skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah! I guess my screen is pretty dirty; I had to look pretty close to notice, even whilst scrolling.
Chart: Steve Ballmer’s approval rating plummets among Microsoft employees
Shrinking device makes objects appear smaller than they are
Socialcast acquired by VMware
What VCs Can Learn from Startup Genome Project
$20/year? Did you mean 20K? Did you have full-ride scholarships? Did you get an education outside the US?

Given your TCC, I assume you meant $20K.
Do you think it would be better to do something like a qualifying project to prove a foundation or would a blank slate be preferred?

I feel like either could be argued, but I'm in total agreement about this learning style.
140medley - a javascript micro-micro framework
I'm curious. Why is there a "de" in "c'est de la folie" but not in "ce n'est pas la guerre"? How would the meaning change if you took out the "de"?
I did a similar service but had to shut it down because people were using it to spam other people.. basically send stupid texts by putting in their friends numbers. I would get complaints because of limited texts or txt do cost money and this was an issue of reoccurring texts. I haven't tried your product but how do you solve this problem ?
Biomarkers Often Exaggerated in Highly Cited Papers
Douglas Crockford Lecture on the History of Computers
Ok, but isn't that difference in birthdate orthogonal to whether the "intelligence" is a result of nature or nurture? (Don't forget that when you have children you're not just propagating genes, but memes as well. Kids raised on Jersey Shore will tune in to Ow, My Balls!)

I don't recall the movie taking a stance towards nature. In fact, the moral of the whole story is to try to solve problems, and the great speech at the end envisioned a time where people cared whose ass it was and why it was farting. These are messages about cultural priorities, not genetic limitations.
I don't know how expensive enforcing laws is, but crime is really expensive. It destroys lives, property values, tourism and quality of life.

When people have control over whether laws are enforced where they live, they usually choose to enforce them rather than let everything go to hell.
Switzerland has a great apprenticeship system in which you do three years of apprenticeship with 3 days of work and 2 days of school per week, after high school (and instead of college). This exists for a variety of jobs, and includes the option to do a degree that allows you to study afterwards, either during your apprenticeship (more complex school studies in the same time frame) or afterwards, as a one year, purely scholarly extensions of your degree.

If you do this study-ability option, you can go on to an applied university that offers a BA for a lot of degrees, although not all that 'proper' universities offer. Afterwards you can go on to an MA still.

In the entrepreneurship world, three years may be too much. But I can see a solution in figuring out a system where each company keeps each apprentice for one year, so each apprenticeship includes work at three different companies. This would allow the apprentice to get to know the world of start-ups and big companies alike, allowing him to make a differentiated decision when it comes to search for an employer afterwards.

While many companies in Switzerland will prefer a university graduate over an apprentice, I do think especially Silicon Valley would be open to look at (at that point) experienced programmers with a wide variety of start-up and enterprise experience under their belt, as well as a decent basic level of general knowledge due to the two days of school each week.

What I'm coming at is that I doubt you would have to reinvent the wheel. Look at well-organized examples of apprenticeship-systems around the world, adopt and adapt the best-fitting one, and make it work for your ecosystem. It's a great way to make more practically oriented people more valuable for society.
Ray Ozzie explains his inner geek
Could you explain what you mean by this?

edit: ahh, found it. Knew what it was, but not what it was called: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword_argument

Would definitely be a solution to PHP's ridiculous argument ordering inconsistencies.
Worse than that, there's two of them going on on the frontpage right now, one in here, one in the thread about glasgow carpark gangstas.

I'll just report a comment I made 5 months ago when this happened:

"THIS debate definitely does not belong here. Seriously, even if humankind ever does sort out the essentially intractable problem of governmental control over the carrying of lethal weapons by the citizenry, I am willing to bet everything I own that we won't be sorting it out here on Hacker News.

I reckon we could have a fucking boring argument about it though. I've seen it done, it looks easy."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2028182
> if you use a tiled window manager... this is a feature instead of a detriment

Isn't it a detriment for tiling WM users, too? Since Chrome tries to eliminate the title bar, it requests for the WM to not put a title bar on it and then tries to fake a smaller, kind-of title bar. So it's still allocating some space--more than any traditional application; since X apps normally leave the title bar drawing up to the WM, traditional apps should have their inner UIs flush with whatever your tiling WM puts around it, while Chrome's still got that sliver.
User acquisition will always peak at some stage for most companies (the universe being the total number of people with access to the internet), so the attempt drive more usage is not surprising.

I do believe, though, that Twitter has lost its way since end 2009 and are largely making stuff up as they go along. It is also fair to assume that they will have pressures to ramp up monetization as they run out of time to bridge the gap between potential and actual revenues. Such is the curse of an insanely high valuation.
The Role of Geography in Development by Paul Krugman [pdf]
This is already possible on Gingerbread phones.
Interesting. I would be quite interested what the chart looks like if it is restricted to the packages that are part of the default install.
When a bank underprices an IPO, they can conveniently steer these underpriced shares to favored clients and connections.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/why-i-p-o-s-get-under...

Doesn't seem like a mistake in that light, does it?
Citation needed

Common usage that I've seen is to refer to the market cap as the value of the company. For a random example http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/03/19/how-does-ap....

The other common usage that I've seen is to refer to a company as being worth X billion a year. In that usage the a year bit is not dropped, because dropping it would introduce confusion with the first common usage.
Tiny Bee: The bee helps to make more honey and pollen can
Tiny Bee android game featuring a small bee, which must riuscure, using the these hills along the way, earning as much honey and pollen can.
I don't quite think it makes sense to say that all of the software in a Ubuntu distribution should fall under the label of "GNU/Linux". Just because it runs on it doesn't mean it IS that thing.

That said, it is somewhat interesting to see the proportion of software.
does Apple really intend to do this?
Yes. It's a violation of the CAN-SPAM act.
This does not sound like something Einstein would have said. For one thing, it's a play on words in English. Let's see what the google has to say...

Edit: yep. It comes from Informal Sociology (1963) by William Bruce Cameron. Never heard of him? Me either.

By the way, this the first time I've seen quoteinvestigator.com come up in the search results. That's welcome; it's a great site. If you like this kind of thing, check it out. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/26/everything-counts-ei...

p.s. fully agree about the barriers to empirical study of programming.
And illegal. It is email advertising in violation of the CAN-SPAM act.
My biggest peeve with Chrome on OS X is the nonstandard behavior for clicking on the Omnibar. Normally, a single click places the caret, double clicking selects the word, and triple clicking selects the whole field. Chrome reverses this for its bar, and it's jarring me every time I do it. While they explain why they did it, it feels 'wrong' that the majority of the Mac users commenting on the issue [1] were against it, but the UI design team felt it was better.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24349
Yeah, this emphasis on cancer is strange. Since cell phone radiation is non-ionizing, I would be a lot more worried about all the potential health effects except cancer.
I don't know if this is a fair recapitulation of his "argument" - the three categories you are alluding to above were more criteria he offered for how you might judge the worth of college as an institution. I'm fairly certain the author of this isn't a "desperate man who does not understand humans or what education is."

That being said, people on HN are obsessed with discussing the ROI of undergraduate education when referring to the "bubble," without really discussing the role that a liberal education should play for those who aren't engineers. I think the really interesting point the author made was that professor's incentives have goes awry, as they are better off if they assign easier coursework so that they don't get docked on student reviews at the end of the term.
I'm not the author or the submitter, but it seems to me that this article is more or less in response to FSF's "We developed most of the central components, forming the largest single contribution to the whole system."[1]

[1] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#why
I haven't seen anyone else with this theory

I was going to post and suggest it, but was too afraid of looking like a doofus.

On the one hand, VMWare Fault Tolerance keeps two virtual machines on two separate hosts in sync down to the CPU instruction. VMotion moves running processes around live. Suspend to RAM and Disk do work on running processes, and Apple have a two-video-card model in production, and 32/64bit tolerance, and have had PPC/Intel combined tolerance, and dual core, dual CPU computers exist. These are all mildly supporting evidence that such low level trickery and successful complex solution might be possible.

On the other hand, I have no idea what two different classes of CPUs working on the same motherboard would mean, or how much complexity and bugs it would introduce, or how much cost. Or whether they'd be better off spending the effort on reducing power use somewhere else. Or whether they could deal with running the kernel on Arm and Virtualbox on Intel and still dissipate the heat while also having much reduced battery life.

My biggest counter is that low level stuff seems to be a lot harder in practise than the higher level discussions always make it sound.
I misread you, then.

Investing based on ratios, like any other approach, has its pros and cons. The pro is that it is largely immune to subjectivity (assuming proper bookkeeping...); the con is that cross-company comparisons can be difficult because different industries can have radically different typical ratios.

I think that ratio analysis can serve two useful purposes:

* Detecting funny buggers. One or more ratios will often becomes skewed out of band when somebody is being creative with bookkeeping.
* Reality checking. This is a more general case of detecting funny buggers.

Finally, active share traders won't calculate purely on NPV, cash per share, etc. They'll be looking at share price growth and other shares may seem more attractive, for various reasons good or bad, regardless of the fundamentals.
Is this Google's response to MS purchasing skype? Seems like the classic strategy of commoditizing your competitor's business (and they get a 2-for-1 deal since Apple is also wielding FaceTime).
Your comment is ridiculous. Can you really imagine someone making a two and a half year plan to set a competitor up like that? And in the meantime you're giving the competitor customers like crazy? Pull the other one.
When I had stuff (including a laptop and $800 cash) stolen out of a vehicle in NYC a year and a half ago, it took two hours to even get the police to show up. They made a decent attempt at investigating once they did, but the initial response time was appalling.
Steve said they would be making it an open standard the day or the day after the announcement. We're here months later with nothing to show for it.
I remember the facetime announcement including that they were going to publish it as an open standard, and I'm not the only one:

"The company said it plans to make FaceTime an open industry standard, potentially allowing
communication with other devices."
-- http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/07/apple_announces_open_standard_facetime_video_chat_for_iphone_4.html

and it's not just AppleInsider - that's just the first non-wikipedia hit for the search "facetime open standard". That said, they never (to my knowledge) delivered, which is a shame. At least now there's something, though it's a pity that FT users will likely be left out.
Not something to worry about unless you know you're working in an area with known patent trolls ready to pounce.
I have a simple confirmation process to ensure the person signing up is actually the owner of the phone.
For those interested you can read John Taylor Gatto's book The Underground History of American Education here: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/

It's a great book, well worth the read.
Well this makes me feel safe while going to the UW. </sarcasm>
I imagine that once Apple's sales growth slows, shareholders will want buybacks to support the price. That's what happened to Microsoft. What Steve Jobs wants is one thing, what the shareholders can do if they get hungry is another thing entirely.
That seems a bit stateful. For every project you'd have to remember the set of people who've removed themselves. What if a person later removes themselves and then changes their minds?

Maybe a simpler solution is: you can't add people, you can just send them an invite. The person can then choose to accept the invite or not.
3 Labs graduations, 1 retirement
I doubt Apple will want cash reserves that high. Investors criticize companies that have too much cash and just sit on it, ie microsoft and now apple.

The reason is the company should be using some of that cash to invest in growth opportunities or their future, either acquisitions, R&D or new projects. If they don't do anything with the cash and just sits on it, this action is a signaling mechanism that essentially says that Apple doesn't see any growth opportunity worth investing in. Traders will sell the stock because there is no recognizble opportunity to grow revenue and they are not investing in their future so they can be vulnerable to competition in the future.
Yes. And this way a controller test sometimes catches an unspeced model bug. Happens often enough to me to not mock everything.
great point. I think a major reason MS bought skype was integrate it with kinect, which somewhat mitigates this.
The problem is the very, very skilled hedge fund and institutional investors that are capable of moving a stock to stratospheric heights are judged on their performance on a month-to-month basis. The price action and patterns and trading Gods have lead them to believe that in the short-term AAPL is not going to go up very quickly (until it does, more on that later.)

Apple has essentially been going sideways for the last 6-7 months. While this makes Apple a bad trade, it doesn't mean Apple is bad investment. Zaky is saying that in 3 years Apple will be worth significantly more and thats hard to argue with. Those that have argued seemed to be completely out of touch with the company and focused on silly things like "Apple is not spending money on R&D because R&D expense dropping if taken as a percentage of revenue."

Speculators and traders aim to buy high and sell higher. Lots of money is sitting on the sidelines waiting for Apple to reach a new all-time high on above average volume before they pounce. Apple hasn't made a new high since February. I suspect these "very, very skilled" traders and speculators will jump back on board if and when Apple blows past $365.

If AAPL goes sideways for months at a time for months at a time, as it is apt to do, then these "skilled" pros take their money and put it in more exciting places until the stock comes back to life again.

Note that this "buy high/sell higher" is the exact opposite approach of long-term-minded Graham/Buffett value investors. While the stock is going through these periods of consolidation, it makes for a perfect time for long-term, individual investors to buy a piece of a great company at a ridiculously cheap price and not have to think about their money more than a few times a year for a very long time.
Of course a big question is how many companies your market can support. If it =1, you and that competitor ate existntial threats to ach other. If it's > 1 then you just need to win the segmenting game.
With some exceptions, yes, it will work, so long as you live in a jurisdiction that allows individuals to trade with limited liability. (The United States and every member state of the European Union do.)

Limiting liability is the prudent first step in doing business. It boggles the mind that so many developers never take that step.
While tools may not make a great programmer, tools do make a great programmer more effective. In fact, I'd say passion (I'd prefer a different word, but need something stronger than strong preference) for tools is a trait of great programmers. And sure, the desire to optimize one's toolset comes from deeper motivations, but I think a better programmer is, among many other things, one who never passes up on chances to improve productivity through better tools.

I kind of like Rand's take on the subject:

As an engineer, there is a short list of tools that you must be rabid about. Rabid. Foaming at the mouth crazy.
[http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2009/11/02/the_foamy_r...]

And sure, there isn't going to be a single set of tools for every programmer and every workflow, but good tools and a thorough understanding of them are something I would expect from a great programmer. I agree with most of the author's points, and don't want to at all suggest that becoming a vim wizard will on its own make you a great developer, I guess I'd hate to discourage anyone from seeking "text editor zen".
They're chasing taillights. You know what Google and Facebook have in common? They both worry about Facebook.
I just don't get how this can be upheld.

It's OBVIOUSLY impossible for Johnny Coder to be aware of every patent that has been filed to date.

Copying someones overall design wholesale, I can understand. The "Look and Feel" copyright system is a much neater solution than all this patent nonsense.
Bruce Mau -- from Massive Change -- created a similar one-off program. http://www.institutewithoutboundaries.com/ . It is unclear how successful the program was. The main reason seems to be that the demand for mentorships exceeds the mentor ability to work directly with the interns. Many top architects actually charge students to participate in the studios as interns. They use some fancy french term to describe the relationship.
I don't think the suggested recipients feature pulls from other users' contacts. You, your ex, and the third party have probably been recipients of the same message in the past.
That should be an easy change. Do you happen to know how where to look up the list of default packages?

I'd assume the percentage of GNU would go down as gcc and gdb are probably not in the default install. The interpretation is a little more dubious though as gcc and gdb are definitely used to produce the software in the default install.
I'm not a lawyer but I am an anti-spam expert.

They most certainly are illegal. They are unsolicited advertising (which is fine under CAN-SPAM, sadly), and contain none of the requirements of CAN-SPAM - a legitimate business address, and a clear unsubscribe link.

Just because they come from gmail accounts does not exempt AirBnB from the law.
Actually, it was very clear. Jobs promised, in no uncertain words, that Apple will make Facetime an open standard. I remember that well, I was quite excited about that.

He lied and I'm quite surprised that virtually no one gave Apple the hard time they deserve for lying during a keynote speech.

To quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaceTime: "Upon the launch of the iPhone 4, Jobs promised that Apple would work in due course with standards bodies to make the FaceTime protocol an "open standard." As of May 2011, it is not yet known to have been ratified by any standards body, and the extent of work by Apple with regards to this promise is unclear as Apple has not released technical specifications for the service. FaceTime is not currently supported on any non-Apple devices."
I couldn't agree more, both about fearlessness and about deletion. The only thing worse than deleting a ton of code is not deleting it. Without ruthlessness there is no containing complexity. How many software projects are run this way though?
What makes it seem unlikely?
Hyper Static Global Environment in Scheme
Stanford Viz Group's Data Wrangler
I find it a bit perplexing that you feel Square is building a solution that is already outdated and yet the system you've bet a lot on, on paper, sounds like existing legacy POS systems that have been around for years with the sole exception of being web-based. I won't deny that credit cards are antiquated, but the article's title and main point was talking about how the card reader and simple app was their "trojan horse" to get into the small merchant market and then build on the install base with other offerings, including payment systems. That kind of renders the credit card argument moot as Square could just as easily adapt to new payment methods as a traditional POS could. Not to mention, cash (to me) is far more antiquated. Of course that's probably not the best argument as I don't see cash disappearing anytime soon, but I certainly believe credit cards (as they exist now) could be replace within a decade.

As for your other points, I agree that they're essential features in a traditional POS system. My only experience with using a POS was at a local pizza shop in Ohio and we used all of those features on a daily basis. However, there's no reason we couldn't have went with a pure digital solution except for maybe receipts. Some customers just want that paper receipt. But I do agree that Square has a long way to go before it becomes capable of being such a system and there will be many businesses who just like doing things the "antiquated" way with a traditional POS. I think there is room for both in the business world.
I tried hard to avoid too much of that controversy getting in the way of looking at the data and overshadowing what I thought were more interesting conclusions. But I was of course aware of the naming controversy and it was part of why I had the curiosity to do the analysis in the first place.
I am on OSX and a few months ago I installed Sophos which is free for Mac (Personal use). I installed it specifically because (a) it was quiet. Set it and forget it. (b) it didn't take up many resource - Activity Monitor is showing 15MB RAM and 0.0 CPU usage) and third it was free.

I know Sophos from Windows - it is good software. ($45 bucks for Windows)

Grab it for Mac: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antiv...

Sorry - I realize this looks like spam. I don't have a HN account and this is my first post. I assure you, in light of the malware conversation, I felt this was a good post to share as most Mac user (like me) don't have and don't need anti-virus software, but Sophos was a good option for me.
Awesome List of Advanced Distributed Systems Papers
So LXC is fully secure now if you stick to chroot?

http://www.mail-archive.com/lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/...
A way to take out spammers? 3 banks process 95% of spam transactions
Lines of code is a poor way to measure contribution.