skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The contention was that there was never a "big expansion in government spending." There was a $600 billion increase in government spending for this one program.

The article's reasoning that %40 of the spending does not count because it was tax cuts is nonsensical. The tax cuts were meant to stimulate the private sector. Why was the bill signed if %40 of it was being misappropriated?

The article's reasoning that the payments to states and local governments should not be counted is also flawed. At the time the bill was passed people like Krugman were praising the payments to the states as the fastest way the money could be put into circulation and start "stimulating". If the money was mis-used by the state and local governments well whose fault is that but the federal government for lack of oversite.

If he wants to state that the stimulus had little effect or was too small to be worthwhile fine. The statement that there was no big expansion of government spending is false.

The fact that nothing was done with the money doesn't erase the fact that the money was spent and an unnamed future generation now has a $600 billion bill to pay.

So sadly yes, the man is a shrill who long ago lost his objectivity and value as a commentator.
Exactly. This is what Craig means when he says he got a perfect score when it meant perfect -- he got all the questions right.

For example, I took one of the SATs of that era (before antonyms were removed), missed only one question on the math section but still got a mere 770. I got over it.
UsedOilMarket --  Pointers to angels?
My name is Heather Brack. We recently launched our flagship website UsedOilMarket.com.

http://www.usedoilmarket.com

UsedOilMarket is an on-line marketplace that uses location, price, quantity and product specification to match buyers and sellers of used motor oil. We will deploy this software into several comparable markets.

Think "E*Trade-with-Google-Maps for recyclable commodities".

If you want an overview of the domestic and global used oil market, I recommend The Kline Group's "Global Used Oil 2009: Market Analysis and Opportunities"

http://www.klinegroup.com/reports/y684a.asp

We have recently been accepted as an Innovate Arkansas client. Under their direction, we have developed numerous business planning documents which can be made available via AngelSoft. (IA is a state-funded program and not an investor.)

http://innovation.arkansasbusiness.com/client/59/recycle-markets

The site is operational and we have positive feedback and suggestions from both buyers and sellers as well as '>NORA members. However, for the site to achieve and sustain dominance as the marketplace for this industry, we require funding for several regional marketing campaigns.

We are currently seeking seed financing to support marketing and further development of the UsedOilMarket website.

If you have questions or would like access to the demonstration website, please contact me. If you know of anyone who may have interest in this industry or this investment, please feel free to forward this email to them.

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Google Testing Chrome OS Release Candidates. Official Release 1 Month Away?
"... I think you have never actually tried to use Aikido in a real hand-to-hand combat situation ..."

Correct, do you know why?

Because I leave the "ego" at the door & understand if you have got to the a point where you have to fight you have already lost. cf: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3497187984/

"... A hard punch on the nose is the best start of any fight ... "

I'd say ambush is the best way. This the secret about fighting - real fights don't happen by accident. They are in fact orchestrated. An ambush where the victim won't see it coming, numerically outnumbered and the odds stacked against them. You are in for a beasting, possibly killed.

But most of what we know as fighting is two people bumping into each other, registering fear in each others faces, letting the ego get involved and things escalate from there. This is avoidable and the type of situation I'm referring.
"... In practice, if you do end up in a serious fight in which your physical well-being is at risk, you want the most effective strategies, that have the lowest risk of going wrong, and that's not Aikido. ..."

That is a weapon situation, a situation you avoid at all costs. There is only one outcome. Read my reply to @Confusion.
IE 8 is the new IE 6
This is true, though the patent office can require a model (s.114 via the same link), so in practice you'd probably want that on hand. I was just trying to distinguish between the 'cool' basic idea that's not patentable and the expensive detailed recipe that is.
Static blogging the Jekyll way
That may be so, but it's orthogonal to the issue at hand. Employees aren't prevented from selling their shares only because of stupid SEC regulations, but also because most companies don't want their equity resold.

Envision any legal future you want, and companies will still find a way to express that employees should share the upside of an acquisition, but cannot distribute company equity to outsiders.

Can I just say, real quick: for all I know, there's a trend in the valley right now towards giving employees unrestricted common stock on exercise of their options. I think this is crazy --- unrestricted stock once allowed me to imperil a deal at a prior employer --- but who knows? All I can say is that every startup I've worked at or known people working at, employee stock was heavily restricted.
Though not in a globally accessible form.
After re-reading the post, this sticks out prominently:

"I've been debating whether to say this, since it'll smack vaguely of obsequiousness, but I've realized that one of the Google seed engineers (exactly one) is almost singlehandedly responsible for the amazing quality of Google's engineering culture."

Is it Craig?
When you submit to conferences / journals and write a book, it ceases to be a "hobby project".
I believe reddit has historically done something similar. Rather than having a given article's ranking decay over time, they simply hand out better ranks to newer articles, leading to continual inflation. A naive example of this sort of ranking would be (timestamp in hours + upvotes - downvotes).

This would make your (excellent) idea easy to implement, because you could just use an autoincrement key as the timestamp, ignoring any sort of decay calculations.
While I'm none too fond of Carol Bartz, the article and the source it's based on are ignoring the severe challenges a failing company faces when it tries to recruit someone. Its very common for such a company to pay a big premium and end up failing anyway.

I'd also want to look closer at the Micron situation, they're in a nasty cyclical business. And they need serious talent at the top if they want to stay in business.
Neat. The sound-wave equivalent of a Mills Cross style radiotelescope, which can be electronically "aimed" at any point in the sky by adjusting the signal delay from each individual reciever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_Cross_Telescope
Before people get carried away with stories about how the big guy is crushing the little guy, keep in mind that there are at least 4 different programming languages named D, and this doesn't seem to have killed any of those projects. Name collisions are inevitable when everyone picks names that are around 1-4 characters.
I guess the way to make Facebook delete photos is to write popular articles where you list the photos that you want deleted
Yep, you basically have a controversy filter.
Don't post stuff you don't want other people to see - plain and simple. Someone could just as easily have copied and re-uploaded it. Hope this topic doesn't devolve into Facebook-bashing.
You've demonstrated perfectly the old-grandpa 'get off my lawn position'. However dismissing him as just some guy who sprays crap on other people's property probably just indicates you aren't aware of the social / political messaging he engages in.

"Any advert in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours…You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head…They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs." - Banksy in Wall And Piece

He certainly doesn't ask for permission. Look at his "One nation under CCTV" piece: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-559547/Graffiti-arti...
That said, I'm almost certain that the linux kernel is released under a modified form of the GPL...

Nope, it's standard stock GPLv2-only. There's a clarification included in the COPYING file that reminds people that userspace binaries that use the documented system call interface are not considered derived works, but that's not a modification of the license; it's just included for clarity reasons.

or at least Linus refuses to enforce parts of the GPL.

Not entirely. He's stated that he doesn't believe that a kernel module is automatically a derived work of the kernel. For example, he's of the opinion that the nvidia binary driver is not a derived work of Linux because the driver core was first designed and written for a completely different OS.

Regardless, Linus Torvalds is not the last word on this: just about any kernel contributor with copyright ownership could file suit.

There is no preparing. They don't own the code. They need to release it in exactly the same state it was in when deployed as binary. Otherwise, they are violating copyright (often referred to as pirates).

Exactly.
I work for a managed infrastructure firm that specializes in scaling out secure platforms for customers that require HIPAA compliance - might want to check it out.

http://www.lightcrest.com/security/hipaa

Ex Myspace/Microsoft folks - lots of in house experience building high-volume sites that get pounded with malicious traffic.

Cheers
Discuss HN: Small App vs Big App
This just came to my mind while reading HN.

Is it better to create a quick app (a weekend of coding) and start making small but quick income or would you rather spend a month or two building something bigger in order to have a larger income but might take longer.

Lets say you already have a full time job and this will be just a side income.
Blogspam. The actual content is here: http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/the-debate-is-it-latin...
The theory behind it is that, yes, you will wake up more refreshed with three hours of sleep than four, because if you wake up mid-cycle you will be terribly groggy (a problem I suffer from fairly often).

The large range of sleep (four times) is designed to matchup with most peoples' typical length of sleep (six to ten hours).

As far as differences in sleep cycles, you are totally correct. My research led me to determine that ninety minutes is generally accepted as the total length of four stages of sleep, but any variance from that will skew the results. That said, the vast majority of people (supposedly) complete the four stages of sleep in about 90 minutes.
To be fair, the jury is still out on whether or more accurately how much of the film is fake. The bigger issue is that the themes and ideas are not any more or less valid based on whether or not parts are fake.

I realize that seems really ambiguous, but seriously go see the film if this subject interests you.
I've bought a Nook, and I'm using it for reading on long journeys, but I'm being careful not to let it displace my book-buying habits, precisely because I want to be one of those people with a houseful of awesome books when I get older.

Therefore, my rule is this: I only use the Nook to read things which are public domain. There's more than enough public domain stuff I want to read out there to keep me occupied. But if I'm going to pay for something, it's gonna be a proper printed physical book which I can keep for the rest of my life.
So, why is Latino better than Hispanic? They explain why "Hispanic" is a poor choice (one I agree with, it's like using 'Anglo' for white people, which is a category a Slav with Jewish ancestry like me doesn't fit into on any level) - but why is Latino a better choice?
Surprise: Developing For Windows Phone 7 Isn't A Total Waste Of Time
This is really more of a PR vulnerability than a real problem. The fbcdn URLs are unguessable; it would require a comparable amount of effort to brute-force a Facebook session token, which would yield all your current private photos.

The only thing that can happen as a result of the fbcdn cache is that a malicious friend could publish the stale fbcdn URL. But that same malicious friend could also publish the picture itself on any of a dozen photo sharing sites, and that "attack" is far more damaging: Facebook can't trace it or shut it off.

It is, I suppose, worth pointing out that this is a reason to be irritated at any friend who republishes your photos by hotlinking to the Facebook CDN.
I like this idea! I originally designed it because I always knew what time I needed to get up to complete my morning routine and get to work on time, but it would be cool to customize my alarm (to the nearest 90 minutes) to when I finally get tired and go to bed. Great idea, and thank you!
Ask HN: what taxes/tax forms does a freelancer need to submit?
Hi all, in the US, what taxes/tax forms does a freelancer/independent contractor need to submit, to whom (Social Security? IRS?) and when (quarterly? yearly?)?

I'm checking into this subject and in my current location an independent professional needs to submit quarterly business tax forms (due to VAT, etc.), pay social security on a monthly basis and, of course, a yearly declaration to the IRS.

Thanks in advance.
In other news, if your "friends" repost your Facebook photos to other photo sharing sites, those posts are not deleted after you delete your Facebook photo.

Same issue.
If the phrase is altered, short and generic like "There's an app"(no-tm) rather than "There's an app for that"(tm), I don't see why it wouldn't work. I didn't see anything in the article about "There's an app"(no-tm), only "There's an app for that"(tm).
I really, really hate video tutorials. I've only ever seen 2 or 3 that I thought were useful. The rest were massive wastes of time. I really do -not- need to see you type. I don't need to see you actually click on the 'add new' button 60 times. I don't need to hear your bad accent and raspy microphone.

Write it down. Take screenshots. And answer your comments section.
When this issue came up last time, it seemed as if the only reason fbcdn images were ever hitting Google Image Search was that people had deliberately hotlinked to them from their own web pages. It is actually just as easy --- you could argue that for a non-tech-savvy user it's even easier --- to save and repost the photo itself.

I agree with your analysis though: once you post it, it's out there, and there's nothing you or Facebook can do about it.
Intro to F# part 1: first-class functions, the composition operator
With divide-and-conquer, I meant, when you are finished with your long lived branch, don't merge/rebase it outright with/on your current master branch.

Just keep rebasing it forward week by week of last year. (Of course this should not happen in real time, since you have to catch up.)

So a stop the world change is still doable with this model---your commit history will just pretend that you finished your branch within a week.
I imagine they would only find it hilarious assuming it IS an extreme caricature ;)
There's also the unspoken assumption that once you find out you're going to die you're going to drop everything, tour the world, meet up with all your loved ones etc. But that's a very Disney-esque view of the world.

Medical care for a serious health issue can be extremely expensive. My sister has been battling cancer on and off for over 11 years and has had 4 separate occurrences. She continues to work. She needs her job because it provides better insurance than her husband's and they need two incomes to pay the medical bills.

You would practically need to be Bill Gates to do the Disney-esque Version of living with a life-threatening medical condition.
Neither GIS nor Archive.org will index or archive photos you haven't set public. ("Friends Only" is not public.)
I wouldn't have said either of those sets of numbers was enough different that it mattered which you picked. It the numbers were a bit further apart, then it could make some difference.
It's not really the same issue. This issue is you tell Facebook to delete something and they don't. I don't really see it as a huge problem myself, but I can see how someone who's not familiar with how CDNs work would be upset.
(1) "overnight" not exist in the Internet era. (from Spain)
(I'll answer several above messages here.)

I'm a part-time stander; perhaps 25 hours per week. I also sit, recline, and every once in a while decadently lounge while reading super-important work email on my iPad. Still, I've been standing a lot for many months, so I can look back and observe:

* It takes a few weeks to feel right. I'm far past that, and I feel much less tired after standing most of the day, than sitting all day.

* Standing a lot is really not a big deal. Lots of people work on their feet all day. Every day. See the above comments about ancestors.

* It is probably possible to develop all manner of trouble by standing too still. I wouldn't know; I am essentially incapable of standing still. I shift around continuously as I work.

* It is indeed very helpful to have the monitor high enough to look straight at it; this has totally removed the incentive to slouch.
The title given this article (by yahoo, incidentally, not evo_9) is impressively incorrect. "Previously undocumented bronze age civilization newly discovered" would be more accurate. It's also interesting, but not nearly as incredible as a literal new society in russia that is living with bronze age technology.
Really? Windows Phone 7 Commercials
Are you comfortable using the command line and nothing else? There is a lot you can learn by being able to configure, diagnose and fix systems using only the core tools. Once you have that under control, you might want to compile and install specific device drivers. Oh, BTW, I recommend using an old, spare PC. Maybe try TinyCore or DamnSmall Linux rather than something as complete as Ubuntu.
It's definitely a real PR problem, even if it isn't a semantically authentic security problem (a term I have just coined).
However dismissing him as just some guy who sprays crap on other people's property probably just indicates you aren't aware of the social / political messaging he engages in.

No, I think that just serves to make it worse.

Any advert in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours…You can do whatever you like with it.

That's a ridiculous position to hold. By that logic, if I see your face in a public place then I have the right to rearrange your face as I see fit.
We're talking at cross purposes. You're talking about options, I'm talking about restricted stock (which is what I have experience with).
This will always be a problem. The corporates and most of the business will always use whatever comes with their OS, for a simple reason that they don't have administrative rights to upgrade their browser, or simply because its just an extra overhead for the corporation to upgrade thousands of their workstations.

I can't think of any alternatives to this problem. I am pretty sure I will still be considering IE6 while developing websites in 2015, let alone IE8.
> I’m developing for the future exclusively

Weird, I'm developing for my employer, and by extension for our clients.
Sorry, I'm including weekend nightlife in Food expenses. With out it, Food expenses should be around 100 RMB/day, about $400-$500 /month
Not to mention that IE's turn-around time will almost always be longer than, for instance, Firefox's, or Chrome's, etc., since Microsoft is inherently less flexible than the others.

Oh, and don't forget that a lot of proprietary corporate apps are written to work ONLY in IE6. I wonder if a "legacy" mode for new versions of IE would alleviate part of this problem. (And yeah, I know that there's a big fat bag of poisonous acid-spitting kitten-eating snakes that this would open up.)
I would suggest NodeJS. It lets you do many of the essential low level server side operations. And if you already know JavaScript from working with browsers, then you'll feel right at home.
Unit Testing on Google App Engine
Ask HN: Payment system Macromates uses?
I saw a payment service recently on HN but can't find it now. I believe it's the one used by the textmate online shop. Anyone know which on that is?
How Close Is a Workable Brain-Computer Interface?
He could still use the name "go-bang" or something like that which is even arguably better googlable. However, google response makes me sad too.
I'll also make sure to avoid showing up in any pictures taken by a camera I don't control. And stop everyone I know or don't know that may have taken a picture of me and posted it from doing so. It's naive to think this is only stuff posted by the people in the pictures.
"But with the decline of Silicon Valley and the rise of emerging markets..."

Did I miss a newsletter or something? Our imminent downfall wasn't covered at the last meeting.
Firefox and Chrome would have the same fate, if they are as widely used as Windows/IE and comes default with an OS(Windows killer), like IE.
I'm talking about the (common?) stock you receive after executing (and presumably paying for) your vested stock options. I really don't think we're talking at cross purposes. Does your employer allow you, contractually (employment or company bylaws or whatever), to resell your shares?
There's also the http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?FeynmanAlgorithm (it's a pretty good C2 post).
I'm developing for the employer and clients exclusively.
> The existence of a wikipedia page is a very poor way of adjudicating notability.

I agree, but as one of the only pages on the net that talk about Go! today (outside of this naming dispute) its creation date is of relevance here.
Live Justin.tv feed of YC Q&A Session in Boston with Alexis and Harj
Test scores don't identify successful people, but our system is certainly set up to make it easier on those who do well on tests. I first noticed this as a freshman in college when (because of AP exams) I moved right into deep computer science while my classmates had to spend time on general education requirements. When I interviewed for my first internship, I knew algorithms and data structures while everyone else only knew basic sorting. Once I got to my internship, I was getting paid $3 more an hour than my colleagues because of the additional course credit I received from AP tests. What's hilarious is that someone who went to MIT with the same AP scores would actually have gotten paid less than me because MIT accepts almost no credit...

You can see how the above could snowball into a huge advantage upon graduation from college. Any correlation you notice between high tests scores and successful people is most certainly a result of this property of our system and not from tests themselves. The tests could be targeted towards an arbitrary skill set and those who did well would still be more successful because the system values those who do well.
Which fate? Slow release cycles, or apps written specifically for a single browser?