skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you own 90% of the stock you should be able to remove or replace all the directors, and once you do that your new directors can rehire you. There may be a lag if the company's charter prohibits shareholders from acting by written consent or calling special meetings, but even if that were the case, anyone owning 90% should not be out in the cold for long.
I did write one blog post earlier this year but it's a pretty trivial example. The zipper/tree stuff I'm writing up will go into quite a bit more detail. That article will be in the new Code Quarterly journal sometime this year.
There are good points on both sides of this argument.
"I want big money with no risk."

Not going to happen.

You should consider moonlighting.
Clojure does depend heavily on Java and it is often beneficial to be familiar with Java tools, Java libs, the JDK, etc. I consider that a strength (mostly) but that's really just part of the package for the forseeable future.
Life is impermanent, in the end we all become fertilizer.
Ultimately the directors are always elected by the shares, and unless there is something really strange about the voting rights, someone owning a controlling interest in the shares should be able to control election to the board, which in turn would allow that person to control the board. Controlling the shares + controlling the board = controlling the company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3#Design
Why would anyone even want investors that didn't believe in the founder sufficiently to agree not to displace him for X years, or else pay founder lots and lots of money? While it may turn many investors away, I know I wouldn't want a group of investors that didn't believe in my ability to run the company and were just trying to get away with a coup that will allow them to control the IP.
People in wow ARE creating. That's what makes it so addictive.

They are re-arranging the materials of the game to create something they desire.

This is the same procedure people use in real life - we rearrange matter and energy to create conditions we desire.

There is nothing inherently more meaningful in reality compared to fiction. All of these things are exactly as meaningful as individuals find them to be.

Some people value wow for itself and there is nothing wrong or incorrect about this. Does it scare you to recognize that there is no logical basis for action?

The basis is emotional. Meaning itself is a word we use to refer to that emotional experience that occurs when we begin to care about life. Some people find it in collecting stamps, some people find it in wow, some people find it in medicine, some find it in the game of being a corporate executive.

None is logically or inherently more meaningful than another. It all comes down to irrational human values.
Yeah, I get it.
Simulated-browser tests are more like smoke tests. It's an approximation of the environment you're running tests in.

Zombie and other simulated-browser systems can be useful because they're faster and convenient, but especially because they're faster. If you're not able to test quickly, like the article says, you lose the flow.

Nevertheless, you'll be burned if you don't also test in the browsers you're supporting.

davnola, posted above, has the right idea: use Selenium with your CI system in addition to Zombie.

Another idea: make real-browser testing for development faster. I'm working on a tool that does just that, if you're curious:

https://github.com/yui/yeti
http://reid.github.com/decks/2010/yuiconf/yeti.html

Like it's peers, my project won't work for everyone, yet. But it's awesome to see so many people caring about testing web apps in dev quickly. Hooray! :)
the value of interviewing for a job i'm underqualified for, even including rejection practice and promotion potential, probably isn't worth the time and effort.
"Literally" and "figuratively" mean the same things figuratively, but different literally.
"I also hear people divulge way too much information in public...such as routing numbers, credit card details and the like...People need more than a privacy screen."

Would you believe...that technology to deal with this problem was actually invented in the sixties (for the intelligence community)?

And, while the original version was bulky, a portable version does exist. No doubt it could be updated for the 21st century.

Training Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUoT0a9Rkac&NR=1

(There's a wikipedia page about this tech also, if you care to look).
Yeah, right. Enterprises like to check ppl history before hiring them. One can have mad skills and still be unable to find a job or business opportunity.
The technical name is 'Tabata Protocol' and google is your friend here. Also, YouTube is awesome for finding good workouts if you know the right search terms.

To get you started, this is a good video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtgRcqaOqDo

Just note that you should be going much, much harder (more intense) than she is doing. Remember, 20 seconds all out, 10 seconds rest. You can also vary the intensity by weight of KB and not just speed. I use a 53 pound KB for single arm swings and a 70 pound for double arm swings (at the gym...don't have a 70 for the home yet).

If you have a tough time counting 20 seconds and 10 seconds, the GymBoss timer (http://www.gymboss.com/ ), available on Amazon is a great way to time.

Some quick articles on tabata:
http://www.thefitnessmonster.com/2010/02/hiit-for-fat-loss-t...

http://ezinearticles.com/?Kettlebell-Tabata-Workout---Swings...

You can do anything in a tabata fashion. For instance, you can sprint, you can do an exercise bike if you have some issues running (I'm rehabbing an Achilles tear so I stick to KB, swimming and some variants I'll talk about in a minute) or anything you can do for 20 seconds.

I'll even make circuits for Tabata workouts. This is a great one that gets you quite exhausted and will boost your metabolism sky high as well...

2-4 rounds, 20 seconds of each exercise in order, 10 second in between exercises.

Pushup - you can do any type: traditional, military, diamond, plyo. Even vary it up in the different rounds.
KB swings - See previous
Burpees - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MGljX4bbps
Air Squats or Jack/Power Squats* - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1FpWEfJW1s - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEwitPuU0Xg&feature=relat...
Plank crunch (or variants) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31SbKgmHcmw

Once done...take a 10 second break and start over again going for 2-4 total rounds. If you do 2 rounds, that is 5 total minutes for working out. 4 Rounds is 10 minutes. This is very, very tough (honestly) and sometimes I have a hard time doing all 10 minutes w/ full intensity.
That's exactly my experience. The average middle class person knows for a fact that he is lied to and information is withheld from him. They know what youtube is and they know their government is blocking it.

In spite of even wikileaks, no one can believe the exact same thing goes on here.
But what's the point of immortality anyway? Life is just a meaningless sequence of cause-effect relationships. Immortality would mean being trapped by life, eventually you'll explore everything there is to explore in life and be drawn to explore death. The experience of death is more meaningful than life - it is true adventure. Taking a peek for yourself, seeing what's more. Life is pain, so immortality is an infinity of pain.

I can make these arguments all day. Immortality is not inherently meaningful.
I don't think a vendor could convince me they didn't merely mark up a $1000 slave labor computer. In Collapse, Diamond wrote about sham "sustainable forestry" certifications from that self-regulated industry; I can't believe that wouldn't happen here as well. Even with orders of magnitude more money involved, Wall St. couldn't find honest appraisers, so what chance do we have?
I mostly agree with you except for this
"You can't possibly expect me to believe that only having five shirts in your closet will make you a different person, or even a different worker. "

stripping away everything that you don't actually use in your day to day life has a remarkable psychological effect.
wow u need to get out more. my parents have been married for over 35 years and still love each other like crazy. They have many friends that are in the same boat.
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i like the simple site layout. i wish more sites were like this. easier on my eyes and brain and easier on my computer. one design suggestion I have is to add some kind of About blurb or page.
I think you overestimate the time and effort involved.

a 1% chance to earn 20k more a year and learn new skills along the way is worth more than the $200/a few hours of my life a strict cost/benefit would indicate.
Fires of Heaven?
MIT Launches Phone-Enabled Work Site for Haiti
If that is important to you, you can make it clear to the investors before they come in, and get them to agree to limit their ability to remove you from the board and from your position running the company. This can be done in a shareholders agreement. The problem is (a) if you need the investors more than they need you, they will not agree to this, and (b) people often think of this only when they are on the verge of getting the boot, when it is too late to work something out. Investments usually always begin with everyone singing "kumbaya" in harmony, and every investor always says they invest in founders, but when things don't go according to plan, the founder who's sold control is often going to be the first to go.
On this 3x3 chess board, the black bishop can only ever move on a diagonal, which means it can only travel onto white squares: it can never land on a black square. Since the central square is white, the bishop has put the food in the middle.
The white knight can only make knight moves - from its starting point, it can only move edge-corner, edge-corner, edge-corner, edge-corner before coming back to its starting point. The knight can never land in the middle square at all, so it will eventually starve.
The knight can, however, move onto the black squares: in fact, it has to land on a black square every other move.
The bishop's claim that he was "that close" to capturing the knight is also exaggerated - it can be shown how, barring an error, the pieces could move about that board forever in an endless loop.
I got some time and finished this, posting after minimal rereading...

I was more interested in two other statements -- I now really think Chomsky is a propagandist.

A) 5:45, where he explained why he criticizes Israel more than all the other places which are much worse. "He can influence more", because he is American.

That is just not true. It doesn't explain his lack of attention on Sudan, which lacked attention from the international community, when murder/rape by the millions were taking place. If someone with Chomsky's weight had started to make speeches, it would have added needed attention. And probably saved, at a minimum, thousands of lives.

(That Chomsky statement doesn't help explain the total fixation on Israel by all the other left wingers with similar opinions in e.g. Western Europe... Where outright demonization of Israel is more or less standard.)

B) At one minute, Chomsky explains that there is no need to consider the existential threat, because Israel ignored a peace offer from Egypt in 1971... (Despite that Israel has peace with Egypt since a few decades, anyway!)

Whatever, with that an easy standard on blaming the victims, you can motivate anything -- based on what a government did a few generations ago, in a very different world!

(According to the Israeli side, Sadat gave other signals to PLO about supporting them and not really going for peace. I have no idea if that is true or not, neither has Chomsky.)

Democracies tend to go insane over terrorism and throw out human rights (GB, USA, Germany, Israel, etc) -- with Israel we talk about an existential threat…

Israel is the only present democracy with that, but look at different internment camps for civilians in the second world war (including Sweden, which threw lots of communists in jail because they took order from Moscow -- and Sweden wasn't even in the war!).

I am not defending putting people in camps -- I'm just noting that in a lot less threatening situation, most everyone was worse -- including my native Sweden.

In conclusion, I have a considered opionion now: Chomsky writes propaganda.
But seriously, this is why I don't especially care for minimalism: '[a]t its core, Minimalism is about being aware that every decision you make is a value proposition, and that you need to judge how the consequences fit with your goals.'

Focus is good, but an excess of it results in tunnel vision. It also leaves little room for whimsy or humor.
Many still believe the USD is backed by gold.
the main argument against tablets (bad software that actively interferes with usability) is going away. The market for tablets that are basically just laptops with a different form factor remains what it was before the ipad: small. the market for a tablet that is easy to hop on the couch with and surf for casual content is huge.
Not only can I not program, but in addition to that I am a female. In the past I've tried to ask questions from throw away accounts, which were poorly received. So I limit myself to reading and refrain from posting anything. It's better that I don't participate anyway, since I would be wasting a lot of valuable time, which I need to use for my other projects. The amount I've learned in the last year is staggering, and I recommend this site to friends.
Very nice.

Unfortunately the very sight of SQL of that breadth and length gives me motion sickness
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> either way, it's a fascinatingly shoddy, and unnecessary, argument that severely detracts from the otherwise fine argument

Not at all. It's an example of good rhetoric.
about:network doesn't seem to work in normal Chrome either.
He's not allowed. She's probably getting dressed.
Now is probably a good time for a reminder: http://scriptsrc.net/

(Up to date CDN links for a bunch of javascript libraries, including jquery)
Congratulations. Quick tip - set time off the grid to enjoy each other's (and future kids') company. It's just amazing how being connected can take away from true moments of love.
The nook from B&N is recently reported as their new best-selling product. So I'd say that the non-iPad tablets are quickly gaining momentum.

Would like to see some data backing up the author's claims.
It's likely far less lucrative than mobile apps. I've got some exceptionally popular addons, but they aren't going to make me rich. I suspect the average developer with low-to-medium visibility addons doesn't make very good money with them.

(I've been meaning to get into mobile app development; I've written a free Android app, but I can't seem to come up with a good concept for something I could charge for)
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Dude, enjoy talking to computers. Your pedantic arguments display a stunning lack of how to convince humans.

Rhetoric is a tool that your opponents have mastered. If you fail to learn it, you may continue to be surprised at your inability to effect change, no matter how logical your arguments.
Does this load external styles, or javascript files? What about the images and does it evaluate any script tags?

I have done a few albeit scattered attempts at headless or semi-headless html/js unit tests. What I found out to be a good middle ground is running is this:

Run selenium server and firefox on a remote server. Trigger tests via a task queue, which at the moment is Gearman, have firefox draw to a virtual frame buffer.

What that does for me is cover pretty much every case that a real browser does, and completeness is key in my point of view. I would like to see how Zombie compares on the completeness side and then speed.
If you count the Nook Color, I know more people that got Nook Color than iPads for XMas. Nook Colors were crazy sellers from what I can see anecdotally.
Totally agree. I have found it invaluable. Reading it has improved my SQL skills from hopelessly incompetent to just incompetent.
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May I point out the camera was not in a car. The perpetrators actually robbed a house full of adults and children, while everyone was sleeping. It's almost a miracle nobody was hurt/killed.
Nice idea, simple to use, and I'm hoping to see people setup events in the bay area!
Make sure you move your mouse over the image.
"Why should I have the bookstore order something for me? I pay more than Amazon and they add no value ..."

They add value by allowing you to physically browse through books to see what they're like.

I buy some books based on author or recommendation, but otherwise I'd prefer to be able to flip through a book (a, no, "Look Inside!" isn't the same) to get a feel for it.

There's also the serendipity factor you get just from wandering around a book store, picking stuff up because the cover caught your eye or whatever.

The problem for the bookstore is all of that is available to people whether they make a purchase or not, so they end up being the display room for Amazon.
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11 keystrokes but it adds an additional new line, not sure if that would pass the test.
I was just telling my wife this morning that the book business has changed radically -- there's been a seismic shift in the last year.

I don't see how the brick-and-mortar guys are going to do it. Even if you charged more and offered a high-touch experience, folks will just come in, browse the books, then scan them on their iPhone and buy them on the net.

Ebooks throws an even bigger monkey wrench into the works.

Major changes are coming.
The real fun lies in getting shell access in developer mode:
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo...

From there, you can open a terminal and start experimenting, installing outside software, and working on ChromeOS development.
Ask HN: Non-profits looking for volunteer developers?
In theory, developers should be able to do great things for non-profits. In practice, it seems hard for a developer with spare time to find a non-profit to work with. Somewhat nuts considering that the open source community has plenty of experience with all the issues of volunteering, distributed teams, etc, and there are some great teams out there - hundreds or thousands of developers willing to put in time over the long term to help advance good causes with their skills.

So treat this as a who's hiring post, more or less, but for non-profit volunteering with technical skills.

(A thought on the issues: reliability is the key, central value needed for a technical volunteer. In any non-profit, volunteers come and volunteers go, but it is very challenging to find people who follow through on a commitment to stay for a given project, or to act as support for a non-profit site for the necessary months and years to build up familiarity with the systems used. When it comes to technology, those rare few are absolutely necessary, however - you simply can't run a tight ship if developers flake out on a regular basis. This is especially true when it comes to projects wherein the team is scattered across the US or the world, and rarely meets in person).

My ulterior motive: I get to tack my search for a LAMP developer volunteer for the very hip Methuselah Foundation in here an early comment.
Games, movies, multimedia, etc.
So, the Methuselah Foundation is looking for a reliable LAMP volunteer - someone who is very interested in the future of longevity science, and can help build and maintain:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/12/the-methuselah-fo...

http://www.mfoundation.org

"The Methuselah Foundation, founded back in 2003, aims to promote and support scientific progress towards defeating age-related disease, repairing the damage of aging, and greatly extending the healthy human life span. To that end the Foundation has raised more than $10 million in funding pledges, and their initiatives include the Mprize for longevity science, the recently launched NewOrgan Prize, investment in tissue engineering startups such as Organovo, and - prior to the establishment of the SENS Foundation as a separate entity - the funding of Aubrey de Grey's research program for rejuvenation biotechnology.

"These activities, and the networking to support them behind the scenes, have had a great impact upon the state of the aging research community, media treatment of longevity science, and public perception of the plausibility of medical research aimed at reversing aging. Thanks to the efforts of the Foundation volunteers and thousands of supporters, the environment for longevity science today is far improved over that of ten years ago. That in turn means that our chances of seeing working rejuvenation medicine within our lifetimes are also improved."
See the 'Setting Up Your Own Swarm' section on https://github.com/jeresig/testswarm/wiki
Only because its cheaper to assemble cars in the US than it is to ship them from China. I don't know how Mexico compares though...
- Increase revenue on http://onlineslangdictionary.com/ by 100%.

- Tremendously increase work-life balance. Exercise. Pursue a hobby. Watch TV/movies somewhere other than at my computer desk. Take the weekends off unless I'm very eager to work.
starting from Ex mode:
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I read HN daily from my old BB 8800. Not perfect; but serviceable. I think www.ihackernews.com also has an optimized mobile site.
You do need some kind of nutritional guide if you want to be healthy (unless you are highly active and it's all you can manage to get enough fuel into the furnace to keep going).

The trick is to filter through the B.S. and work out for yourself what your plan will be.
bah, the earlier poster got both my methods, oh well, teach me to read.
Really, YES. Half of the stuff I want to test is that the right stuff is showing up in the right place. Why, what would you want to test?
IBM should host next year's. Two years ago I was forced to sit through a three-hour talk of theirs about ajax (which they thought was new) and OCRing licence plates.
That's quite obviously the case. A normal burglar will always try his best to avoid breaking and entering in a house where people are at home.
Somehow, a superheated device velcroed to your arm going off while you sleep in bed seems a little more serious than a phone getting poor reception.
that's an unexpected interpretation of what I wrote
Didn't Blizzard at one point say no one can charge for addons or put in-game directions to donate or pay for the addon? How did Curse manage to get past this?