skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So they ask a predictable and stupid question, and you are supposed to deliver a predictable and boring answer...

Great way to land your next corporate IT job!
You are aware that the main audiences for Palin and O'Reilly aren't exactly ivy league silver spooners, right? And that their audiences in general opposed the bailouts? You are lumping together everyone that doesn't agree with you and attributing to them positions that they do not hold.
Seems strange to say that investors would be unhappy with having a clear business model, selling products people want, and having a clear path to long-term, sustainable profitability!

(Some) investors dislike the above when it comes at the expense of growth, and I think InDinero will be also focusing on growth.

If you're saying that investors would be unhappy that InDinero is not planning to flip in a couple years - if anything there are many more investors who dislike companies who seem designed around selling early instead of shooting for the moon (ie, an IPO).
Not to nitpick, but indinero is anything but enterprise software, it's very targeted at small businesses. I think the sales funnel for indinero and enterprise software is totally different.

Jessica definitely knows how to network though :)
This type of mentality is the reason that I stopped halfway between my HBS 2+2 application when I was able to apply. MBA culture is that of stagnant, tepid growth with a fortune 500 company. I was attracted to business from a social sciences background because I could see that some companies positively impact the world- but not the kind a high-level MBA sets you up to fit in with.
I'm pretty sure they do it because the keyboard can't source the required 500mA of current. They "proprietarize" it in order to keep people from plugging high-current devices in.
What if they already had dozens of paying customers by the time they were raising capital?
Why GMail's Priority Inbox Needs to Get Off the Web (And Why It's the Future)
The introduction of Google’s Priority Inbox in GMail was hailed by many as a step forward for email. Here finally was a way to not simply filter email in to spam and regular email, but a way to filter on what you read and replied to most.
just a typical MBA - ramping up to comfortable number of millions by "I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues" and changing business model to preaching after that.

I especially like that "donations" business. Some years ago, a recent immigrant, i was surprised by how actively everybody would be harvesting donations ... until i learned that it is only (100-x)% that makes it to the charities, where "x" can be whatever donation harvester deems "expenses"
This, like so many questions, is not a factual question; it's a semantics question. Fully define "5 o'clock", then read off the answer from the definition. There are some for which it is true (sun-based time, noting that 5 o'clock in English usage encompasses more than the 60 seconds from 5:00:00 to 5:00:59), and some for which it is false (strictly pendantic human time, etc.). The confusion comes from the idea that there must be one true definition, not from the question of whether the claim is factually correct. Spending time pondering which is the True Truth is false enlightenment.

See also: Is X Art?, for any value of X and Art.
sorry to burst your bubble (again), but it wasn't.

http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/220176-first-aircraft-use-fly...

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-9....

http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/cf-105_avro_arrow.pl
Yeah, I was wondering if investors knew they were in it for the long haul when they were investing.
and what do you have for lunch? I had ice cream.
Yes, we plan on doing this. It's as simple as having the shopping cart page be SC and the rest ad-hoc, or the shopping card within an iframe.
I'd say it depends on the level of security your users would expect from your site.

About the same level of security as posting on reddit or HN, which is why I used them as examples. Submit this, vote for the best that, etc. A closer example might be StackOverflow, but I honestly have no idea what goes into logging in over there, since it's all done behind the scenes with OpenID (though there was nothing https-y shown in HTTPFox when I tried it).

If there's financial data involved

Nope. Monetization, initially, will be provided via affiliate links. If you buy something you saw on my site, you wouldn't be buying it from me.

Also: an upgrade to your site is easier to sell your users ('now even more secure') than a downgrade.

This is my thinking. If the site ever gets to the point where it's nicely paying for itself and I can justify the cost of the static IP and the cert, I will.
This is sweet: "Twitter.com is now a client of our own API. It fetches data from the same endpoints that the mobile site, our apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, and every third-party application use."
Ksplice: Patching kernel vulnerabilities without reboot
The secondary markets for great companies are very liquid -- it's not an issue today for investors.
Or the book "Certain to Win" which was written by one of his "disciples" with Boyd's input on how to apply all of Boyd's thoughts (which are far more complex than what the blog post shows) to business situations.

http://www.amazon.com/Certain-Win-Strategy-Applied-Business/...
Thanks. Closure, sure. I always though about it just being a compiler / minimizer and that there should be more. But the linked article shows that it indeed contains UI components.

The repository link seems to have changed though:

http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/closure/goog...

And here are the docs: http://code.google.com/closure/library/docs/overview.html
as long as it doesn't deal with some heavily private stuff

Nothing private. The only things that wouldn't get made public by default are intended to be things that I'd like you to opt into making public anyway, and none of these features would be in the 1.0.

just make sure your users are aware

Any suggestions for this? A popup saying "hey, this is pretty insecure.. are you sure you want to bother?" seems like a good way to get people to leave your site alone.
I wouldn't immediately assume Intuit is automatically the most likely acquirer.
If they're not, she's certainly put them on notice. Interesting.
There is also some value to being The Obvious Best Choice on the Internet for A/B testing in Rails as opposed to some smuck who wrote that code that one time. (I get mostly clients who want the expert, and charge accordingly.)

Why would I want to be a talented coder on Github? The place is lousy with them.
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"It’s a paradoxical effect that occurs in complex systems," says Helbing. "Surprisingly, delay processes can improve the system altogether. It is a slower-is-faster effect. You can increase the throughput - speed up the whole system - if you delay single processes within the system at the right time, for the right amount of time."

Braess' Paradox! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27_paradox

Alright, so not quite - one is talking about introducing delays and the other is about the availability of options to rational players, but everyone should know a little bit about it.
Why the downvotes? As far as I can tell it was a polite reminder of the guidelines for headlines by someone who I would argue has been around long enough to say it (account age >400 Days). Not to mention that it was the first thing I thought when I saw the headline.
Or you can go change the global setting so that none of your documents go into the archive.
There is a German startup which has been doing this for quite some time: http://www.captchaad.com/
I've yet to see a site that depends on JavaScript heavily and degrades well. I think in this case you're much better of making secondary interface in pure HTML, cf. GMail.
You could also make some small JQuery (etc.) enhancements to this bare-metal platform.

Having something that degrades from full whizbang to dumb terminal is really hard, kinda like getting a desktop application that is fully cross-platform. Sometimes it's better to just use a common backend for separate interfaces.
Surprised to see it wasn't written in Scala, since Scala shows up before in their list of supported languages and Scala code example also comes first.
Quick question: I dont have an ipad in hand right now. Does iOS 4 support multicast? If yes, does this VLC version receive multicast from LAN or WAN?
I'm not sure I would agree, however I'm not familiar enough with Common Lisp's lexical scoping to be absolutely sure (actually, I've never programed in a lexically scoped Common Lisp, just an early IBM-PC interpreter that was dynamic, and that for only a few months).

Common Lisp seems to be missing a number of things I like in Scheme for this sort of thing; my impression is that for understandable reasons the introduction of lexical scoping to mainline Lisp in Common Lisp was done with an eye towards minimal breakage of all that great software that had been developed in the previous 25 years.
Steve Ballmer, Jeff Bezos fund effort to defeat state income tax
I forgot how bad Mike Arrington is.

I have a 1st generation iPhone. It has never dropped a call. Not once. And I used to live in with a mountain between me and the nearest cell tower.

Why is it so many "geek" news sources are run by anti-geeks?
Patent goo: self-replicating Paxil
They also had a large call center that were experts on selling over the phone. There are well documented reviews of how they were able to get so many deals for so cheap on the web. In my experience as a software engineer, talking to businesses about giving me offers is not what I want to do and terribly boring but many people love it. You need to find the right people.
In the business world, situations with a certain amount ambiguity arise where people with conflicting goals must confront each other to determine the path forward: resource allocation, strategic direction, etc. When the other party, through force of personality, pushes an agenda that's good for them but not for the business as a whole, you quickly decide that you must learn their tricks. Not to use these tricks all the time, but to use them when you need to.

You might be assuming that disagreements are settled with logic and data; in practice that's not really true.

Think of it like running an advertising campaign. You put on whatever show tweaks the target audiences' neurons and convinces them to do what you want them to do. If you don't learn these tricks, your competitors will.
HP settles (confidentially) with ex-CEO Mark Hurd
FF3 does not attempt to support the ES5 standard, FF4 does* - maybe you can try that one.

* http://kangax.github.com/es5-compat-table/
Conveniently not mentioned in the FAQ.

I changed it for my own account only after reading the article. Funny enough, it's an inversely-worded checkbox in there (unlike all of the other options):

[ ] Do not include my documents in the Scribd Archive program. Learn more.
"The amount of Schadenfreude I'm experiencing right now is awesome."
You raise valid criticisms, and ones we considered for some time before building the product as we did.

a) Multiple proxies for demand exist, from the existing carrier-based services to portable GPS units to the use of cards swiped at the school gate in Japan and China.

b) Agreed. And the people we share our go-to-market plan with agree.

I make it a point to speak on the phone to several families a week. We have heard from hundreds of users directly via e-mail.

There is a long road from thousands to tens of millions - we don't pretend otherwise, but we do have that road mapped out.
Dav's experiment is interesting, but I don't see how these static pages come anywhere near touching "we do web applications not websites so we don't have to bother about non-javascript". A rich interface simply will not work with its interactivity taken away. Even something as simple as a selection rect fails under such a system. It would require a separate interface, and now we're back to where SproutCore gets us.

That is the dilemma of progressive enhancement. If you choose to do it, you must either limit your enhancements or support two separate interfaces.
Thanks for a solution to the problem of missing bright/bold colors that I found in your .screenrc. This issue hadn't bothered me much, otherwise I'd have researched it before, but it's nice to have it fixed anyway.

For reference, the option is question is

attrcolor b ".I"
In california there is at-will employment so it's difficult to imagine that HP would have ever won their lawsuit which would have prevented Mark Hurd from working and "earning" a living as the state would have seen it. HP settled because it's the smart thing to do to get this behind the company and go on to focus on it own business. I'll be excited to see who they name eventually name as CEO and whether it's an insider or outsider.
Nah, leave the users alone. If they are developers they should check that it does not say https anyway. I mean, hacker news does not scare people by saying, hey man this data is not secured. But then hacker news asks for a username which you make up on the spot and a password for which you do the same.
And if you want more in the style of Terkel, "Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs" (Edited by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe and Sabin Streeter, 2001) is also a good read.

There's an astounding range of jobs profiled from Crime Scene Cleaner to Porn Star Actor to Tofu Maker.
So the 'perfectly legitimate reasons' are all because of 'perverse inner workings' of some manager's mind?
It's not a consequence of automatic memory management. Both C# and Go have automatic memory management but their memory usage would be roughly comparable to C++ in this scenario.
Thank you. I've never understood why Scribd exists at all. The web has done fine at moving documents around before Scribd, and it'll keep doing it fine long after they disappear.
Shortly after I started working my first real job, my manager had to attend training regarding how to hire and interview. One of the things they drilled into her was to make all the interviews as alike as possible. You MUST ask each candidate identical questions. Her impression was that this was to protect the company in the event an un-chosen candidate found about the differences and could find some grounds to sue. It's possible your experience sprung from the same lawsuit-averse well.
There was a mysterious problem when assembler optimisations were enabled. This was fixed a few minutes ago in FFmpeg.

As for H.264 on a 400MHz ARM11, no amount of command line options will magically make MPlayer manage full SD resolution. If the H264 decoder were fully optimised for ARMv6, it might get close for low-complexity videos, but hardly any such optimisations have been done. There is simply little point, as it would still be too slow in most cases.
Bourdain's earlier book, Kitchen Confidential is great and I highly recommend it. It also has a "So You Want to Be a Chef" chapter (perhaps they are the same).

http://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Confidential-Updated-Adventure...

There was a time in my life when I aspired to be a chef and/or restaurateur. Later I concluded that it's better if some of your passions are simply left as that ... passions without the added burden of depending on them for your livelihood.

But I do think everyone should work at a restaurant at least once in their life. It's a customer-service learning experience and gives you an appreciation for the staff when you patronize restaurants later.
I agree, part of the argument of the rich is that they "deserve" to keep their riches, but what the Sunday morning shows and right wing blog comments may not highlight (I don't watch those shows or read the blogs) is the complete argument for why the rich should keep their wealth, regardless of if they "deserve" to keep it.

Of course greed and self-interest is part of the motivation for making those arguments, but most free market economists and supporters truly believe that by allowing the rich to keep their wealth that all of society will benefit. Rich, poor, everyone.

You may disagree, lots of people do since at face value it is counter-intuitive, but my point is just that a lot, probably the majority of free market supporters, actually do have the benefit of all of society in mind. They'd say that the 4% increase in marginal tax rate would actually be detrimental to the poor. Again, you may have excellent arguments for why it is better for the government to take and spend that money, but they have logical counter-arguments.
Synchronising product/stock details from warehouse to website.
Defying Consensus: Ulcer truth was hard to stomach
Right on, thanks Ask! I'm checking out some of this right now and might not be able to get through it all today, but will give it a try. Just shot you a couple messages outside of HN - love to talk when you have a chance!
>When the other party, through force of personality, pushes an agenda that's good for them but not for the business as a whole, you quickly decide that you must learn their tricks.

While I agree that this is the reality of the situation, it seems incredibly broken to me.
Hilariously, the official Acrobat plugin now only works in Safari on OS X — the only browser that absolutely does not need it. I think the change happened during the Intel transition, so you can't easily use an old version either.
This is absolutely uncanny. I've just started writing a similar blog post thread about my dev environment, and its similar to yours (i.e. screen (I'm moving to tmux though), vim, bash, etc.).
Google is in a unique position to know the first-order Shannon compression of the letter "j".

for the record, I get 'JetBlue' for "j". "s" gives me "skype", q gives me "quotes".

It's actually kind of fascinating.
MS will find all the possible ways to abuse a monopoly when they have one.

I don't think we need IE back in the game, we need to change the game to be as client agnostic and standards based as possible.
So what happens if the helper application crashes and tries to dump core? Would it try to run another instance of it to handle that crash, and so on, leading to a "core bomb"?
That's not fun. That's smoking, drinking and having sex - adult activities, not the regressive infantilism one usually associates with "workplace fun."

If you smoke at your desk, someone will complain about catching secondary lung cancer or it might trigger an asthma attack. Also, the workplace will stink of cigarette, cigar or pipe smoke - not a good sign if you're trying to win a contract from a health store.

If you drink, you'll get drunk at work. Fights could break out, and you'll screw up work that you should be concentrating on. And if you have to get into a car and take off for the client at a moment's notice whilst still drunk, that's deadly lethal.

Other kinds of drugs? Not really. Drinking at work is close to lawbreaking especially where you might need to drive to a client, but smoking a joint in the office is right out.

As for sex ... forget it. You're not going to work for that. You go to work to earn money for you and the company. Where does that sort of adult activity end? Do you allow open displays of sexual activity? Does your firm only allow straight affairs, or do you still go all Victorian if two lesbians or two gay guys take off on some torrid affair, all open public displays of affection in the workplace?

Think about all those employees at your workplace. Think of the one or two that always crop up, even in the most enlightened offices, who will sneer and grumble "Disgusting" under their breath at the sight of two guys locking lips in the copy room.

I know that firms need policies of fun at work to prevent them becoming grim, isolated monasteries. But smoking, drinking and sex are not the best choices of "fun" to allow in the workplace, any more than conversations about sex, football, politics or religion at the watercooler.
It's ok, but pdf's already show up in google, and are already readable in browser.
Disclaimer I am a Canuck
I have chosen to invest most my saving in income generating Real Estate. This is counter to what a lot my peers in my generation are doing.

I invest in residential properties either suited bungalows or condo townhouses. Even with the economic downturn they have been doing quite well for me.

I plan to grow this portfolio as a side project of sorts while I hack on software during the day. Over time it should be a solid source of "passive income"(investing in real estate is rarely ever truly passive).
Ask HN: How To Delete Whois History From Domaintools.com
I'm trying to clean up the public information I've used to register domains back in the old days as it references a lot of old address' and irrelevant information like my parents address and phone number. I've done fairly well but am unable to find out how to delete it from domaintools.com? I've tried sending e-mails to a number of contacts but am unable to contact anyone within the company.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Bonus Question: What other services might be collecting private information on me based on old whois records?
no. i spend all my money. not because i am incapable of saving, but because i like taking advantage of what resources i have while i'm relatively young (22). i'm confident i can defer saving until i'm at least 24 without feeling wasteful.

i know this is irresponsible, but i'm making up for my years of passing on irresponsibility in high school. just kidding. kind of.
Ask HN: Why are there no YC companies funded by Founders Fund?
Is there a reason why Founders Fund has not invested in any YC companies?
Thanks I make sure will ask in my next review
I was being somewhat sarcastic.
Regarding 2) and 3), my proposed "Basic Job" provides that. Everyone will be eligible for the Basic Job, including the formerly self employed and the unlucky, and no one needs to worry about survival.

As for 1) and 4), you seem to believe that there are a huge number of budding Linus Torvald's out in the world, being held down by their corporate 9-5 job. I think that's bunk.

If you think I'm wrong, you should be able to prove it easily. Many people do have some variant on basic income: NYC teachers in the rubber rooms, auto workers in the no-job banks, not to mention the vast European welfare class. Could you point out to me some contributions to the open source world from such people?
Sometimes less is ok.
I have been saving since I was a teenager in a regular 401(k) but then I realized that I can get a much better return on investment if I invest in myself. Now I keep it all and am investing it in my business endeavors.
Sad but interesting comment. I remember seeing a post in HN awhile ago with a title "If you're a programmer, you're sitting on a goldmine."
Prediction: part 2 is vim and part 3 is about his pimped up bash prompt that shows the current Git branch. Or something like that.
emailing pdf's is not my definition of "doing fine", I am not following the current drama much, but I do thank scribd for letting me look at content I would have otherwise ignored on seeing ".pdf"