skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind when you say the Debt has lasted forever that doesn't take into account the rapid growth in the last 30 years. From 1946 to 1980 the debt growth was essentially flat (which means it went down when you consider inflation). Then from 1980 to 2011 we went from $2 Trillion to $14.5 (and according to usdebtclock.org we'll be at $22.8 in 3 years at our current rate).

As far as infinite debt I don't think anyone argues that anymore. There was an argument to be made for that back when the great majority of our debt was owed to people in the U.S. Because then you could say the interst stimulates the U.S. economy. But now that foreign owners hold 47% of the debt held by the public that argument makes a lot less sense.

As far as Keynes is concerned he didn't really address debt all that much. Keep in mind when you hear people talk about Keynes they generally are referring to the Obama Administration but the truth is the Obama Administration isn't practicing Keynesian Economics.

Read Keynes and the phrase that comes up over and over again is "Full Employment". Keynes believed in spending as much money as was needed to create full employment and then increasing taxes to pay off what you spent. If I recall he actually used the phrase "Retire the debt" which I take to mean paying it off completely.

Keynes theories have never fully been tested because no politician has been brave enough to ask for that much money. But if they worked they would create the mother of all booms so increasing taxes to pay off the debt wouldn't be as big an issue (again we're talking full employment)
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HDF5/PyTables is fantastic as a binary IO format. This is really all about in-memory data manipulation / computation and how data and metadata get passed around to functions that can take advantage of it.
No emoji here apparently (ubuntu 10.04), just a rotating rectangle. Is there an emoji ttf font pack anywhere someone can link to?

edit: emoji is not unicode standard and has no linux support apparently. oh well.
You'd need to give it a distinct filename or something, but it's otherwise fairly reasonable. But I still wouldn't see it because I've got all external images turned off. And then you'd either need a redundant text sig or risk clients not having your phone number, etc.

I email clients a passworded URL they can download documents from instead of attaching the documents. Partly so I can send someone files of any size and without attachment screening, and partly for delivery tracking.
Unfortunately it requires HTML 5 local storage it appears, so I cannot use it as a cross-browser solution in our corporate intranet.
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I believe it was the National Research Council Canada's director who said this (I could be mistaken, correct if necessary):

"no amount of research into the oil lamp could have invented the light bulb"
Well, an acquisition would have to be for a premium of Yahoo's publicly-traded market capitalization, so it's tough to say how much they "lost" by scuttling the deal.
People looking at your photo album.*

*educated guess.
Observations-New York Times Paywall: What everyone else seems to be missing
A lot of the comments below are criticizing "irrational investors" that were "duped" or the product as "vaporware."

This is not the case. Color had a very talented team attempting to attack multiple technically challenging problems, that remain unsolved today.

The first is the discovery of your implicit social network, as defined by your virtual and real-world interactions with others. Facebook currently uses this to determine what information is shown in your News Feed and make friend recommendations, but is not using it to its potential. Google Buzz tried to do this directly via your emails and flopped partly since it did not account for the privacy implications. The ability to transform people's natural interactions into strong recommendations of what they should pay attention to and who should meet each other is still an open problem.

The second is the mapping of real-world events (initially defined by the pictures and people) onto the virtual world. There is potentially a lot of value, both to participants and outsiders, to say (1) who came to real world events, (2) how they interacted, and (3) what happened, while properly dealing with the corresponding ethical implications.

For both of these to work, Color needed a viral social product to gain data and users. They failed on product/market side, especially because they did not have enough focus on "what is the experience we want our users to have the first time they launch the application?" The opportunity remains open, for Color to redeem itself, for the big players to improve their products, or for a new startup to come along and show the world how it's done.
This works for any plane through the object, a mirror will appear to "swap" the object along that plane into its mirror image. Left/Right, top/bottom, front/back, even NNW/SSE.
An open letter to Google
hi
i wrote a letter to google, at the url above, i signed up for twitter and posted it an it has begun going viral with tech publishers and editors and harvard staff joining in the conversation. zdnet and rob enderle among others have written pieces on it, and this is only the first day. i am going to continue my barrage against google and i am hoping you can help in any way possible. thanks alot!
Yep, unfortunately we can't right now. Maybe down the road?
I think he meant "way busier" in the sense of "fewer times open for a meeting". To someone coding a lot, which time to meet is mostly unimportant, while to someone working out lots of deals there may not be many open slots to put a meeting in.
Would you tell someone who fights, for example, poverty in the US that he or she could instead be focusing on fighting poverty in development countries?

It's just trying to shift the blame by pointing out another problem. This doesn't make the problem at hand (growing oppression in western countries) magically go away.
Here is a good article from Mashable on some free tools to do the job:
http://mashable.com/2008/02/21/screencasting-video-tutorials...
Wolfram seems like brilliant guy, and Mathematica is certainly a brilliant achievement. But it nonetheless seems backward-looking to introduce a dynamic document format that requires a proprietary authoring system and a proprietary player at this point in history.
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The same revenue source all "social" sites target: You.

Okay, maybe not "YOU" you, but the end user. A public photo album where you provide who you are (via registration) and WHERE you are? Real-time targeted ads would be just the tip of the iceberg!
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No, imho it's not bias. For wild fish, the US enforces the quantity of fish that can be taken much more effectively, than, say China/Japan.

Second, the regulations/practices on the environmental impact of fish farms on the nearby sea are probably better in the US than elsewhere (many fish farms are in the backwaters of an ocean).

Do you really find it hard to believe that the USA has higher standards of environmental protection than other countries?
This should make a lot of the authentication stuff easier. You only need to write the code once and use it on both the front end and the backend.
This is not an HTML replacement, but a PDF replacement. HTML has never been, and probably never will be, a popular format for static documents.
Java: Getting the size of an Object
Swartz supporter dumps 18,592 JSTOR docs on the Pirate Bay
Got "You do not have permission to preview drafts."

Had to go to http://www.baumlegal.com/blog/ to read it.
They are in the public domain in a printed copy. You can copy from them, reprint them, make books of them and charge for it. You can scan them and put them online, the whole millions of them. Yet that does take work and who should pay for this work? Is it not a great service to mankind that these documents are being made available from the comfort of your home?

I do not understand one simle thing. JSTOR is not for profit. Are people therefore saying that it is making a profit? If yes, the action is understandable, but if not, as much as I am and was anoyed to face a JSTOR paywall and as much as there is an argument to make such paywall means tested, what are people actually saying? That this non profit organisation should not be able to existantially support itself?

Yes, government should support it rather than spend money on wars, but, I simply do not understand why anyone would want to kill off a non profit organisation.

How many of you are going to read these articles? How many of the general population would want to read these articles? Save for the professors and students how many would seek to even attempt to go through a journal article.

It just seems, frankly, that a self interested ideology of disdain for copyrights has sprung roots in Hacker News and man has stoped considering long term effects, focusing instead on their temorary pleasure of the now.
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Not 100% comparable, this is in 2005 dollars while the other was 20??

http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=230
The question itself stems from confusion about what's being seen. It's not uncommon, especially with children, for people to become slightly confused while using a mirror. For instance, on seeing some smudge on their left cheek trying to wipe it from their right cheek. Once they start moving of course the error becomes obvious. Their initial understanding of the image is really what the image would be if you had a camera facing you and then used a video display as your mirror.
This was way before Google+ took off. Likely, the Color team would have been an integral part of their social strategy. With that in mind, a $200M offer isn't unreasonable.
The main difference I can see is that the classical view does actually display the contents of the directory, while the "beautiful" view is completely empty. Or is firefox 5.0 too old for HTML 5?
Cisco Plans to Cut Workforce by 11,500
Bingo. I doubt Google was really interested in Color's business model or app.
No, sorry, that's bullshit. AntiSec is a movement against the computer security industry. They want everything to be insecure.

And it's not a write-off... they literally have no skills. Only idiots would start a campaign like the one they have and continue to shift their ideology to support whatever bullshit deface they've done now. They pick whatever low hanging fruit has a .gov, .mil or corporate presence, or take requests from twitter and hit whoever seems the funniest. It's a joke. It's Lulz.

No, I don't think it'll actually cause people to secure stuff more. Maybe if enough confidential customer information leaks the govt will finally pass another bullshit SOX-like law to try and improve things, and fail horribly. But it would be nice if it did.
The $10 Million Photo and Other VC Stories
Nobody pays $200MM for nothing. It's exceedingly hard to believe google valued a small pre-funding startup at over low eight figures. While most of the time I look at tech crunch leaks and believe they're real albeit spin infused, this just doesn't pass the wtf test. Arrington has appeared to have a grudge against color in the past based on the tone of the TC coverage. I'm inclined to believe this is entirely made up.

This is why you don't want to get your news and journalism from the people who are also financing deals. Now I'm not sure when to trust them at all.
Lockheed Announces Voluntary Layoffs for 6,500
Color had a very talented team attempting to attack multiple technically challenging problems, that remain unsolved today.

Sure -- so what? Just because you've got some smart folks trying to solve hard problems doesn't mean you're worth $200 million.
Example CDF files can be opened in any text editor.
BBC cost-reduction plan may cut 3,000
Why would it be in that same ballpark? Google has a notoriously silly hiring process so its costs are probably higher than the costs of some other companies, but really 5-10MM to hire 3-4 people? I guess if they're willing to spend that on a "talent acquisition" it may not be that far out of line with normal hiring costs but I'd say there's certainly a problem there.

As I stated in my post I understand that demonstrating ability via Frid.ge can certainly be valuable and worth a premium. It just seems to be much higher than one might expect Google to spend on normal hiring processes.
But the retirement should be gradual right? When the economy slopes back down I was under the impression that Keyne's theory would suggest deficit spending again. Hence you'll always be yoyoing but never fully paying. You're right that his full theory has never been tested. I haven't seen many politicians really advocate increase taxes during booms.
UBS to Axe 5,000 Jobs, Credit Suisse 1,000
Having kids adds to this – all your problems melt away and disappear as you chase your kids around or play some silly game

Why are kids a better distraction than sex? o.O
Well that only makes it even worse doesn't it?
It has nothing to do with activist history - this how economics works. What happened to the price of gas when there was a disaster in the gulf of Mexico? Oh yeah, gas prices went up and up and up. Who really paid for the disaster? BP or us the consumer?

It's not like one day their TV's are $300, and then overnight they're $1000. All they have to do is edge the price up moderately over time to make back their losses. But in the end, the result is the same. The loss and increased cost is passed on to the consumer.

Also, when you're talking two or three dollar differences in prices compared to other companies. Sony owns a large portion of the gaming industry. It's not like there's 10 console makers. Choice is limited, so your point about "cold equations of economics" unfortunately doesn't hold true in this case.

My point stands - when large corporations lose money, it's normal for businesses to pass the loss of revenue onto consumers.
Ironically, one of Aaron's previous projects was about legal files: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/PACER_%28law%...
Goldman Sachs Targets 1,000 Layoffs
Yes, but that's rather beside the point. Corporations might be psychopaths, but having no hands they physically cannot commit murder - and having no minds cannot even enter into a conspiracy to commit murder. They're like a medical patient in a vegetable state: a legal person and able to interact with the world through those they have granted power of attorney, but not able to take independent action.

EDIT: I should point out, it isn't impossible that a person in a vegetable state could commit some criminal offence - goodness knows we have a lot of laws on the books - and it isn't impossible for a corporation to commit a criminal offence either. Just difficult and/or unusual. On the other hand both can easily commit civil offences and corporations are prosecuted for those all the time.

So if there was a crime committed in lying to the police, it was committed by a human being and unlike certain government workers, people acting on behalf of a corporation enjoy no immunity to prosecution.

And I think you're being overly broad in accusing all corporations of the sins of the view. Corporations that are sole proprietorships seem to have all the same morality as the person who owns them. Non profit corporations like the ACLU also appear to display much more morality than a psychopath, as well. And there are many large groups of people - governments and political parties and so forth - which act like psychopaths without being corporations.
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It's equally important to realize that just because one is married and has a family that that also doesn't preclude one from founding a startup.

The point here is that there is a lot of people out there that believe that married people can't or don't have the time needed to dedicate to a startup. Founders with families have the added benefit of having a strong support system that single founders may lack.

There are pros and cons to both situations but no one should ever suggest that anyone should or shouldn't do a startup simply based on generic previous life experiences or decisions.

It seems to me the most important attribute of a founder is dedication, not marital status.
Cyrus Innovation is hiring in downtown Boston for a small Agile/XP team working with Java/Groovy:

http://cyrusinnovation.com/workplace
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Add Zynga to the list as well. We're building the next generation of social games from Central Square in Cambridge. If you are into games, this is the best place in Boston to work right now.

Great team, great opportunity.

My email is in my profile.
Here's how it looks from Hacker News:

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6783/emoji.png
>$200M offer isn't unreasonable.

You have _got_ to be kidding me
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=USA+debt+vs+gdp

In the graph, the debt is clearly starting to go parabolic in the last decade while the gdp stays linear. That's the problem right there viz. no cx can always beat a kx^2 for any c,k 'cause beyond x=(c/k), the kx^2 will win.
morover the c is realtively static for a developed first world nation - you are not going to see USA growing at 9 and 10% like India/China. It'll be like 2% and 3% best case cause the US economy is so large growing it even 1% is a monumental task. Whereas the k, once it picks up steam, actually gets really large really fast. Your interest piles up and you can't pay so you borrow more so the rate goes up on you so the interest piles up even faster and repeat...
Lloyds Banking to Cut 15,000 Jobs
Agreed. This visualization is only interesting to someone obsessed with the physical size of paper currency.

Planet Money recently did a nice job of comparing the current U.S. debt level and the historic debt levels of other countries to GDP, and how that impacted their economic fate:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/20/138518262/the-tues...
Are Google+ Hangouts the Next Hackerspaces?
I was happy to see "Hierarchical columns" on the features wish list. My app uses a R data frame like structure (table of heterogeneous columns with possible missing data). One "cute" thing I implemented was hierarchical columns. Super useful for what I'm doing, but hard to expose to other languages. The plan is to flatten the columns to 'parent.child' strings when using python.

I'm not quite at the point where I'll be wrapping this into python. When I do I'll take a close look at pandas. Any other recommendations? I took a quick look at pytables, and pandas looks better for my app.
It's great that somebody is looking to R for inspiration. I've tried to like NumPy and SciPy on a couple occasions, but find it lacking. That said, there's a to of ways to improve R, mostly to do with cleaning up and homogenizing style.

I do hope that they avoid the BioConductor style of opaque objects and storing data in hidden attributes.
What version of iOS are you running? I'm on 4.0.1, and all I see is "http://xn--ls8h.la/
Hint: sometimes sarcasm doesn't come with a smiley.
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A click is definitely preferable to a mouseover for this. In general, "hover traps," mouseovers that expand and then require further mouse movement to escape, are best avoided.
Many of my friends do; also many older more "technically-challenged" people I know do.

I don't appreciate the downvote.
I'm sorry, I have been single throughout the majority of my time in a startup, including part of the time being CEO. So I feel like I'm speaking with some authority.

Dating forces you to go out and meet people of the sort that you won't meet in your office. It ends up having a substantial sales component, too -- keeping track of leads, worrying about which ones run cold, trying to close deals, etc.

Dating is an excellent distraction, and besides -- as a smart ambitious male, I'm seeking a smart ambitious female to be a partner in crime. And guess what, she's probably spending her 20s pouring her heart and soul into her career too.

We circle-jerk so much about "OMG being in a startup is SO INTENSE" but have you ever talked to law students? first-year associates? Med students? Students getting PhDs in super-competitive experimental science fields, like molecular biology? they're all putting in crazy hours too.

And we all love our work, and if we're intellectually curious people, we LOVE hearing about others' work. So no, you're not BORING on a date -- boring on a date is talking about how you and your friends got SO DRUNK last weekend. Boring is "yeah, then I watched back-to-back seasons of 30Rock". Boring is not "here is my plan for total world domination".

Working all the time at your passion makes you, female or male, _more_ attractive to potential mates -- if you're looking for the right sort of person.
For really good reasons, too. I'm fairly sure that this is done for anti-phishing reasons.
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The world would've been a different place if Dylan would've stuck with the acoustic repertoire.
How do you get your startup noticed?
Remember, Color's real mission was not photo-sharing, but data-mining. Google would pay dearly for a new, innovative way of collecting types of data that they don't have yet.
Options:

- Emacs

- Vi

- Other

Is that another joke about how cool vim and emacs are and how other editors suck? Again, seriously?
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Illegality isn't much of an argument, since by corrupting the process of law they have placed themselves outside it.

I'm thankful that I live in a country where this isn't true, and even people accused of crimes still have the full protection of the law until proven guilty. Even if the crime they are accused of is lying to the police.
As one quick example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_incarceration_timeline-...
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A brief overview of the Lean Startup Seattle event held monthly. A video over June's "Why Do Startups Fail"
I can attest; it's easy to do, and quite fruitful if you are playing around with language design. The major pitfall is the libraries. Unless you find a set that magically fits your semantics, you will have to roll your own. Think garbage collection, as well as hashes, lists, and strings. That can be way more work than you want to get into. I suggest picking a target language that better fits the semantics of your language. Java, C++ or the like for a statically typed language or python for a dynamically typed language. Or Haskell, or lisp.

As the article mentions pay particular attention to debugging, even to compiler errors. Put out line numbers, even if just comments. Write the source statements as comments, because a syntax error in generated code can be hell on wheels to track down. I know wherefore I speak. I once wrote an application generator that generated embedded SQL, which in turn was translated into C with mountains of library calls (before the days of ODBC). A syntax error in the ultimate C was often nasty.

If you want a debugger, be prepared to roll your own, unless your target language has serious support for generated languages.
How do we know Lulzsec's and AnonymousIRC's twitters are legit?
I honestly didn't use venues of this kind. I was fortunate to have some folks contact me. There are publishers who look for authors for book chapters. I found these to be too much work for too little compensation. I don't know if ifreelance.com or similar sites (search "freelance tech writer") are reliable but you have some time to research perhaps?