skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. I could see this working over and over if executed well.

Imagine a brand new site called Hulu that promises free TV shows in a legal way. To get on the beta, you do the normal list sign up but they tell you that you could get first access if you referred 3 people. Would you dig out 3 people to refer? My response is "Hell ya!" if I think my friends will like it.

How you get people to want the service bad enough that they'll invite others to get on a priority list will likely be the thing that people will need to focus on.
It's a Core 2 Quad with 4 GB ram and an Intel X-25M SSD...

I think it's not that your computer is fast, it's that you are slower than your computer. Which do you use more frequently for navigation, the mouse or the keyboard?
That's what I thought, not surprising to me at all.
I never would have thought of "Find out where they recruit talent". At first I thought that might be a good question. But your interviewers could namedrop contracting agencies or say they go to the UG meetings and other meetups, and the place could still suck. Useless question imo.

Something of critical importance is to do your best to judge morale. In fact, a simple question of "How is your morale?" is easy enough. If those that you ask that can't answer that immediately, or you they just can't convince you they are telling the truth, something is definitely wrong.
"I'm not sure I'd describe medicaid as "comparatively minor". Medicare is $390B, medicaid $247B ($290B including the state contributions). I guess the threshold for expenses that don't matter must bet somewhere between $290B and $390B."

2009 US Federal Spending: 3,518 Billion (100%)

2009 US Defense Spending: 782 Billion (23%)

2009 US Social Security: 678 Billion (20%)

Medicare and Medicaid combined: 676 Billion (19%)

I'm not saying Medicaid is nothing; I'm saying it's not even close to Social Security or defense spending as a source of concern.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY...
Strongly disagree with this (and I've seen my fair share of pitches). I'd much rather hear you're the "x of y" followed by an explanation of your key differences than listen to you reinvent the wheel.
That $100b doesn't get really "freed up", at least not entirely, and certainly doesn't go directly to the private sector. Part of it more or less gets destroyed: among large institutions, federal debt instruments, especially short-term, are treated as something close to cash. The government buying it back (by paying down the debt) takes that quasi-cash out of circulation, deflating the money supply. In effect, the government uses $100b of one kind of money to destroy $100b in quasi-money.
Death rays at the Vdara hotel pool in Vegas
Yeah, what's up with that? NetBeans is great in theory, but I type half a word and have to wait for a second for it to show me completions I don't even want... I've switched to vim completely now, not for any conscious reason, but just for the fact that I found running it to quickly edit a file and then staying there for hours.
Any lawyer here who can evaluate the validity of these documents?
There is a good post Hackers and Hustlers that you should read

http://learntoduck.com/micah/hackers-hustlers
services like turbotax could distribute these sorts of receipts.
Earlier CitizenKane made a point about the lack of standards across SQL databases in general. As such migrating from one SQL db to another would probably present just as equally a challenge.

Let me tell you migrating from Informix 9.4 to SQL Server 2005 was no walk in the park.
In terms of the adoption of NoSQL databases (or any dev technology) within your enterprise, write a small and useful app as a side project in your spare time. Once you're done present it to your manager (or team lead) and I'm sure it'll increase its chance of it becoming more widely used within said company.
A Frank Lloyd Wright gem in Northern California
Sounds like you've certainly made an effort to contact them. My only other suggestion would be to contact their hosting company's support department and let them know there is a security issue with one of their clients' sites and you haven't been able to reach the site's owners.
How does selling these trust-preferred securities relieve the Treasury of its obligations to guarantee troubled assets? (I ask because I don't know)
The private sector isn't actually putting money to use at the moment.
That's keeping the payroll taxes that pay for medicaid intact. So you're saying cut the medicaid program and slush the money that pays for it over to the discretionary budget (funded by income tax) to plug the hole there? Maybe put a different line item for that amount, or rejigger the tax itself into income tax? Or cut the medicaid program and kick it all towards medicare to give it a longer lifeline? Honest questions, would love to hear a clarification.

(for the record, I'm keeping it extremely civil in the numbers but find the thrust of this morally disturbing because I think there's a right to basic medical care and you can't deny it only to the poor)
It feels like the article merely repeats some of what I read in the Unix haters handbook years ago.

LISP machines were extraordinarily expensive for a single-user machine, much of which was due to the heavyweight hardware (like 32-bit processors, 32MB of RAM and fast high-capacity disks in the 1980s).

If I recall correctly, your basic Symbolics LISP machine, with software, cost about $50,000 in 1986. According to an online inflation calculator, that's $96,500 in today's money. I can guarantee that the resulting 64-core 128GB machine with 1TB of SSDs in RAID-10 configuration would beat the pants off of the Symbolics workstation, use less power and make much less noise and you'd have money left over.

All that said, interface responsiveness is part of the user experience. If your application/OS/device crosses that threshold were the user has to wait, it's a failure. People only stick with Word for Windows (surely the unnamed word processor referenced) because they don't know better or have a choice.
If you think Office is slow, try something from Adobe.
"I don't agree that all politicians are Democrats or Republicans, or that it's pointless to speak about issues where the parties in power aren't making good proposals."

I didn't suggest that it was. I just think that if we're going to have an intellectually honest discussion about the matter, we have to disregard most of the Republican party rhetoric: the poor are not the problem. The elderly are the problem. As far as I'm concerned, nobody is saying that out loud.

The Democrats are just as guilty of pandering to their base (which is also elderly), but at least they don't hang the poor out to dry in a cynical attempt to distract attention from the real problem.
Meh. I took a 15% paycut when I got my new job after being laid off. I'm pretty sure my new peers who've been at my new job longer are making close to what I used to pull in.

And I don't care. My new co-workers are awesome, my commute is 1/3 the distance, and I feel like I'm making a real difference rather than being a tiny cog whose only purpose was to make the red part of a pie graph get very small.
Paved roads in the U.S. are not really cheap. A typical 2-lane rural road is about 1.7 million dollars per mile. A suburban road is double that; 3.5 million dollars per mile.

ftp://ftp.dot.state.fl.us/LTS/CO/Estimates/CPM/summary.pdf
Real Time Twitter Search via Websocket or Comet using the Atmosphere Framework
Currently Twitter support a streaming API described as "The Twitter Streaming API allows high-throughput near-realtime access to various subsets of public and protected Twitter data".

Unfortunately, no such API are available when it is time to execute real time search. Thanks to the freshly released Atmosphere Framework 0.6.2, let’s create such API in less than 25 lines. As an extra, let’s the Atmosphere JQuery Plugin selects the best transport for communicating with this API: Websocket, http-streaming or long-polling.
I personally would like to see it go to help those that have verifiably lost their job due to this downturn, and are now facing foreclosure and devastation. We bailed the banks out, we should use any of those profits to bail out the innocent bystanders that got caught up in this mess and had no hand in creating it. I am not talking about those who over bought, I am talking about the underemployed that where employed in a career, had a history of reliable payments and just got caught in the cross fire.
Comprehensive, in-depth comparison of Google URL Shortener and Bit.ly
> I can guarantee that the resulting 64-core 128GB machine with 1TB of SSDs in RAID-10 configuration would beat the pants off of the Symbolics workstation

Running MS junk, web 2.0 crapware, or open-source masterpieces of infinite bloat such as Firefox? Don't be so sure.
Sure, Flickr is one of the services Facebook seeks to replace. Basically, at this point Facebook is a big mashup of email, IM/chat, Flickr, Twitter and a blog.
WebP - Google's new image format based on the VP8 codec
Various Forms of Greeting | Authspot
I made a Pomodoro Timer in Python using PyQt4
The relation is like a futures contract to a commodity. You are just trading an abstract thing, not the commodity itself. CDOs are bonds created by the corporations that hold the assets, not assets themselves.
Wait, 65% of the budget deficit? Your own quote has it at 290 billion dollars, that' s approximately 30% of the discretionary budget deficit. Letting alone the fact that it's part of an entirely separate budget.
Someone posted a great link to an article at the consumerist. I've managed to guess their email naming convention using a google search, so have sent off a detailed email of the problem to their executives trying to "dumb it down" as much as possible by including screenshots and a basic outline of a social engineering strategy (including a nightmare outcome) that might occur as a result of their oversight.

Hopefully it will come to someone's attention.
I'm not sure how you could ever manage to make $100 billion in government borrowing or spending not 'political'.

Because this $100 billion is not being borrowed or spent. The borrowing has already occurred and has been spent (in this case invested). This $100 billion is a separate unaccounted for number -- one of profit. It's not inherently part of a partisan issue, like the expiring Bush tax cuts, for example.

If you reduce government borrowing by $100 billion that frees up $100 billion for use by the private sector.

No it doesn't. The private sector is free to borrow as much as it likes from banks at any time. The only impacting factor might be on interest rates and inflation, but those are reflective of other factors as well.
If I was desperate to get an account, I would create fake e-personas to sign up as well. I would be embarrassed to spam my friends for my benefit.
I heard this story on NPR. The guy said that even though there were results to the study, they didn't have a way to measure group intelligence effectively yet.

So the first part of the statement, 'The "intelligence" of a group can be measured, according to a new study, and it has little to do with the brain power of its individual members,' they say is true, but the second part is false.

Something that annoyed me about the study though is that they indicated that a sign of intelligence was taking in everyone's input and making a balanced decision. I'm sure a "group of intelligent people" came up with that one.
Indeed. The key here is recognizing that the "model" approach is fundamentally different than the "superset" approach. Too often these get blended together.

Portraying your idea as the sum of several individual models can be a very effective technique. Saying something like "you can send your friends fake gifts, just like you can on Facebook" and "you have a live chat window like JustinTV" is more likely to promote understanding and less likely to raise questions than saying "Imagine if Facebook was better..."

(Yesterday, I actually saw a presenter get grilled for 20 minutes about features completely unrelated to their program, due largely to the fact that they took this "Imagine If.." approach.)
Focus on a few successful products. And focus on adding value.

A long time ago Yahoo was what now is Yahoo Directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/ It rocked. Now it seems to be unmaintained and there's nothing today like that. Resurrecting it with quality links (no content farms, About.com, Experts Exchange, etc.) would be an alternative to SEO-pwned search engines.
So "shareholder" doesn't mean Citi shareholder but rather taxpayers, and "dividends" doesn't mean dividends to Citi shareholder but tax refund to me. In that case, I share the wish, and admire the irony.
Aaope you're kidding.
That's a tough job. I'd start by pumping all brand promotion efforts away from Yahoo itself, into the various Yahoo Sites (finance, games, etc.) and away from search. Yahoo is so established in search, that it isn't necessary to promote that aspect of the company. Plus, it would be easier to establish that Yahoo is the leader in financial analysis and shopping results than trying to convince users that Yahoo can still hang with Google in search- it's an uphill battle not worth fighting.

After a bit of time passed, when it became visible what segments have potential, and what does not. It's time to cut. Surgically and decisively. The only way for Yahoo to compete in user-based web services is, in my opinion, to follow the Jack Welch method for cleaning up GE- cut everything that cannot make a reasonably stab at being the market leader. It saved GE from near certain doom. Under that same policy, GE has cut consumer electronics, their bread and butter for the first 50 years, but they are powerful and dominating in the spaces they do play in. Yahoo may have to ultimately drop search- it seems absurt to say it though. But as a company Yahoo has to trim the fat and cut the underperforming sectors. It's make or break time.

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I would open source Pipes and YQL. I would shut down Delicious, sell Flickr to Google and try to find a buyer for Upcoming. Really, I think the best thing that's left in Yahoo! is Finance - I'd build that up.
Proton-DB : Web Storage Framework (modeled after Mongodb)
An "Allow for X minutes" feature would be awesome. That way I'd never have to disable it, I could just give myself small breaks every so often.
a) Look to buy innovative startups.
b) Solve the no-appstore-for-web-apps problem, win over developers by making this a nice rollout platform with simple cloud JSON data storage, search integration, social integration etc.
I don't see the point. If you want a "receipt", read a Budget overview article.
Just as a word of warning: these documents are for starting a Delaware company. Don't rely on them if that's not what you're after.

Also these forms deal with low level technical questions but not the real questions a lawyer should be able to help you with: when and why should you incorporate? What is the real deal between you and your co-founders? How is that deal expressed? What are the traps to be wary of?

Using legal documents you don't understand the implications of could lead to to the legal equivalent of software put together by a non-programmer based on google searches of examples of VB code.

(IANAUSL - I am not a US lawyer :)
Well, you have to have your own ASN to announce it, yes. :) And certainly, you have to get the other ISP to allow this announcement from you through their filters, but that's a normal part of establishing BGP routing with another provider.

But the point is that if Level3 announces 4.0.0.0/8, yes, you can announce 4.16.73.0/24 through them, and through Global Crossing as well. Level3 does have to forward your announcement to its peers de-aggregated, though; that is, if they just fold it into their 4.0.0.0/10 announcement, incoming traffic will prefer your /24 announcement through GX because the prefix is longer/more specific, and plus that gives Level3 no way to withdraw the announcement if the link goes down. Not everybody will happily let you punch holes in their nice, clean aggregate like that, potentially hosing their AS as a whole with flap dampening penalties and such if the link is flaky. However, it is normal order of business with Tier 1s.

But yes, if you have an ASN, you can announce a /24 or bigger directly. You can't do anything smaller, though I have the sneaking suspicion that may change. There are some cranky network operators out there who have not upgraded to equipment with the horsepower and RAM (most importantly RAM) to hold a full BGP view consisting of prefixes down to the /24 granularity, and will indeed filter higher, but they're techically misrouting -- their problem. In any case, that's not the norm, no.

If everybody filtered prefixes smaller than /19 or /20, then multihoming would be the province of a relatively small plutocracy of institutions. I haven't run the numbers any time remotely recently, but most announcements, by volume, are of prefixes smaller than /19 for sure.

Take a look at this:

http://bgp.potaroo.net/as2.0/bgp-active.html

If I'm reading "Prefix Length Distributions" right, 52% of all announcements are /24s, and average prefix length is 22.33.

Now, technically, what's being announced != what's being filtered by influential backbones. But it has to be pretty dang close, or ~52% of all announced networks would not be routable from Sprint. :-)
I'd assume you should just use the documents as a really good starting point. Plus most lawyer will probably add some articles here or there, or change the phrasing to the way they like to do it.

I would wonder more if there are issues here that matter state to state.

But this seems like a fantastic resource, and I'm not aware of many free ones like it.
My unrealistic idea for changing how taxes work is allowing me to designate which programs my cash goes towards. Make it kinda like the old Wheel of Fortune ... where you've got $x to spend on stuff that's priced 5 times what it's supposed to cost. If I want to buy 0.003% of that winter's salt supply for the road, or 0.00001% of a Predator drone ... at least I'd know where my taxes supposedly went.
Any one know how they answered the question ?
> you don't need to run MS office, right?

Tell that to my employer, one of the world's largest bureaucracies.

My home computers are 100% MS-free and suffer the same basic problem. The difference is in degree, not kind. Run OpenOffice lately?

> Ubuntu linux + chrome + emacs = no lag.

Lag enough to make me retch.

> I don't think... any computer is immune to the problems of network latencies.

The post was not about individual computers, but about computer systems. That the whole world is on a lunatic lemming-march back to the days of timesharing does not excuse the results. Network latency should have no bearing on the performance of a word processor. That we have built ones where it routinely does is idiocy of the purest sort.
>Why stop at the browser or IM client though? Technically, Gnome itself only exists because of that same mindset (not being satisfied with KDE's initial license).

The trouble with "why stop there" arguments though is that they can make any reasonable suggestion seem absurd.

There was a valid reason to create Gnome, but is there a valid reason for Epiphany?

>I would never presume that people who are predominantly volunteering their time and efforts to work on Gnome have a responsibility to rely on non-Gnome applications for fundamental desktop functionality

The creators of Gnome have no responsibility to their users, but as users we have the privilege of providing them with feedback.

If 99.999% of Gnome users are providing the development team with the feedback that they will not use Epiphany no matter how much more polished it becomes then what should Gnome do?

The way I say it there are three options.

1. Do nothing, continue to develop and polish an application which no one will ever use.

2. Retire Epiphany and then have no "official" Gnome web browser.

3. Retire Epiphany and chose one of the major browsers which most of their user base are already happily using, and then try to make the experience of that browser on their desktop as good as possible.

Maybe I am narrow minded, but are there really any other options?
"if I think my friends will like it."
Yeah - Yahoo! could certainly use some Welchian / Michael Porter strategic sense. The problem is that Google needs to do that too. That's why I think they should sell Flickr to Google - it's a much better fit for Google than Yahoo!

Delicious is a dog - I don't use it any more. To be fair, I don't use Digg, Reddit or StumbleUpon either. I get my traffic from Twitter, DZone, Reddit Programming and here.

Upcoming is an interesting situation. We use it here in PDX for some things, but we have our own local event calendar, Calagator.org. There's also Meetup.com and Eventbrite and Facebook calendars. I'm not sure anyone really owns that space, but at least Meetup has a revenue model.
Ahh, I had been curious about that, and the statements don't really say.
Sell it and buy an island.

I'm sure there are good people working there. Have an independent firm hire some top notch developers and efficiency experts to come in, identify them, then split off a company with those people in it and call it something else like "Good Yahoo". ;) Then, sell the rest off in pieces.

Seriously though, it is a tough nut. They are still mostly known for an outdated search index. They have no winning product in the public mindshare. They are old. Marketing could fix that, if they had a super product/service to sell. But don't base that product/service's success on ad revenue. They can't compete with the big boys on that, nor can they make much money handing it off to them.
I am yet to be sold on using Cython or it's ilk but it is philosophical/personal preference thing rather than a commentary on the quality or usefulness of these projects. As I have no trouble switching code to C++ and integrating it with python these projects don't offer me the same thing as a coder with less C++ experience.

As an aside some simple coding changes will allow Psyco to do much of the by hand optimisations that Cython gives you. Not all and it is easy for another coder to come along and ruin everything. All it takes is some understanding of how Psyco performs its magic.
I was a co-founder of 8aweek.com (YCW08) which was a similar concept for firefox.

See screen shots: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6562/

The trouble about doing it for one browser is that your other browsers quickly come into use.

One system wide fix is to edit your hosts file: http://thingsilearned.com/2007/05/04/combating-internet-addi...

but it only blocks you from sites instead of giving you nice time limits. And it becomes too easy to change back.

I wish there was something that offered the limit functionality but for all browsers/access but currently i know of nothing.

RescueTime (YC W08)'s Get Focused app is the best implementation of this I've seen.
Copyright infringement has nothing to do with counterfeiting. It seems to me that politicians are bundling them together in their newspeak, like in the infamous Anti-"Counterfeiting" Trade Agreement (ACTA https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Anti-Counterf...), to make anti-piracy more palatable to the public.

Yes, I know it sounds conspiracy-theorish, but remember they have been negotiating the ACTA with all the secrecy.
No doubt. Totally kidding around here, hopefully that was understood.

In all seriousness, transparency in government spending would be most welcome.
Google doesn't have API for URL shortner. Do they?
Also, I doubt if applications already using bit.ly will switch to Google's one soon.