skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very common, standard story. Huge amount of time and money being wasted just because SAP's sales people successfully deluded top executives by slogans like 'best run business runs SAP' and the like.

The most of that data analyses could be done even with open-source storage and tools and frameworks like Rails. Btw, BusinessObjects itself is just a bunch of open (apache, and the like) Java packages glued together under tomcat. Of course, there are a lot of custom code, 40% in my estimation.

There were a lot of attempts to create and which is more important to push to the market various open source ERPs. They are failures because there is no demand for ERP without big money and big name behind it, just that managers could be able to hide their asses behind the papers with big names and long words.

There is demand for a relatively low cost, specialized in-house solutions based on the same open source technologies as facebook or google, but that is very difficult to execute without spending a lot of money on research, business analysis and collaboration with each particular enterprise.
As Windows was probably installed on C it probably didn't do any real damage, did it?
Fukushima is a disaster, yes, but this article (particularly the little subsection blaming the USA) is full of appeals to emotion.
To Groupon or not to Groupon?
I use trash-cli (http://code.google.com/p/trash-cli/) on Linux, it is in Python so it shouldn't be too hard to get running on OS X (although I guess you might have to modify the location of the trash folder)
I think there is a lot of value in the level of demographic targeting you get by simply calling yourself the HackerNews community jobs board.

It doesn't necessarily have to be exclusive (though eliminating recruiters would be my preference).

When I consider the jobs posted at http://meshjobs.com/ I find the targeting is incredibly valuable. Because the postings are for companies that I find far more interesting than I find via a general search for developer on more widely used job boards (workopolis, monster, indeed)

1 in 100 jobs on Monster are attractive to me, closer to 2 in 3 are of some interest (to me) on mesh.

I think It's the focus that has value, not necessarily exclusivity.
"my windows-using coworkers" would be a better fix.
USPTO states that their trademark database is NOT a superset of the state-level registrations and common law marks: http://tess2.uspto.gov/

At the least, you also need to check each of the 50 state-level PTDLs. USPTO has a list by state: http://www.uspto.gov/products/library/ptdl/locations/index.j...

The other theoretical benefit of a professional search is that they are expected to research similar marks as well, taking advantage of their legal expertise to determine how similar is too similar. (I emphasize 'theoretical'.)
it will be disastrous for facebook to go public if their network is seen as being in decline or even flat. investors care more about losing users in the US than they do gaining users in developing markets.

facebook needs to IPO yesterday. facebook fatigue is real and won't go away, and if it picks up momentum things could get ugly for a group of investors that have banked on massive potential gains
Perhaps because I'm not a GitHub user, and because I've only ever peeked at HNers' GitHub accounts, but I was always under the impression that given the nature of the service, it would have an early-days-of-HN feel wrt to user behaviour.

It was a little disheartening to see the number of Reddit-esque comments that are simply a couple of words along the lines of "omfg" and a constant stream of meme abuse. I expected better from the programming community.

Sigh. Am I just becoming old, jaded and too elitist for my own good?
There is some specific legislation for software contractors that was passed in 1986 that make it difficult for them to be independent contractors who work solely for one company. The IRS is pretty active about enforcing it.

This is why most companies hire software contractors via companies who employ multiple contractors, and never directly.
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some people want to use windows. i'm not one of those people, but you see them around the intewebs.
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No, that was exactly my impression as well. Those comments remind me more of the Daily WTF where everyone points and laughs, but people rarely step forward to explain exactly what the problem is, and more importantly the solution.
I thought copy-to-clipboard would be a handy feature and you can't do it with just javascript. :/

If there was a feature detect for people-who-unequivocally-hate-flash, I'd hide the functionality from them :)
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So, energy is hard, let's go shopping?

Yes, we need a smarter grid, we need a breakthrough in battery technology, etc., etc. The way forward is going to be hard and take serious investment in technology, but what else is new?
IANAL, but say you're a manager of BigSouthAmericanCorp (maybe Euro/Asian, etc, your mileage may vary) going to a meeting with BigAmericanCorp. Then you can use the Business visa, which is the same as Tourism visa. As long as you're not working for an American employee, it's OK to be in US on work temporarily.

So if I were going to US to work on my own business temporarily, I'd either go as a tourist or say, "Oh, I'm from Nandemo Ltd., and will go to a business meeting with SP_ Corp, here's their invitation letter". That's similar to what I did when I went to US for a job interview at the headquarters of X Corp. trying to get a job at their Tokyo office. If I had said I was coming to a job interview they wouldn't let me in; even though I had no intention to work in US.

One must be out one's mind to volunteer unnecessarily detailed information to the immigrations officer. Given that there are millions of illegal immigrants actually working for American employers and not getting deported, the odds that a web developer working at home would be deported seems pretty slim.
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Very good points! I'll just comment on bandwidth and subscription, while rest goes straight on my todo list. The idea was it will be less used than other settings and I didn't want to scare people with too many settings at first ... and it was scary with 7 sliders. So at first I've just put the used values, but later did the expanding panel. Will see how many people really use it. I'm just worry not to overload it. I remember when I saw EC2 calculator for the first time - I felt really overwhelmed.

Edit: By "used values" I mean bandwidth values that where used for calculation. They were to be static. So later I came up with this solution to be somewhere in the middle.
You're right -- it's an established fact that the median temperatures have increased over a period of time. What would need to be falsified is the theory of anthropogenic global warming -- i.e., that the warming is caused by humans.
Well, there may or may not be a pressing business need for capital, but I'm sure a lot of the current shareholders would see an IPO as a good exit.

I suppose it's possible that facebook could still be acquired, but given how large they are, and the huge amount of cash/stock it would require to buy them, that seems unlikely to me.
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Let's put it another way. What you said really upset me and I'm just totally against that kind of statement/behaviour. I'm advocating some well-thought-out censorship in that case.

Those things just depend on which side of the fence you stand; that's why they shouldn't be considered.

As Voltaire said or Evelyn Beatrice Hall wrote: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
I will in the future, thanks.
I learned a rather unusual trick to keep myself safe from unintended glob matches. It is not "fool"-proof, but it will probably dilute an unmitigated disaster into an incomplete disaster: Keep a file named -i in the sensitive directories. When glob picks it up, which should be fairly early, it will be treated like a command line argument. Has saved me on occasions.

I also had a friend in school who used to, for whatever reasons, name his files using characters drawn from a pool of only two characters. One being "." the other "*". Please don't ask me why. He would then try to delete some particular file. You can well imagine what would happen next. This happened multiple times, till I went ahead and populated his directories with "-i" files. That worked great.

I usually keep rm aliased to 'rm -i', but once I did get burned. It was not because of hitting return early but because of having a space between a directory and the trailing "/".....while running rm as root. It was taking a bit longer than I had imagined, so I looked again at the prompt to see what had I typed..$#@!&~ :)
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

Brilliant, at long last at least a bit of protection! :) Sadly, I can still remember doing this to my one of my first Linux installs, albeit via the classic:

rm -fr .*

On the plus side, that day I learned one hell of a lot about how Linux works ;)
Everyone I know who was able to turn their passion into a profession have found themselves with diminished drive to work on their pet projects in that field. If someone is satisfied with their work, it gives them time for other hobbies. It is an unbelievable good thing if people can find time for multiple passions in their life.

Aside from the fact I think this line of reasoning is useless there is another -- more important -- issue. I don't care what people do in their off time. That's theirs, not mine. It is the same reason that I don't drug test.
"Most of the reactors in Japan were designed by US companies who did not care for the effects of earthquakes,"

As an Engineer I call bullshit on this.
Yeah I agree, I didn't even think of them as IaaS because I'm so used to Heroku and other PaaS now that I assume the other ones are too. My bad. Maybe having a separate tab/page for PaaS would be helpful?
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It will be very interesting to see how much Adobe supports and encourages these types of projects going forward.

Will we ever see an official standards-based PDF reader delivered by Adobe?
Your proposed solution involves blanket censorship based on your personal opinions about the nature of a piece of the Internet. There isn't much else to discuss.
The other bug reports linked in the commit are kind of sad. From 122:

"I thinking that something is messed up with bashrc or sh because in few seconds I cannot execute any command in other terminal.

Am I doing something wrong?
Hope You can help me."

https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee/issues/122
As a person who "Began" really learning rails this spring (only for 1 project, to help be the other end of the frontend/backend communications), it's definitely getting into non-newbie friendly territory to start using it.

It's starting to have the problem of "YOU MUST UNDERSTAND ALL OF THIS" before you can deploy anything useful issue. (I don't mean all of rails, but you do need to understand a very large number of topics before you can do a real app these days).

It's making other lighter weight ruby based web frameworks look appealing even at this point (as they'd still work on heroku for the most part).
It's like reading Youtube comments--not for the faint of heart.

And the jab at reddit from the HN pedestal is probably misguided... reddit used to be more like HN, and HN is becoming more like the bad parts of reddit every day.

Every site tends toward Youtube level comments as time passes, and the people who don't like it eventually jump ship to a new site, and then the process repeats itself.
no, this is major fail from all the financial people involved. you want your company going public when there are expectations of substantial growth. instead facebook is flattening...just what i'm looking for in an IPO, low growth

facebook should have been trading for a year already. and now the market is entering what could be a protracted decline. this reminds me of companies that went public in february of 2000. so obvious the train had already left the station...
When you're as big as Google, I guess the best way to grow all your programs is to grow your market. :)
I love AJE, but I'm regularly surprised over the amount of balls AJE reporters have in making value judgements on the fly. For instance:

Why have alarms not been sounded about radiation exposure in the US?

Nuclear operator Exelon Corporation has been among Barack Obama's biggest campaign donors, and is one of the largest employers in Illinois where Obama was senator. Exelon has donated more than $269,000 to his political campaigns, thus far. Obama also appointed Exelon CEO John Rowe to his Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.
It is a pretty good question - I was involved on a forum about operating system development and we would get so many people coming with no experience and asking questions in exactly the opposite way.

Pretty much people would say, "I know [VB6|Python|Javascript|HTML] and I want to make an OS. Tell me how"... Like compiler design, building a kernel is one of the most complicated types programming, and none of them had anywhere near the coding skill or experience to do it (or the patience usually - coding an OS for the most part is far less exciting than it sounds - the breakthroughs are great but they usually take intense debugging and reading great deals of the Intel and AMD manuals).

This guy has actually done some research (including reading books!), which was unheard of from most newbies there, so he's doing far better. But if he doesn't know how libraries are made, he should get some experience doing that in C or C++, and will need a good grasp of Assembler if he's going to do code generation.
"In the US, physician Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay shedding light on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown, and may well be the result of fallout from the stricken nuclear plant."

Somehow, I'm not surprised by this. Janette Sherman is an anti-nuclear activist:

http://janettesherman.com/

Joseph Mangano is the director of the "Radiation and Public Health Project":

http://www.radiation.org/

They are not exactly disinterested parties, and it is fair to say that their article would never be published in a peer reviewed journal:

http://www.counterpunch.org/sherman06102011.html

Side Note: This is not the most scientific graph in the world, but (in the event of another panicked radiation article) it is always worth linking to the xkcd graph on radiation:

http://xkcd.com/radiation/
but the planet goes thru cycles. glaciers melt. then new ones refreeze. our existence is merely a glance at the overall cycle.
"But everyone writes and discusses it so authoritatively that you almost feel silly if you question it."

Funny, that's exactly how I feel about global warming.
I was shocked at the immediate "this is not a problem" reaction by many people -- particularly here at Hacker News.
If you're lazy like me, you can use something like GreenDroid (https://github.com/cyrilmottier/GreenDroid) or Droid-Fu's WebImageView (https://github.com/kaeppler/droid-fu) to do this for you.
The problems in Paris aren't due to immigration by itself. One of the big problems is the how low-cost housing was concentrated in some areas, putting all the less rich/successful people together and making it hard for them to make progress.
If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I'm not suggesting that you offer management tools, but an addition to your API that allows for specifying multiple recipients for a single message would probably be quite popular. It would also reduce your server load, as you would receive far fewer requests. Of course, this complicates sending back the status of the message, and with large volumes you probably have carrier-side rate limiting, so it would probably be asynchronous. Many sighs. But probably worth building at some point, for those that don't want to use SMPP.

As far as text encoding - it's a hideous world, and I'm glad to forget the details. But you should probably give a link on your documentation to the GSM03.38 character set, and specify what happens if you include something that isn't on it, for a start. And maybe provide optional support for non-GSM03.38 encodings.
I think I will be replacing the SmartGWT widgets with something else, due to big download size caused by that library. SmartGWT was main contributor to the slow page start. It might be a right time to review other widget options :-) But I'll definitely try the radio buttons for OS.
The problem is this -- go ahead and take that OpenCL code and run it on some non-nVidia hardware. For any reasonably complex code, it turns out that you really need to optimize specifically for whatever hardware you're running on. So, while you may be using a standardized API, you still have to write specific versions of your code for each platform that you want to get the best performance on.

IMO, developers would rather write against a non-standard API (a la C++ AMP) that ran at a consistently good performance level across all of their targets (nVidia/AMD/Intel GPUs, multicore CPUs, etc.).
I have thought about the two window browser IDE before and am glad you implemented that idea, I think it could be really useful for quick HTML/CSS comps.

Two small suggestions:

* When in the two window mode, make ctrl+s do an instant refresh on the preview, and preventDefault on the event so that it doesn't open up the browser save window. I save constantly out of habit, so that gets distracting.

* For the 'inspect element' control: Don't use borders on the active element, because it causes the layout to jump around and if you already have a border applied to an element, it wipes it out. The easiest way to fix this would be to use 'outline' instead - and if you apply it with a class instead of inline styles, it will not wipe out existing outlines after leaving (as it does with borders now). If you really want to make it work to not replace existing outlines, see the 'Firebug.Inspector.BoxModelHighlighter' in http://code.google.com/p/fbug/source/browse/branches/firebug... for an implementation that uses completely different elements instead of changing the style of the active element.
Direct link to jgrahamc's job board: http://jobs.usethesource.com/
Probably another bug... I couldn't submit anything new, always bugging "you're submitting too fast".

BTW, wanted to ask if you have supported any non-YC projects? (planning to build better AirBnB)
1. No.

2. To get into it casually, I recommend that people start with Hackety Hack. If you're more serious, I would go take some class. Honestly, that's how I got started...I took an 8 hour class on HTML at the local university computing center.
Ask HN: How to find the right startup to join
My problem, I don’t fall into a neat little box. Been doing it on my own for a few years but have been thinking about joining a team for quite some time. Started a company recently from a side project, did all the design and programming work myself but it failed to gain traction. Going to turn it back into a side project and find a startup in NYC or SF to join. Have been self-employed in the few years since grad school, previously started a consumer electronics / design company and have helped launch web startups in healthcare, apparel, and adolescent products.

Can program (rails, php, iOS, embedded, design work), build just about any physical product, manage operations, have a couple engineering degrees and an MBA. At first glance I wouldn’t think I’d have a hard time but my background and experience doesn’t conform to the standard ‘job description’. Looking specifically for a young startup, my thoughts were that at the start I can help with development/design. Then move into a more specialized role as the company grows. Would a startup want or need someone with that flexibility and experience? While I’ve only talked with a couple, they seem to be wary of the breadth of my background. How should I sell myself?

Any thoughts? Is my logic flawed?
on paper
This is a nice idea - I definitely have a use for something like this.

Feature request: something I routinely find myself calculating/re-calculating is which provider will give me the most CPU/RAM/bandwidth/storage per dollar.

For example, I may not care how my individual boxes/instances are configured. It makes no difference to me whether I have one instance with 16GB of RAM or 16 instances each with 1GB of RAM...as long as there is a total of 16GB RAM in my cluster, and I'm paying as little as possible.

This especially applies to bandwidth.
I've been around for much longer than a year, just not with this name.
The change is a few weeks old, and all of the comments are about an hour old. Seems safe to say that the comments reflect more on "people linked to this change from HN/Reddit/etc" than "people that use Github"
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Neat. I just installed that on my machines.
I suppose what you're seeing here is actually a reflection of Reddit, 4Chan & friends, i.e. I suppose this very commit has been posted in some of those places as well. I still have some hope for Github-in-general.
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I had the same reaction upon reading Alexandrescu's recent book - he really won me over.
"In the US, physician Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay shedding light on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown, and may well be the result of fallout from the stricken nuclear plant."

"The eight cities included in the report are San Jose, Berkeley, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Portland, Seattle, and Boise, and the time frame of the report included the ten weeks immediately following the disaster."

I tried to source this on Google. I can't find the article by Sherman and Mangano, but found this discussion:

http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/4550

It appears the authors cited by AJE were using CDC data. Someone posts the infant death numbers at the Berkeley link. The numbers are very small with a lot of deviation. And it's not clear that they're even being measured against total number of births.

I've heard a lot of praise for AJE's reporting and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that TEPCO and the Japanese government were continuing to understate the risk, but this article seems shoddy and sensationalistic.
The first reactions to Fukushima on HN and the downvotes of your inconvenient comment show the massive pro-nuclear bias of many users here.
PLP is pretty good, but I found it didn't live up to the reviews and recommendations. The chapter at the beginning on parsing just flew by too fast to be genuinely useful. The rest of it seemed to follow that trend of breadth rather than depth.

That being said, I found EOPL 3ed also didn't live up to it's reputation. I don't really know what I'm looking for in an introductory PL text, something that could bridge the divide between the end of SICP and the more advanced, serious PL stuff. I don't know if such a text exists.
Around the time of the disaster there were stories about a GE engineer who resigned in protest in 1970 over this particular model of reactor.

If I recall correctly, the engineering team's concerns about fail-safes in the event of a loss of electrical power were overruled or dismissed.