skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
seiji, an open ssh port also isn't that big a deal. Every large network has an ssh entry point somewhere. I did a quick check before and at least it only accepted ssh-2. But yes, I agree with you that having that entry point on the main domain is a bad idea, but realistically we are talking about security through obscurity here. With enough guessing you can find the ssh entry point for any large site. The trick is whether you can get through it. They tend to all have 2-factor auth behind them making it extremely hard to bypass. I have no idea whether wepay has 2-factor auth behind theirs though.
The notion that "this is probably negotiable" is one of the things that persistently separates rich people from poor people in my experience. (That is partially a knowledge thing, partially a culture thing, and at least partially a "people tolerate rich people having a cavalier disregard for The Rules a lot more than they tolerate poor people in the same situation" thing.)
Good point, do you have a theory for that?
If by crowdsource you mean have multiple dentists look at every image set, then maybe. But if you're suggesting that a random selection of people look at dental x-rays and guess where the cavities are... that would be an interesting experiment, but I wouldn't expect too much.

In either case, I doubt you'd find much traction since looking at dental x-rays isn't something most people are going to want to do on a regular basis without being compensated.
The Austin newspaper just announced that today: http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/aust...
FormLis [new data management startup] Enters Beta
Well, I'm hoping to launch an affiliate program at some point. That way you can do well by doing good. :-)
Ask HN: What Vim plugins would you pay for?
I just realized that I don't know of a single plugin/addon/modification to vim that you can purchase. This is somewhat suprising, and made me wonder, what would a vim plugin do that would make you willing to pay for it?

Also, if you've paid for a vim plugin/addon/modification, what was it? Was it worth it?
Google got it http://bit.ly/cJtUzk
Could you name the dentist anyway?
I don't think so.

Light travels about 1 foot/nanosecond, so the travel time from monitor to eyeball is 1 or 2 nanoseconds, which might be 2 or 3 clock cycles. So I think at most 3 operations per CPU.
Depends on your architecture and your definition of "easy".

To put it another way, I imagine porting a MonoMac app to Windows would involve a similar level of effort to porting a Windows Forms app to WPF, or vice versa. The more code that lives outside of the presentation layer itself, the easier. To my knowledge, code written for MonoMac will be very Mac-specific (you'll have lots of NS* objects in there), and so it's not a matter of flipping a compiler switch to get a GTK# app or something similar. You'll have to re-write those particular sections.

Again, though, if you architect your project well, you can minimize the amount of re-writing that has to be done.
I'm not sure what the article is suggesting as the reason for the increase in revenue. It seems from comments on here that people are implying that women are simply more productive when given an opportunity where they usually would be denied one.

This has been documented in the U.S. and is pretty core to advertising agencies today who have a goal of generating revenue from minority groups: you need to hire the minority groups into your companies because people tend not to buy where they cannot work (DBWYCW, or "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" is a popular acronym in the early 20th century from the United States). Don't read this the wrong way as "they only use minority groups to generate revenue," this is a marketing goal to do business with minority groups (it's not a bad or "evil" thing).

Revenue increases when you do this. There's a correlation there, but I really doubt that the cause is a supposed increase in productivity simply by giving people an opportunity they otherwise wouldn't have had. I think the key indicator is to look at the media and see if these people have boycotted against companies who refuse to hire members of their group (women and African Americans were the two major groups during the Great Depression who practiced this).

It was also suggested that women for example are cheaper, although if you have a company doing programming (just a random example) and you're hiring women for secretary jobs (another example), your revenues are going to be discounted by the fact that you have less programmers. I'm not sure what type of jobs they're filling, but I'm a bit skeptic about this although it at least sounds intuitive.
Doesn't this work out the same? I know if you just donate $20 and take the standard deduction it's post-tax, but if you donate $165,000, I'm sure that your accountant can work something out for you.
My reading of economic history, thus far, has suggested that patents cannot be justified. Even steam engine patents could not stand the test of empirical evidence.

I cannot yield to your economic reasoning, as I already reject it.

I will be happy though, to read more economic history and dig into it more, as soon it somehow fit into my budget and time.
Yes, this sort of thing is of a piece with architecture students getting internet kudos when they design neat little shelters for the homeless to be made out of recycled cardboard - terribly clever, except that they estimate thousands of USD for each unit and admit that these "homes" won't survive being rained on.
Some other info: it's made by HN user warrenwilkinson. He has some interesting technical info on the blog too (like a really good article on implementing Forth in Lisp: http://formlis.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/forth-in-lisp/)
Ask HN: Debriefing Diaspora; where did flexibility go?
In mere moments, it seemed, the Diaspora team managed to capture the hopes of thousands of people, who jumped on the Diaspora bandwagon to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The developer preview that the team then published was a catastrophic failure. It's time for a debriefing.

All the protocols for open social networks have two massive flaws, ambition and scope. Diaspora tries to replicate Facebook on a distributed level, but forgets about security. DFRN obsesses about the nitty gritty details of networking/connections, but forgets about the actual socializing. Diaspora lunged beyond the fundamentals of flexibility and extensibility and instead focused on a feature list of photos, messaging, and other social interactions. They missed the big picture. You can do virtually anything with the foundational protocols of the Internet, but Diaspora, for all it's hyped-up freedom, only lets you make photo albums? What happened to the good ol' days of hacking (in the classical sense of the word)?

My question to you, the brilliant Hacker community, is why are we not going back to the basics? Instead of trying to fight the fire (Facebook) with fire (duplicating it), let's fight it with something better. Why are we trying to prematurely define how people will interact? Why not build a namespaced, compartmentalized system that allows for any type of data, be that a definition of relationships with other profiles, high scores from a game, or photo albums? Flexibility used to be the name of the game, but it seems that it's now all about rigidity and locking everything, the user included, down.
Well, driving all their hosting businesses would be a very slow process if it happened at all.

First, the hosting companies would have to find/build enough datacenter space for all their servers that are currently in TX. This includes abandoning large investments into their TX datacenters, which will lose value if this exodus really occurs.

Once they've done that, they have to move the stuff. VPSes and shared hosting are probably fairly easy to move with minimal downtime (as long as you have enough extra hardware), but Rackspace would have one hell of a time getting all of their customers to move their colo-ed servers to another state.

Also, there are reasons that TX has so many datacenters. Land is pretty cheap, as is power thanks to all their wind energy. It's in the middle of the country, helping you have low latency to both coasts. It's a great place to put a datacenter.
There's 2 to 3 feet between me and my screen, my cpu has 2 cores, and modern CPUs can perform many simple arithmetic operations per clock cycle, per core. Not to mention what's happening in my GPU.
Pretty sure Milo.com already does this.
Convincing them of this could be difficult.

The absolute only idea that I had which might work is to provide businesses with 100% free automatic (rfid or whatever based) inventory systems of whatever size they need. Yes, that is a large expense.

However, in exchange for the free inventory system, you get access to their data and the ability to post it online. You give people the ability (but don't force them to) buy the item from their mobile phone/computer quickly and easily, so when they show up they have a zero balance and are ready to go. Then you take a 2-5% cut of that (just a hair more than credit card transactions) for the online business referral.

TL;DR- Give business owners something expensive and massively valuable in return for their data, and the ability to let consumers buy their items through your referral system online.
Honestly, I've never written nor received a cover letter. Are you sure it's necessary?
Many thanks for sharing all this. Since you seem to know how the UK agents think, is locality of candidates a crucial factor for the agents? I live in the continent and had little luck whenever applied for UK based contracts, much more interest from the same UK agents when the contract position is based in my country. Is there a workaround to this, given that I'm perfectly ok with relocation?
My experience with MonoDevelop 2.4 (the latest release, I believe) on OS X has been pretty good. I use VS daily and dabble in XCode, and MonoDevelop is definitely more VS-like than XCode-like, so it may be a bit unfamiliar for you. Certainly there's room for improvement, but it's relatively solid in my opinion.
Is this really the case? I think you can setup a new linode (at a new data center) and then clone your current one. Is there really a way to shut it down and move it? Just logged into my account to check and couldn't find the option.
In my experience, the notion that "I should go to the casino to try to get out of this" is one of those things, as well. They're both reflections of the same underlying issue, the division between "I'm helpless" vs. "I can do something". It's a little mind-bending to read a post that tries to frame gambling as something someone in the latter category would do.
That's a silly argument. If I rent office space and rent an apartment, I don't own any physical property in that state either.

Obviously this isn't ideal, but it seems very reasonable from that point of view.
How one Shanghai chef won't let the dream die
Note: when you make a don't pass bet, not only are the odds still slightly against you, at least 10 other people at the table will hate you too :)
I predict this thing lasts no more than 2 weeks before someone finds a way to break the "unbreakable"
The article claims that the standard is "if you use a server that is housed in the state of Texas". If I use, say, Google Apps, or Google App Engine, I have no idea where the servers I'm using are.
You're misunderstanding the blog post. It says:

That means you must collect and pay sales tax from any taxable sales made to customers within the state of Texas.

So if your servers are in Texas, and you make an online sale to a customer in Texas, you (apparently) need to charge that customer sales tax.
No worries :) Saw this on Reddit yesterday and spent an hour looking through the rest of the posts on the blog; some interesting graphic work curated there.
Okay: you're sexist.

Looking back on my MIT undergraduate education (class of 1980), I'd say one of my best professors was a woman: Jeanne Bamberger.
framework: Tornado

database: MySQL with MySQLDB

web server: Tornado, fronted by Nginx

monitoring: supervisord and Monit

NoSQL: redis (for search index)
I live and work in The Netherlands and if there is a non-dutch speaker in one of my teams we default to English so everyone can follow the discussion, although it's a bit harder for everyone to follow and it takes a bit more time. For the younger people here English isn't a problem, for the 40+ (aged) people it can be. For even better adaption of English you should visit Scandinavia; In the short time I've been there I couldn't find a single person there that didn't speak decent English.
Linode has multiple datacenters, so I'm guessing this will only apply if you're using their Dallas, TX datacenter... right?
I don't think the number of servers you need is even loosely related to the number of devs you need.
PHPDoc & Eclipse
The test for nexus is not "do you own physical property in the state." It gets a little complicated -- see Quill v. North Dakota or flag down your friendly neighborhood grellas.

Applying these principles, [the US Supreme Court has] held that if a foreign corporation purposefully avails itself of the benefits of an economic market in the forum State, it may subject itself to the State's in personam jurisdiction even if it has no physical presence in the State. [They then reason that jurisdiction to resolve lawsuits establishes a sufficient level of judicial authority to satisfy the Commerce Clause's requirement that states not unduly hinder interstate commerce.]

Policywise, I think it is almost certainly a poor decision for Texas, but legally this could be a close call. There are many, many unsettled questions about how the Internet economy intersects with tax regulations drafted back when Sears Roebuck consumed a measurable percentage of the world's total paper output. (Ask me sometime about tax treatment for BCC. It is an international boondoggle.)
Objective-C on its way to become programming language of 2010
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For as long as they still have customers I guess.

Way to go Texas, the rest of the US and Europe thank you.

Sales tax levies on server location, you have to give them points for creativity though.

What if I have multiple servers in multiple servers in different states or even countries?

How about I just pay sales tax on where my company is located and we'll call it a day?

The EU is getting more and more greedy too by the way, it used to be that you were VAT exempt for international sales but suddenly all sales to consumers within the EU are VAT liable.

But at least they go by corporate presence, not by where you've parked your servers this week.
Xkcd: Pumpkin Carving
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Sorry, yes, I did mean the US patent system allowed by the US constitution. There are certainly valid discussions of the concept of patents outside this context.
I'm surprised nobody has suggested the possibility of people not interpreting the question literally.

I.e. "larger" in terms of what? Importance? Population? Perceived size from our point of view?

Absolute size is the interpretation that makes most sense to us male geeks, but it is not by any means the only option you could think of.

To me that would explain why more women pick the unusual option, as they are more likely to think outside the rational box. That doesn't necessarily mean that they are ignorant.
Hyperlinking text and being able to read your subscriptions in an RSS-like reader fashion would make this the perfect mobile Posterous app!
Growth chart, http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Objective-C.ht...
Given the content of the OP, is it possible that the problem wasn't so bad, that this was all a marketing device, building the relationship between you and the new dentist?
So it does! Of course the trick is expanding to more retailers and getting this to be ubiquitous for all purchases- no doubt a goal of theirs. Right now it seems to be big box stores only, but knowing about this now does make me happy.

Sadly, my search for Founders at Work showed that the closest copy is at a Target outside of Cincinnati, which is rather far from Columbus.

My search for an Aquafina water (1 liter), said that it might be at Target (duh), but that I'd have to call them. I'm sure I can find the water closer.

However, it did find me a white dress shirt for under $30 nearby (Macy's), but still didn't know about the stock status and asked that I call.

A great start, and I'm glad you brought this up. I hope that in 5 years (or far less) that it gets better and better.
As for 1, the whole article is arguing a case where that is not true. They are illustrating a case where Mary's $130 is not worth much of anything: it doesn't pay half of her $250 liability and get her out of half of the downside. It's useless. But doubled, it has some utility.

Granted it's an oversimplification, because that $130 could be used for something, and yes, #2 and #3 are probably better. (Though with fees and multiple rollovers, the payday loan could be ouchy).

Still - declining marginal utility is not always the case. There are plenty of situations like this one, (especially for a corporation) where having half of the money necessary gets you nothing.

Of course, there are also almost always better ways of securing that financing, unless you're the only person that perceives the odds that way.

Here's an interesting example in my life - if I get a windfall, the marginal value starts off low (I don't change my lifestyle), rises somewhat (it becomes enough for me to take a breather from my job and spend more time working on my startup), and eventually declines as I no longer need more to work.

Or in other words, I can't retire because I got $10k. Not useful. But if I can make that $50k, I can survive for a year+ and try to launch a company - that's useful. The value of that $50k is more than 5 times as much as the $10k. (Though the $10k does get me that much closer to having enough...)
I think people who write typical academic papers actively break almost every one of those rules.
And if a company uses a service that happens to be hosted in Texas? e.g. a wiki. Do they have to pay taxes there as well? Why is a virtual server different?
I wasn't saying college negated the value of public education at all. I was pointing out that a huge number of the people who contributed to US prosperity did not attend US public schools.

Einstein didn't attend the American public school system, nor did Dyson, or many of the other great scientists of the early 20'th century. In the present day, Sergei Brin only spent 4 years in US public schools. Elon Musk didn't, nor did Max Levchin (Thiel's wikipedia page is ambiguous). Zuckerberg didn't go to a public high school either (don't know what he did before that).

You can't point to a country with massive contributions from immigrants, and then declare that services those immigrants didn't use (or used minimally) are the cause of prosperity. The logic just doesn't work.
Sadly, American car companies could have probably wrote the same article about the impending Japanese car imports (market leadership, infrastructure (dealer & mechanics), no market demand).
Well I think it's a combination of two things. Most days when I'm writing a web app or some other high level program I kind of chuck data about without thinking about it.

When I put on my kernel dev hat or when I was working on SQL Server I spent all day making sure other me could throw data around haphazardly and not get stuck on a course-grained kernel lock or only hit 1/8 of the pipelines.

Sometimes it's just too much to handle all at once, even if you know what you're doing in both domains.
It seems kind of odd that I don't have to sign up for anything to use the site, but I do have to sign up for something to send feedback.
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Public library search interfaces are awful. The Vancouver library and Seattle library both use the same standard catalog software. They're slow and clunky.

Based on the name ipac, I think they both use this software - http://www.l4u.com/iPAC.php
There are three major benefits presented by the internet to traditional media. First, the ability to offer far greater depth and breadth of coverage than could reasonably be offered in print. Second, the ability for the media to be instantly interactive. While letters to the editor did allow some interactivity, they aren't nearly as interactive as what can be done online. Finally, along the lines of interactivity, digital display should allow the media the ability to offer content that doesn't necessarily have to appeal to everyone; it should be much more feasible to target niche markets and offer content tailored to them, while profiting from the greater ability to monetize a niche market.

Having said that, my company, Barhopolis (check out http://barsannapolis.com), is currently looking to partner with newspapers to more easily reach an audience. This gives you a great breadth and depth of information, in the form of hundreds of local events updated daily. Interactivity in the form of reviews, comments, and photos shared by visitors. And, most importantly, it gives you access to a niche market that is easy monetizable. We'd also be able to incorporate current and future editorial content, as well as customize the branding. I'd love to talk to you more about it, my email is justin@bulletprooftiger.com.
Genius: Facebook Texting Users Temporary “One-Time Passwords” To Use On The Go
Clearly not - Larry Summers never made any gender-based value judgements, nor did he even draw conclusions. He got into trouble for asking questions people didn't want the answer to.
I just did a quick survey of seven coworkers who are all familiar with the Linux, in order of likelihood of deploying in a commercial environment, the three distros that they indicated would recommend:

o CentOS - which is pretty bog standard for large web environments that are RPM Based that need to, for whatever reason, stay close to the RHEL platform.

o RHEL - For anybody who needs RedHat Support, or needs to be able to tell Oracle (or other enterprise vendor) they are running on a supported platform. Or they are just PHBs that need the comfort of deploying "Supported" environments.

o Ubuntu - This is a bit of an outlier, but we have a number of Debian Snobs who have a preference for the apt/dpkg/deb way of doing things, and Ubuntu, particularly LTS, seems to have some mindshare here.

Nobody mentioned Suse, though this is in Silicon Valley, and I get the sense that Novell doesn't have as much presence here.
1. Money has a declining marginal utility. Winning that $130 isn't nearly as positive as losing it would have been negative.

I question this because you're already in the red: do nothing, and you'll be left with $130 in the bank but $250+$100=$350 in liabilities that eventually have to be paid, so you're at -$220 by default (even if you've still got $130 in your pocket, that's not really your money; as I commented elsewhere, I probably should have set up the example so that Mary had already purchased food for the week, to avoid questions of starvation).

When you're starting in negative territory the usual rules about marginal utility of money don't necessarily apply, I'd actually argue that there might be more utility gained when you go from -$50 to +$50 than there is going from -$150 to -$50 because of the debt spiral effects that you mention.

As for your other points, I agree, there are issues with the false dichotomy that I've set up, ones that I expected to be called out on. Perhaps I should have worked out a better example where there were fewer options available, c'est la vie.