skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are both government regulated non-profits. Compare to the BBB.
Hmm, that additional zero at the end for S3's price threw me off for a a few secs :)
I think your sarcasm hides a lack of an actual point to your comment (beyond reiterating my comment's point, which was that selling mobile apps seems to kind of suck in general).
This is just common sense- most customers wouldn't buy an iBrick (iphone w/o killer apps), and even apple knows it- that's why they focus on killer apps in their ads. Google is smart enough to know that you shouldn't tax your business partners out of business, even for short-term gains. Sure, apple is going to own the ereader market on the iOS platform, but they've introduced so much risk into being an iOS developer that it's very, very silly to build a business on top of them.
If you read my original comment, that's precisely what I said. Supernodes are used to link NAT'ed hosts. If the supernodes were run by Skype on "the cloud" they wouldn't really be peers anymore, but act as servers. That's what I said in my 2nd post.
Why buy Skype?
I think the best way to go about something like this, is charter flights.

http://www.charterflights.co.uk/faq.php?faqID=1#Q1

If you can get enough people to fill up the whole airplane, you can charter the whole flight. Then you can sell any excess seats to companies like charterflights.co.uk.
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If you like this kind of development, I'd suggest you check out YQL. I built www.choip.me which handles most of the interface and twitter interaction using yql to interact with twitter, that's a good example. I haven't touched choip.me in a long time, just never turned it off so I'm sure portions of it are broken.

Another example of where I've done this is with the autocomplete at unscatter.com, where I used yql to pull data from Blekko. yql for sites that haven't blocked it can be a pretty invaluable tool for doing client side development against websites/apis.
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Each time I had to use scraping (like for http://hackerbooks.com or http://learnivore.com) I choosed to ask the owner first. I think it's better to get in touch and just ask.
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Very nice.

Have you checked out angular.js? It has routing, templates, controllers and jsony stuff. Models are a little more complicated.
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I'm a Dad with 6 children. My wife is a more-than-full-time Mom and homemaker. I've been primarily working from home for the past 10 years (and 3 children).

It sounds like your plans (part-time, primary caregiver for the child) isn't completely like my experience, but there are similarities.

Critical success factors for me:

* Have a separate workspace. I have to have a place that is for work, and away from wife & kids.

* Training - the kids have to learn (& be reminded!) that when I'm working, I'm not available to play games/read stories/play outside. This applies to my wife as well...

* Time for life, too. Sometimes the balance shifts the other way, and it's too easy to slip back into work because it's always right there...

But it has been wonderful - I've been able to be much more involved in the lives of my children. We have lunch together. I was there when they learned to walk. They can come for a hug or to snuggle on my lap for a minute. I make it to school programs. I'm here when they come home from school.

If you're comparing having 100% of the income (and spending 1/2 of it for taxes and daycare) vs. half the income and you get to "be there" every day as your child is growing, there's no comparison. Be there and enjoy your child.

Though there will be days you'll say, "Why am I doing this, again?" there will be plenty of memories you'll treasure.
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Every company doing business in California needs to have a license to operate here (and obey State laws). No easy loopholes here.

Companies mainly choose Delaware because Delaware is efficient and well-known for processing of paperwork and legal matters.
Practical solution: remove the "sic" and replace it with a "..." to indicate that you've excised a portion of the quote. Or, y'know, don't bother to quote the passage with the offending "sic" at all. You could even come up with a way to phrase it so that you're quoting the original rather than quoting the quotation.

If you wanted to include it and do it unambiguously you'd need to come up with a convention and state it clearly in the text. "Please note that all instances of "[sic]" which use square brackets are author B's insertion when he quoted author A, while instances of "(sic)" with parentheses are my own insertion in quoting author B."

Thus we have "a letter from me [sic] (sic) to you".
No, but as it would generally only be useful on XP and they didn't show it, I'm not optimistic.
Have it just be a caption under the video asking users to tweet if they like it. Maybe even have it slide down into view after the video, or 5 minutes into it, or right after the best part of the video.

Blocking the video with the prompt strikes me as hamfisted. Particularly for a technical audience that's aware of how these sharing mechanisms work.
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Their blog: http://blog.alpha.gov.uk/
Twitter: @alphagov
Their GetSatisfaction: http://getsatisfaction.com/alphagov

This is also interesting read: http://puffbox.com/2011/05/11/ten-things-alphagov-gets-right...
I used to think that a parent's care was unequivocally the best childcare, but I no longer believe that to be true. As the mother of a four month old who has had 95% of her care provided by either me or my husband working from home, and 5% by a grandmother coming to stay and watch her, I have learned that having a dedicated child care person is not only vastly superior for the working parents' productivity/quality of life, it is also superior for the child. My daughter made so many developmental strides while under the full attention of an adult, versus the divided, frazzled attention she received from a working parent. Having come to the realization that my bright and inquisitive daughter needs more than the partial attention of an adult, we have changed our minds about our ability to care for her while performing our jobs (work in my case, professional school in my husband's).

You might therefore consider what we are currently considering in our single-income household, which is to get an au pair. I am in the US, so program details/costs will differ, but here is my assessment based on the U.S. program. Since they are live-in, the cash outlay can be considerably less than getting a nanny. While there are substantial program fees, their salary is paid at minimum wage, which is generally half to a third (even a quarter) of a nanny's wage. If you live in an expensive area, the cost of an au pair can even be competitive with in-home daycares (which are typically the least expensive type of daycare). Other benefits include their childcare training from the program, the light housework they may perform, and the "cultural exchange" aspect of hosting a young adult from another country.

(If an au pair doesn't work out for us, our second choice would be to do a nanny share.)
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1. We wanted to try out Go

2. We wanted something that would give us a single, staticly-linked binary that we could easily push out to the nodes. Does Python allow that?

3. Go's goroutines and channels fit beautifully with what we were trying to do.
As an immediate counter example understandable even by someone who hasn't learnt another language, consider puns. They have plenty of meaning but will only be translatable to closely related languages. at best.
Huh, they made an innovative(in their eyes) e-reader, why is that not innovation?
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I want a simple language that compiles to native code, has easy concurrency support, is garbage collected, allows me to distinguish between values and references, and has a compiler/standard library that is useable for real tasks. What other language betters fill that?
Unless your actual aim is to draw attention to the incorrect use of [sic], when would this actually be needed? Surely the normal use would be "So and so is quoted in the <whatever source> as saying:" in which case you can quote what they said without needing any editorial additions, such as [sic], that the source added themselves.
The difference: if you start a business in California, you have to care about California law, and federal law, but not necessarily any other states' laws. Similarly, Internet businesses don't legally have to collect sales taxes for states other than their home state (and most don't make the mistake of putting their HQ in a state with sales taxes), though various states have attempted to (illegally) claim otherwise.
Well, it's quite a simple site so any rdbms can be fitted. But because I'm doing an experiment to evaluate Cassandra for a future project.

So far so great, it works very well for me. I can easily change the schema, and get a new EC2 node up and running instantly with less effort .
RE: Juvenile centers, there was a 60 minutes recently about private companies paying judges. Here is the link:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4798743n&tag=mnco...
This technology has the potential to save so many lives. Does anyone know how much these cars cost? I would expect the radar system and servers to be pretty expensive. Presumably the higher cost could be offset by lower insurance rates.
To all developers who own apple products .. why? Seriously?

It's like jews cheering for the nazis. I don't understand?
Mixergy also has audio versions of their shows - we stream it over the office sound system every morning...

Link for the latest -http://s3.amazonaws.com/Mixergy/Audio/Jason-Fried-(Sortfolio...
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Your milage may vary, but I can tell you how we are doing it. My wife and I both work from home. I sold my half of my company in 2008 and have since been a freelance designer and developer. My wife is a freelance editor. We have a baby-sitter / nanny who comes 4 days a week to help with my 2-year-old girl. Wednesdays are still "family" days and it's nice to go to the museums, the zoo, even just the grocery store during a weekday when they are not super-crowded.

Of course my wife and I are interrupted throughout the day to help with lunch, naptime, diapers, story and play time, etc. The interruptions can be a bit frustrating when working against a deadline and I've occasionally rented a part-time desk in a shared office space to be a bit more focused. But we see a huge payoff in my daughter. We think as a result of being so responsive and close to her, she seems confident and emotionally secure, and very verbal for her age. And of course, being there has been an amazing experience for me, too.

One downside is that she's not getting the same socialization she would in day care. But we do take her to various group activities and classes, and she starts a pre-school two mornings a week in the fall. She will get a good dose of it then.

We're also not saving much money for retirement and occasionally dip into our savings, but we are otherwise making ends meet, paying off the mortgage and health insurance and still manage to take a few weeks vacation each year. Once my daughter is in school, we expect to ramp up the billable hours. In the evenings, I've even managed to put together a modest web app, which I hope to launch this summer.
> CAs suck and are unaccountable. Any of them can (and many of them have) issue a certificate for a site to an attacker.

> eBay feedbacks can be gamed and I generally don't trust them.

Do you think the government would do a better job at providing CAs or rating eBay sellers? Do you think the government is somehow immune to fraud?

> Your retail store example is laughable. I'm sure Walmart really cares about the quality of its products.

"I'm sure Walmart customers really care about the quality of products they buy at Walmart."

Walmart offers what customers want: cheap prices at the cost of lesser quality. Luckily we are still free to buy low quality products, because the government might "fix that" someday.
Google's research into driverless cars really boosts their perception of "info hegemon having their hands in everything" and either "rock star company trying to save the world with bleeding edge technology" or "Orwellian nightmare come to life doling out Trojan horses so the masses fail to see the inevitable robot holocaust", depending on your personal bias.

That said, why is Google the only high-profile company looking into this? I've heard about the DARPA Grand Challenge, but that always seemed to be about hobbyists and university teams. I see there are quite a few groups interested in the concept, but it seems like only GM is the other company who bothered looking into it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driverless_car#Key_players
I suppose car companies are set in their ways and don't want to create a future that takes drivers out of the equation (though it's not as if people won't be flocking to buy driverless cars anyways), but why not any other tech companies?
Unless you're making a point about the [sic], Just remove it. It adds no value and distracts from the original message.

Fun question =)
Yes it has been updated. http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/15/apple-kindle-netflix-in-app...
I'm not sure the original idea (hold a video hostage in exchange for tweets) can be improved. It's rather user-hostile.

What might be worthwhile is the social-media-isize your video feature. An easy-to-use tool for embedding twitter/facebook/linkedin/whatever posting inside the video sounds relatively useful. Maybe have this stuff pop up when the user pauses the video, or when it ends.

Demanding that people do your advertising for you is a death sentence for using social media. You want to enable them to advertise for you, forcing it just fosters ill will.
It was tongue-in-cheek. I think it's silly that Microsoft adds "_s" to a lot of the standard functions; it makes porting more difficult.

Of course, it was sillier not to write "strcpy" as strcpy(dest,maxSize,src) from the beginning. And "memcpy" as memcpy(dest,maxSize,count,src). But I guess whoever wrote those weren't really expecting them to be one of the most frequently used functions in computer programming history...
With HTML5, it is possible to speed up the playback, which can make video tolerable. Unfortunatly, the wistia player is flash only. Once you get used to hearing pitch corrected audio at 1.5x-2x, watching videos can be tolerable.
I would add PROMELA-SPIN a non-deterministic language for modeling and verification of systems. Plus other formal verification languages:Z or Petri nets

Also SQL! (although he probably knows it already...)
I think they have more choices:

(4) negotiate a deal where they get more then 30%.

(5) negotiate to remove DRM and operate as a Web App.

(6) change business models to subscription.

(7) license the app part of the business model to another company not involved with your store. That company can then pursue anti-trust claims against Apple if disallowed since they have no ability to offer the items for sale.

(8) add more value with your product i.e. get a better business model then "I'm gonna get rich being an additional middleman of ebooks"
I think you're confusing politics with persuasion. Technical people have a problem with persuasion; I did, before I joined a large company, decided I wanted to actually change things for the better, and realized there's nothing dishonest about convincing people that someone will improve their company/lives. I was just bad at it.

Technical people seem to lay out arguments that are sound, but just aren't convincing or appropriate for the audience at hand. This is why shitty technology can win out when the customer lacks the time to make an informed decision, and makes the perfectly rational decision to go with the more convincing pitch.

And that's just it: decision makers don't have time to go through a thorough, completely objective, scientific argument. So, you either do what you need to get things done in what you feel is the right way, or you don't. There's nothing wrong with hacking a meeting, so long as the hack benefits the company, or at least is done in the company's best interest. As with software, the only bad hacks are those that benefit the hacker at the expense of the organization.
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The dollar has not reduced in value by a factor of six in the last few weeks. Nearly all of the change in the USD/BTC exchange rate is due to a reevaluation of the real value of bitcoins.

So even if you did all your business in them, it's likely prices would have fallen substantially in the last few weeks, and you would be screwed, per the grandparent.

That said, the source of BTC's volatility right now is precisely the fact that few people are doing business in them, and nearly all demand for them is speculative.
When you are working with a huge organization like Google you really need to identify the few key people in favor of your deal and who are trying to scuttle it.

More generally, this is known in economics as the agency problem of the firm. (I Googled for some handy references, but I'll let readers who are interested seek out the references that best fit their own background, as I wasn't completely satisfied with any of the links I found.) Employees of companies are naturally looking out for their own individual interests, as well as (the company's shareholders hope) the higher good of the company. Setting up company policies to provide incentives for shareholder-value-maximizing decisions is not easy, especially when many of those decisions involve predictions of an uncertain future, in which outcomes for individuals may differ from the outcome for the company.
We had a slightly different approach to solve this problem of fairness vs. (encouraging) self-interest:

Anyone who contributes and sticks with the project till the end, has a stake equal to number of hours put in multiplied by number of users/sales that resulted in (divided by everyone's hours of course). Anyone who contributes but doesnt stick till the end i.e. raising capital, doesnt get a stake but gets compensated at twice the market rate for that skill (when we raise capital).
The head of the Stanford DARPA Grand Challenge (Sebastian Thrun) left his tenured professorship at Stanford to work at Google.

The hobbyist/university teams are an excellent staging ground to get started; but any other company could have put in the investment that Google did. I would have loved to have seen a CMU/Red Whittaker/GM collaboration. It would have made for a poetic little "revive the rust belt with the robot car industry" story too. Given the response to the Detroit Superbowl Chrysler ad, looks like the public love that sort of story...
Can't help but feel that they opted for spin over trust in that reply, I can't see how they meant that to be a 'v'.

My guess, and obviously I could be wrong, is that it was an internal joke, but not meant to be for public consumption for fear that people wouldn't get it and would criticise them for it.
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Clearly I was too subtle. It, uh, wasn't actually a hypothetical: zlib had known exploits that bit Microsoft and others for years because they had cut and pasted the library into a zillion places. Linux distros just updated.

There's no theory at work here. Static linkage of common components is a security vulnerability.
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I do too, but considering the herculean task that this would be, I doubt the Windows org would ever consider it.

WP7 might have been a good breeding ground for such technology, but even that never managed to shake off it's own legacy OS underpinnings.
I was hired at my current job because my boss found me on Sortfolio. As far as freelance work goes, the best I've had is one near-miss.
I think this concept could work best if you created a list of companies (Best Buy, Starbucks, Barnes & Noble) who are willing to look at submitted deals. Put up 5-10 companies who agree to be listed and say the following companies are accepting "pitches" for deals and will select the best suggested deal as they see fit. (could have voting of some sort as well).

User chooses "Best Buy" and submits the following deal suggestion: "$5 dollar gift card with $20 purchase." If Best Buy accepts the Suggested Deal it will occur the following week. (a week of hype could help spread the word that a deal is coming) If Best Buy reject the Suggested Deal then they keep receiving new ones. The good thing is that most big companies have a dept thinking up promo deals for the weekly circulars.

Ironic... I am suggesting a biz model for a suggest a deal concept site. I'd like 5% of the company if you go with this "suggestion." ;) Accept my idea. Best of luck.
It's more like buying an espresso machine from starbucks and then having starbucks demand 30% from any coffee producer whose coffee is used to make espressos.
Also SQL! (although he probably
knows it already...)

That was my line of thinking in my reply. That's why I instead chose Datalog as the declarative choice. Much of what you can do in SQL can be done with Datalog (and vice-versa), but there are somethings that Datalog can do that SQL cannot.
Did my terseness come across as sarcasm? I was actually quite sincere, and agree with everything you've said.
Yes, I only listen to the audio versions of Andrew's interviews.

I add them to iTunes and then listed when I'm on the bus or walking to some place.

Since I don't have much time to watch/listen online, it helps me make my commuting time much more productive.
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From the article, I only detected scheming and FUD, not rational decision making.
Yes, and yelling "I'M WORKING!" once an hour sounds about right.
I'd offer that the it would have gotten Google zillions of video conferencing clients and a leg up on implementing that into their VOIP style offering. Instead, we're looking at Microsoft struggling to fit into an online platform that has almost no users. Now, if they integrate more Skype functionality into their Office suite, that could be interesting.
That samsung version looks very nice and 8.5 hours of continuous usage is killer. However, I won't be trading in my brand new Macbook Air 13" any time soon.

It doesn't mention harddrive specs because this is supposed to be a "cloud computer." However, it definitely has a harddrive and I wonder if it is a SSD or regular spinning disc drive.
I'm curious why someone thought this was an invalid point (I just modded it up). Aren't the principles involved in staking money for insurance, because you might cause damages that you can't repay personally, pretty much the same as those involved in staking a bond because your business might damage its customers?
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Have they published price of these laptops anywhere?

I can't find any info at Amazon/BestBuy or official website
http://www.google.com/chromebook/chromebooks.html
I think says it all

What does it say exactly? The only thing that I can think of is that it illustrates the point that there are some who seem to think they have a window into some else's life based on some trifle found on the Internet.