skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> bilking us for billions

It's my understanding that the way we've defined fiduciary duty (roughly speaking) requires public corporations to do this if it's legal. Can anyone comment on that?
I can't speak for others, but my alarm wasn't with Google. Instead it was with a tax system that allows these kinds of loopholes. When people talk of expiring the Bush tax cuts for those making over $250k, my jaded response is that it will probably only affect those that are well to do but not really rich. I think the really rich can afford tax lawyers that let them avoid substantial taxes via other loopholes.
I joined a startup as a non-founder about a year and a half ago, stayed for six months, and left before they sold. I had a great time there, (set the bar way too high for my follow-up job in retrospect). I'd say, go for it just for the experience with startups, it's a brand new world, and you definitely won't see things the same afterwards. Make sure you agree with the founder's vision so that you can do their critical work with some enthusiasm.
Since Apple typically caters their decisions to the majority of their buyers (as opposed to those power users who look specifically for the most up-to-date tech specs) this decision makes a lot of sense. Having more battery time is rather large plus.
Well better start working on getting it down, rather than get annoyed at Google.
I've heard good things about Zed Shaw's new book http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

I've also heard great things about Allen Downey's books on Python, but I am not sure which one is best to start with.
Um, Ireland's structural problems are not limited to property bubble? Perhaps it's the symptom, not the cause?
Does Google not pay plenty in income tax on its employees, who in fact do generate that precious intellectual property? Looking only at taxed profits is misleading.
> An exception-like mechanism has been proposed:

Proposed and implemented almost six months ago.

But that doesn't stop people from writing criticisms of the language and asking for their pet features after a cursory watching of Rob's original (and very superficial) talk. sigh
Ireland's current financial problems are probably due to the property bubble. However there's been massive unemployment (it's tripled in 3 years to 14%), do you really think the government are going to force all these high tech jobs out of the country now?
Bringing ultra high-speed broadband to Stanford homes
You have described every company.
Chinese Steve Jobs clone intros new iPhone app
TL;DR Summary: Intel's newer CPU's are physically larger and thus harder to fit into the form factor, use somewhat more power, and their integrated GPU's don't support OpenCL and are lacking in performance.
If you are located in NYC send me your resume. The company I work for is looking for someone whose experience matches yours.
I think there's some truth in that. Besides factual reasons why one might dislike a particular company or piece of software, there's also the old tribal system. Back in the days, it was Amigas vs. Ataris vs PCs, or SGI vs HP vs IBM vs Apollo vs Sun…

Now, we all run the same hardware, so the operating system seems to be the only pièce de résistance left. Even the arguments between vi and Emacs lost their fervor, considering the size of both RAM and vim nowadays.

At least one item where your average geek ain't that different from a football fan…
http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

or

http://summarity.com/bookmarklet_front
I really like the new Jaguar XJ (not that I've driven it, but I've seen pictures) where the dials in front of you are a screen, and when you approach a turn one of the low-priority dials (fuel and temperature, I guess) becomes a little round GPS screen to tell you which way to go.

I guess that will be common in a few years.
That's what they're hoping for. This is definitely part of the promotion for the movie.

In their place; five minutes of a woman dancing in slow motion, a four-minute Dominatrix dance (by the female lead, who, for reasons I cannot comprehend, is constantly snapping a whip and gyrating against other characters in pseudo-sexual positions), and a four minute "Moonwalking" scene (no, this was never intended as a Dance Movie).

Sounds like standard fare for a writer known for (according to IMDB) "Disturbed," "Bikini Island," and "Last Dance" ("Someone is killing off contestants of a skimpy dance off.") His lost thirty-three pages of dialog (which never existed) would have been painful to watch, much more painful than women dancing in slow motion, and he is aware and at peace with this.
I'd rather not have it. I tried running OpenOffice under X11, and the fact that I couldn't copy and paste text around the place did my head in, and I couldn't use it.
Oh, I totally agree, I wouldn't bring a mouse along with an 11" MBA. Just making the point how well this type of form factor works in small spaces.
This response is frustrating because I feel like you didn't read my comment, but instead honed in on a single phrase, "complex equations". Even in the context of that sentence that's a moot point. If you'd like, replace "solve complex equations" with what you consider to be the best, most useful, fun part about math, and it does not change my point. I'm sorry I chose an example that seems to have offended you, but I do understand that there's more to math than solving complex equations.

That said, to re-summarize my point tersely: If someone doesn't like a particular field, I still feel that they can be successful programmers by focusing on fields that they do like which are also useful.
Yeah, my combined marginal federal and state rates are like 33%, my effective rate after mortgage interest and charitable deductions was like 8-9%. I'm going to try to be more like Google though.... ;)
Actually, if you go read the longer version of the article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho... you'll find that Google's overall effective tax rate was 22.2 percent last year. The BusinessWeek version of the article is radically shorter and suffered for those edits, in my opinion.
Eric Meyer is the go to guy for CSS.

Also check out "Handcrafted CSS" by Dan Cederholm. The only part of that book that is no longer a best practice is his .after float hack, which today has been replaced by the overflow:auto hack.
That's true. Google would be cheating its shareholders by not returning the most value through legal means. Of course, in Google's case, they probably could choose to pay more tax and get away with it, but why would they?
Ask HN: Why newer TV sets have analog power switch?
My older television set would auto off when power goes down so it wouldn't start back automatically if power comes back, makes sense. But the modern TVs wouldn't they would turn on as soon as power comes back, you have to explicitly press that power button. I just couldn't get why there is this change in design?
Might not be exactly what you're looking for in terms of learning Javascript, but I found the Javascript Koans to be pretty cool.. github.com/mrdavidlaing/functional-koans
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One example was that tuples elegantly handle multiple return values anyways, so you don't need to bother with them if you have tuples (and tuples are good in their own right).

Another is that generics already exist in the language - map works even for user defined types. But since you can't make your own generics, map is all you get. With generics map is just a standard library feature rather than a core language feature, and you could write your own containers too if you wanted.

These might not make the language spec strictly shorter, but definitely more orthogonal.
I'd argue that the idea has merit - because that's one of the problems heroku and google app engine solve. The fact that it's complete straight forwards on EC2, for both sales and imaging is another testament to the idea's merits.
One thing/angle you might go for is the scaling aspect - I can run apt-get all day to setup a single machine, but as a developer, and not a sysadmin, some of the finer details to setting up a more complex, multi-machine setup with a coule mysql instances, an apache box or two, may be lost on me.

Hypothetically, I would pay for a way to easily grow my single VPS into a multi-machine config.
How does Flash compete with the App Store more than HTML5?

By having a mass market share that makes it competitive. "HTML5" does not (by comparison).
For Australia, you have to take franked dividends into account.

When profits flow onto shareholders, the shareholders receive tax credits for tax that the company has paid on its profits. The result is often that, by the time corporate profits end up in the shareholder's pocket, there is 0% effective corporate tax over and above personal income tax paid on the dividend.

EDIT: That's for profits. Companies still have to deal with state payroll tax, collection of sales taxes, etc.
Luckily, college students know Java, and C# is close enough to pick up.
> How many college students know how to program on Win32?

Not nearly as many as those who know how to program in .Net.
If you could also show some open source work, it would be a tremendous help. I have been job hunting for well around 2 weeks already, and from what I have noticed is that half of the companies I'm getting interviews with placed a huge emphasis on my open source contributions (however paltry those are). I'm just quite unlucky that my kryptonite has been the combination of a.) These shops all use RoR while I'm a Java guy (currently remedying that), and b.) My SQL experience (or the apparent lack of it, no pun intended, quickly remedying that too).
Why upvote a dead story?
I haven't found a way of life yet. Working toward entrepreneur, but I'm not there yet.

My mission is to make the world a better place as best I can. Broad as hell, right? How does one even determine what makes it a better place? Part of the challenge.

My reason for trying to become an entrepreneur is that owning my own business gives me the freedom to pursue my own ideas rather than someone else's. Even if I make just enough to live on, I'm still chasing my own idea. And if I make more than that, then I have a tool to pursue more than one of my ideas.
What's the other alternative? Defaulting on it's obligations? Why other countries with property bubbles don't have problems as large as Ireland?

(all the downvotes would be appreciated if they can provide alternative solutions)
I think he's referring specifically to this: http://angel.co/ ( http://venturehacks.com/articles/angellist ) which is a really great idea. Also it wouldn't hurt to hang out at Bin 38 lolz.
Just Design It – An Approach to Web App Design (slides)
I suggest you contribute to an open source project, if people like your work there, freelance project is a possibility. Also it looks good in your CV. But seriously, if you intend to be a s/w engineer, why build an app and sell it yourself? With Android, iPhone and Ruby on Rails, it is easy to make something and sell.
wha??? wish i could mark as off-topic spam. come on karma!
You use "PMI" consistently, but I assume you mean "MPI". MPI is not a silver bullet, and if your problem can be reasonably solved with nearly asynchronous algorithms such that fault tolerance is a bigger problem than network performance, then MPI is probably not a good choice. But this is a rather narrow definition of "scale" (and much different from the standard definition over the last several decades of scientific computing), and for more tightly coupled problems, MPI can beat these alternative paradigms by huge margins.
"The 3D universe in which we appear to live is no more than a hologram."
Apple's Retail Stores vs. Disneyland
Including -- very relevantly for many people here -- huge incentives given to creating wealth via capital gains relative to creating wealth via salaried employment. I mean, memo from Congress to you: if you either a) make a business then sell it or b) invest in a retirement account, we will literally let you keep a few million more of your own money than we would have otherwise.
My main beefs with MS

1) Bloating Office products with each successive release and discontinuing the old menu structure. I finally did something about this and switched from Outlook to Thunderbird.

2) MS has alienated small and independent developers by making Visual Studio in a bewildering number of versions and charging too much for it. They're completely focused on enterprise computing, but the enterprise has been off-shoring development for the last 15 years, so bright young developers have no interest in MS technology.
Should Games Sell For Donations? Or, Is Setting a Fixed Price For Losers?
It would be moderately useful. One simple way to find a list of ad networks is to just go through what AdWhirl, for example, supports... The MOST useful information, by far, would be an easy comparison of which ad networks pay the most, but that's also the most difficult to do, since it changes over time and can vary from app to app.
I like the idea. I think there should be a skip button as there are a couple sites that I wasn't able to review properly (one specifically asked for people to review it in another language and the other required me to sign in).

I also think it'd be cool if the homepage showcased some of the highest rated sites, like the way Logopond (http://logopond.com/) works for logos.
Funny because I watched the video of them talking about the air (white bkg, shots of machining etc) and they kept mentioning how much that they loved flash. They were talking about flash memory
I think that flash competes with App store mainly in small silly games which are free in Flash and probably will cost 0.99 in App store
I hope not, as there is no Wednesday November 9th this year - there is a Tuesday, November 9th and a Wednesday November 10th.
Google is in the UK at all because we are a stable, developed economy with a well-educated workforce, good infrastructure and high consumer spending. It could pay no tax at all if it relocated all its operations to Somalia where there is no government. But it stays, why? Because it is in its advantage to do so. To take but not give, that counts as a parasite in my book.

Fortunately we have a government now that ain't gonna stand for no jibba jabba.
Funds are always looking for Limited Partners. You may be able to learn this way while also investing...

Shoot me an email if you are interested -- I know a few Seed stage funds looking for LP's.
Thanks for sharing the link tsycho
Great Designs Should Be Experienced and Not Seen
Why Google Still Rules the Stock Market
Since the BioLite will burn almost any biomass fuel; from wood, pine cones, leaves, pellets, rice husks, even dung, it means fuel need not be carried

Personally I'd rather not cook my food on burning dung.

Still, kids these days with their fancy stoves. In my day we'd build a fire out of sticks and cook our dinner in a billy can, and we didn't get excited that we "didn't need to carry fuel". Probably weighed a fifth of a pound, too.

Seriously though, it seems like a good design if you're going somewhere that firewood isn't abundant or building open fires isn't allowed. The fan sucks in air for efficient combustion and the thermoelectrics generate energy to power the fan using waste heat. Neato!
I would like to point out that Apple employs the guy that builds LLVM/clang and all those projects and yet they are still releasing the source code and everything out there for the public to use.
Seriously! Reading the article made me think, "wow, trying to piece together where companies go and who owns what sounds like fun!" (No, I'm not a lawyer.) Certainly sounds like an optimization problem where a computer could do an especially good job (assuming that you can represent everything efficiently).
run amazing free services (search, Gmail, Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Finance, Google News, Google Voice, Google Reader, Feedburner, many many others). Also, they're internally investing in energy and robotics like the auto-driven cars thing

None of those products/services would be possible but for the government spending taxpayer money to develop the infrastructure behind those services (the internet, roads, GPS, etc).
i think we all know the power of apple's retail presence, but that is one of the most misleading graphs i can remember.

all of the other comps cost ~$50-$100. if they were free, how would that graph change?
>> I don't have enough experience to get started, and I can't get started without experience.

Sounds to me like you probably have bucket loads of experience compared against a recent grad. You've held down a job, traveled, went to school twice. Your current skill-set includes a lot of soft skills (people skills) that many experienced developers lack. I'd suggest putting that foot forward.
Which is why context-free translation is crap. The question itself is translatable, as is the answer itself. But the composition of the two translations is not the translation of the whole. This is equivalent to the translation of a sentence by compositing the translations of each of the words without taking into account their role in the sentence. "How do you call X in L?" is a perfectly valid and understandable English sentence, although less idiomatic than "What do you call X in L?" or "How is X called in L?". The context informs the translation.
Well, it's not only about style. IE9 adds rounded corners but still skips a lot of modern features in HTML5 that simply can't be used reliably by anyone due to IE not supporting them. IE is like a over-turned transport truck across 3 lanes of the highway to a better web. They cleaned up some of the spillage, but... well we're still not going anywhere :)

Styling is the most obvious issue, but it's just the surface of the problem.
It is all of our jobs to fix the system that governs us. As long as you live in a democracy, then you are the only ones who can. And the more power (money) you have, the more responsibility you have for that.

Does Google education the people of the world? Build the roads? (In many places) Maintain the health care systems? These are vital. Governments do this and much, much more.
The official python tutorials are pretty good actually:

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/
In addition to the two other Chris Dixon blog posts other commentators have linked to, Chris Dixon also has a great post on this topic: http://cdixon.org/2009/08/25/six-strategies-for-overcoming-c...

Here are his six suggestions:

1. Signal long-term commitment to platform success and competitive pricing.

2. Use backwards and sideways compatibility to benefit from existing complements.

3. Exploit irregular network topologies.

4. Influence the firms that produce vital complements.

5. Provide standalone value for the base product.

6. Integrate vertically into critical complements when supply is not certain.

This has also been discussed on answers.onstartups.com:

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/9332/how-do-you-solv...

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/3623/solving-the-chi...

There are some conflicting answers:

* Joel Spolsky says: "When faced with a chicken & egg problem, you have to find a way to sell simultaneously to both sides of the equation."

* Hendro Wijaya says: "Focus on satisfying one side of the equation first. Pick the chicken, or the egg. Make sure they can see the value early in time."

Nonetheless, the discussion includes useful advice like:
Low risk buy-in for one party, Partner with an existing business, and Scaffold (Greg Belote).
Can you FizzBuzz? If so, you're experienced enough to get a job as a developer.

I am always so surprised when I hear that, and have a difficult time believing that's true. With only an extremely beginner's level understanding of Python, I can solve FizzBuzz. Can I get a dev job?
Shaking someone's beliefs only makes those beliefs stronger
Differentiate whether something was killed by flags or mods, instead of saying 'Dead'

It would cut down on the need for comments like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815316
Microsoft doesn't understand that if you piss off enough people over the years, it's hard to get respect back quickly.

If you haven't followed the anti-trust case, you won't understand. For years, Microsoft treated others in the personal-computer space as enemies to be vanquished, instead of colleagues to be collaborated with. They used every trick under the sun to destroy other competing developers' works.
And then came the big browser wars, and once again they did the same.

On a broad level: Microsoft refuses to "play well with others". While you are playing apologist for them, their minions are busy undermining open-source software, and trying to scare the European regulators into avoiding OSS.

On a side note: someone I know just designed this t-shirt; I think he's taking orders:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamp3/4777497224/
One option would be to have recent examples of CPMs other people are getting, but how to get people to share this information?