skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[No] Future for Student Health Plans?
Stallman made free Emacs, then free GCC. He hasn't managed to make the widely usable free kernel at the time, but he prepared everything but that, which made possible for GNU licensed Linux kernel to become the part of the whole free system. It's an immense feat.

Some other important dates:

March 1985 -- The GNU Manifesto
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html

22 Mar 87 -- first release of GCC
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/History
Who cares if you're down-voted? I do. I care deeply.

I'm going to write a 10 page blog about it.
The original source quotes 17% unemployment for IT degrees not CS degrees.
Interesting article. I wonder if the guy who invented the bicycle ever had an accident. Was it newsworthy?
It sounds like a cool product. So I suppose you could also do just subtitles?

Maybe the need for voice translations does not emerge that often, because in most cases, if you are interested in a certain field, you either know the language already, or it is really niche. For example IT conference talks - most people would already speak English, even if they are not native speakers.

However, not being a native speaker of English myself, at times I would wish for subtitles because some speakers are hard to understand.

Karaoke is also REALLY big, I should think.
Canada ends probe of Facebook's sharing of data
He's dead, he won't mind.
Neither tragic nor ironic, IMO:

http://raganwald.posterous.com/the-tragic-and-ironic-death-o...
There is no central broker to tap - it's just P2P communications

According to the article, the proposed regulations would cover that:

Developers of software that enables peer-to-peer communication must redesign their service to allow interception.

Of course, that doesn't mean they'd have a prayer of enforcing it, but I don't like the idea of being forced into what would be illegal activity to preserve my own privacy.

It seems to me that this provision would be hard to make stick, what with the Clinton-era precedents that encryption code is protected under the 1st Amendment. It's probably time to pull out my old "This T-shirt is a munition" shirt [1]

[1] http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/shirt/
Oh no, as someone who regularly interviews CS graduates in the UK, there's no shortage of graduates. There's a shortage of very good graduates, which is incidentally exactly the same type of graduates I would like to hire. Personally, I blame university admissions for that.
Not having his pet feature in the way he likes is not same as ignoring security (and he repeats few times that HTML5 prioritised other stuff over security, keeps making things worse, etc. which is not true).

<iframe seamless sandbox="allow-scripts"> allows embedding of untrusted scripts. JS won't be able to escape the frame, but will be able to display result within the frame or send you result via postMessage().
Dupe, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1731380
There is no coasting or "snowball effect" - the Segway is not a freewheeling device. The wheels only do what the computers tell the motors to do.
You would seem to be an outlier then. Good developers are nearly impossible to find, and don't stay on the market for long.

I'd bet that if you dropped a few links to projects you've done in your spare time during your job hunt, you'd have people here asking for your resume. (assuming, of course, that you've been building projects in your spare time and that they're good.)
> it will just be there.

And if you don't remember it, you won't notice yourself being any worse off.
I'm not a .Net developer by trade, but I've done a (very) little bit.

Within the .Net installer builder (at least with newer versions of Visual Studio), when you build your installer, it has an option to supply the 'installer URL'. If you do this, your application will check for a product update (I believe) every launch, and prompt the user to download and install the update if available.

I don't think it's amazingly sophisticated, in that it just checks the URL for files containing meta data with newer version numbers, but that's probably all you need in regards to your first point.

As for piracy protection, I really wouldn't worry too much about it.
I'd do the same. For any fixed epsilon greater than zero you take a delta greater than zero but less than epsilon, and that's the value of those shares.
I have cancelled my BCS membership after one year. My membership wasn't even marginally useful for me in any way, their magazine constantly reminds me that they have absolutely no idea what's really going on in technology and they keep spamming me with their stuff I don't care about.
I've done recruitment of graduate developers in the UK before, and there aren't anywhere enough decent developers graduating. Many companies can't even fill their quotas for how many graduates they want to hire.

If you're a competent developer and you're not getting interviews then I'm guessing it's probably your CV that's letting you down.

edit: if you want someone to review your CV feel free to email me.
type 'mklink' into console.
only on vista and newer.
India bans bulk SMS for 72 hours due to Hindu/Muslim riot fears
"But, who benefits in this case?"

uh.... everyone. Trying to sue someone so you can force your employees to stay is lose/lose.
Double Standards on Open Standards
Just to supplement your caffeine trivia, most over-the-counter pain relievers contain caffeine as a fast-acting component to provide some relief for some types of pain before the medication has a chance to kick in. The "night-time" versions usually just omit the caffeine.
This post is not about Yegge. It's a little comparison of Common Lisp and Scheme (Plt Racket). I think a post with such a bad title should not be read no matter its content but YMMV.

This is all it contains about Steve Yegge: The quote from Yegge goes something like "Most newcomers independently come to the same conclusion; Scheme is the better language, but Common Lisp is the right choice for production work." Bottom line, I remember disagreeing a long time ago, but I've uh... independently come to the same conclusion.
It’s time to nut up or shut up
Ask HN: Are mobile phones on a plane taking off or landing really dangerous?
Are there any actual studies and detailed research with proof that having my mobile phone on during take off or landing provides and increased risk of the plane crashing (or other adverse reaction?)

I mean logically if planes did not have sufficient shielding for this would a terrorist not just bring about 1000 phones (say its for export for sale) as hand luggage and just leave them on? Also some planes now now allow mobile phones to be used on board.

Things that have been done for the sake of it or have continued because that was the way it has always been really annoy me. And I really hate having to switch off my phone and my RSS reader getting dirty looks for fellow passengers.
Thanks. I found the article much more interesting than the title suggested.
Web 3.0 Brings a New Wave of Startup Opportunities
Rules for Your "About" Page
40 Striking Web Illustrations For Your Inspiration
As illustration is somewhere in between those options and is something that can be used to give your website a very unique touch, we decided to gather 40 excellent examples of illustration in web design. There should be plenty here to inspire you
The words are genderless, singular pronouns.
It's rather obvious that for Sacca his relationship with Conway is more valuable than anything he does for the startups or his freaking charities. The purpose of his long, very long essay is the damage control of the relationship with Conway, nothing else.

Wow, that's cynical. "Freaking charities"?

If you'd ever met Chris Sacca, you'd know that this isn't true. He has just about the strongest reputation of any investor in SV, and doesn't need to lie awake at night worrying about what Ron Conway thinks of him.
perhaps you are right, I have been exaggerating about its success,but yet, this is not the issue, I mean, for the sake of the conversation let's say this will be distributed for free.

My dilemma lies somewhere else, in the zone of what is right or wrong. Would it be right to release such a tool which will give people the ability to encrypt data in a way authorities would not be able to decrypt, even if they have access (tap) to the providers switches.

I am using standard encryption suites, yet its the power lies in the application which is currently compiled and working on almost all of the well known desktop, servers and mobile platforms.
There was a really good comment the other day regarding Somalia, but searchyc isn't finding it.

Basically, there's actually some studies that suggest Somalia is doing _better_ under 'anarchy' than not. It's only after the UN stopped trying to impose a state that things started getting better.
The cook-book is at an early stage, from the post:
Areas for future exploration:Regular Expressions,File Access,Directories,Databases,Networking,Email,Graphics and Concurrency.
The List Of Startups Launching At TechCrunch Disrupt
how refreshed you are when you wake up is more a function of when you wake up relative to your sleep cycles. you can do two things -- set yourself a consistent, permanent sleep schedule (always go to bed and wake up at the same time), or research your own sleep patterns to try and determine about when you hit phase 2 non-REM sleep, and set your alarm clock accordingly.
It also always returns its result, and doesn't have the option of printing to standard-out (you have to use printf for that)

(format t "hello world")

From PCL: "T is shorthand for the stream STANDARD-OUTPUT, while NIL causes FORMAT to generate its output to a string, which it then returns."
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Segway company owner dies riding two-wheeled machine off cliff - Telegraph
15 fresh joomla news templates
If you want to launch a news website or a magazine then this post is for you. Buy commerical joomla themes for your news site and save alot of your design and development time, just purchase theme and load your news site is ready. CMS saves your time, effort and a lot of money, For managing websites and blog content through a simple and functional interface Joomla & Wordpress is the best open source content management system (CMS) but Designing for Joomla is not popular as designing templates for WordPress.
"steal" each other's staff. Fascinating how some people conceptualize this.
It's similar to how under-educated people will use reflexive pronouns and words they don't understand in order to sound educated or important.

You and myself (and I wonder whom else) accord that this is the penultimate instance that phenomena.
That is entirely irrelevent.

Dropping a bomb from a plane or a UAV is basically the same thing in these wars. The enemies have no weapons capable of shooting down our fighters. Have we lost a single plane to enemy SAMs in either Iraq or Afghanistan? We've certainly lost some helicopters, but there really is no difference between an F/18 and a Predator.

If anything the UAV allows for more accuracy and a better view of the aftermath, the pilot of a manned plane is trying to get in and get out, the pilots of a UAV are watching before, during, and after the strike. The pilot of a manned fighter sees less of the actual attack and is even further removed.

The same can be said for ships at sea firing Tomahawks, and before that artillery. Once you get beyond the face to face fighting of infantry it just becomes more and more abstract until we are here today where the guys pulling the trigger are 3,000 miles away.
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This guys analysis is pretty bad.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I don't think the deal was at all about maintaining good partner relations. I think it was more about trying to hold wages down in the valley. I realize that it was only a handful of companies, but those are the companies that literally everyone else looks to (for wage levels) and competes with for employees. It's quite possible that that agreement had very real effects on average salaries.
Good enough never is (or is it?)
I think they are also trying to help consumers. I listened to an interview where they said they have people on staff that will talk to customers and help them through the process. They are trying to make the searching process (and fees) make more sense. I think what you are describing may be more of a feature to RedFin than a brand new idea.
How meta :-)

Reminds me of CNN's "Nothing is happening" and another BBC news cast "tutorial", I think it was done by Ricky Gervais. These things just sink into the web somehow, does anyone have a bookmark left?
Greenberg on Depression & Addiction
Gary Greenberg, psychologist and author of The Noble Lie and Manufacturing Depression, ...argues that there are strong monetary incentives to define various problems as illnesses that psychiatrists "cure" with drugs. Greenberg argues that this distorts science and has strong impacts, good and bad, on how we view ourselves and the challenges of life. The conversation looks at the scientific basis for addiction and the role brain chemistry in depression. The conversation closes with a discussion of Greenberg's correspondence with the Unabomber.
openpgp for those too lazy to google.
Please keep me informed (matthias.goergens@gmail.com) on your progress, if you go this route. Thanks!
Census 101 will help you avoid statistical fallacies - Numbers Rule Your World
Thinking about this a bit more I suspect it is largely the quality of the programs. I watched Sagan's Cosmos when it first came out and have watched it recently and I thought it stood up pretty well.
Ask HN: How can I relocate for a better job?
Hello HN,

I am a web developer from an area of the United States on the East Coast that is very limited as far as available web developer jobs. I am employed, and have been for the past 2 years. My pay is decent considering the low cost-of-living, but well below the national average for the work I do. I am an expert with PHP (OO), MySQL, jQuery, of course HTML & CSS. Also others, but I'm trying to keep this short.

I am a single guy in his mid-20's, and I would love to relocate almost anywhere in the United States for a PHP Developer position. I have found hundreds of jobs, but most of them say locals only and never reply. By the way, back in 2007 I did receive an offer of employment and fully paid relocation to Seattle, WA after an application I was working on for a local company was sold to a Seattle based company, but couldn't accept because I was married at the time and the wife didn't agree.

I'm okay with not receiving relocation benefits if I find the right job, but it would be nice to receive at least some sort of assistance in the moving process. Either way, I'm not really sure how to go about landing a job in a place I can't drive to.

- THE QUESTION -

Have you ever landed a job or even a face-to-face interview for an opportunity that required relocation? Do you have any tips on how I can do the same? Would it be unreasonable for me to negotiate the prospective employer to pay all or part of the price for a plane ticket for an interview? Lastly, I'm searching in various places including Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Boston, Richmond, do you know of other cities with plentiful jobs in web development that I should consider?

Thanks for any help, and I hope this post hasn't ended up being way too long for anyone to read.

[edit]
Would anyone recommend moving before being offered a job? If I don't find something by early next year, I was thinking of just picking a city to move to without a job, and then trying to find one after moving, but most people tell me that it would be stupid to leave my current job without having something else lined up first.
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Hmm.. It is fun to come up with a different angle on a common argument, even if you don't seriously believe it. Could it be just nature encouraging us to signal intelligence? Maybe. Does it matter? I know sex is for making babies, but I still enjoy it. I didn't stop when I figured out that it was only enjoyable for the purposes of evolution.
None of the companies involved in this ruling forced their employees to stay. They didn't stop them from getting a job at a competitor either. All the original agreement said was that the companies involved would not actively try to lure employees away from each other.
If they were really dangerous, I suspect they wouldn't let you have them in the cabin at all. "Everyone turn off your phone" isn't the level of safety compliance major airlines typically rely on.
This post is a little reflection on this anecdote:
But each time we met she politely told me I was an idiot and my engineering department was even dumber. It took two meetings before we understood that our database schema didn’t include “householding” and without this feature was she could never buy our system. (Householding means recognizing that two or more people at the same physical address live together). That's all folks.
I, and several people I know, have been in this situation before. Facebook seems to have very little commitment to backwards-compatibility and comprehensive documentation.

On a more general note, I’d strongly recommend against building your entire business around a single platform.
This is a news website article about a scientific paper: Brilliant
An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm [2006]
A similar question was asked on a recent 'This Week in Startups' http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/this-week-in-start...

The gist of the answer was that if you were clearly making a play on the word eBay or if people might get them confused, then you have to stop. It doesn't sound like your case, so you are probably in the right, but the next question is how to deal if you want to fight it or ignore it.
Ask HN: WebMail packages for personal use
I want to start storing my e-mal in a MySQL backend and I am looking for a webmail package that I can run on OS X that will accomplish this.

I know that Zimbra is very RAM intensive. I am sure that asking for something like GMail is out of the question as well.

Thoughts?

Updated: More Reasoning: I have about 8gb of e-mail (compressed) over the course of the last 10 years. Sure some of it could be cleaned out to reduce the over all size. But I get concerned about portability, data lose, crashes, etc. I want to be responsible for my own data and know that I have it whenever and where ever I am.

If I change systems, platforms, etc then MySQL and a web mail interface is pretty portable. I don't have to worry about converting e-mail to a new platform. I also don't like leaving all of eggs in one basket like MobileMe or Yahoo. What if something happens? They are not without failure and mistakes.
steal? I wasn't aware that you could own someone in the modern world.

Poach, entice, lure, certainly, but steal?
A breakdown of airline fees
Samsung E2510 Unlocked
Samsung E2510, introducing with many more features and characteristics which let you be ahead always. The E2510 is here. Twist the sound awake earsplitting intended for a truthfully obvious acoustic knowledge by means of its MP3 player and FM radio overhaul. Currently you can employ your handset hands-free, with it’s a simple method to split a talk with others.
Elevated city will feel "70 degrees cooler" because of wind engineering
I think this is why difficulty settings like "nightmare", "veteran", "legendary", and just plain hard exist.

Someone has to make a game in which the hardest difficulty setting is so extreme you always die in the first ten seconds from a headshot.
It has to do with FCC regulations. This is terribly handwavy, because I barely remember the explanation, but basically, they have to make sure that the plane isn't giving off certain signals and interfere with anything, and the easiest way to do that is just to tell everyone to switch their devices off.

Hopefully someone can clarify that a bit.
Don't go to the exit interview, don't sign anything unless if they give you extra money.
Dead Rising, as far as I know, does not have quick saves. It is developed in Japan, and Japanese developers notoriously have an old-school mentality towards saving: discrete save points with no quick saves.
How does that cover in anyway the case where I run my own SMTP/IMAP server for me and my minions, and we are encrypting all email with GNU Privacy Guard using the GPGMail plugin to Apple's Mail.app?
There's a pretty robust wikipedia article about this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_on_aircraft
I think the author's point is that it's not a new concept. He's playing games more like he used to.
I recently ported my app back to the old Javascript API; I wish I could say that it was for the superior older documentation, but it was actually because the new API randomly stopped returning my calls from time to time.

All of the big moneymakers' apps are built on the older stuff, so I figure when it breaks, it gets a bit more love.

The documentation is still shoddy, the Bing-powered documentation search is abysmal, and when things don't work I don't understand why. I'd have happily paid a few hundred dollars to be part of the developer program and have a contact over there, but they killed that. Ah well.
The consequence of a Well-Arranged Research Proposal Format
The writing of the research proposal is an important element to research paper writing. Without a well written proposal it will not be approved. Therefore, it is vital that you pay strict attention to the writing of it. As the format is also an important element, ensuring that it is seen to will be a step in the right direction.
On a side note, although "recipes" is a more common word in the programming world, I like your suggested "spells" more.
It's the slavery, owned-property model. It really is grotesque.
I like the idea. I'm still an old wort who uses usenet, irc, and email for most of my communications. I might still be using finger too if most hosts hadn't turned it off. Turns out finger was quite the security risk. If that has changed then I could see myself using it again.

As long as we can get a better peek into their implementation... I am curious, like others, why they're not using public key authorization, etc.
They may not know the details of the solution, but they should know the details of the problem and it should be a very painful one. I am in this scenario where no one is asking for my solution, but when I describe the scenario everyone is like "Yes, I hate that!" and also "You can fix it? Awesome" If it is a big painful problem, then people will be willing to learn new technologies and change just to fix it.
One of the problems (as I see it) is that this "cookbook/spells" type information is spread all over the Internet. It would be more useful to users if it was located in one location and maintained on a regular basis. That was the role that I was willing to fill, but since I know David I feel pretty confident that he could just as well (maybe better) fill it.
Doing something like Heroku for Wordpress is a great business idea. I have tons of clients I'd happily point to such a service if I knew it was solid.
Certifications are generally used to keep people out of a market and allow entrenched players to control things. Look at the state of Louisiana's Florist License for and example of the absurd and protectionist.
"We succeeded at failing!"
Stuxnet worm + Iran + mainstream media = Global nuclear meltdown
I can't think of any webmail packages that will read the data directly from MySQL. You could use Google Apps for your day to day email use and then use IMAP to grab a copy of the mail and store that in MySQL?

If you don't want to go the Google Apps route take a look at http://roundcube.net/ .

Edit: It looks like Roundcube can use a MySQL db to store mail.
Man i wish I could give you 10 upvotes, you have just solved my only issue with Dropbox. I have like 4 machines that I work on regularly and this has now allowed me to sync all those config files you cannot easily move e.g. iTunes including the iPhone backups, Chromium user data.

Thank you so much!!