skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, my bad.

There was a similar article about Japan and I linked to the wrong source. I'll delete this submission.
I would reconsider some of the assumptions in your first statement.

How or what would you define as "rational greed"? If you have an example that would be best since we wouldn't have to discuss in hypotheticals :)
Change is so Scary to big Business.
I'm outside of Pittsburgh, and the easiest great job to describe would be programmer or web guy at a startup.

With the classes I took, I had at least a semester of experience in assembler, Lisp, and Python, a year of C, a year of Java, assignments in some more esoteric old languages like Fortran and Cobol.

I've also played with Ruby and Haskell on my own time, and have previously done a lot of web applications and content management systems in PHP (this was before Ruby on Rails came out even).

I know CSS and XHTML and can design a pretty decent web page. I've been playing with CSS since 2003 and made my own blog, back end and design, from scratch more than once.

I can also run a Linux server, and understand things like HTTP and DNS.
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"the iPad hasn’t “killed” the laptop at all"

Pundits keep missing the point. Tablets aren't about replacing desktops or laptops, they're about "anywhere, anytime, always on".

C'mon, people, it's a half inch thick and 24 ounces. There is no keyboard, and the bluetooth keyboard is more a makeshift hack than solution.

Mine paid for itself in a month by giving me the ability to work anywhere anytime - not work well as I would with a desktop, but work at all in the little 5-15 minute gaps, regardless of where I was.

In addition, it enhances personal life for the same reason: books, movies, email, games, internet, news, etc all in the same ubiquitous tiny sliver of a package.

Gonna do real work? Get a desktop.

Office apps are available not to replace the desktop, but to let you do basic work anywhere anytime.

And a notebook is a desktop pared down to it's barerest compromise to achieve portabiliy. Give up a bit more functionality and you get a tablet.
Not really. That did get dug up during the frenzy, but the rumor got started with a ReadWriteWeb post [1] and a since retracted confirmation from Tim O'Reilly.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_to_launch_major_...
It's interesting to contrast the Japanese style of online identity (which inspired 4chan) and the style that Zuckerberg is trying to promote.

Millions of Japanese have profiles on sites like Pixiv (popular art site with ~15m images) or Nico Nico Douga (popular video site with ~15m videos). They create art, videos, etc, and upload them under a name. Many of these people earn money off their work, publishing doujinshi at Comiket, creating art and promotional videos for commercial games, and so forth.

But there's no attempt to ensure that these are real names. Typically they're aliases. Even their most popular social networking site, Mixi, works the same way. To the Japanese, there's absolutely no reason why "my life as a doujin artist" and, say, "my life as a software engineer", should be given the same name.

Interestingly enough, this is how it often seems to have worked in the West as well... prior to Facebook.
Ask HN: Finding a Programmer
I have been looking for a programmer that I would include in the Summer 2011 Application. We were looking for a high-end programmer, that would join our team and work with us. Would you know where we could find someone that can cooperate with us?

Wheres the best place to find a programmer who would program long-term for our company, and eventually be a part of our team?

Are any of you guys programmers that would like to join our team? We could give a brief background of our start-up.
i do not recall making public the list of people with whom i have merely corresponded via gmail, isn't my inbox private?
You have a serious emotional block here. I addressed exactly this pair of sentences.

Read what I actually wrote.

Or yet again, push down your emotional whatever and just pay a little attention: The second sentence, given how the English language works, is essentially saying that execution is ALL that "counts" so that necessarily the idea doesn't count. So the second sentence contradicts the first. He's writing garbage, and you are reading into it what you want.
I know I know... But if I give any details I will out myself. So I can't do that. Let me paste some stuff from thefunded.com. BTW it is free to create an account so you can read it yourself, More to follow.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on how the iPad doesn't lend itself well enough to Enterprise.

I have nothing specific in mind that disputes your assertion, but the linked article below says this, which sounds meaningful - "80% of Fortune 100 testing/deploying, 366 documented mass rollouts."

I'm also hearing that Microsoft views the iPad as a potentially disruptive force in the enterprise, though that is second hand.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/sybase/ipad-2-will-continue-enterp...
Here is what I believe and what I keep reminding myself when the going gets tough.

I've come to realize that creating something - taking an idea and forging it into something new, never seen before - is an act similar not in scale but in principle to the big bang. I believe that for us as sentient entities there is no better way of proving who we truly are and no better way of leaving our mark.

And this applies to absolutely everyone, no matter what we do or have done, no matter how short our life, how bland our existence, how small our choices, all of us take part in creating something much, much greater. Simply by existing we alter flow, we create, we add something.
It is only 'not fair' if the number of lines of code is important. Only the most naive programmers think that LOC actually means anything.

If you were really keen, you might consider which of the lines were authored by the programmer, and which were inserted by the tool 'auto-magically'.

In that case, Objective-C may actually come out ahead in this example!

Of course, I don't know how much of the Lua code was boilerplate supplied by the toolchain, all that stuff about twiddling the bounds and the frame might be boilerplate. In _that_ case, the actual amount of code written by both would be almost exactly the same.

And then we get onto secondary claims, e.g. benefits of garbage collection. (See the pretty graph)

Lastly we could compare them on 'prettiness' of code. Objective-C is quite ugly, but 'underscorising' the function names doesn't improve it much if at all.

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So overall everything is equal apart from the garbage collection/memory usage thing which tips the scales in Lua's favour.

Now, on iOS the speed can be a big issue, so knowing if there is a performance penalty that comes with that is a big deal, which I don't see covered in the article.
My Firefox (3.6.13 on OS X) decided to overlay the video extending it outside the page bounds and covering the status bar, and it will not go away now that I closed the tab, remaining overlaid over all the other pages when I switch tabs.

A-, Would not click again.
I don't know about these particular reactors, but I've worked at nuclear power plants in the past and the final cooling backup plan was generally a variation of "fill the building with sea water".

The reactors I knew (I assume it's similar in Japan) each had a LOT of options for cooling them. Some options would allow regular operation (which requires very fine control of cooling), some options would harmlessly shut a reactor down (where "harmlessly" means without causing any damage to the reactor). The filling-with-sea-water option was "standard operating procedure" in the sense that it was in the manual as a standard procedure, but it's the kind of thing you only get to do once because after you've done it your reactor is permanently broken and won't be restarted.
The Pareto Principle and the True Cunning of HarperCollins
Check out how traffic to this page spiked today:

http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/International_Nuclear_Event_S...
excerpted from thefunded.com
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PUBLIC:

I've held my breath on this one for a while, but we wasted an incredible amount of time with NYC Seed.... In fact, we very nearly lost our opportunity to raise good money because of NYC Seed. If you value your time, do not spend it here. They are a firing squad.

PRIVATE:

A few additional points:

- Owen says he wants to back startups, but in reality, he is absolutely risk adverse. Here's why:

- The NYC Seed investment committee is a firing squad. They know nothing about startups, seed funding, or the rest. They want to co-invest with Fred Wilson, and put out press releases, but they are mortified at the idea of losing money and will screw you over at the last minute if they fear that this might happen. This is the city, politics and tax-payer money we're talking about, folks. Bad mix.

- It was the longest "no" I've ever had. Ever. As I mentioned, we almost lost our chance at good money due to their process. They pulled out at the last second.

- Now they've re-positioned as an incubator / quick-start program. $20K for 5% of your company is a total screw job. Do not take those terms!
Iodine's also useful in some radiation circumstances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_iodide#Thyroid_protec...
Excerpts from another post on thefunded:

And because Owen himself is not a professional VC (this was his first gig after being a startup entrepreneur), he doesn't really know how to relate to his board and investment committee. I'm aware of one case in which he SIGNED a term sheet, and then his committee reneged on it. I can assure you that particular company (and the other investors involved who assumed that he could deliver what he promised) will never engage with him again (although they won't say that publicly...)
this is very true, in the sense that in high school i was a very shy person that other people picked upon. on coming to college [in a different area from where i went to hs], people were from different places, and i didn't have a background as that insert random/weird label here kid, and as a result being my authentic self, i made nice friends, and no one really cared about what i was or was not in the past.
Excerpts from another post on thefunded (he means Owen Davis but is confusing him for the actor Owen Wilson who is a pretty bad actor too so this is funny):

I've personally spoken to several people who have dealt with SeedStart and Owen Wilson in general (hackernews meetups / ruby meetups / javascript meetups / founders of some existing NYC startups) and I've literally heard nothing but bad things. Lot's of really good developers / hackers were extremely put off by the NYC Seed process, the attitude of Owen Wilson, and the general lack of technical competence of the people evaluating business plans. Why would I spend two months putting together an extremely comprehensive business plan and then sit down to a meeting with "investors" who had obviously not read one page of the plan."
Kind of weird that the founder of 4chan really seems to get this a lot more than Zuckerberg, founder of the largest online community in the US (world?).
I feel like this is less about ability to handle the 2% who go over the bandwidth limit and more a means to fight piracy. I would assume the 2% who go over 150/250gb/month are people sharing large amounts of media (sure people like me download tons of legal soundboard recordings from bands, etc, but probably not the majority of that 2%). By capping the bandwidth, they can effectively cripple the ability for some to share large amounts of movies/shows/music.
Oddly enough if you look at my posting history you'll discover that I know the guidelines. Specifically, the bit you quote:

Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something
(e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to
ask or complain about moderation) ...

... is talking about not posting to the group questions that are intended for YC or for PG - the "us" in the above excerpt. "Ask" and "Tell" are not part of the culture, they are independent of this.

Moving on ...

My investigations haven't got very far, not least because I've been struggling for the past 6 hours to make my machine usable again. I've given up. I'll just do without flash until someone can tell me how to fix it. The forums I've checked haven't helped at all, although I didn't know of SuperUser. I'll try that tomorrow.

And regarding ESR's recommendations, again, oddly enough I've suggested in the past that people read them, and I had them in mind when I posted, but I am seriously beyond caring. I had hoped someone would (a) recognise the problem,and (b) cut me a little slack.

I guess I was wrong. Pursuant to your observation, I've edited my original submission to give some indication that I have expended at least a little effort already in trying to solve this.

ADDED IN EDIT: The question appears to have been asked in SuperUser and has had no replies. Based on other searches in other forums I'm not surprised, but I'll make more searches tomorrow.
Interesting. Is this a privacy concern or just something intrinsic people do in Japan online?
Maybe there's a market for a social networking site that let's one maintain sets of identities, segregated (or joined) by groups or "circles" of people from different facets of their life?

I know we often talk about separate facebook accounts for work/regular life people, but why not for online identities as well?

FB doesn't allow this (nor do any other social networking site I'm aware of)...
The iPad's success is getting me away from a desk for the first time in 15 years.

I will absolutely use my primary computer with its giant display for development, complex games, video encoding and photo work. I will absolutely continue to bring my new MacBook Pro to client sites.

But for everything else I will be slouching in my lounge chair with my iPad. Even typing out responses such as this one I'm typing at about 80-90% of the speed of a physical keyboard. Most of my leisure computing activities are browsing, Twitter, the occasional IM and email -- and I absolutely prefer the iPad for those activities over my MacBook Pro or my development workstation.

I've used a computer for 30 minutes since Friday. I haven't had a need to. With work that changes, and that's fine. But for play, this is without question my preferred device. Especially since I seem to be getting 15-18 hours of usability from a charge since the screen only needs to be at about 30% brightness to be easy to read.
Facebook will too pass....
I feel like taking a song, looking up the lyrics, and then applying autocorrelation to the lyrics to calculate the chorus isn't the best way of calculating the chorus..

looking for lines that repeat for example would be much more effective
I think it's more about making things more difficult for services like Netflix and Hulu as well as extracting some extra revenue from their top users who don't have any other choice for internet service.
I don't think any cameras would survive in there. They're inferring what's going on based on sensor readings.
Can you give an example of something that, when you look at it, you just know you would've never been able to make by yourself?

"implementing it really well" mostly comes from dedication and attention to detail, in my opinion. And of course, you have to actually care about the thing you're doing, and always keep in mind the user's experience.
Mike Huckabee and the Moral Beast
Well, we could play tennis all day ;)

I think if we were in person, we'd probably end up agreeing. Sometimes, loyalty to an originating point leads us all up paths that aren't totally worth defending.

I do however, genuinely believe that there's something bad about making generalisations. We all do it, I know - but in the workplace, when and if we're in a position to make a difference, we should.
If we go that way, Japanese has something like 具え過ぎる (preparing-too-much).

(I'm going to stop nitpicking now. patio11's original phrase was humorous, which is all it probably needed to be. :D )
Bingo, especially since AT&T TV (which is all over IP and therefore is just as likely to 'clog the tubes' -- actually even more so since it has better QoS) is exempt.

They are going to go kicking and screaming into the age of being a dumb pipe.
Funny thing about the market, it gets to tell you where the sweet spot is, not the other way around. Your scenarios presume that the iPad's mobility will trump the disadvantages of the small screen size to the point it will replace existing solutions with bigger screens. I'm not convinced that's the case. For example, when I visit the doctor or dentist, I don't go to an "office", I go to an examining or operating room. You know, places where they like nice big displays so everyone there can see the details of the x-ray pics? Those rooms are already networked and they stay put day after day, so mobility is not a desperate need.

Some of your examples seem contrived, like the office meeting where someone is dragging their power brick -- as if the iPad was the only device with a battery that lasts all day (and that the office worker didn't just unplug their laptop at their desk, where it had been freshly charged).

Police in their cars don't need a smaller display, and when they're out of the car they don't need yet another thing dangling from their belts. Delivery drivers already have solutions that are designed for their specific application and I suspect playing movies as well isn't a high priority at FedEx HQ's IT planning meetings. Etc, etc.
> Can somebody explain to me what SXSW is?

The best succinct statement I've heard:

"SXSW is Spring Break for nerds"
I founded a startup with dsebrow and jsebrow to try and address this issue. We let users have private and anonymous conversations with their friends and colleagues, with a twist: you can see who is part of a conversation, but you can't see who made individual comments. In other words, you can have anonymous conversations with people who you respect. The trolls can't comment, because participation is invite-only.

There is a demo at http://freeversation.com/about/ but please don't excessively promote it or repost it to HN yet. We're not quite ready to go live. (Until this discussion hit the homepage, we weren't planning on allowing the public to access Freeversation.com until later this week.)

We will be applying for YCombinator.
Technology Review also had an interview with him where he brings up the same points: http://www.technologyreview.com/web/25997/

I'm not sure if a subscription is required though.
Is there a link to this video with a player/context? Direct link to the .mp4 is unusual and somewhat hard to share.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319987 circular references rocks...
Actually, I think it makes a lot of sense. 4chan's appeal is the anonyminity, and facebook depends on having accurate data on people to mine and sell.
Lean Design For The Lean Startup (Minimum Viable Design)
To be fair, theres nothing of nature's that stands in nature's way. It ruins it's own shit too. It's all entropy right?
I think instead of being able to advertise "up to" speeds, ISPs should have to advertise the overall average speed you can use in a month taking into account usage caps.

150GB/month works out to .47MBit/sec sustained throughput. If AT&T had to advertise that rate instead of 6Mbit for DSL lines, they'd think twice about caps.

UVerse is even worse--~1Mbit/sec instead of 24.
I know it is a personal thing, but I actually like the Smalltalk-style message system. I don't spend as much time look things up. It is interesting now that iOS gains enough popularity to attract enough people who prefer C/C++ style message syntax. Apple did the property thing to help, but It still feels a little weird.
My question: Why didn't the guy with the height issue not use his real name, or at least a contactable pseudonym?

I believe the answer lies in his statements about lacking confidence.

I completely agree with you regarding meeting someone in social situations where something other than "dating" is the primary purpose. From personal experience, though, those circumstances are more difficult to approach a person you're attracted to (unless they are specifically geared toward meeting people (for relationship purposes) within a specific shared interest). Nonetheless, if you lack confidence to approach a prospective mate, the setting won't matter much, you simply won't approach someone you're interested in.

Personally (as I had written previously), I advocate diving in head first into the "dating scene" without prejudging the scene. You've referred to it as shallow and sex focused. It doesn't have to be. Commit to not having sex until you're married, or some other meaningful milestone and approach the dating scene that way. I didn't find my bride in the shallow, sex focused dating scene, but I would have never approached her if I didn't have the practice that said dating scene gave me. I believe, in most cases, men have a one-up that the person answering this question failed to take into account. Most men place a far higher value on physical attributes than women do (though, height is one of those attributes that seems to be very important to the women I've known, so I sympathize with this gentleman ... being skinny and not muscularly developed tends to follow pretty closely, though ... and I'm in that camp).

I remember how difficult it was at the time, and how insecure I was, but it got easier and I wouldn't have met my bride if not for the miserable experience of submitting myself to rather consistent rejection.
Thank goodness. If Google took over social, too, I'd be forced to quit the Internet.

Ceding all that power to one entity (a company no less), is just insanity.
"he worked for BoA And CW most of his adult life and know's everything and anything BoA just sent me some BoA emails.. LOL.. Stay tune."[1]

From the tweets it sounds like the leaker was with Countrywide when it was being bad (assuming) and is angry at being later fired by BofA. Explosive combination even if BofA is clean, as someone whose dream is "being on tv exposing BoA"[2] probably doesn't care to make the distinction.

[1]:http://twitter.com/OperationLeakS/status/46016032409780224
[2]:http://twitter.com/OperationLeakS/status/46069409877458944
I googled it before I commented, thank you. Note that I asked if you had any numbers. In each of your sales comparisons links, they point to the very same short quote from an analyst. Not the most compelling data, wouldn't you agree?
Google Circles was supposed to do this, but it turned out that the entire product was a misunderstanding.

A better way to maintain private circles is through closed Facebook groups.

If you want to go one step farther and talk freely/anonymously among friends and colleagues, see my comment below. I am working on a startup that does just that.
Sorry, which book? Feeling like I missed an in-joke here...
What pisses me off the most about the article is that Goldman Sachs seems to have such a large influence on the regulatory body.

They had a subsidiary company sent a letter to the commission asking for exceptions to the rules.

The head person at the commission was someone who actually worked for Goldman Sachs before and after (maybe even during) working at the commission. And they approved this.

When someone inquired about these exceptions they eventually says: ‘We have to clear it with Goldman Sachs.'
What do you do?
Where are you?
Could someone work remotely?
What kind of programmer do you need?
Do they need to know databases?
Do they need to know algorithms?
Do they need to know modern web technologies?
Do they need to know parallel programming?
Do they need to know kernel tinkering?
Do they need to know business logic design?
Do they need to know security programming?

I could go on, but I hope you get the point.
Unless your company is PepsiCo, that is.