skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if you're trying to make a joke, but that might be a bit difficult for Google to do since IBM is worth more than they are.

http://www.google.com/finance?catid=66529330&sort=MARKET... Cap
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The long and short of question 1 is that there will likely be a large cash transfer from google to oracle some PR spin about how googles vm is now "official" and life/litigation moves on.
I once got conned out of 2 mos' work, then had my car stolen in a way that was unrecoverable/uninsurable, had a tiny nervous breakdown, came down with mono, couldn't work, lost all my other clients, one of whom threatened to sue me, and eventually ran out of credit to live off of.

But after I put in a couple years as an employee -- where I learned a lot and paid off my debt -- I quit again. Cuz life's too short to make crap, which is inevitably what happens if you work for somebody else.

How about that?

What do you think you will learn from hearing stories of people who gave up?
Yes doing consulting gigs is a great way to fill the coffers and we do that too but strictly speaking it's not your product which is profitable, right?

We are running at very bare costs but our biggest expenses are salaries for ourselves (which in an expensive city like Singapore) can drain your finances pretty quickly.
That's what happens when you sell your hacker company to a bunch of douchebags.
There's no reason this comment should be voted down.
My friend Jason pays for everything in cash. He broke his arm; they initially wanted $20k, and he then talked them down to $16k.

The price for my sinus surgery was $40k.

Hell, when I went to the ER because I had pneumonia, and no insurance, I paid $700.

Where are you finding these prices for surgery - Tijuana?
"Throw the prisoner into the Compassion Pit!"
"We just were victims of our own success and could not deploy customers fast enough to get free time to build the automated system that AppCloud is today."

This is a really hard problem IMHO. Obviously it depends on your business model, but I've found it at times an unsolvable problem...
The most I paid was $6.50 to withdraw - $2 on my bank's end and $4.50 on the end of the usurious ATM.

That kind of thing is illegal in other countries.

Even a 2% fee is usurious. That right there sucks up any potential interest gain you'd ever have.

In Austria, all ATMs are free, on both ends.
How many people behind our web app? 3.14
The author says never to put data in attributes, always put it in tags. He shows and ID tag inside and ASSET tag.

The ID should be an attribute, and all the other data should stay as tags. This is because the ID won't change and identifies the ASSET. Anything else could change and is just data.
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My understanding is that they chose Java for being easy and mainstream. So, that said, it's easier to they choose Python over Go.
Full backup (of data of applications that don't sync with online services) can be done on the SD card, which can then be moved to another phone. Not as nice as if it were all done online, but it works for now.

Slightly related, I wish Android would stop using the SIM card's internal memory. Just import the information on there when a new card is detected and forget about it from there on. I had to fiddle for half an hour to get my wife's data from her SIM card into the normal Android contacts. Half of that was because the UI to do so isn't very obvious. (most of the other part was sorting out the duplicates).
IBM's JVM is licensed. They had a legal agreement with Sun over it and I have no reason to believe that it won't carry over with Oracle.
From the interview:

"We started with this, 'Fraud is going to kill us. What can we do to save ourselves?' They started from, 'We have no fraud. How can we build this and not let any fraud in'

He also goes says something about how in the Internet world it is very hard to verify someone - the more information you get to verify (e.g. PayPal verified account) - the more 'safe' user you are. And something about how the Banks couldn't do this (virtual transactions) because most of them were public companies and couldn't hide $10m/month in fraud losses (what PayPal was losing a month to fraud at that critical point) and not spook their institutional investors.
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Ive heard the complete opposite is true. That rails while improved is still a pain to deal with. THe benefit of tails is that theres more and more people using it so theres some expertise out there.
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Yes, I have read Mythical Man Month. I am aware that I can't handle more people or that working double shifts won't get us anywhere.

I am already looking for triage opportunities - what I need to do is somehow convince TPTB that we are on collision course no matter what they might divine up. And thus should strap the cargo, check the hull seals and brace for impact. It is clear to me that we should enter damage control mode.

But my perception is not reality - that is why I'm asking for experience.

Thank you for your contribution - Burndown chart is a concept I wasn't aware of.
http://blog.borud.no/2010/08/pull-yourself-together-larry-el...

my 2 cents
Google has no patents? I doubt that.
Especially in a class where the professor has an unreasoning hatred of laptops.

But seriously. I bought one out of curiosity and played with it for a couple of days. But while I'd have killed for one during my university days, today I just reach for a keyboard. To get the most out of it, you need to carry around: (a) the Livescribe pen, (b) at least one notepad, and (c) the earbuds/microphones. And you need (d) the docking/charge cradle and (e) a laptop to synch with at the end of the day. If you need pen-based on-the-go note taking, why not buy a second hand Palm TX, or an HP iPaq 210? And if you don't like writing by hand, why are you bothering?

The killer use case for it is where you need to record an audio track synched to your handwriting. For lecture notes, it's a monumental and amazingly cool solution. For other applications, well, I'm still trying to think of one.

This is a really nice implementation of an idea that is undoubtedly great for some people ... just not for me.
FYI there was never a global nuclear holocaust; but people still built nukes. In fact there was never direct fighting between the US and Russia...
Here's his post about taking down the site: http://www.s-anand.net/blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-tak...
Most of the entrepreneurs that I've met are dreamers and optimists. I'm sure that most get into it wishing to make it rich (I'm betting most of the ones that want to make the world a better place also hope to get a little rich along the way). Most don't succeed.

But that life is definitely sustainable. You might not have the biggest house and nicest car, but you should definitely be able to live an OK life. It gets more difficult as you have dependants, but some things will work, some things wont, and overall you just kind of hope it works out in the long run. There are no guarantees, but I don't know many people who pursue that life and end up on the street.

I wouldn't say I live a truly cutting edge entrepreneurial life but in 20 years of "adulthood" I have never had a "real job", I've gotten married, two kids, nice house in a leafy part of London. I drive a Mazda rather than a Ferrari so I'm definitely not where I'd like to be, but life is pretty good.

Don't worry about the future too much and just go for it, things will work out.
online demo

http://text-processing.com/demo/
Interesting - PostSecret meets Omegle.
Rails doesn't need any hand-holding any more. Apache+Passenger take care of most cases, Nginx+unicorn/mongrel take care of the rest.

Big, heavy traffic apps require special attention, but then that's the same for all big/heavy apps.
mod_rails/Passenger changed the game on deployment of Rails - Rails deployment is no harder than PHP if you use Passenger/Apache. Most of the 'Rails is hard to deploy' opinions are just relics from the bad old days.

high volume/high availability setups can be complicated, but that's the same all over...
My favorite part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0PTeTVI8p0
Very good point!

Dalvik very much isn't a JVM. While both are bytecode interpreters you need to translate Java bytecodes into Dalvik ones to use the former. I'll need to read more (just woke up) to see just what Oracle is objecting to.

Bytecode based systems are an old old old concept due to the severe lack of memory available in the bad old days, e.g. I personally know that as of the mid-late '70s the Lisp Machine's compiler went to a bytecode that the microcode would then interpret. As I recall Smalltalk did this and I know it wasn't a new concept. Heck, what about UCSD's Pascal system?

Don't know the history of JIT compilation, let alone various tricks that have recently been developed; Java is the second wildly successful bytecode system, I think, after UCSD's, which was done back when memory was a lot more precious.

And Dalvik optimized for among other things low memory demand, e.g. it is register based and Java bytecode is stack based.

Thanks for pointing this out.
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But how could he satisfy the "be completely comfortable with ... Developing Ruby on Rails applications" requirement???
Intrinsic (vs extrinsic) motivation, +1
Pretty cool.

Criticisms: (Just my opinions.)

* The chat font should be sans-serif.

* The chat input line should be below the chat view.
I wasn't trying to make a joke. I figured Google would have a very high market valuation compared to IBM. But my point still stands, why can't Google buy a company that owns some patents that Oracle is currently infringing on?
I'm not convinced that it should be 'whom'. It's a sentence fragment. It's not a subject or an object of a sentence. Replacing 'who' with 'he' or 'him' makes no sense either way.

And lastly: It's not a novel or paper. It's just a quick phrase used artistically. With 'whom' is sounds stuffy and out of place. 'Who' sounds correct in the context, and hits the target audience.
In the end, money is a fiction. It's all about allocating the benefits from current production.

Social security schemes and government-guaranteed pensions mean that the government (=the voters) decides how much each currently productive worker has to give away, and how much each retiree gets.

Private retirement funds mean that for each retiree, the amount of money earned from their own former productivity which they relinquished into their retirements fund AND the amount of money they acquired otherwise and put there AND the management of the fund AND other economical factors influencing it decide how much that retiree is allowed to take away from those currently productive.

Finally, the millenia-old "retirement plan=loving children" means that how much each retiree gets depends on how many children they were able to have, how many of those survived, how productive they are, and how much they're willing to give up according to their character, how much they love their parents or how much social pressure towards supporting your parents there is.
My first impression was "how are they going to filter out the jerks?" My next impression was "how are they going to also filter out the spammers?"

I'd love to hear the creator's answers to those questions. If they solve that, it could be an interesting experience to visit and interact or just watch.
The case for investing in new companies
Think different(ly).
Here's another one: what happens when you get someone who is suicidal or otherwise should get real help right away?
What if I take the open source OracleJVM and change every line, so that it become Dalvik? Wouldn't it still be derived from OracleJVM and hence covered? The approach would only be possible because Dalvik is open source, too, of course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt-DWr7208A

The Youtube auto-transcription (press the CC button to view) of Glaswegian on this BBC Scotland comedy show is hilariously bad, though I'm not sure how most non-Scottish humans would do either.

examples: "not a care in the world" is repeated twice in the audio and translated as "the attack killed a lot of them" the first time and "months of camelot of" the second.
That looks really sweet! I've had a concept like this for years for the dutch market: Moeilijkedag.nl (tough day) but haven't had the time and or interest to built it. How did you implement it? Newfangled nodejs chat or something like it? :)
although it is good ... it is really right.

Windows always gave me a lof of headaches for absolutely no reason.

Last night , only getting local connection .... why ? And explorer.exe just decided to crash up on me everytime i opened the panel.

Fresh install .... crap win
I really love your site design, very inviting and bright. Probably exactly what's needed when you're in the mood to use your site.

I noticed the favicon looks like the default one used for the Pylons framework. I'm curious, why did you choose Pylons over Django?
I agree, it's a shame. What will they do when the 4chan crowd inevitably turn up?
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Single page:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheime...
> Disclaimer #1: My job is technology evangelist for Yahoo! So refuting this is probably the definition of my job.

Yes, as a "Yahoo Evangelist", you are probably close to 100% biased.

> We didn't win the big prize, but we also aren't AOL, Lycos or Ask.com either. Just because we didn't become Google doesn't mean Yahoo! has failed.

Here's the Signature yahoo denial of reality syndrome. It's quiet similar to the surreal discussions you can casually have with YSearch people telling you that Google Search is an inferior product (or ymail beats gmail, or 360 will own facebook, ..). Basically trying to convince themselves rather than anyone else.

Listen, this is just like alcoholism, if you can't admit that you have a problem, you will not go anywhere. Yahoo has been steadily losing on most fronts for more than 5 years now and it is currently in the mist of a huge identity crisis. Multiple metrics can attest an AOLization process is going on! You're right by the way, Yahoo has not failed yet, neither did AOL, they're still around, just totally irrelevant ..

> As an engineer though PG's second point strikes me as deeply unfair. I joined Yahoo! in 2004 in the UK. The team I joined was exceptional. For a team of 30 people there were about 15 book authored by the team. I personally had written W3C standards and multi Web Standards Project founders littered the team. The rest of the team were coders, much better than I.

Beyond the lines aimed solely to your own glory. Does writing a book means being talented to you?

No more seriously, I'll pass on the rest of your post, but basically, I'm under the impression that you might be looking at things through the prism of your rather different role in that company. That sounds pretty cool to fly the world and talk about the new hot piece of frontend code written by yahoo's javascript mafia, but please realize that somewhere in Santa Clara, random Joe engineer might see Paul's analysis as an opportunity for Yahoo to wake up, acknowledge the problem and rethink itself.

PS: please, no "ad-homonym" attack!
Is the name a reference to Passion Pit, the indie rock band?
Guessing it’s a pun on well known band Passion Pit? http://www.passionpitmusic.com/
Twitter is already making profit thanks to Twitter Firehose (http://mashable.com/2009/12/21/twitter-is-already-profitable...).
?? So what was the lesson? Hang out with a fat dude that spits out proverbs like the best of them?
Just adding that I also wasn't exposed to foreign languages in school until the 9th grade. This was in a private school in Chicago, Illinois.
It doesn't need that level of hand-holding, really, these days. A few years back it was a bit more difficult. Today the options are well known and really usable by a beginner (eg: passenger).

EngineYard brings a premium service, but none of my customers have been interested to pay the premium. They all go on SliceHost, Joyent, or home-hosted machines.

Sidepoint: around me, most non-rubyists developers don't deploy their apps themselves, whereas all the people I know who work with Rails or Sinatra do deploy themselves. I believe this may be thanks to Capistrano et al, maybe.
What's with the wayward "pixels" on the eink display, is that dirt or what?

I'll have to try a kindle someday. I had to wait for high resolution LCD because I am nearsighted and can literally see the pixel grid "screendoor" at HDTV resolutions on the desktop (even at 23" size) and it was driving me crazy - used a CRT until this year!
maybe returns to capital are falling because returns to labor are increasing.

From everything I see, the opposite is the case, at least in the USA and Europe. Maybe it's the Chinese labor that's getting a bigger share of the returns.

But I suspect that most of the "missing returns" go to those that exploit weaknesses in the financial system and know how to hide their profits, i.e. investment banks, hedge funds etc.
I have to second this. Reading Masters of Doom right after it came out during my freshman year of high school really shaped my interests and world views for the rest of my life. The two lead characters of Romero and Carmack were so realistic and yet larger-than-life that I just knew I had to be a part of something big and relevant.
I'm a huge fan of Pylons for the flexibility it offers, and am generally more comfortable with it -- I've built up a huge framework on top of it, over the last 2 years or so of using it, so development goes really quickly. Not to mention that this project really didn't need anything that Django offers; it's database-free and, using Cogen, is totally async. Pretty simple and sweet.
Research / IP is so broken - scientists more worried about prestige than their field, pharma spending on vanity drugs, ad infinitum...

Does anyone have any links to progressive projects in this area?
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There is no moral difference between the mugger's threat to shoot you for not forking over and the government's threat to take your property or throw you in jail for not forking over.

The difference is that the government's actions are based on laws, which were passed by elected representatives and thus indirectly by the public. Not "forking over" to the government is the same as not paying a debt and claiming that you didn't personally agree to contracts being actually binding.

Maybe you're one of those idiots who actually believe you can have a functioning society without rules that everyone has to adher to even if they personally don't agree with all of them, but that belief does not make it true.
My guess: because it could be used to evade taxes.
You test with "he" versus "him" in the reply to the question, not by replacing "who/whom" in the question itself. So the answer to "whom to follow" is "follow him", not "follow he".
My calculation ($35 + half that) comes to a figure of about $50.
During WWII, the RAF had to decide where on their planes to put the armour plating. They could not plate everywhere due to weight considerations. They were going to put it on places where returning aircraft were damaged, but Patrick Blackett (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Blackett,_Baron_Blacket...) pointed out that this was a biased sample. His recommendation was to put the plating were returning aircraft were not damaged, as this is probably where the aircraft which did not return were hit.
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You created Merb in the first place. Didn't you? Its missing from the story!
Those aren't really the pixels, they're the "phosphor" of the display. The pixels are behind the little blobs goo and are little electrical contacts that induce a magnetic field. When the field is one way, the pixels are dark, and vice versa. The field affects the nearby blobs of goo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electronic_paper_(Side_vie...
The thing is, I'm not really interested in a blow-by-blow pseudo-discussion with someone who's convinced himself of some strange alternate view of events and refuses to acknowledge any challenge to this world view. I tried to cut things short and attack the sweeping, fundamental fallacy, but you insist on sticking to surface disagreements, perhaps as a way of shielding yourself.

"Well," you say, "you make a good point, but you see my view of what constitutes 'widespread accounting fraud' is different from the standard view, but my uninformed view is right and everyone else's is wrong, so you're wrong, too. Also, I'm being civil." I'm not really interested in talking to someone who thinks like that, so I'm done.
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I decided that the other popular link dump style news sites were missing a few items that I felt were important. So I decided to make one myself as a hobby project.

Obviously there are a few things wrong with it still but as the saying goes around here, release early, release often I wanted to get some outside feedback as to what people felt were important feature they that I was missing. So please leave and feedback or criticism and I'll happily take it into consideration.

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Then Maybe you should have asked: How have you managed failure, or something like that.
It has monad syntax, but like C# it has no support for higher-kinded polymorphism (contextfree.livejournal.com) so unlike Haskell there's no way to create generic helper methods that work with every monad type.

(Not to discourage anyone from trying F#, which is a nice language anyway.)
I might be wrong, but it seems to me that the who/whom distinction in North American English has been ignored so much for a long enough period of time to say that ignoring it is now correct. On the other hand, the distinction is still commonly observed in British English, I think. So basically Victoria Coren is asking twitter to rewrite things in her dialect. I guess she's free to ask. And maybe they should do some internationalization...
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The whole concept of "stashed contributions" is wrong. Money is a fiction. It's really about resource allocation. In capitalism, whoever has money gets a say in how resources should be allocated, but that does not change the amount of resources available (if there is only 1 productive worker for every 2 retirees, it does not matter how much money those have "stashed"), nor does it make much sense to construct complex rule systems solely to reconcile the allocation of resources to retirees with the money fiction.
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