skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be a race to the bottom. We largely already see that in the "developing" world. When a factory causes sufficient growth that a country demands higher wages, the multinational that owns the factory picks up and moves to an even more impoverished nation, and the worse-off are climbing over each other trying to create the most lenient regulations to attract business.

Then once the corporation has departed, the original country collapses back into poverty. Rinse and repeat over decades.
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Yeah, we do. We've had a really bad start to this millennium and are definitely at a lone point in regards to the quality of our political debate but I still believe that in the future we will once again stand for what is right and good in this world.
Why would you go there instead of #startups? Are solo startups so different that they cannot benefit from the advice of non-solo startuppers?
"Look matey, I know a dead swallow when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now. The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead!"
Agreed. The purpose of most communities is to grow. Certainly Digg and Reddit wanted growth; it's their business. Communities don't have to operate that way. Surely they can be designed for optimal quality; or as you said, modified so that any nonconstructive growth is curbed after a threshold.
For those who do not know Banksy (http://www.banksy.co.uk/) is a brilliant street artist not a tagger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hjIuMx-N7c
It is also said that these guidelines are an effort to prevent the Eternal September that afflicted Usenet (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News)

What can happen in practice: more and more people filtering the posts they comment on using any of the techniques described on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1960762
"[Java] might be successful - after all, MS DOS was - and it might be a profitable thing for all your readers to learn Java, but it has no intellectual value whatsoever."

I agree with your opinion about the STL it is indeed very well thought-out and very efficient. It is a shame that concept did not make it into C++0x[1] as it could had help STL usage by preventing the cryptic errors[2]

[1] For very good reason, I understood.

[2] STLFilt can help though http://www.bdsoft.com/tools/stlfilt.html
When you're a solo founder, the weighting of the same issues would appear to be significantly different -- or, at least that's my impression when talking to partnered founders.

There's also the sometimes-existential question of being solo, which, yes, brings a whole new set of issues to the table around working habits, motivation, funding, etc.
NYTimes.com had content from the cables as the top story on the homepage for at least a full week.
So an industry-funded "skeptic" group went around a UN conference with a prank petition. That's nice, but they're hand-waving about how many people actually signed.

"radical left-wing environmentalists from around the world scrambled eagerly to sign...almost every delegate that collegian students approached signed their petition"

OK. Who? How many people were approached and how many signed? Why not just publish the petitions?

It goes without saying that this was a PR stunt, but the story doesn't really make any solid claims about what happened, despite the overwrought language about radical left-wing environmentalist climate kooks.
No snarkiness was intended. I was agreeing and expanding your comment. Nothing irks me more than seeing a very insightful discussion between "high profile member" and "regular user" and seeing a drastic difference in the point total of the comments when they are equally interesting. People should upvote content and not commenter.
I don't really need anything you can buy with money, but my family made me pick something anyhow, so I'm getting a board game (Thunderstone). Not technically a board game, actually, but I hear it plays like Dominion (a deck building game which is fun, quick, and is crack to the programming part of my brain -- seriously, facility with discrete math is almost cheating).

What I want want for Christmas: to go to Mass with my family, pray for the usual, see my high school friends, eat some mashed potatoes and turkey and absolutely no raw fish, drop in on the guys at Matasano and DOS their dark artistry with a poundcake, and call a young lady to let her know I'm thinking of her. (Christmas in Japan is like Valentine's Day in America.)
Most US colleges will grant you credit on early courses in subject material if you score well enough on the tests.

If you take enough AP tests and pass, you can pretty much start 1/2 year ahead of your peers or more. That can save you money and/or time, or let you get on with advanced studies.
germany had an anemic gdp growth in the last two decades, significantly worse than most countries of comparitive size (population and gdp-wise). Look at gdp growth of other big european countries, or worse USA, it is quite striking
I'd always thought that a log-structured filesystem is uniquely suited to spinning rust drives, as it never has to seek its head---it just keeps writing.
jnoller,
I may have indulged in catchiness at the expense of accuracy and I am sorry if the title is misleading.

I hoped that this thread would raise some discussion about the status of US, as, after a lot of publicity on project launch, there have not been many official statements from the team. I have followed the project since the beginning and saw the exponential decay of traffic in the mailing list and commits as the promised performance improvements seemed less achievable (but it has to be said that the US team contributed to LLVM a lot of useful code, like gdb debugging of JITted code).

So my question is: why is US relevant since it hasn't achieved any significant performance boost? Why should we believe in the "potential speedups and future potential" if there is no evidence that supports them?

I myself had done some experiments with implementing a python JIT with LLVM some time before US was launched and had the same results, 10-15% improvement on microbenchmarks at expense of huge memory increase and compilation times.(see https://groups.google.com/d/topic/unladen-swallow/bqf9TzWHht... )

It seems that the bottleneck is not in the interpreter loop, but in the CPython runtime API. I am afraid that, if the interpreter has to stick to CPython source compatibility, it cannot get rid of the overhead. But I would be very happy to be proven wrong.
Same here. I got one from my wife for my birthday. I don't know if it's due to the shorter pages (reformatting layout), clear easy text, a battery that goes on forever, or just the excitement of a new gadget - regardless, I've already read 2 books. The eInk is amazing and worth every penny.
a5 speakers,

some of those isolating earphones such as shures 535s or Monster Mile Davis Tributes etc,

Defy 3 Racing bike for commuting

synology 211j

ability to lucid dream.
Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.
Free market economy in globalization == Race to the bottom
For a long time Adobe got away with its broken clients on non-Windows platforms because the majority of Windows users were happy with a decent implementation. And the developers of websites followed the market.

Now it backfires when suddenly lots of non-Windows platforms grow in popularity and Adobe has no immediate solutions to address the performance and stability issues. I guess when it realized this would be a big deal, it was already too late.
I'm there... doesn't seem the creator is actually there. Hrm!
Who's "they"? There is nothing anyone can do; the cat is out of the bag.
Amazing how people project their own mood onto internet comments. Sorry about that.

Thanks for the explanation.

Yep, I'd much rather read a dozen guys that nobody knows that help me out in life and help me make terrific changes than become pen-pals and an expert on the top 17 people in the tech industry or on HN. This herd mentality stuff drives me nuts at times.

You know, I also feel that people should own their comments, but something as simple as hiding the name until the mouse hovers over the pseudonym would prevent a lot of abuse. It's not like we all have to become anonymous. I think the board just needs to take steps to prevent automatic up or down voting. There are lots of solutions to choose from.
The poster is not questioning the need for open standards, they are questioning the user's need to have that particular standard implemented in hotmail.

Which is not necessarily a bad thing to do IMO.
And further: high school AP courses prep you to take a standardized 'AP Test' in that same subject, which (depending on the subject and college) may even give college credit, allowing the student to skip otherwise-required classes at college.
HN probably should link to that page a little bit more prominently.

Yours is one good suggestion, though I'm not sure you really need to make it clickthrough. Just call out the link fairly loudly on the signup page.
dougmartin on irc is dugmartin here. Make fun of him for the digg reference! ;-)
I'll third that. I was dubious for a while, decided to get one for my birthday. Definitely the right move, fantastic device.
I'm just happy they still love me unconditionally even though they don't get half of my jokes and of most of what I say during the day.
Intelligence is the ability to rationalize your stupid opinions. Dumb people just have opinions without the elaborate rationalizations. I prefer dumb people.
I'd really like a SSD for my notebook. Unfortunately it is too expensive - I think we'll rather save the money (I want at least 256GB).
Not every company has moved out of socialist-like Sweden. There are motivations beyond just profit and profit isn't always the best form of motivation.
Fastest Rising Translations:

5. beijing apartments

This is something I've noticed recently: Moving to China is something that is becoming a much more popular among Americans.
A good way to learn C? Learn VAX assembly! (PDP-11 works too.)
> The point of finally is that it's always, always, always executed.

Except when it's not. If you design a large system with the assumption that finally blocks always execute, you could end up with some data integrity issues when you get a power outage, an exception in your finally clause, a hung machine, or any other number of errors that a finally clause does nothing to address.

The finally clause is very useful, but to say that it will always (x3!) execute is somewhat perilous.
Having used Outlook with Exchange myself, I agree that it has some wonderful functionality. But if Outlook will do something as sloppy as sending a batch of read receipts when it makes absolutely no sense to do so, that doesn't instill a lot of confidence in the software in general.
I personally chose the Synology one because of its support for Apple's time machine. The additional features are only a bonus (http, ftp, etc).
Come to #startups, we've got plenty of solo founders too :-)
This is equivalent to killing people until they agree with you, which is basically just making war on a different group of people in the name of "stopping war". And as the Vietnam era shows, it's not even immediately effective, nor a lasting effect.
It actually is simply a violation of copyright. Anything over 15 lines cited iirc.

Determining fair use is much more complicated than that. There is no such quantitative standard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
Celebrity Invention: Harry Connick Jr.'s Digital Sheet Music
nice example of how at the beginning the only way to get good at building real things is to dive in and put yourself through the ringer
First things first: if the app is truly your original work, it's nobody's business how much you charge for the app. On the other hand, if it's basically a thin UI on top of some existing library that you didn't write, I can see how some people might take offense (even if the library's license permits you to do this).

And to answer your second question: I'm not an iPhone app developer, but I don't think being a "prominent leader" immunizes you from the sort of gripes you're describing. There are always going to be people who gripe about paying another 99 cents for an app to run on the device that costs them hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to own and use.

What you might want to consider, however, is what your real goal(s) are for publishing this app. You've already indicated that you don't really expect to make much money off of it. If you're doing this to build up your reputation in this field, and if making the app free causes that many more people to download and use it, it might be worth it to you to just give it away.
Confirmation bias!
Put people in front of a camera and most are probably thinking "this sounds important and I don't want to look like an idiot", and all the while the petition taker's words are flying above their heads.
Last night I told my wife that the future seems scary with all these rich multi-international companies starting to stick their legs deeper in foreign countries infrastructure.

Oils, Natural Gas, Minings, Banks.

I can only pray that these giants won't create a huge ticking time-bomb such that governments all over the world had to bail them out in the future in case something bad happened.

(The conversation happened when I saw HSBC advertisement saying that they are the "local bank everywhere you go").
When I look back at previous christmases I have great difficulty recalling anything I was given. But I can remember the things we did, stuffed ourselves with lovely food and no guilt, prolonged low level alcohol intoxication and then on the day after christmas hill-walking and off to see a football match afterwards. I'll have that again thanks
The differences are smaller than the common elements, and besides that, any chatroom that you try to set up around a subset of a slightly larger one will always suffer from the empty room effect.

It takes a significant number of people to kickstart a new community and even though I'm right in the middle of the target audience I'll stick to #start-ups simply because you can only monitor so many inputs.

The same happens to sites that try to run alternatives to HN for some subset of the information (or even for a different kind of information), they invariably have a huge peak on day one and then they die within a few days, months at best.

The one exception eventually died because the owner didn't put in the effort to keep it going.

Starting a new community is not as easy as announcing one.
Why I spent my weekend talking Agile and UX
> Either way, they will fail eventually (the former due to dilution, the latter due to alternatives) and this is perhaps the reason why no online community can last for relatively significant amounts of time.

No online community can last because they will fail eventually... Does anybody else see anything horribly wrong with this kind of thinking?
Soupy I just got a free copy of delivering happiness, I'll mail it to you when I'm done.
And, one or more of the signers may have been pranking them, too. If ever asked to sign a Dihydrogen Monoxide petition, I'd try to keep a straight face and get fake names on it, like 'Suffo, Kate' or 'Sneaux Jawb' or 'I. P. Freely'
Slashdot and 4chan are still strong.
Doesn't really surprise me, Exchange and Outlook are pretty much a linked server/client pair - it is hardly surprising that Microsoft pays little attention to minority of people who use one without the other.
Frankly, just doing the actual rejection makes you less of an asshole than pretty much everyone else. I've applied for a handful of positions over the last few years, and the fraction of people who actually bothered to tell me I was rejected is 0. The only exception was the supreme asshole who hired me one day, then called me the next day to tell me that I wasn't hired after all. He didn't really have a choice.
Will Web app stores be the revenue stream publishers have been looking for?
No. If everyone is personally in danger of losing a loved one they will be reticent to go along with an unnecessary war, precisely because of the lessons learned in Vietnam.
مشاهدة مباراة الاهلي والاتحاد السكندري
Despite the titles being completely different, this is a duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991332
Although a vacuum is devoid of physical matter, it's not actually empty. In fact a vacuum is host to a seething "ocean" of virtual pair-production (a particle and it's anti-matter counterpart locked in a feynman loop) giving rise to the "Vacuum Energy" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy, potentially a vast untapped reservoir of essentially limitless power - if it can be harnessed :)

It case you're sceptical, the "realness" of the vacuum energy is revealed by the wonderful Casimir Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect
Apple Threatened with Lawsuit Over Topless Girl App
People always focus on the everything is an object bit, I remember reading Alan Kay saying that the idea of messaging between parts of the software was much more central than inheritance or even the notion of objects.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-...

But I agree that the fact that so much is an object makes Smalltalk so much more flexible. I have not done any real work in Self, so I won't comment.
Has this idea actually been implemented (i.e. does this system actually exist)? (And invented by Harry Connick, Jr.? Who knew? Good for him!)
One thing to always keep in mind when starting a site on a particular topic, don't go too narrow on the domain name.

Choosing a name like ____forums where ____ is some brand (or nickname to avoid trade mark issues) becomes stale once that brand/model is out of style. Having a narrow name yet broad enough to last through the years is always a better approach (unless of course you don't intend the site to last pass the shelf-life of the brand/model).
I found the much more insulting thing on that thread was the Hotmail developers' insistence that user's emails should be deleted after 270 days of inactivity. This point was brought up many times (well, about the old 30-day or 90-day limits), and all the devs said was "we fixed that! it used to be 30, now it's 270".

That is so incredibly insulting. If you go help in an aid program in Africa for a while, you could come home to find 10 years of email deleted. Who would stay with an email service that does that? Microsoft just doesn't get that users want to be happy. Are the $ savings MS gets from disk space of old deleted emails really that important?

Edit: Maybe this is a feature Facebook should implement. They ask for your Hotmail login and password anyway, they may as well say "Microsoft will delete your emails! But don't worry, we'll save them for you". Maybe then MS would take a hint and remove the "delete user's email now" code.
Make sure you use double hashes - ##solofounders

I wanted to stay within the freenode etiquette so I used ##solofounders since its not really a project.
Funny that you mention it. JavaScript "the bad parts" is a serious contender in the bad language arena.
Assanges point is that the harder you make it to be secretive the less conspiracies you will get (he uses a somewhat different definition of conspiracies)

It's not by any metrics naive it's exactly what is going on right now. Overreactions decreasing the ability to communicate. That's what Assange by his own words are after.
i do not have the power to downvote, but I don't think this is a deeply interesting article.

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
good appli
influential people in the delphi community promoted the use of stackoverflow partly to raise the profile of the language. Delphi is not dead and all that.
> one of my teachers - whom I find an excellent dancer - asking me to enter into her (not truly professional but important to her)

Dude, you've gotta find a better place for that aside...
Why do you believe Ireland's attractive business environment caused their current problems? Do you believe Ireland would be better off without Google and various others locating HQ in Ireland?
Which just goes to show that GDP growth rate taken in isolation might not be such a great measure of the overall health of an economy.
Names and addresses of women that claimed to be raped by Assange (wikileaks)
I have to say I was a bit skeptical about the idea Chrome OS and their app store. But installing some of their apps I have found that they easily replaced 2 of my desktop apps; I think now I understand that they might be in to something interesting here.

I want to point out that when I say chrome "apps" I am not referring to fully functional websites just customized (window-dressing) as an app to work on Chrome; I am referring to native chrome apps.

I know its perhaps too early to make a judgement on the quality of such apps, but after 5 minutes of browsing their app store I found 2 apps that will completely replace 2 desktop applications I frequently use. They are Write Space[1] and Tweetdeck. I am on a mac so write Space replaces WriteRoom[2] and tweetdeck replace tweetdeck desktop app. Thats two apps I don't have to frequently switch back and forth to but just go to my "pinned tab" and start using them.

I am not a fan of apps they requires me be online in order for me to use them. I think the success of Chrome OS will be hugely depended on the availability of high quality native apps.

[1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aimodnlfiikjjnmdch...

[2]http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom
Epiphany, a RESTful micro PHP framework I wrote/use for my startups
The alternative is to go on a different IRC network more friendly and less rules based...

Freenode ironically isn't very free.
Virtually every warmongering nation in history has deployed conscripts. What makes you think it'll be different this time around?
Sounds good, be sure to post here when you release :)
Talent War in Silicon Valley
Shifting of talent between Google, Zynga, and Facebook.
Wait a minute WikiLeaks isn't there..! ;)
Hugh Hefner tells how he created an identity in order to fulfill his dreams
I have just signed up, and it is fairly prominent. It's also linked to under the comment box on every page. It says:

If you haven't already, would you mind
reading about HN's approach to comments?

I'm guessing it will eventually go away.
Omega source code
http://www.alcyone.com/max/projects/omega/index.html#Source

Would be fun to know the version he is referring to
Or at least told the U.S. that privately. Which is different, as this could just be what he thinks the U.S. wants to hear, while he can say something different to his people in public.
In the case of a car, not really, the assembly is entirely different matter dealt with by a different team. The car's blueprint may have to change to accommodate assembly issues but the car's blueprint is really describing the car not the assembly process.
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Please correct any misunderstandings I may have in the following:

* Vacuum has no mass (gravitational attraction).
* Normal matter has mass.
* Vacuum is composed of matter and antimatter.
* Therefore, antimatter has negative mass (negative gravitational attraction).
He wasn't just questioning that particular standard. He was completely unable to understand a user wanting it. He had no clue that there is so much software out there that works with IMAP, but doesn't work with their proprietary protocol.
Some isps will auto-generate an email address based on the first and lastname of the user + the domain name of the ISP, some corporations do the same. This can get into the +30 characters territory fairly easily.
"Earth-like" is probably the wrong idea; I'd rather say "rocky". I wouldn't care to guarantee much else about that core would be Earth-like, from the chemistry to the composition to the way it moves or anything else.
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