skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is that this article and the Sequoia "RIP Good Times" slideshow are actually both kind of right.

This "recovery" is completely fragile and we will see what a real Great Depression 2.0 looks like after the dollar collapses. The final trigger could be Greece's pending sovereign bankruptcy, the popping of the tuition bubble, or the S&P downgrade of treasuries. Each of these is absolutely going to happen, Tim Geithner's assurances notwithstanding, though the timeframe is not certain.

So in this sense Sequoia's talk was right, even though they didn't properly articulate the actual upstream driver of the collapse in their slideshow (namely the push for massively expanded minority homeownership in the 2000s).

However, Quigley is also right about his particular point: that we are going to see a return to private companies and a retreat from "going public". Facebook is only the beginning.

While "going public" is thought of as the apotheosis of capitalism, it's really an injection of democracy into an otherwise capitalistic system. All the things people think of as deficiencies of capitalism -- including shortsighted management on a quarterly basis, financial manipulation of stocks, and the like -- are actually problems of democracy, not capitalism.

Think about how dumb VCs can be. Now think about how dumb a braying mob can be. You should be extremely reluctant to sell control of your enterprise to that braying mob. A well run business is about elitism, not democracy, as not all votes can or should count equally -- exhibit A being Steve Jobs.

Currently, US government regulations force disclosure requirements on companies of a certain size, which is why many (but not all) of that size decide to go public.

However, as more and more companies stay private, and as we have a complete collapse in faith in government bonds, we find that a very interesting thing may happen: stocks and bonds, the tools of Wall Street, may be radically reduced in importance.

This will have a tremendous salutary effect as the primary way to create wealth will be to actually start a business and sell a product. This is really the key point that Quigley is making.

This has to happen at some point because the risk-adjusted returns you can get on Wall Street are still higher than entrepreneurship. Once that changes, things will change for the better.
I'm not an IA or designer by trade at all (Degree in Finance, work in Marketing), and I found that Keynote Kung Fu was incredibly accessible by almost anyone (myself included). I had poked around in OmniGraffle before, but KNKF was just so much easier to use, especially for whipping up quick visual examples of things I want to show.

True that the final product is more styled, but that's when you have to work closely with the designer to make sure they understand you're not implying that's what the final visual style needs to look like.

I've also used KNKF for doing mockups for usability testing, which works very well.
> For one, the database is the only place where the entire schema is maintained. This includes indexes, constraints, relationships, etc.

not at all.

> If I need to go add an index to a production system, that is not captured in the code.

Depends of the ORM. With non-AR ORMs your index is very much captured in the code, as is the rest of the schema.

> More importantly, the database exists without the application.

1. That is not the case of the vast majority of databases and applications out there, which have a 1:1 coupling

2. Using an ORM does not preclude (or prevent) correct designs.

> The application does not exist without the database.

The application can very well be database-independent and run on 5 different (and incompatible) databases. If the sql schema is the canonical truth, you need 5 different schema files to handle all possible deployments of your application. If the ORM types definition is the canonical truth, one is enough and the ORM takes care of the details for each database.

> And once your application grows, the database will surely have additional clients

Baseless assertion.

> It's been proven that you can reliably wrap each row in an object and each column's field with a getter/setter pair.

So?

> Migration generation via diffing schemas? That's a much harder, in fact provably intractable problem!

Generating all migrations is intractable, generating 95% of migrations is not. Or South would not be able to do it.

> There are many ways to get from A to B.

So what?

> If you're going to leave it to a computer to generate either migrations or classes with getters and setters, I'd much prefer the computer do the getters/setters.

And I'd rather ask more of my tools. Different strokes for different folks.
>> The computer nerds got played by financial nerds - value was not really destroyed, it just relocated into the pockets of a few saavy guys.

I'm not 100% sure which boom, dotcom or realestate, but both destroyed significant amounts of wealth. When money is spent building companies or houses that aren't needed then wealth is destroyed, those people could have been doing something to maintain or increase the amount of wealth. If you spend 100MM on 10MM company then you destroyed wealth, if you spend 10MM on a 1MM house you've destroyed wealth - those resource could have been put to better use satisfying other's needs and wants.
Saurik Restored the SHSH Information Information - iSpazio English
Microsoft adds RIM to its anti-Google axis
Fossil is also one of the few options when you're working on windows without admin rights. Saved me from being completely without vcs in a couple of previous job posts.
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. quote
There's no better way to find the bugs than to use the code in production ;-)

It was a great talk, BTW.
The 4 requirements for a VC-backed CEO
As far as the tech world is concerned, I think the next 10+ years will be great for hackers. Costs will keep going down and there will be more opportunities in the internet, more leverage for people who actually know how to build and execute.
Creating a sleep ritual
how is it not crap? im not sure how thus content is better than ehow.
I was surprised to find out it has some traction.
Sure, if you have a stately home I could imagine the reason for it. No one wants to walk for 10 minutes to go to the loo in the middle of the night. But a normal 3 - 5 bedroom house does seem a bit ridiculous space wise. Especially as (at least in the south east of England) land is the most expensive part of a building. I could think of much, much, much better uses of the space for my house rather than wasting tens of thousands of pounds worth of space (in land and building fees) on bathrooms.
Congress Bans Some Scientific Collaboration with China, Citing Espionage Risk
Using an AVR as an RFID tag
X Factor & fox.com hacked, contestants database leaked
> Correlation is not causation, etc.

This certainly is a true and tested adage, but I've got a feeling that the correlation-backlash has gone too far in the other direction. Don't just repeat it without getting it. If substantiated through proposal of a suitable mechanism, correlation is solid corroboration of a causality-claim.

More precisely, correlation most definitely never implies absence of causation.
I had the exact same experience. I worked for an open source company that had bounties and I think it was one of the major factors that completely killed the open source community around it. A few years later a friend of mine mentioned she had contributed to the project, but stopped after she worked on something for 10 hours and realized that worked out to about $10/hour.

However, it seems like a good model if it gets up to market rates (if someone could do this in an hour or two) and especially if it's something developers wouldn't do on their own.
How important is the hard drive cache? - منتديات قروب الساهر
There is not even a decent link shortener in twitter.com
cached version - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Which could be bad for VC's, who are already throwing money at companies like color with the landscape fairly void of companies that need big VC scale investments.

I think that is a great thing, more companies creating more value for founders without having to give away to much equity to outside investment.
Are the two mutually exclusive?
The problem of Valve's console OR How to get banned from 4chan
I can't remember any successful attempts at censorship in the US, but not for lack of trying. I think all the claims were overturned for the reasons you state.

The only effective way of censoring a game in the US is for Walmart to threaten not to sell it.
Twilio seems to be in early stages of providing short codes
http://www.twilio.com/sms/short-codes
Not to steal any thunder, but thought I'd point out Leont's great C++ perl bindings.
https://github.com/Leont/libperl--

He has type safety and easy import/export of objects baked in.
I think it's all about context. If you are working on a single large project, it's reasonable to treat a concrete completion of a a part of that project as a "release".

For example, I'm working on recoding my mogade project. It'll take a couple months for the hour or two I spend on it a day. However, this week I managed to "release" the leaderboard component of it.
I imagine the responders here are not blue-collar. So its easy to say "I don't mind that guy's job going overseas, it appeals to my liberal philosophy". While they lose their house, we feel warm inside.
I'm not trying to be overly pedantic with this reply, but I think when it comes to security related topics it is good to be clear and so I think the conversation should continue until it is clear to readers what is being discussed.

For instance, the original article said:

Please don’t assume that, having read this post, you now know
everything there is to know about HTML escaping. I can
guarantee that you don’t, because I don’t.

Here I can say that using PHP's htmlspecialchars() with a proper encoding and clean data is all you need to know about escaping HTML. In the example of talking about on* attributes, you are now discussing escaping of JavaScript. The reason htmlspecialchars() fails here is not because it is broken, but because you are using it on the wrong language.

In terms of the UTF-7 issue with IE, the example code I posted properly handles those situations since it uses iconv() to clean the UTF-8. Really we've now changed from talking about escaping HTML output to cleaning user input.

I think the most important thing people understand is that there is a lot of knowledge required to write a security PHP application. You don't just need to worry about escaping HTML and SQL injection.

If anyone is interested in learning more about the various aspects, I gave a talk at BostonPHP and the Boston Security Meetup last year that was a survey of PHP security. If anyone is interested in seeing the slides, you can find them at http://wbond.net/security. The slides are HTML-based and contain links to learn even more.
Only if you require that your projects be disjoint!
What happens if multiple people claim the pot at once, perhaps with variations in quality, speed and completeness? Is the pot really just one pot or will each contributor decide who gets paid?
every single visitor has to sign into a kiosk to enter google. however, you can decline the NDA portion and it prints "nda-declined" on the name badge. this may prevent you from entering some places.

but, i do think you are over reacting about the google kiosk NDA. every visitor signs it. you are not special.
And Russia killed and maimed hundreds in their pell-mell race to the moon. So it was cost-effective and politically expedient, sure. But there are towns still expunged from Russian maps that were blighted by that irresponsible program.
30% for doing a middleman sounds to me quite a lot.
Still CEO of the Wilson household
I was attempting to make what I thought was a rather obvious caution (which is why I kept my post so terse), but since my above comment has been downvoted to hell[1] I guess I should explain. I was not speculating that unemployment changes education background. My common sense agrees with yours in this regard. What I was trying to remind everyone is that this data doesn't distinguish between "education makes you more employable" and "bright/hardworking/advantaged/<insert hidden variable here> people do better in school and at the work."

[1] Why is the -4 display cap still in effect now that we can't see other people's scores?
Part time "for economic reasons" means people who wanted to work full time, but were only able to find part time work.
Kobo Rides the Shockwave of Interest in E-books
A whole generation of Indian geeks grew up on his books, particularly the superb "Mathematics Can Be Fun". It's a real shame Mir publishers died :(
I'm not at all suggesting I'm special at all because I was asked to sign an NDA at the kiosk.

I'm suggesting that founders have a choice when it comes to investors. If I'm asked to accept or decline an NDA before I have a conversation with a VC, I'd rather go to one of the other hundred VC's to talk to in town where that isn't an issue.
I agree, not being forced to use URL-shorteners would be wonderful.

I think 140 characters is a bit short for English, but I do not think that 280 characters would give us better content in the long run either.
What makes t.co non-decent?
Afro hairstyles
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A license subject to unilateral change on their part, of course...
Now, to Find a Parking Spot, Drivers Look on Their Phones
I was wondering: is Microsoft that has this kind of corporate necrophilia - an urge to associate with dying companies, or dying companies that have an urge to associate with Microsoft, seeking some, any, leverage they can use to survive?
Not surprising. Decent jobs where a lack of high school or college education is acceptable don't really exist anymore, and we use the checkmark of high school/no high school or college/no college as a screening device.

I saw a posting for my local city's parks department for a person who basically mows grass. Education requirements? High school diploma, associates degree preferred.

The correlation/causation issue is that we assume that no jobs for folks out of high school equates to no "low skill" jobs.
Is the NYT the new paid search police? I love that someone is targeting these black hat tactics but it is interesting that the NYT keeps publishing articles with sites and sending findings to google. I guess if it keeps putting google and the buyers in the media it will help with the ultimate goal.
What's so special about Apple products?
Don’t Pay Bribes to Get International Expansion
Is your waiter sick? Find an available worker within minutes
My 2 cents for free, for whatever that is worth...

While the old product still makes you money, invest all resources into building the new product.

Selling the company / IP: if you don't have willing buyers lined up and competing-up the sales value, common wisdom suggests that this is usually not worthwhile / a losing proposition. Buyers are usually trying to enter into growing markets / products, but you expect negative growth. So not sure who'd be looking to invest in this area right now...
Online SVG figures with Haskell
I think what he meant, is twitter does not have an embedded link shorterner on the site but only if content is submitted via external links. Like HootSuite when submitting to FB or Twitter you can shorten a link while submitting the content. That would be a very welcomed feature for twitter in the long run.
Bin Laden raid's lone glitch could be headache for U.S. military
It looks to me like a GA that can mix and match chromosomes from a set of fit candidates instead of just mutating them individually. In other words, sex.
In the United States, these official statistics are based on sample surveys. There are distinct survey questions about labor force participation and the more narrowly defined concept of "unemployment." Description of the methodology used in the United States is found here:

http://www.bls.gov/cps/faq.htm

and, specifically,

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm

The United States federal definition of unemployment and labor force participation are

"Who is counted as unemployed?

"Persons are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work.

"Workers expecting to be recalled from layoff are counted as unemployed, whether or not they have engaged in a specific jobseeking activity. In all other cases, the individual must have been engaged in at least one active job search activity in the 4 weeks preceding the interview and be available for work (except for temporary illness).

"Who is not in the labor force?

"Persons not in the labor force are those who are not classified as employed or unemployed during the survey reference week.

"Labor force measures are based on the civilian noninstitutional population 16 years old and over. (Excluded are persons under 16 years of age, all persons confined to institutions such as nursing homes and prisons, and persons on active duty in the Armed Forces.) The labor force is made up of the employed and the unemployed. The remainder--those who have no job and are not looking for one--are counted as 'not in the labor force.' Many who are not in the labor force are going to school or are retired. Family responsibilities keep others out of the labor force."
LyX 2.0 released
The Problem With Society is Not Video Games, Television, or Movies. It's People.
Wow, who needs to justify leaving a job after 7 years? Good read though and the author's new business looks cool. Although I often repeat and work for the same bosses again, I have always tried to work no more than 1 to 3 years with a group/team/company. Now, with a large company like Google (similar in size to SAIC where I was for 20 years, off and on), switching teams/divisions, etc. helps mix up the work experience but still getting fresh jobs is simply a good life strategy. BTW, It is easy enough to maintain long term friendships even if you don't work with people anymore.
Do you have competitors whose products you could sell as affiliates? This might hurt your pride but will help you stay alive and learn about what products to build next.
On a side note, Triposo looks pretty good. There are some problems with the wikipedia text sometimes being in the city's native language though. I'm not sure if maybe that's how the page was when you scraped it.
That's not what I said at all.

Regulation does not necessarily mean "make it completely illegal". Food is regulated, but that doesn't mean the government has made it illegal (or even difficult) to eat.
Short Choppy Hairstyles
modern look with choppy hairstyles for women with short hair.Short choppy hairstyles in era 2000s became increasingly popular and translated in a variety of styles that can accommodate various types of hair.
Learn to use Google and you can solve all those problems.

These same type of articles have hashed out over and over.
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مشاهدة مباراة تشيلسى ومانشستر يونايتد بث مباشر
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http://www.almstba.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20066
http://www.almstba.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20066
http://www.almstba.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20066
If you honestly think you are going to fold in coming months, why not hire a sales/marketing person? Hopefully, he/she will be able to turn your business around/get new clients/etc.
Summary: a Linux/Windows use finds quirks when using a different environment (Mac OS X).
Why is the -4 display cap still in effect now that we can't see other people's scores?

I think because the current experiment of not showing comment karma scores (other than your own comment karma scores) is done with minimal changes to the existing code base. See

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2515825

for more background on the current experiment.
I think I'm phrasing it wrong. I'm definitely not saying that people prone to histrionics are good performers, just people who show that they are concerned about the situation, have some leather in it, and want to fix it above all else seem to be the people that actually get it done the best.

A rational approach to actually solving the problem is definitely best, I agree.

A blank stare, followed by business as usual, is a non-starter in my opinion.
Are you suggesting the Chinese will import cougars?
I tried to use Haskell, and I think that choice bit me (not Haskell's fault, I hasten to add). I saw the correct solutions right away, but I was nowhere near good enough at recognizing the causes of type errors and I/O in general to produce them in the amount of time I had (I started late). C'est la vie. Learning experience.
tl;dr

The boom in the use of index-linked instruments in the US financial markets since 2001 has caused an unhealthy herd of market players moving in lockstep creating a lack of healthy resilience which culminated in the 2008 financial crisis.
Colloquial catchy statements encoding serious mathematics
A story submitted in the last day or so

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522135

seems not to have had much discussion, perhaps because the submitter retitled the story, but the submitted story has a lot of good discussion on the value (or not) of attending college, and is worth thinking about in connection with the statistics submitted here.
http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs...

Hm, doesn't look like that.
One wonders if on the basis of this research, a case can be made for the banning of index-linked instruments.
If you really have some innovative developers, you could try to do what Odeo did :)
Computer Science Internships; How do I go about getting one?
This guy should stick to writing about sports.

Although I agree that the English value both 'winging it' on limited knowledge, and banter / witty repartee. But that is regardless of background.
I think its important to note that many coding competitions historically only allow C/C++/Java. There is advantage in that you can use many hacks in these languages to get around certain issues quickly if your an innovative person (which you have to be to do the contest questions).
Napster had a centralized search engine. Later P2P networks, like Bittorrent and Gnutella are decentralised, and no-one has yet declared those technologies illegal.

Even more so than Napster, E-Gold was very centralized, and thus an easy target. Bitcoins are an entirely decentralized network like Bittorrent or Gnutella, which have not been declared illegal.
I have a NoSQL startup and I got started by reading "the Google papers":

http://bytepawn.com/readings-in-distributed-systems/

Some code:

http://github.com/scalien/scaliendb
He has a British passport.
He was born in Uganda of South African parents, spent his childhood in the Netherlands, "also lived in Stanford, California, Berlin and London", and studied at Oxford and Harvard. He currently lives in France.
He should stay there :)
Architecture by accident
Startups Exposed: The Anatomy of a Newborn Tech Company (Infographic)
Agreed, why not try to get better at marketing and sales yourselves? If, given with good sales and marketing, you are not able to be profitable in the changing market then BigCo is probably not interested in a buy-out.
So what would a contractor, or an actor, or someone not actor but from the entertainment industry report? Some of those folks are regularly without job for sometimes more than a month, until they are on to a new project...