skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because you will need to raise taxes for them to pay for lower taxes for her
Yes, because investors hope Google to pay (high) dividends soon. Without dividends, stocks are just a Ponzy scheme.
I'm guessing you eat a lot of meat and/or fresh produce? There are plenty of foods out there which keep for longer than 48 hours: canned foods, crackers and other dry goods, and so on. They might not be as tasty, but keeping a decent food supply doesn't really require constant refrigeration.

The point about cities I'll give you to some extent: a city with very high population density is generally dependent on a much larger total rural area which supplies them in exchange for economic support. If the loss of power also kills all transportation, you're doomed. But our current transport infrastructure generally includes autonomous non-electric options even where public transport is primarily electrical (trains etc). You can pay someone to bring you food from outside the city without needing a network connection.

Really this reinforces my point above about currency though: absent an uncompensated intervention (ie government), a city which loses its power and connectivity must have some medium of exchange to pay for its food supply to be transported in, and to get itself back on its feet. Some non-electronic medium (ie cash) is essential in these cases.
> There's a reason he has to emphasize legal, and that's because the obvious cash crop isn't. The market of capitalism has decided, and has found the best use of the land possible.

What makes the "obvious cash crop" so profitable is the fact that it's illegal, and therefore requires a high premium to cover the risk involved. There's nothing inherently super-profitable about growing pot.
Absolutely.

Maybe system administrators should have a swearing in ceremony in which they take an official oath to protect their users privacy, in front of their future colleagues?

In practice it does little to change anything, but I imagine it would make quite an impression - especially if they where awarded a special system administrators badge afterwards as a sign of their commitment and agreement to honor the trust the people had shown them?
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Data structures really clicked for me when I started learning OCaml. While it has its strengths and weaknesses as a language, it has an excellent notation for data structures. The combination of pattern matching and type inference really clarifies things.*

Whether you use the language in the long run or not, reading chapter two of _Developing Applications with Objective Caml_ (http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/) and doing its exercises, in OCaml, (http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/book-ora020....), will probably help quite a bit, and shouldn't take too long.

* Haskell may help, too, but its emphasis on laziness will also mean many algorithms and data structures won't translate as easily. SML is probably as good as OCaml, but I don't have much experience with it.
In the words of Linus Torvalds "Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."

the point of the article is that he has done a lot of great for people that markets have traditionally ignored, not if he deserved the success microsoft brought.

if you really hate microsoft, go build something better.

the only thing that counts is action and results. the market doesnt care if you if you're mom knew the IBM chairman - it only cares what you can do with what you have.
Free markets only exist when trade is not forced upon anyone. When people are free to trade with whom ever they like, and for what ever reason they like. Gates used the only gun in town (ie: The Government) to shut down other competitors. He was therefore acting against the free market.

I do not mean to detract from the accomplishments Gates did achieve.
Bill Gates never used his tremendous gifts for the greater good, only for the good of Microsoft.

Wait, what? Are you arguing that his foundation is some kind of elaborate scam?
Dollar cost averaging into an index fund. If that doesn't produce a positive return over several decades, then we're completely screwed anyway.
Take a peek at the "Real" versus "User" numbers in the linked post. We were expecting to see that Micros perform well for short but intensive bursts, but that wasn't the case.

When the Micro went to OCR 51 pages of document text, it spent only 6 minutes of actual CPU time to do it. Unfortunately, those 6 minutes of CPU time were spread over a real wait of 52 minutes, due to either other users on the machine, or Amazon caps. That's not so great for an intensive burst.

Perhaps it would work if the CPU burst lasted for seconds instead of minutes, but I wouldn't bet on it. It would be a nice benchmark to try...
I think it needs some polishing, but this is a pretty slick idea.
This wouldn't work for companies that have significant costs other than employees. So for tech companies it's generally accurate, but its unlikely to work for other industries.
'grellas wrote a monster comment about this when the news broke that TC's injunction had failed:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1644772

Two things I take away from this:

* TC vs. FG is pretty much a dead issue, since TC is unlikely to recover real money from the CrunchPad debacle (FG's product is itself pretty much DOA).

* Contracts or not, if you engage in a partnership or joint venture with another firm, both firms will end up with fiduciary duties to each other... which is something good to know as you do business.
37signals has a related post:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2283-ranking-tech-companies-b...

I have not checked their figures but in the case of these companies, the proposed 100K formula is mostly way off the mark.

As for NASDAQ-100 companies, the following chart is very informative:

http://www.jbryanscott.com/2009/02/07/nasdaq-100-revenue-per...
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This looks like an interesting position, and it seems like maybe you're putting more emphasis on doing infrastructure/ops yourselves vs. trying to outsource as much as possible to a hosting or "cloud" provider. Rock on.

While I respect your desire to be stealthy, I'm curious how many developers you have (i.e. is ops being hired after you've hired ~5 developers, or after 2?), and what are your reasons for (presumably) coloing your own boxes vs. either using managed hosting or ec2? (I personally think each solution has its merits, and for anything security or performance/jitter/avail/config critical, I'd still go with a cage and leasing or buying hardware; EC2 rocks for ease and in 5 years will be even better, and is great for dealing with peaks)
Yeah, it must be somebody else's fault.
Not having seen the book until after I got back from Vietnam I thought it ironic in the extreme that the best way to acquire expertise on the subject matter was in fact to volunteer for the draft, survive the year, come home and get busy. With training before during and after my year in country even a then 'stoner' like myself learned more than enough to easily loose all of the body parts I had available!! Didn't though, went back to being an art major...
The title of this post is "Bill Gates, Hero".
Perfectly legal (although you're likely to draw intense ire from people behind you if you try it in a lunchtime lineup, since you don't actually have to leave the counter in order to create a separate transaction). Oh, and it won't work in a drive-through (not because there's anything wrong with it as such, but that ungrouping the orders makes fulfillment a pain in the butt, so restaurants usually won't do it as a matter of local policy.
Completely agree with you on not wanting emotional baggage going forward.

Part of the rationale for this post was that it was cathartic for our team, i.e., understand/admit our mistakes, laugh at them and move on. A clean break of sorts and a reminder of things not to do in this incarnation of the product.
mine was broken into (100% certainty on this) in 2005

my friend had some guy in india log into his and start sending him emails
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Thank you for the motivation! Right now im finishing up the fundamentals - basically getting all of R working over the web, manage sessions and removing the dangerous stuff like file operations, socket connections and infinite loops. Then I will add visual "gadgets" that let you do common things fast, as well as interactively, which is important in exploratory data analysis. Thanks again.
For Microsoft to in any way redeem itself, it must hit the target with IE9. Then it must correct IE8. Then it must fix IE7. And finally, it must correct or kill IE6. There would be many takers for the latter. There always has been.

Anything less is not enough.
there's a ton of words-with-friends cheat apps in the app store already
There are plenty of academics who write fantastic fiction. Who ever said they couldn’t?
I would love to be able to give this toolset to people in PR and Corporate Communications. The ability to edit a static, professional looking site as easily as updating a blog would be a huge benefit for them.
- How to think. If you can't hold abstract thoughts in your head you should find something other than programming to do.

I agree that proper methods of thinking and holding abstract thoughts is necessary to program well, in fact it is probably the most necessary criteria. But if you cannot do that the answer is not to give up on programming (if you want to program), but to learn to think and reason abstractly.
In the AWS documentation an optimal burst is like in the 200ms range, not even seconds.
Lack of automated tests make every commit a crap-shoot

The last thing I want to do is start another broad TDD flamefest, but I honestly believe that if a programmer hasn't even tried a test automation framework (xUnit or similar) then they are being professionally negligent. Would you want to work with a surgeon who was too set in his ways to sterilize instruments?

The last time I was doing developer candidate interviews, I would start the phone screen with "what test automation frameworks do you enjoy using and why". If they couldn't answer that, I did my best to make it a very short phone call.
This is front loaded with a TON of assumptions. And you could easily make the argument that it doesn't apply to most web companies. Take craigslist for example...estimated rev of 122 million and around 30 employees.

If you insist on using this calculation for anything, best to stick to local electrician shops.
In the Lennon/McCartny section the author talks a lot about an emotional connection and even throws the word magic around, but I think he is neglecting the fact that Lennon and McCartny recognized each other's outstanding expertise and value to the band and to each other on a rational practical level. They impressed each other on a skill level.
So... 60k x number of employees?
I think it is a poor idea to put stock options in a startup at a high priority when job hunting because startup success is a long shot. It is a different situation for Facebook and other well established pre-IPO companies or older companies that have an established value to their stock (I stayed at SAIC for a long time because of stock bonuses, options, and the expectation that the value would continue to increase).

For small startups, it seems like you have founders who have taken a real risk vs. employees/consultants who are getting a salary and perhaps some equity. If you are working for hire, better really enjoy the work and/or the immediate compensation.

I have a childhood friend (actually, I also used to baby sit him when he was really young) who started 3 companies over a 20 year period, finally getting $300+ million when selling a large interest in his last company. My friend (and people like him) who take risks get most of the rewards - a fair system.
Google is now officially evil
All variables but m are the same in each case.

m and A.

As well, given two rocks of similar density but different mass (assuming m*g >> F_d for both) it generally takes a pretty high place (that is: higher than the couple stories that they had access to) for differences in acceleration or V_t to matter enough that ancient Greeks would have actually noticed.
“Dear President Obamaa: drunken email gets 17 year old banned from the US
Simply because I think they had the opportunity to create a great OS (whatever its relation to Unix) and chose not to. My point was that I think DOS/Windows hindered the innovation in applications -- not necessarily their complexity or size -- but their utility. I have the option to use big, feature-rich Windows applications, but mostly prefer smaller command-line based tools. I'm clearly in a minority here though, so maybe I am crazy.. :)
And not just icons... the OS X interface generally marks interactive elements in blue (folders, buttons, scrollbars, highlights etc.) -- living up to the "Aqua" name. The default Windows 7 interface also has a bluish tint, although not nearly as extreme as it did with XP.
Try climbing 1768 feet just to get to work
Looking at the Summary for Policymakers that you linked to, we are given measurements of [+0.6 to +2.4] W/ sq m at 90% confidence. Notice the huge interval: the interval length is three times the least value. If we'd re-scale it for 95%, or even 99% (the FDA will require that much for some drugs!), the warming disappears completely.

And this is simply the measurement part. _Predicting_ what will happen is a thousand times more difficult. If you want predictive science based on the laws of physics, look at astronomy. 4000 years ago, the Babylonians could predict astronomical events with much more precision than anything today's climatologists can predict about average temperatures.
20 something? Invest aggressively, see the fact that many markets have lost (and are still loosing to a lesser extent) as an opportunity and invest. The market as a whole is likely to improve over time and this could even be seen as a good thing for the younger investers buying in now.

This is not really a problem for the 20somethings. It is a problem for the 50-60 somethings. Many of them were still invested aggressively instead of shifting to more conservative options as retirment approached. This recession was also so widespread that even many invested in relatively cautious positions have lost huge amounts.
But, generally speaking, you are experienced. What you say is of course true, but that's what makes the linked article even less interesting. If I wanted to learn more about new language, new system or new tool, I would rather ask "what should every foo language programmer know about foo". The question posed on stack exchange asks about nothing specific. It's like one asked "what should everyone know about life?" and got replies "always remeber to brush your teeth and flush the toliet". Meh.

If HN was the mathematics forum, one would read and comment news about research in number theory and algebraic topology, not high school math, for it is not particularly insightful and entertaining.
The challenge for Orbs is to come up with a way to be profitable without make it too expensive for casual use.
These are just my opinions...

Don't target any one specific platform, write your app to be as portable as possible and target multiple devices (android, iPhone, webos, etc.. ) Larger markets have more customers, smaller markets have less customers but much less competition.

Price it at $4.99 and then have sales to experiment with different, lower price points. Find the best price and then have a perma-sale at that price.

Use the emulator to get started, and once you get your feet wet, develop on the device. The emulator is not enough for serious work.
FWIW I got that from the original poster: the general case problem is NP complete but most of our special cases are not.
This will only be more of a pain in the ass for me. 50% of my IE users are still on IE7. I dropped support for IE6 last year because I personally couldn't handle the ridiculousness of debugging it, even though I still get hits from it. But now I'll have to test my site in IE7, IE8, and IE9, because it'll take years before IE9 replaces all previous versions completely. (And by then, IE10 and IE11 will have come out). Fuck you, Microsoft.
PR firms take note: Deception and conspiracy won't get you very far in the end.

I'd hesitate to even call this group a PR firm, though. The Joojoo's launch was mired in image problems. To spend so much time and effort on a misguided publicity stunt while ignoring the basics seems amateurish at best.

I'm constantly amazed how the ethical PR people have to work their asses off to gain the trust of their clients, while groups like this seem to be driving major business decisions for theirs. This isn't PR. It's just sleaze.
Agreed. Totally didn't mean to bring down the T-pain app to the level of the farties :)
I've seen ads looking for Android consultants on Craigslist before. I bet there's a market.
No, right now, it can only be on the right.
Wohoo another Cyclone on here! Good work, looks very interesting.
Already exists, somewhat, in the SAGE Code of Ethis: http://www.sage.org/ethics/
that was already posted here today.
This may be the first step in TC killing its litigation. There's not much point carrying on, at great expense. Now that this evidence is unsealed it will permanently damage the careers of the people involved. I'd be happy with that outcome if I was Arrington - unless this PR firm has deep pockets and can be dragged into it.
I up voted you because I agree that "People on Twitter are just copying and pasting news found elsewhere; there is an infinitely small proportion of original content..."

I find Twitter to be very useful because interesting people who I follow post links to interesting stuff. But, not too many fully formed ideas in 140 characters: just links or short funny things, etc.
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To me, as a layman, the documents look pretty damning. Sure, Techcrunch did not have a written contract, but I don't see how the language in those emails from fusion garage can be construed as anything but a conspiracy to deceive/screw Techcrunch.
That'll require a fundamental re-ordering of a lot of the financial system. How do you pay the poor, whether working or on the dole (many of whom are refused bank sevices, which is currently a perfectly legal practice in most jurisdictions)? What level of loss per transaction would be unacceptable, and who gets to draw the line? What happens to garage sales, flea markets and charity bazaars? Can you lend me twenty bucks until Thursday, or do I need a bank loan?
Thanks for looking that up. I wonder what sort of intermittent CPU-intensive tasks are a good fit for that size of a burst. Are you using the Micros in this fashion?
I already hate nickels. The dime is the smallest useful coin.
You are misusing the term, and the conflation around definitions of TDD make up half of every 'TDD flamefest'.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TestDrivenDevelopment

TDD specifically calls not only for unit tests, but for writing them first, ie the test _drives_ the development. You write a test that fails, then write code to pass the test.

One can be anti-TDD but still believe in unit tests, full coverage, etc.
Eye tracking software to help a paralyzed graffiti artist do what he does best
Good ideas.
$350: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/maximum_pc_builds_...

Reactable has been around for a while: http://www.reactable.com/ (if nothing else, the first page of results found youtube vids from 2006)

There's this one, plus many more, from Instructables: http://www.instructables.com/id/Interactive-Multitouch-Displ... Many of the projects there come in well below $500 for absolutely everything, and there are a few software libraries for detecting multitouch built specifically for devices like these (reflected IR light) because the technique is so cheap and simple.
IE9 requires Windows Vista, not Windows 7.
If passenger performs at the same level as or better than unicorn then its probably going to be the best implementation out there for ruby apps, especially with the choice between modules and standalone.

Some of us dont actually require the "ease of deployment" as performance is the priority, phusion passenger was never about performance as they've previously stated. While the new release is faster than their previous stable, it is still yet to be seen whether it out performs unicorn.

I'll reserve judgement until its been benchmarked against the other available deployment servers.
I think the 37Signals post was meant to show outliers (how high it could go if you are awesome).

But that NASDAQ-100 post is insightful. It would probably be safe to say top companies exceed $100k per employee when doing well.
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A = projected area, which is the same if our objects are the "same shape".

As for the rocks, you're applying benefit of hindsight. Say I show you a balloon filled with air and a balloon filled with water falling at obviously different speeds. Now, you have to explain that with this odd theory of "everything falls at the same speed" -- not the other way around. In the real world, it is evidently true that heavier objects fall slower, and any better theory that disagrees must explain this (e.g., posit the existence of air resistance) before its new predictions matter.
Could you explain a little bit more about #1? What would an example of holding an abstract thought in your head be?
Nah, it really is ugly.
At some point in time a big earthquake will level the bay area. That's a given certainty. It might happen just because of tectonic stuff, or, maybe, it will happen because this place has lost all honor. And god is watching. Maybe.
I do this, and I'm pretty glad to see I'm not the only one.

Applying query tuning techniques to my daily commute saves me about 10 minutes of driving each day. I recently realized that freeway lanes have similar performance characteristics as database tables do - the more transactional the lane, the more likely it's going to have a backlog. So, instead of driving in the fast lane, the one immediately to the right of it is usually faster. My guess is that this happens because of people swerving in and out of the HOV lane illegally in an attempt to save a few minutes or whatever. Avoiding the furthest 2 right lanes is important when you can as well as people tend to merge twice immediately after entering the freeway (this is on I-10 in Phoenix, which is between 4 and 7 lanes across each way, depending on what part of town you're in).

Knowing which lanes contain forced merges allows for planning ahead as well, since you know that you're going to have to deal with double the traffic in a rate-constricted channel.
I don't disagree, but instead seek to generalize (off topic).

I think the fundamental difference between science and engineering revolves around that when engineering you work with the assumption that you know everything about how the world works and can apply that to solve a problem. With science, you work with the certainty that you know nothing true about how the world works and you apply that to see further.
Meta-meta-search engine is such a great descriptor. I have worked in a library for 4 years now and that is the best explanation of a librarian I've heard.
For people saying that TC will end this quickly because they're unlikely to receive compensation, you're missing one important detail - this is a massively entertaining circus. I'm a casual follower of TechCrunch, but I'll follow along more closely with this saga happening. Depending on how much money the litigation is costing them, it could well be paying for itself with increased pageviews.
I like the recipe ideas, there's not a lot of good recipe content out there, and photos are key
Last time I saw a screenshot of it, my first thought was "what do they have against tabs?" There's so little room there, it's laughable to consider using more than, say, 3 tabs.
It's a witch hunt, simple.
If there are two lines: read between them. If there is only one: TL;DR;
Microsoft blatantly lies about IE9 compared to Chrome and Firefox