skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> AND they won't benefit from the economies of scale that everyone else will

Most of the "economies of scale" happen at a fairly modest level. In fact, there are actually diseconomies at extreme scale. (The US Govt is a nice example.)

> The problem is that if only one state does this at significant expense, they won't see any appreciable benefit

The claim was that the expense wasn't significant, that it was mostly just "will".

> if we use a cap or a carbon tax to price non renewables appropriately

And what makes you think that the price will be "appropriate"?

The arguments for carbon taxes and the like are comparing an abstract ideal with what we got through the political process. That's a meaningless comparison because that processh pretty much guarantees that the nice properties of the ideal won't be realized if we try to implement it.

When a proposal contains basic errors like those mentioned above, what are the odds that the rest of it is sound?
I used to live and work in DC, and on my way to the Metro in the morning I'd regularly be passed by the vice presidential motorcade. Not quite as interesting, but still fun.
The short answer is to read your employment, consultant or partnership contract (the "loose agreement"). If that's not clear then show it to a lawyer.

General guidelines for the US are that "work for hire" is owned by the employer (whether explicitely assigned in the employment agreement or not!). Other types of relationships (e.g. partnerships, consulting, etc.) only transfer ownership of IP to the company if the contract explicitely says so.

At the end of the day that's all that matters: what was your legal relationship with the company and what did you sign. Writing code, working hard, being kept in the loop, etc. has no relevance at all. So the long answer also boils down to "read your contract". Sorry.
The conclusion says it all: "if you remove reasons for people to leave, you are more likely to have a stable workforce." Psychologically, it's more often the case for poor pay to be a reason to leave than it is for excellent pay to be a reason to stay.

I think that excerpt describes hygeine-factor theory better than Herzberg did.
At the very least, UberMedia knew that Twitter frowns upon the use of the terms 'twitter' and 'tweet' in the name of a 3rd party app, as those are trademarks owned by Twitter.

But of course UberMedia had to act surprised, what other explanation could they have offered their users? Like with anyone caught cheating, the predictable response is "Really, this isn't what it looks like!".
Hey there. Can I get my invite code now? :)
"Bots scanning for SSH on ports other than 22 will likely scan the whole 65536 range, not just the first 1024, so you don't get extra obscurity by using a higher port."

Do you have any statistics to back up that assertion? I'd expect most attackers to concentrate on ports below 1024, with proportionately fewer of them bothering to scan higher ports.
What if the "apartment" was in a Japanese-style capsule hotel? You might prefer to upgrade to your own apartment soon. OTOH, maybe providing no-questions-asked housing would help promote entrepeneurism?
What about good old LaTeX?
It's great way for udemy to acquire 1000 more users!
Provide some free course, 10% of those 1000 will buy several paid courses, each one ~ $100.
The same result as an ssh tunnel just lower on the network stack. In your case it'd seem that you can filter all your servers except for your one tunnel/bounce host. A VPN host just wouldn't have anything else on it.
Why would that be offensive? Chrome major version number changes are a: typically invisible to the user, and b: chosen for merely engineering reasons. If tech blogs didn't exist to tell people about major version changes in chrome most user's wouldn't have the slightest clue what version they were running.

tl;dr Chrome's major version releases are supposed to be incremental.
Triathlons
Assuming you use emacs in the first place. And not everyone does, or cares to. Especially when there are alternatives with a much easier learning curve.
Actually, when da Vinci wrote this resume, he wasn't well known. In fact, he'd done relatively little (did some commissions, worked in a workshop). The reason why every single one of those points is 'I could' or 'I know how' is because he hasn't -yet-.

Also, at the time da Vinci was applying (he was basically trying to get a gig as an engineer), it was expected that an engineer have a solid grasp of -all- of engineering at that time... which more or less was military engineering (seigecraft and defense), and civil (bridges and canals being the biggies).
The actual point values seem wildly meaningless, perhaps you shouldn't even display them.

For a minute there, I thought you were summing the article points and the total points of all comments, which would be an interesting ranking as well.
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No problem - I actually just bought a website name with that word in it (ExistentialQuandary.com - not up yet though) for a new blog I'm working on and that's when I discovered I'd been misspelling it for years. Otherwise I doubt I would have ever noticed either.

Talk about a major 'd'oh' moment... nobody mentioned it to me before, figured others were probably unaware of its odd spelling as well.
The President toasts w/ heads of Twitter, Facebook
OK, I thought this might be cool - so I clicked on over to Ruby4kids [http://ruby4kids.com/ruby4kids]. The first link is to Gosu [http://code.google.com/p/gosu/wiki/RubyTutorial].
This isn't for kids. The first heading is 1. Overriding Window's callbacks.
"Twitter" sure, but if they discourage tweet, it's a new thing. You used to be encouraged to use tweet in your app name instead of twitter. Remember, they didn't officially call them "tweets" until recently(ish). You can even register twitter names with "tweet" in them, not "twitter."
C++ for the desktop actually...

The thing is; C# and Java are also fast enough for an adequate desktop GUI. But they're horrible to program in.

Ruby and Python are still in about the same category of slowness even with pypy's success. I'm doubtful of Python desktop apps but I know they are out-there.
Wow, thanks! http://twitter.com/#!/kn0thing/status/38699762387656705

:)
> I'm sure this has been considered, but I'm not seeing where exactly.

Your app needs to get validated. Bazinga.
Gimme 48 hours, then you and Alexis are in first, I promise.
Respectfully, I disagree. The points are clearly correlated with how high the item gets, and how long it stays on the front page. As such, I think the ranking is of value. It also has the merit of being simple to compute, and easy to explain.

Elegant.
I don't see how that is an argument to get regulators involved (if that is the point that you're trying to make)
It is becoming very common, I have seen this several times in the past few months. The funny part is they would have more success if they considered remote development because they would increase the pool of available talent. With tools like Skype and Basecamp it is like having the developer in the next cube. I am still surprised by people crippling their search for talent when all the tools are available to them to support an organization that can go after the talent no mater their location.
I prefer books that are highly rated on Amazon.com. I generally don't care how long they are. I mainly ask myself,

Am I the right audience for this book?

If I am not the right audience, can I gain a new perspective by reading this book?

Who is recommending I read this book?

Am I buying this book just because I lack expertise in an area? If so, why am I not asking an expert what book to read and what to look for in a good book? See, for example, Victor A. Wagner Jr's guide to reading C++ books: http://www.rudbek.com/books.html On IRC chat, Victor usually repeats the advice in Peter Norvig's essay Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years

If I am reading Lambda the Ultimate, and somebody with seniority on that site (e.g. Allan McInnes) says read Franklyn Turbak's book on programming languages, then I generally follow that advice. Smart people tend not to read nor recommend crap.
Does WikiLeaks deserve credit for revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, et al?
This is great fun. Had a record turnout last year -- almost not enough time to play them all!
As far as I know Twitter only discourages the use of Tweet in application names if you integrate with no applications other then Twitter like Facebook, Buzz, Foursqure, etc.
not since the Dot Com boom anyway
The first time I read this account, my immediate response was that the police officer was an idiot. Regardless of why the accelerator is stuck, it seems as though a trained police officer should know that you can shift a moving car into neutral with the flick of a wrist. Yes it might ruin the engine, but who cares.

The fact that he had time to call 911 and didn't do this first is shocking to me. I knew this trick since I was 16 - and cars aren't even my thing.
Log Event Processing with HBase
you're overworked, and very stressed. You're probably also malnourished due to dietary decisions consisting of little more than "What's in the vending machine?" or "Where's the closest fast food joint?". If so, there's a high likelihood that your Liver and Gallbladder are both causing you problems. Depression is a common symptom of Liver issues. Add in a poor diet with high cholesterol, and your Gallbladder and liver a probably full of gallstones. increase your Ginger and Turmeric intake (to increase bile flow/digestion) for a few weeks, and spend a weekend doing a Liver Cleanse/Flush to remove the stones already in your system. I'll bet this helps you more than you'll ever realize.

Good luck in your studies.
For pilots, I don't think you want to be one of the ones who gets to become a household name, as that generally only happens when you are the pilot during a crash or serious emergency.
Seen it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236102

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2235915
"you were paying way too much for your merchant account..."

Yeah, I know. That's why we switched to PayPal.

The rates started out great (I think it was 2.1% when we started). Then they climbed every few months to being ridiculously expensive; they'd labeled our business "high risk", or something, somewhere along the way (despite the fact that all of the problems were because their fraud protection mechanisms were nonexistent). Doing anything about it required sending faxes back and forth with the provider, and waiting on the phone for half an hour to talk to a human, who would fax us forms, and then ignore them when we faxed them back.

Anyway, at this point, I have a strict No Fax policy. If a company requires me to fax them something, or requires me to accept faxes from them, I won't do business with them, under any circumstance. The merchant services thing was the last straw on that front, and it seems the majority of merchant services companies still want to do business via fax (even BrainTree, last time I checked, who are reportedly a great company to work with...but if I have to fax them, even once, I'm not going to ever be their customer).

Basically, discussing merchant services with me is like poking a hornets nest with a stick. I hate those people. I've dealt with a number of merchant services companies over the past dozen years I've run businesses, and I've hated every single one of them with a fiery passion. There may be good ones, but I've never met one I liked.

I don't like how much PayPal charges, either, but they've yet to screw me over, so far. And, the rates are close enough to merchant providers that I wouldn't be willing to send a single fax to change it (and if history is any indicator, I'd have to send/receive dozens of faxes a year, if I switched back to a regular merchant account).
You were agreeing that we full circle with from ODBC to REST. I am saying you don't seem to have understood the commenter's sarcasm.
You listed three things that I'm really glad the government does:

- Attempts to keep all investment activity well-regulated and conformant to some definition of legitimate. Thus minimizing the risk that my money manager is going to lose my money on an illegitimate, thinly disguised gambling platform like the Hollywood Stock Exchange.

There's no reason why something like that shouldn't be tightly regulated -- HSX is not the same thing as the NYSE and shouldn't be allowed to take real money in exchange for fake value. The NYSE returns my investment when companies I've selected do well: actual value. The HSX returns my money when random celebrities have an on camera nipple slip: no value.

- Make sure that there are tight restrictions on what counts as a medical device, or as medicine. If there's something approved to go into my body for medical reasons, I want associated risks to be minimized. This is not where I want the boomtown to be -- I don't want to undergo the therapeutic equivalent of WebVan or Twitter.

- I also don't want just any jackass to be able to print a textbook off of Blurb and start selling it to my kid's teachers. Qualified jackasses only, thank you :) No seriously, the way education is decided in this country is currently suboptimal, but the goal is to have all children on the same page. I don't want to find out that my kid has been on some experimental curriculum that turned out to be a pointless waste of time.

But you're also wrong about this. It is possible to start an alternate education system, so long as you conform to guidelines about what you teach. I've never heard anyone complain that they couldn't get their education startup going because of "massive subsidies given to the traditional system." There are a number of folks trying to crack this one from different angles, from textbooks to actual brick-and-mortar institutions.
I was funny to me, and no offense, but I'm really the only audience I care about. I'm not getting paid up here, so this is about having fun. :)
So part of the problem is a complaint of trademark dilution? How about this name for a twitter client:

Birdfeed.
In Safari:

1. File -> Preferences -> Show Develop menu in menu bar

2. Develop -> Disable JavaScript
> According to Twitter, UberMedia infused twitter streams in their apps with ads.

But what problem should twitter be having ? If public dislike the ads they won't use it probably. If they are doing so, they are probably OK with it. There are lots of ads-free client out there.
Cassandra supports reading/writing MapReduce jobs natively (http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/HadoopSupport), and Voldemort supports read-only k/v views of Hadoop data (http://project-voldemort.com/blog/2009/06/building-a-1-tb-da...). Both of which are much more mature options.
> Actually, you have allocated most of your comment for advertising your blog…

Sorry if it came across that way. I really don't check who reads my blog, there is no comment mechanism, and I do not like linking it anywhere except to friends. Even then, I prefer they not read it directly. My blog is mainly a personal thought dump and collection of links.
Read default browser cookies for android's webview
Indeed, using only a few of those tactics...

"A retired Indian Gorkha soldier recently revisited those glory days when he thwarted 40 robbers, killing three of them and injuring eight others, with his khukuri during a train journey. He is in line to receive three gallantry awards from the Indian government."
[http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_deta...]
We already know what the killer demo is going to be, Doom in the browser.
Apparently a simple "Thanks" and +1 gets you downvoted.
I've found the way the top posts from the past are organized using Ruby interesting, so normally I've said thanks. Next time I will keep my fingers crossed when I simply like a post.
Is there a link to edit my tutor profile? When I log in, I don't see anything about it.
Intel CEO: Nokia Should Have Gone With Android
Yep, I quite enjoyed it there. However, you do have to act appropriately to their (very different) customs or it gets awkward.

Helps if you are working there.
It's simply time to think very much outside of the box and separate the wheat from the chaff in a truly scientific and unbiased way..

Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, also known as Cold Fusion:
http://www.lenr-canr.org/

"Finding and facilitating breakthrough clean energy technologies."

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

"In a July 9, 1998 keynote address at the Fifth International Conference on Composites Engineering in Las Vegas, Dr. Deborah D. L. Chung, professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University at Buffalo (UB), reported that she had observed apparent negative resistance in interfaces between layers of carbon fibers in a composite material. Professor Chung holds the Niagara Mohawk Chair in Materials Research at UB and is internationally recognized for her work in smart materials and carbon composites. The apparent negative resistance was observed in a direction perpendicular to the fiber layers. "

http://www.energyfromthevacuum.com/Disc3.htm

"The reflexive response from mainstream science about the possibility of producing free energy from the vacuum is that it is not possible as this would violate the second law of thermodynamics.

Over the last 20 years the absolute status of the second law has come under increased scrutiny, more than during any other period in its 180-year history. Since the early 1980's, roughly 50 papers representing over 20 challenges have appeared in the refereed scientific literature."

http://www.energyfromthevacuum.com/Disc8/index.html

Time to go back to the ORIGINAL work by Maxwell and dive into the quaternion notations and not follow the crippled rewritten version by Heaviside.
Don't forget to mention "take it by force".
They support Adobe Illustrator! Amazing. I would love to know how they do it internally.
I would like to point out that the failing of wave was primarily that nobody found it to be useful, not that it was over-hyped. I can't imagine NaCl having that problem.
The most recent and best example is when a bunch of Redditors attacked some girl doing a cancer fundraiser:

http://gawker.com/#!5751581/misguided-internet-vigilantes-at...
How to tell your boss to F*off and not get fired
<forKids>
Based on my belief that programming is not something which should only be taught to those on the college track, programming could be taught as a vocation rather than an academic pursuit. In other words, rather than a one hour class with homework and labs - it could be taught in more of an all day studio type environment similar to the way electronics was traditionally taught in trade school certificate type programs.</forKids>
> Does it render the file just as Illustrator would?

I doubt it, but just managing the basic structure is an amazing feat.
Kendo, Photography, Cooking, Reading... though the reading is on a Kindle, which may count as a computer for you.
This entire post has high Noise/Signal ratio.
And yes, it is ironic.
I find http://news.ycombinator.com/active useful ('Most active current discussions').
My observation ...

It's more than a simple "Thanks" getting downvoted. People regularly say thanks, but not simply for links like this. Your upvote suffices.

However, if you've had a specific exchange with someone, and they've specifically replied, then a "Thanks" is welcome and accepted.
You know we have the ability to build structures above ground, with the added benefit of reducing the need for snow removal etc. Clearly it's not the cheapest solution, however roads already cover far more land than any reasonable collection of solar power plants so it's useful to add an idea of the scale we are talking about.
My first take is "eww browser plugins v2.0" but I'm not certain that's an informed opinion.

Same here on both counts. But I'm apparently far less enthusiastic then the average HNer on the concept of the web being the One True Way for computing.
Thanks i just sent you an email!
Wow, sorry for insulting the Messiah. But I got 10 million karma, I can say what needs saying.

Do any of you Americans even realize there are other world leaders...?
Excellent website, thanks
Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
I assume you are deliberately misunderstanding what I found offensive?
I've read that when the engine is racing, it can take some force to get the transmission into neutral. Don't know if that's actually true (never tried, and I usually drive a manual), but it would explain the failure.
Uhh, yeah, ever hear of the IRA? Funded by NORAID.
Doom 3 maybe. We already have Quake 2 running in the browser using WebGL (http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/), anything less would undersell NaCl.
as does my '03 4Runner.
I wonder how widespread programming hobbies are. Last weekend I was signing a credit card slip for the pizza delivery guy and he asked "Web developer?"

"No. But I do write software for a living, how did you know?" And he pointed to the "PHP Cookbook" I was using to write on.
At a certain point in that line of reasoning, the "value" becomes nothing but "satisfaction in knowing you did something nice for someone else." It's something people value, but to put it in terms of a market transaction misses the point by a wide margin.
Most Web 1.0 marketing didn't work. It didn't work because marketers didn't yet understand the point of the web. Their marketing plans were about as sophisticated as "We should really get onto this web thing everyone's talking about."

By the same token, most FB marketing isn't working as intended because the marketers don't grok the point of FB. You can't just stick content on FB and then build social elements around it. You have to have a compellingly social experience that then gets skinned with branding and possible sell-through options. Social must come first.

This is a frustrating notion for classically trained marketers, because to a classically trained marketer, the strategy must always preceed the tactic. The strategy -- driving people to the product/brand, benefits and identity of the brand, etc. -- usually gives rise to the tactics.

On Facebook, however, that's just not how users engage with one another. No one's there to look for Pepsi. They're there to look for each other. Pepsi, in this hypothetical example, would be much better served with a really cool feature or social utility that is lightly skinned with Pepsi branding than it would be with a really pretty, expensive, heavily branded experience that just sits on FB waiting to be discovered. That's not to say that Pepsi can't have its cake and eat it, too. The holy grail, obviously, is a compelling social utility that is uniquely Pepsi's and works especially well for Pepsi the way it couldn't for Coke (or for Bank of America, or Geico, or Nike, or P&G, or whoever). But in getting to that holy grail, build for social first. Then build for your brand.
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Ah, yes. That's it exactly. Thanks for the help.
R.I.P. Birdfeed (http://birdfeedapp.com).
I suspect games will be the killer app for this, though the barrier to in-browser games is getting lower all the time with hardware-accelerated canvas becoming the norm. Nonetheless, high end games will probably continue to require native hardware access for the foreseeable future. You can't exactly build Call of Duty in JavaScript+Canvas or WebGL or whatever.
It's hard to think of anything Detroit needs less than a Robocop statue, especially for $65K.

Consider an alternative: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/02/18/robocop-statue-ron-...
I was afraid of that, but yes, you're right. Doom is old enough to run with JS already.
Umm, I would rather risk x lives once every 100 years than know I am going to kill 10x that every year. (Or did I miss read what you just said.)
I raise a family ;)