skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That bill was passed after the b-25 crash on the empire state building in 1945 to allow for exceptions to soverign immunity in only very specific and sometimes hard to define cases. In 1947 there was the texas city disaster where 581 people died. The largest industrial accident in us history. Under the FTCA legislation the case was taken all the way to the supreme court where they ruled the government wasn't liable for claims of damages.
From what I understand, the army stationed at Beijing also refused to fire on the demonstrators in 1989. However they obeyed the order to leave the city, not expecting what would happen next. That is, the politburo mobilized into Beijing an undereducated army from a remote area in a different province to do the deed.

The Egyptians have learned it seems. From what I understand the army did not just refused to fire but is also actively being disobedient.
Let the domain squatting begin. =P

Honestly though, at least its a $100 to register. At that price hopefully it will deter a lot of squatters from buying up all the domains. "For GBP 60 (approx US$ 100) for year one and GBP 30 (approx US$ 50) per year thereafter." (http://www.nic.io/)
well, that was supposed to be a response to a post in the 3 letter io TLD thread. sorry about that.

most likely my fault, of course, but i'm not sure how i did this. off chance of an HN bug perhaps?
As someone who has worked on the 787 and other large aircraft programs as an engineer and whose job it was to automate as much of the process as possible, I admire your line of thinking but I'm afraid reality is very different to what you have in mind.

If aircraft were machined out of a single block of material into an ideal structure and didn't have a million systems on board, designed by thousands of people trying to cooperate together best they can, you might have a chance.

GAs etc, are useful for small tasks here and there, but at the end of the day how the aircraft gets made and what goes wrong comes down to politics, people, communication, arcane processes and documents, money, time, regulations, rules of thumb etc etc etc
String builder and concatenation -> use concatenation

My recommendation: pick some appropriate value of n, and make it a coding standard to use it for chains of concatenation larger than that. You can even profile this in your app, in your actual environment to pick a value of n empirically determined to be around the actual performance crossover point.

Is this pre-optimization? Debatable, if you make your decision based on profiling. The thing is, that in this case, there are a lot of places where this sort of thing can appear. A coding standard like this isn't costly, and by taking this step, you reduce a lot of memory allocation and O(n^2) inefficiency noise when you do your profiling.

Even better: JIT VMs that can optimize out chains of concatenation behind the scenes.
And again, another story I found by reading an RSS feed about how RSS feeds are SO dead. -sigh-
I have been using their desktop software for a number of years. Last year I tried their online version for the first time. I did it again this year. Fabulous. As TA notes, the UI is nearly flawless. You always know where you are. You can dive deep into the numbers at any time without loosing track.

Why would I ever want to do this any other way? Nothing to install. Last year's data was sitting there waiting for me. Update a few numbers, add in child #6, and I'm done. Everything I needed was already online (property taxes, home loan interest, etc.), except for my W2. Finished in 30 minutes.
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It's not a matter of "touching" lives, is it? I mean, I think Amazon is great and all, and I'm really glad it's there, and kudos to the engineers who work on it. They've touch a million lives. But I think that Amazon's impact on my life is much less than the impact that a good doctor or surgeon would have, should I become seriously ill.
Sounds vaguely similar to http://www.activeinboxhq.com/
What's with the downvotes? He's providing additional context to his original statement (which was well considered and well written), this definitely adds to the conversation.
Forbes Selling Links: Another one Bites the Dust
Duplicate. Long thread here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1313679
Can We Avoid Another Internet Bubble?
Do we really need farmers if we can hunt and gather? :)
I think it is a great analogy because it also points out the value of the "theme park" to the consumer: they feel safe with the vendors within it. In a lot of ways, that 30% is paying not just for Apple's e-commerce, but Apple's stamp of approval.

My bet: Amazon and Apple will spend a lot of time posturing and then will suddenly go quiet. Amazon (and the other "big names", who don't benefit from Apple's name) will end up paying a smaller fee. Everyone else will pay their 30%.

Also, you have to remember that the face value of "Apple$" is not 1:1. Around here (Australia) you can generally get iTunes cards at "20% off", which makes them a better mechanism for the consumer than paying by credit card, but which must be cutting into Apple's 30%.
General question about anyones experience with domains that done end in .com

How hard coded is the .com extensions when it comes to the general public these days (your mom/uncle who just uses the internet to read email, if that much)? If you told someone your domain was foobar.io and you ask them to repeat the domain would they say foobario.com?
Maybe it's time to network. I'm about your age too and I also develop web apps. Does your university have a marketing program? Maybe you could get connected with some other students who are interested in marketing and your idea.
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You don't live in San Francisco, do you?
Someone else mentioned Data lock-in, which is part of my reason for still using them, but it's also that I know it's in their best interest to do my taxes correctly. And I just fill out some really simple forms, reject a few stupid offers (no, I don't want to pay you to look over my W2), and pay my fee. Money comes back right to my bank account (no, I don't want some silly prepaid credit card instead) and I'm happy.

Every year, I laugh at the 'Creating a secure connection' screen at the beginning, too. I love how pointless that thing is, but yet inspires SO much confidence in people who don't have the know-how to know how useless it is. (And I guess a 'skip this' button wouldn't look too good. Heh.)
Yes they have wildcards set up, but the server displays a copyright warning on random names you try. The server displays a child porn warning when you add mooo.com.

74.81.170.110 reallyfakehostname111.com
74.81.170.110 mooo.com

See the difference?
1. The company you want to approach should be something you're interested in. You don't want to just join any random startup. Relocating from Dallas to the Bay is a huge difference (I know because I lived in Dallas for 9 months before). The cost of living here is much higher so unless you've got something lined up, you probably don't want to move here as any savings you might have will dry up fast.

2. Risk depends on the individual. You have to access the company, the vision, any funding they've received, etc... among several other factors, and determine whether or not this is a fit for you.

3. To answer this part, why part of a startup if you just want a perm job?
I agree on the !friends. I've recently been looking for a contractor and was thinking about bringing a friend in to do it, but the more I thought about it, the more I wasn't sure if we'd still be friends when it was all said and done.
Rhapsody blasts Apple's 30% cut, but says it can live with Google's 10 %
I think this makes a lot of sense. You have to build the cake before you can put the icing on it. Your CSS is invisible unless it has html to decorate.
Vim Highlighting for Objective-J
> You're being deliberately trollish

Because I refuse to walk the party line on Free Software?

> bringing in religion, it's a dumb insult and I could turn around and call your arguments religious and it wouldn't have any meaning either.

How on earth is religion an insult? The proponents of Free Software believe very strongly in Free Software, and fight for it with zeal and fervor. The similarity to religious debates of history is very clear to me.

If anything, I elevated Free Software with the comparison by placing it in a category deserving of special treatment. Every right-thinking country on our planet has figured out that people are going to believe what they're going to believe, and government does not get to dictate what individuals can believe. So it is with the Free Software philosophy -- even if you don't agree with Stallman's philosophy (I only agree with some), you are entitled to believe in it because you have that freedom.

Your implication, which somewhat betrays your personal belief, is that there is a negative connotation that comes with the mere mention of religion, which I find equally offensive.

> Why is GPL so hard to understand? Plain and simple, GPL is an attack on closed source systems.

Maybe. Publishing your source in the public domain is also an attack on closed-source systems. The binary attitude of proponents of Free Software is something that I wince at every time I see it demonstrated.

> And if you knew anything about computing history in the last 20 years

You're right, my opinion obviously implies that I'm a moron. How dare I speak up about an opinion?

> you should be extremely grateful to RMS and what the license has accomplished.

I don't owe Free Software, or Richard Stallman, anything. Whatever advances have been made in computing, Free Software didn't wander into my life and make me who I am. It made computing what it is.

That being said, I am aware of what the GPL and the GNU Project itself was designed to do, and what it did. I firmly believe that without the GNU Project, we'd be in a much different place than we are today with computing. I have tremendous respect for Richard Stallman, and merely disagree with some of his tenets. I would hope that he respects my disagreement, and would be willing to try to convince me of his beliefs if given the opportunity (no, no comparison to religion there).

Just like you are allowed to believe in Free Software, so I am allowed to disagree with some of Stallman's beliefs, and I am allowed to choose not to use the GPL. My desire to not use the GPL is not an automatic admitting that I'm history-dumb and have no idea of its purpose, intent, or legacy.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cofounder+site:news.ycombinat...
Great idea? Awesome! Now go and make a terrible first version.
AFAIK, Watson was just using the light signal to decide when to start buzzing in. Just the light, ignoring when Trebek was going to finish saying something.

Presumably a human could consistently beat Watson to the buzzer by predicting when the light would go on.
There isn't one. That was my point, I guess - that people often grossly overvalue themselves.

The only thing I can think of is "mother", but that's a cheeky answer.
5 Reasons why kids should use Linux
The problem I saw working on the 787 and other modern aircraft is that we now bury ourselves in analysis and data in the name of accuracy. Just like in programming, when the code gets complex and you have more and more dependencies. One small change impacts lots of other things and you go round and round in circles and iterations.

Back in the day they used to do more conservative, more basic calculations and conventinoal designs that they knew would work.

If there was a small change they didn't have to go and revisit everything because everything was still well within their original conservative calculations.

It's basically Paretos Law, they got 80% of the results for 20% of the effort. We are now chasing that other 20% of the results and the complexity to do so has balooned.
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Programmers work in Medicine too. Specifically medical technology - things like Cat scans, MRIs, PET scans have probably saved many more lives than even the most extraordinary doctor.
If fair distribution is your concern then you should probably be more focused on the people at the bottom end making 20k-40k that could be making more. This article was not about those people.

Employers will only pay as much as it takes to keep you from leaving. At 150k a year the ratio of people who would be willing and capable of replacing you is pretty high.
Tcl also does this I believe.
Facebook’s Death Problem And The Start-Up That Seized It
Wow, anyone care to explain the downvote?
Q: I have already read plenty of doomsday reports for the blue-collar workforce that this technology could replace customer service representatives, in-patient counseling, bank tellers, cashiers, etc. Do you think Watson could replace Alex Trebek?

I'm starting to wonder what Watson could do with the database of Stack Overflow.
my feedback ...

first, the app is really cool. love the idea.

personally, I'd lose the head shots and job titles from your about page. instead, tell us why you created this, how you got started, etc.

what are you doing with this data? do you have a privacy policy? this probably won't stop your growth, but it might encourage adoption if you let people know you aren't evil.
Ad rev and job postings don't account for much of a rev model unless you're in the Alexa top 20. Although I support SO, I don't think they have a viable long-term business model outside of Spolsky positioning it for acquisition. 30 people in a downtown Manhattan office building will eat through 6.5 million quickly.

Step 1: Steal underpants
Step 2:
Step 3: Make money
I would be interested in having a conversation with you about this.
Based on a data set of two (I only know two history majors), car mechanics or Windows Server admin.
Some people still do, yes. I usually avoid giving them verbally to anyone non-technical. Giving them in writing is never a problem.
The only problem with this example is not every software engineer has the ability to be an entrepreneur. Sure, they can create monumental value for their employers, but there are some people that just can't be founders or cofounders or anything more simply because of how they are. I know quite a few people like this. At the end of the day, it takes a variety of personality traits, skills, brains, and a slew of other things to create a well rounded individual who can maximize value. Outside of this, no matter how much value you're adding to your employer, how can you honestly say you're worth more.
She's talking about personal motivation, not market timing.
Thanks for sharing. Did you look at Tornado? I feel it is lightweight and simple.
Hmm; they list Gandi as one of their registrars, but no .IO domains are shown in Gandi-originated searches. (Opening another $40/year account with a new, unfamiliar registry increases the effective cost of these domains significantly.)
PS3 Users will get banned if caught hacking and running pirated softwares
Sony has just released an official Statement regarding PS3 Hacking and running Pirated softwares on it after such a long time. Months ago PS3 was hacked by fairflow team and Geohot. Sony filed a sue case against Geohot and some other hackers to cease hacking of PS3.
Slightly off-topic: Is there anyway Watson could be used to fix Google's search results? /s
Last I remember, it's perfectly integrated into Outlook. The main problem I found with using it was that people don't like to get tasks assigned to them via impersonal emails. I suspect TaskForce will have that problem too...
Almost everyone ITC is focusing on the developers' attitudes and whether they are "entitled" etc., but it seems to me the article was just as much (more?) about the impact that such salaries have on the companies. The author isn't so much arguing that it's "not fair" so much as "it's short-sighted on behalf of the employers," at least how I read it.

The developers' attitudes are relevant only insofar as they influence their actions in this case. If it's making it difficult for companies to hold on to talent, that's a big deal. If it's causing developers to grumble on IRC, not so much.
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Greplin (YC W10) Search Engine Tackles Facebook, Twitter
A toolmaker makes his living by taking a 80 cent piece of wood and a $2 piece of metal and combining them into a hammer which he can sell for $15. A manager makes his living by taking a $80,000 employee and a $200,000 employee and combining them into a business unit which is worth $1.5M.

Neither is any more immoral than the other and neither captures more than their fair share of value.
for the lazy

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179268
"The result is that nobody wants to risk tainting their work with GPL code if they're trying to make money."

Any particular examples?

"If it's GPL many people won't even look at it because who knows if someone who contributed a 2 line patch 10 years ago is going to come banging down your door with lawyers crying about violations. That's not what freedom is about."

When has this ever happened?

The fact is the AGPLv3 is the most business-friendly Free Software/open source license available:

The Affero clause prevents your competitors from taking
your software and running an SaaS operation. BSD/MIT doesn't.

GPL prevents your competitors from outright stealing your work. BSD/MIT doesn't.

Version 3 of the GPL prevents your competitors from using your software on their hardware while preventing you from doing the same thing. BSD/MIT doesn't.

Don't forget that there's nothing stopping you from dual-licensing. Dual-licensing with the GPL is a proven business model. Dual-licensing with BSD/MIT doesn't make sense.
GOP Senators on Resolution of Disapproval to Repeal FCC’s Internet Regulations
One questions is around mi head this days, Chrome OS is a restrictive operative system? what happen if a want to install for example another Browser as Firefox.

I know that Chrome OS is a cloud OS.
I am a pharmacy student so it is not easy to network with other students with the bulk of work i have to do. I would check for the marketing program. Hope they have
Java port of DosBox
Not what you are asking for, but you should add some screenshots to poplytics.com. I don't want to sign up for something before I can see what it does.
Getting Empirical about Refactoring
Well, sort of :) Kevin Rudd (our former Prime Minister) is somewhat famous for saying "fair shake of the sauce bottle" in a TV interview, instead of the saying "fair suck of the sauce bottle".

The "correct" version refers to sharing booze between friends, but Kevin Rudd's version meant sharing a bottle of tomato sauce (or Ketchup as you would say) to put on a meat pie.

People made fun of him for being too damned "clean" - ie. was he so PG rated that he couldn't even allude to consuming alcohol?

I thought your "fair shake" may have been in reference to that.
Why are you people defending Apple?
Peer coding, coding tests and anything else you can do to evaluate actual technical skills. At the "small team" level, most leaders still drive their teams simply by being better developers that the other guys.

Interpersonal, leadership and operational skills only become critical at higher levels (they are of course great to have at all levels if you are lucky).
Sources? I'd never heard that before. Would love to read more, and a cursory google search doesn't reveal much.
Hey DM me your email on twitter @sammville or send me a mail sam[@]poplytics.com
I didn't read through the link fully but it sounds to me like after changing the way you program you can get C++ to deliver the kind of performance a JVM gives you without doing anything special? Or are you saying with data-oriented programming C++ becomes significantly faster than Java?

To the extent that most people aren't going to change their programming methodology just to avoid Java and C++ still has its niche usages - I don't think the article is naive in any way.
They're not using a destination URL that redirects or acts as a bridge page. They're using a redirect to the destination URL.
"Interesting point.
No Section 508 compliance.
5th amendment violation - taking property without due process
Libel - falsely accusing a domain name owner of peddling kiddie porn
Any others I am missing?"

Are we going to se Anonymous v. ICE? j/k
Depending on what SV company you work for, ~$100k isn't a mid-career salary, that's what they pay graduates fresh out of college, not including bonuses.
I don't consider that underpaid.
Thanks for that. I had a tour page but pulled it because most people did not like it. Working on a new version of poplytics which would have a new tour page.
Yep, but we liked Eventlet better because of the simpler programming model and better support for things like psycopg2 (our database driver). So far it's worked out great--it's held up really well under our current amount of load.

That said, Tornado is a really neat piece of software, and it worked very well for FriendFeed and others. It really just came down to personal preference.
Off topic, but I'll keep this short:

At the time I post this, there are just 52 comments on the story at LATimes site, while there are 75 here !!!

I guess that'll surprise a few.
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What do you think of Doodle as an analogy?

Love the idea, will look for an opportunity to try it out!
Sometimes these things take on a life of their own.

While the author of the plan was not serious it seems there are a lot of people who do actually like his plan, and do take it seriously.

Maybe some of them will organize using this plan as a starting template.
Good observation. Also a bit sad, if true, as it suggests that anyone outside the mainstream will get fewer recommendations.

Of course, it's tricky, and I appreciate an approach that takes into account that not everyone who likes Foo will like the same things; other likes and dislikes give important context. But I'd prefer a somewhat larger, if less precise, set of suggestions over a small set.
Strangely enough, I started my quote website project with a quote on optimization. Coming from the very best:

http://the-quotes.appspot.com/topic/optimization
It's not a matter of "fair", whatever that might mean.

The point is that if you don't take it, people above you do.

It's not returned to some global pool of good-will.
Please note more words don't ad validity to an argument.
Violation of due process is simple to show. There is no warning or process for trial or appeal. The trial is secret and there is as of yer no appeal. This is a simple end run around the court system.

I really don't understand the need to complicate things this is outside the intended capacity of the customs. There are still people that don't have their sites back that were falsely accused and no means of appeal. How can this possibly be justice? Secret trials are not part of due process either they are not notified prior to conviction.
Employers are constantly complaining about a shortage of good developers, so the only possible answer is "yes".
I'm having a hard time trying to interpret your sarcasm. Are you saying 100k is a paltry salary and I would have a hard time finding programmers to work for that wage?

BTW, I am an employee and not a employer. I would certainly like to make more. But at some point (certainly at 150k) you just become an out of touch complainer if you're still unhappy with your wage.
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> but it also contains other things that reduce the value of the 18+

What, in specific?
it's time to hire me to work on load balancing ;-)
The GP was definitely saying the opposite of what you think he was saying, thus the down votes (thought I was not one of them).
This is not news, the business model "Create a scary threat, offer a solution" is old. I would not be surprised if some paleontologist asserted that the first 'sharpened' rock was marketed as a defense against the sabertooth tiger meanace.
The "autocomplete your life" slogan at the end of the video puts a smile on my face