot of indians and therefore a lot of
indian managers.

2. Most managers suck at what they do. This because to be a good manager you have to be able to lead your employees but also be able to take orders from your own manager. Also you never get real world "practice" before your stuck into the role.

3. An indian on a H1-B is going to try harder to keep his job than one that doesnt and I think thats why they do downright deceitful things to look good to their own managers. Ie they become hardline task masters.

I've known quite a few bad indian managers. Infact if I get an indian manager the first thing I'll do that day is start looking for another job. The manager might turn out okay but I'm that disillusioned with them. Especially new ones.

PS: At the end of it all I did change. :) I got really huge pay increases for my best engineers and saved 1 from getting fired.
At the rendering level Postscript and PDF are similar, but Postscript is a complete language. You could send semantically structured content and do appropriate layout on the client device all from inside Postscript.

You'd probably want to write in some other language or tool and use Postscript as an object language, like in the day of printers.

The huge difference is that the evolution of the media would be in the hands of the content creators, not the browser writers/choosers.

I would try this fork of the multiverse.
Surprised this didn't mention the Kodak DC290, which was a pretty big deal in it's day (about 10 years ago). It had the ability to develop apps for it. Of course, with no wifi and limited processing power, you weren't going to get rich on a camera app, but there were a few cool add-ons.
I don't like the iPhone signature. It's blatantly dishonest.
I don't know, a lot of those aren't really the fault of baby boomers. It's more just government subsidies in these specific areas, which end up distorting prices and incentivizing certain behaviours. The Federal Government provides loans and subsidies for healthcare, education, housing and defense spending, so it shouldn't be a surprise that you end up with massive increases in house prices, tuition, healthcare and war costs.

Speaking as a 28 year who has not yet "grown up" (as defined by the nytimes), I think those of us who find ourselves in this situation shouldn't seek to blame anyone else, least of all the baby boomers. We should remember the good things that the baby boom generation in America has done, like:

- protesting the Vietnam war, which was started and heavily supported by the "greatest generation"

- pushing for Civil Rights legislation in the U.S. for women and minorities

- creating greater awareness of environmental problems, and spreading the belief that we must be proper stewards of our planet, not only for own survival but also for future generations

- developing the computer hardware, software and telecommunications industries, which has made an incredibly positive change in the lives of billions (including all of us here who have these advancements to thank for our livelihood)
If they could even design a model with a bigger keyboard and a screen that took up less than the available space to keep the price low, they might get fat fingered people like myself to consider one.

I don't necessarily mind the small screen, but the keyboard size keeps me from seriously considering a netbook.
I want to do it for a family member.
Why don't you just book any capital injection as a loan to the company which needs to be paid back at nominal interest at some point in the future? Nothing shady about that.
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't -- Robert Benchley
Gabriel's Horn
That would be the case at any bureaucracy, public or private.
I think the design is gentle on the eyes. The dark is relaxing and then the gray text contrasts so that you can see it clearly, at the same time not contrasting too much as to blind you.
Put a form in your page for people to contact you. No email. Don't make me open my e-mail client just to get in touch with you, make it easy.
I too have my doubts about reverse engineering the brain. As I see it regardless of whether the Singularity arises or not this century will achieve a rate of progress which is incomparable to anything we have ever seen before. To get this in perspective just consider that in the nineteenth century more technological breakthroughs were made than in all of the nine centuries preceding it. Then in the first twenty years of the twentieth century, we saw more advancement than in all of the nineteenth century combined. In this century we will achieve 1000 times more than we achieved in the whole 20th century which was itself a period of progress never before seen. Whether we reverse engineer the brain or not the merging of human and machine intelligence is an inevitability because you only need to look at how attached we are to our iPhones and Blackberry’s to realise that we will ultimately be unable to resist moving increased processing capability directly inside the body. The consequence of that is massively increased capability whatever way you look at it.
I just don't let any of that crap get into my email, personally. Facebook, Twitter, and other low-priority sites I check on a case-by-case pull basis--I don't need to be notified if something happens on those sites, because if it's really important the person can email me themselves and if it isn't important it can wait until I have time to waste.
If this takes off, how long before the "you suck" phone call service is launched?
So, I'd be happy to buy this (for a family member), but I can't tell when you'll call, and I can't tell how I get it to stop once I do buy it. Every day for a month is gonna be a bit much; by the end of it, they might be willing to pay to stop it.

Also, some kind of sample recording would be great. Is it gonna be cheezy? Cheeky? I'd like to know.
Why a Website?
BizLegal, a division of Businessentials, Inc., is a leader in website design and development for the legal industry. We offer a wide selection of low priced, high-end and professional web site designs, branding and marketing collaterals, hosting and Internet marketing packages for attorneys and legal offices
Couldn't you hang the device on a lanyard around your neck?
Hiring  Need a Sr Search Engineer
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Topsy is looking for a few really good people. Topsy is well-funded, and works out of 3 secret bunkers in San Francisco’s South of Market district. If you are impressively good at what you do and intensely eager to do it, this will be the place for you.

Do you have the skills, focus and knowledge to write a modern operating system from scratch? Or a petabyte scale db?

Topsy’s technology stack is an implementation of some of the most exciting ideas in information retrieval today: schemalessness, idempotence, reification, efficiently distributed graphs, higher order search, attention currencies and distributed architecture for processing real-time datasets. You will be part of the small team that is responsible for scale and evolution of Topsy’s core platform technologies.

Responsibilities:

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And ironically, that's why most people use them . . .
Love the idea. The website needs work though - it has a creepy 'designed in 1996' vibe.

I signed up, why not?
I totally see why this is a fear. But actually I don't see a feature like this causing these kind of problems. How is it any different than receiving a text when you are busy or running into someone you know when you don't have time to chat. Everyone has times when they are busy and everyone has times when they aren't busy and want to be social.
You're perhaps over-thinking your situation.

Putting your money where your mouth is will help outsiders take you seriously. Starting a business with your own money is the least shady thing you could possibly do.
Sounds like they're doing this to avoid being totally overthrown by the incumbent. They're picking the better of 2 bad situations.
Company hires a new senior manager.

All the engineers that report to him start to leave.

The company decides the manager is the problem.

The company actaully fires the manager instead of blaming the engineers!!!!!
People will be corrected when they use words improperly. There is a legal definition, and it's an important distinction.
I built something similar to this awhile back: http://www.awesomeupdater.com/

I think telling people they are awesome is a great idea. I agree that the website needs work. I like the charging for real people to do it.
That was a fun hack. When i originally launched it - it proxied all the updates through the users accounts. ;) needless the users were like "wtf." heh. I removed that feature
B) Its very very difficult to be a good manager.
This is because its easier to play the political game than it is to actually
be a leader with morals, the technical chops and great
communication/relationship skills.

Unfortunately, at most companies, if you don't play the political game, your career is screwed, too. I managed a team at a company and focused on what was best for my team and the product they were building. I managed to become the single-most hated person in the "division."

It was made worse by my passive-aggressive boss. I live by the philosophy "if you don't ask, you won't get anything", and he constantly said "yes" (to mostly reasonable requests). At the same time, when I had issues with employees (one guy who needed to be fired for complete incompetence), he wouldn't back me up on the actions that needed to be taken. Of course, rank and file only hears the "wronged employee's" side of the story.

Sorry, I'll stop ranting now.

TL;DR: Stay away from management in big companies. You can have your soul or success, but very, very rarely both.
That's a silly argument. .com isn't yours or mine. It's everyones. Why don't you go register .US? Bringing ccTLDs only clouds this even more (and ICANN doesn't have control of them).

ICANN doesn't do anything themselves, it's all done by registrties, udrp providers, etc. ICANN is also supposed to be a non-profit, raising the fees for an arbitrary purpose serves who?
Well, there are at least two kinds of people in the world then. -- cema
This article is really copy pasta. It's already been through HN

Original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1587983
You do realize that the US has higher unemployment rates than any of those three countries? And, yeah, it's not always easy to find a job and there have been layoffs, but there's a bit of a worldwide recession.

The welfare programs in Germany have worked for some time (started around 1900, IIRC).

And I'm not sure were you got that tax rate. Because it's certainly false. I think you are deluding yourself.
Browse test cases · jsPerf
So... what was said?
It is odd, because, and this is my feeling, both of these services (Foursquare and Gowalla) provide a much richer, more exciting LBS.
Thank you very much, was looking for a version for ebook reading.
You can also use name@googlemail.com.
With permission, which isn't uncommon.
Yeah, plus with DHS we have a bureaucracy that deals in skirting the line with people's rights by its very nature, and for kicks it's a hastily assembled bureaucracy of bureacracies. If we figure double for each of those factors, that's 4x.
Can anyone here confirm that this was the way ad copy was written back then? It seems so alien; I can't put a finger on why.
Regarding item 1, one of my friends is a professor and tries to fund a student to help with making Clojure stack traces more understandable. I will not say who that friend is and what university or college s/he is in (s/he has not authorized me to say this), but if anyone thinks they can help with funding I will contact the said friend. Thanks!
Good point. Plus, Asus opened up a whole new category of computers, and the general netbook move put more emphasis on portability and battery life on all laptops. Let's not forget that!
I like my Asus too. I had an EEE, now I am on something a bit bigger (UL30V). It's nice having the performance and battery life (2 graphics cards and settings that change with 2 keys).
What's interesting is Asus netbooks have almost disappeared from stores I regularly shop at, but there's more netbooks in stock than ever. HP + Dell minis, Acer Aspire One's, and Samsung's nice lineup of netbooks they have this year. The category is definitely still there, and current-gen netbooks are actually fairly nice computers, but Asus really isn't the one leading here anymore...
Ask HN: Why aren't webapp frameworks widely supported?
PHP has grown like wildfire and any hosting provider worth their salt supports the usual languages for CGI scripting, including many important modules. But why do so many major providers still lack support for webapp frameworks?
Skinny dipping on the French Riviera - The best nudist beaches -
We generate them with GraphicsMagick, but I've worked on my fair share of projects with complicated web UIs, and it was definitely not the standard practice I observed to automate this stuff (I got made fun of on this project for taking a couple hours to do it). They made buttons in Photoshop.
For games I'd also suggest opening the prompt just after the user has just beaten their high score.

They're still going to be pretty pumped and are far more likely to leave a positive review.
The concept and intent is good.

I found the Video playing on the "Who we are" section to be a little annoying. I wouldn't put any videos with loud music on automatic Play mode.

I still think the process needs more explaining (I conceded I didn't look at all the videos). How much does an artist have to pay (if he does)? These things need to be ironed out clearly.Also I wasn't clear on all counts of the value it brings. I would have maybe a checklist of the advantages (essentially communicate better on what each party gets out of the deal).

Good luck!
Your response is more misleading than the article:

> but this kind of parallelization are easy to do in any languages.

Not if you have a GIL. Even then the languages without that limitation do not make what pmap does ... easy.

> [STM] have benefits that largely remain to be proven.

I always find this statement to be misleading. STM has been shown to greatly benefit the correctness of concurrent programs, you're managing that less by hand. The only thing that seems to be unproven is whether the performance tradeoff is worth it. It'd be nice to see some numbers that show what you lose in X% of the performance vs removing X% the amount of locking code.

> [Java interop] And frankly it can get ugly. It's good to have it, but ...

Yet far less tedious and simpler than writing a C module, or a C library binding. If you're comparing against that, Clojure's Java interop story is damn heavenly.

> In short, this is just a rehashing of what you usually hear about clojure, but with no insight of real use ...

Perhaps for you and I. But there are a lot of people in this big wide world. Uncle Bob taps into a community that's quite different from the language enthusiast crowd of HN.

Your viewpoint more myopic than the OP. Yet you get upvotes. Oh well.
> Veganism as a lifestyle is utterly dependent on huge energy subsidies.

What? You are confusing technological development with energy. People used to rely on burning wood for heat also but do you think this is energy efficient? Do you really think that a horse is more efficient for labour than machinery?

In the past people used these inefficient methods because that was the best technology they had available. There is no way we could sustain our current world population if we all attempted to return to their lifestyles.
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Asus-Eee-Pad-EP101TC...

Monochrome this October. Color next March.
The easy of use, focus, and overall money savings aspect to this site is genius. The way they categorize the length of travel VS pay, along with the actual air line is genius.

On top of the visualization and dissemination of a lot of data, the ease of actually paying for a flight is top notch. Kudos!