skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Six weeks after World IPv6 Day, what have we learned?
Would you elaborate on that point please? Do you mean that a large organization teaches you not to be proactive and wait for instructions to be passed down to you?
"The sky on Cancri 55 f must be out of this world."

Arrrgh.
> 1800 surplus Physics PhD's

Do you have better data than this?:

"The physics PhD classes of 2007 and 2008 consisted of 1,460 and 1,499 PhDs, respectively. We received post-degree information on 54% of these degree recipients." ... resulting in 4% unemployed initially. Including the 7% temporarily employed that's around 150 excess Physics Phd's in 2008.

http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/reports/phdinitial.pdf
I think that may be true for a minority of the workforce, but not the workforce at large.
The 3 religions of investment - a succinct summary
No-one who's ever farmed would say farming is unskilled. Just as I'm sure, programming would look just like typing to a farmer.
From the markets point of view, I think the large majority of investors have already assumed its going to happen.
See the thing is you are arguing about what the lawsuit was about, which is different to what the judgment was.

It says there in black and white "to remove it from all sites".

Or am I just reading that wrong?

You're reading it wrong. It was a copyright infringement lawsuit over the scraped content displayed by Google News and in Google's cache, so the court's ruling was to remove those infringing materials from those services, not to remove the hyperlinks to the original articles in the general search engine.
You can put any name on a sign, too, but if that sign contains a trademarked name, you can have action taken against you.

I don't think TLDs are special in allowing trademark infringement.
Sharing clothing within an extended family is only to be expected. The dynamics change markedly when dealing with pre-owned clothes from random strangers however as plumgear will no doubt find out rather quickly. They do address the spills and stains issue up front but I think it will take a lot of work to get over the ewww factor.
Google Chrome + Google+. Screenshot Why Facebook Browser is Next
Rackspace startups
Absolutely, especially if it integrates with already-existing applications. For example, I think there's room for a turn-key "plug-in" to phpBB that offers thread-specific advertisements. Same thing with wordpress.
This chart shows that there are now 5% fewer jobs than there were at the peak of employment 34 months ago - the lines are scaled relative to prior peak jobs, not relative to population.

http://cr4re.com/charts/charts.html#category=Employment&...
How an email got a guy his foursquare job
"New developments in flooring, painting and construction are resulting in longer use of our homes."

I know that this is at best tangential to the OP's point but this poked me in the eye. Can the OP really be this naive about modern construction materials and practices?

150 years ago it wasn't uncommon to build a house out of hardwood planking, with a stone foundation. Post in beam construction using 2ft square timbers was also fairly common. This kind of construction is built to last and it does.

By comparison the largest driving factor in material selection on your average home construction project is cost. That's why you get vinyl siding, soft pine 2x4's, and the cheapest interior hardware money can buy. So in this instance innovation is a euphemism for selecting poor materials. Great.

How many people really think their stick built McMansion is going to be standing in 150 years? I mean, really?
Yes of course, but the ruling was broader than that, that is the whole point of contention.
As a former C# developer who did try to run some stuff on Mono, I don't think it's an unfair description at all. First, some personal anecdotes:

- Wrote a brief (4 hours perhaps) Windows Forms app that did some math. Ran it on Mono. To Mono's credit, it did run. But to my horror, it actually computed incorrect results.

- I used a popular UI widget library for .Net. Turns out though most of it was written in C#, it had a number of Windows-only DLL imports, and could not run on Mono.

- At the time, ASP.net support was barely functional, if it existed at all. To be fair, I'm not sure if this is still the case or not.

Further, I will offer this additional argument. It is widely known that Java's promise of "write once, run anywhere" is a joke. Not that cross-platform Java can't be done (in fact it can), but it does take deliberate effort to ensure cross-platform support. And this is Java, which has official support for Linux (i.e., the JVM code on Linux is basically the same JVM code on Windows).

Contrast the Java situation with MS .Net, which does not have official support for Linux, but does have the option of Mono on Linux. MS .Net and Mono are two totally separate environments built out of separate code-bases. In this situation you are almost guaranteed to run into major migration headaches, if not outright barriers.

Now perhaps you are running from Mono from the start; well of course that is going to work. My original point isn't that Mono doesn't work when running code actually targeted to it; that may well be the case. My point is that Mono gives traditional .Net developers the false belief that they can run their Windows-targeted .Net code on Linux easily. For most, or at least many, that is simply not the case.
As someone who was a student in your class, I can speak for myself and say that I did give you a low rating

What the HECK is that sort of system for? Students rating teachers and those ratings have an effect on the teacher's annual review?

I hope I'm wrong but if that's how it works in that particular school there's no chance for professional integrity if the teacher has to keep the students happy. A teacher should always be in a position where he has an unchallengeable authority over students (with regard to the class, of course), and thus being able to be harsh when necessary without having to self-correlate his behaviour in fear of being financially punished. Otherwise it'll be screaming for A's for everyone.
Better for employers and employees alike: BYOD is the way of the future
Obviously it's not just patenting regexes. It's patenting using regexes to highlight phone numbers and email addresses in plain(ish) text presented in a UI.

This sounds exactly like the iPhone feature that allows you to tap a phone number in text and call it. What else could it possibly describe?
232 million people use PayPal. A couple hundred at most use Recurly. Recurly's screwed a higher percentage of its users than PayPal, by far. If you're not aware of how, go back and read Recurly's blog posts from just after their beta days, when they massively raised prices and removed API access from plans of users that had already invested time in fully integrating those APIs with their live websites.

I think the track record points to PayPal as a safer choice. Once the new business is established, it can build its own in-house billing to support additional payment types. Writing your own subscription management for most sites is not hard.
One of the best Planet Money episodes I've heard. Summary (from memory): the one and only way government can create jobs is to invest in infrastructure. Everything else is hot air.
It seems to me that given the opportunity Apple would have patented the structure of an email address (me@mail.com), Apple would have patented Blogs, Apple would have patented Commenting on an online post. Apple is taking patenting to an ugly new level.

This is why software patenting is really bad for all.
And Apple, Microsoft, and RIM are agents for investors to make money. If you really want to blame someone, you need to follow the money trail back to shareholders, most of whom don't even remotely understand or can interpret the language of the patents.

You've got complex systems on top of complex systems that really only benefit a small number of people who understand them and consistently make money off of them.

Let's say I have both Apple and Google stock (ignore for the moment that it's only HTC being sued, because this obviously has an impact on Google's ability to compete with Apple in this market). Should I take the blame that a company I invest in is taking advantage of a complex system to increase the value of my shares? Probably, but unfortunately I have no idea where to start.

In a system where everyone has patents and are suing each other, I think the obvious beneficiaries are the middlemen making money off the process (lawyers being among them). So ultimately I would agree with the parent that lawyers are at least partially to blame for these shenanigans.
Actually, WAV files can contain compressed content in a wide variety of formats, including MP3. WAV is a container format, not an audio format per se.
Title is link-bait. Article makes a good case for Safari and IE supporting OGG as well. Author just wants a good, standard format without fees.
Very good idea. I see a problem with the business model though. My son is 6 months now and we have only ever bought a couple of cheap body stockings. Everything else was donated to use by friends and family who have had children recently. Even though I like this idea, I probably wouldn't have used it simply because I didn't have to.

And I don't think we're unique in that sense; My impression is that people either want new clothes (And thus aren't your target customers) or they are second-handers like me. But maybe there's a third group; I definitely think you should test the marked.
If a government is free to reduce taxes to pander to special interests and voters, but is unable to ever increase taxes, the result is an eventual ratcheting downwards in government taxation until you hit a crisis.

As an example I give you California. It is politically impossible to get any tax increase through, but not politically impossible to get tax decreases through. The result is that Arnold Schwartzenegger got elected on a promise to reduce the vehicle licensing fee. Ever since we've had a structural deficit that is about the size of the reduction in the vehicle licensing fee, and no way to fill it.

See http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/11/local/la-me-cap-budg... for verification.
This omits one of the most interesting parts of the story, which is how Firefox evolved as an offshoot from Mozilla in the first place.
I'm not so sure. For what I use, at least, the only thing missing in Google+ vs. Facebook is an API so that my blog posts can get cross-posted to my Google+ stream. I still can't be bothered to use Twitter. It's always been a waste of time for me. But with Google+, I may well end up closing my blog. I don't have to put up with ridiculous message-length limitations. I am actually following people that I would never bother following on Twitter. I can't be alone.
Well, they don't use the same (at least on the frontpage): "Bebarang: Online Baby Clothes Rentals"

To me that's a missed chance. Rental I think temporary ownership (negative), with Netflix I think "once i'm done, I get rid of it" (positive). Just my opinion tho.
Not surprised. A rough transliteration of `huntMen` for example into CoffeeScript using normal node callback syntax is under 20 lines and relatively easy to understand:

huntMen =(buffy)->
soulmates =(buffy, cb, mates=[])->
getMatches buffy, 10, (userids)->
for u in userids
do (u)->
getThumbnail u, (thumb)->
isPicAVampire thumb, (is_vamp)->
unless is_vamp
getPersonality u, (personality)->
getLastTalked u, match, (last_talked)->
soulmates.push userid: u, thumb, personality, last_talked
if soulmates.length >= 10
cb(mates)
else soulmates(buffy, cb, mates)
else soulmates(buffy, cb, mates)

soulmates buffy, (soulmates)->
#Do whatever you need to with soulmates

Obviously it's still more of a hassle to deal with than a more featurey async library, but there isn't quite the panic of trying to do the same thing in JS.

Edit: For comparison, the Tame.JS style transliterates to ~15 lines of CS— but presumably that would compile to dozens more lines of JavaScript.

In exchange, it is lying to you about what the program is actually doing, as opposed to the callback syntax which obscures nothing. So yeah, not surprised if you don't get too much traction with examples like that.
CERN boss: I forbade employees to interpret our climate experiment
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I've seen more blogs recently use that quote in a negative way, even though it's taken out of context, and the original author of that quote meant it as an overall positive thing (for the world).
Only by inventing new words and causing worse confusion.
There are also deep cultural differences between Unix and Windows; how many people want to straddle both worlds? If you actually like Windows, wouldn't you want software that's Windows-like instead of stuff ported from Unix? The community is probably big enough now to support a Windows-specific open-source Web server.
Thank you so much.
Now, if only people begin releasing .mobi versions of their books along with .pdfs
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Java application patch deployment
I've often wondered why there hasn't been a start-up boom in Iowa City yet. I was home two weeks ago, and the amount of growth Iowa City has seen in the last 2-3 years is unbelievable.

If the town and the UofI put some solid focus on developing a ecosystem to support entrepreneurship, the community could no doubt be the next Boulder.
GAO Report: Peer-to-Peer Lending Overview
You're not going to like it :)

Rather than use typeof, CPObject has a runtime feature for asking about its class (https://github.com/280north/cappuccino/blob/master/Foundatio...).

Because we also do "toll-free bridging", you can ask if strings are CPStrings, numbers are CPNumbers, and arrays are CPArrays (though we don't toll free bridge null to CPNull, which we probably should).
I hope you guys crush it as well. This really taps into the market of people who don't want to spend the time going to thrift stores (or be caught seen in them), but want to save a buck.

I wonder if this type of market is going to expand out more and more to put future generations into the "Why buy when you can rent?" mentality for their entire lives. Makes sense for being able to borrow something when you need it and then return it instead of having it take up space in your house.

A similar toy rental business was on Shark Tank this season: http://www.toygaroo.com/blog/?p=1734
http://inthesharktank.com/2011/03/shark-tank-premiers-bigges...

The lady got what I thought was a decent deal with her main problem being that she diluted the heck out of the company by giving out 10% of the shares to anyone who even sneezed near the company.

Best of luck.
>A much better take would be an examination of why our education system churns out so many college grads with few marketable skills.

Queue the recent discussion about rampant cheating in college. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2774254
Rats. I was hoping a new "Bring Your Own Dog" trend was on the rise.
This is no political gimmick. I am from Kerala, where Oommen Chandy is CM, and can quite understand what he is trying to achieve. Mr. Chandy is a straight forward and no non-sense person who speaks his mind. And he has created enough enemies in doing so. Now there are quite a lot of people who blame him for corruption for no reason. This is his way to put an end to such blame game; way easier than denying all allegations against him.
Yes, that's possible in some cases. I did forget to think about the fact that in EU (where I live) it is hard to fire people, even if you are facing problems in '2-3 months'.

Also you say "and short of a miracle or users all of a sudden finding your product indispensable you are toast" ; that happens, but it also happens quite a lot that it's not a miracle; it's just hard and smart work and you'll make it; you pivot your marketing, your start running a bit harder, you hire different kind of sales people or all of the above. So it's not always based on luck and miracles; often it is not. I think you are seeing it oversimplified; The Last Stand of a company can really be very tense and even sudden and can actually make the come back bigger and healthier than before. If you quit (fire your employees, you can no longer deliver anything, so you die) you might actually be much worse of than if you continued with the risk of not being able to pay. Of course, as I said before, I do believe you need to do the correct thing for your employees, even over the event (bankrupt) horizon; they stuck in there even when you told it's not going well. But I, as much as I loathe him, like Bob Parson's first rule; 'security is for cadavers'. It is. And I don't want that from my employees either.
Is there market for sharing clothes like this? I understand if its between family or extended family members but I did not think one would purchase used clothes for babies.
Couple years back, I spent a few weeks looking through different jewelry sites for a necklace for my girlfriend.

During this time, I let my girlfriend borrow my laptop one night. Each site that she visited was riddled with ads for engagement rings.

Next thing I know, she's giving me the twenty questions about why I'm looking at engagement rings.

Some things need to be kept private even if they are benign.
Right. Not exactly being able to pay one's debts will surely be corrected by taking more debt. And having more loaned money to spend will naturally just encourage tightening up one's expenses.

If this financial situation wasn't about a nation but a private person, it would be obvious to everyone that his finances are simply fucked up.
In what significant ways is this different from deferreds/promises/futures?
Well-written.

I'm not sure if I would like the book, but I know I'd read a book Barlow wrote. :-)
Credit Suisse report: U.S. wireless networks running at 80% of total capacity
This just leads you further down the rabbit hole. To say that someone has a "more accurate perception of reality" then begs the question of what reality is. When it comes down to it, reality is simply how you perceive the external world. If you perceive it in a positive light, this shouldn't be dismissed as an optimism bias and vice versa.

Some of the happiest and most successful people rely on "never-ending optimism," which then fuels hard work thus creates success, confidence, happiness, etc. If you view the world in a negative light, the opposite is likely to happen.

Essentially, what it comes down to, is that you create your own reality. That is why I have a tough time believing the legitimacy of present day psychiatrists' prescription happy ways. Even if the conscious mind is cured through antidepressants, etc. there is still trouble boiling below.
The manufactures that put Android on their devices are not mom and pop electronics firms. So the implication that this is somehow shifting money to poorer people is kind of ridiculous. Unless you mean the top 1% richest people in those countries. Because I don't think the manufacturers will go to their labourers and pay them any more money just because some hardware was designed in house (hardware design doesn't employ many people either).

It's not Tom's shoes. In fact I find it hard to believe that even Tom's shoes are Tom's shoes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g
Motivation and effect are different things. Whenever (simplification, all else being equal, yadda yadda) someone undercuts market incumbents with a cheaper equivalent product, it has the effect of leaving consumers with more wealth, whether or not that's the producer's motivation.
Yes. Yes. Oh, a thousand times yes (as a father of two).

Babies go through clothes fast - not wearing them out, but because they grow so fast. Nobody buys all their baby clothes, we all get them from somewhere else, and very often from used-clothing stores.

I predicted this business sixteen years ago. About time somebody's giving it a decent shot.
> "Hey poor and struggling unemployed Americans, you need to find new skills?" Seriously, Forbes needed to run a whole article dedicated to this?

That is exactly the message that the unemployed and the rest of the country need to hear and take to heart. No business should expected to take on people unskilled for a job. Some businesses will do so, to grow talent, and some of those will show an ROI, but no business should be expected to do so.

Given that, people do need to suck it up and learn new skills. The article made a good argument for that, and did it in the context of the new reality.

Some people won't be able to develop new needed skills, for various reasons. For some people technology and society will just move faster than they can keep up with. Others have some other impediment. As this trend continues, we need to get better as a society at dealing with those people.
Jobs is a seriously greedy vindictive asshole, I'll never spend another penny on his shitty company.
Heh, guess you're right. Edited.
So, did you get engaged :)?
> I think the only way the economy improves is if older unskilled workers eventually leave the job market and make way for younger more technologically savvy employees.

I'm not sure I follow you here. In general, older employees are more skilled, even in technological areas. It's true that younger people skew towards tech, but you'll find few 20 year-old googlers with the skills of an average 40 year-old googler.

As someone with experience hiring people, I'd say that the main advantage in hiring younger people are lower salary expectations, possibly more idealism, and a small chance at them developing into a talent and while still staying loyal to the company.
A Linear-Time Majority Vote Algorithm
That wasn't intentional, but it definitely is entertaining. I'm actually multitasking, and I often end up alt tabbing a lot for every comment I make. Sometimes, unfortunately, this happens!
There are two main models -- we could label them the "Redhat" and "MySQL / Qt" models.

The Redhat model establishes a brand, often the original source for the product / project and uses that to market their expertise. Redhat is primarily a support and consulting organization. If you want to run an SAP system on Redhat, for it to be certified (and hence supported, which anyone buying an SAP contract will want) it has to be on Redhat Enterprise Linux with the support contract that goes along with that. In this case support can easily go all the way up to e.g. patching the kernel / glibc / whatever, and Redhat can charge a premium for offering that kind of in-house expertise.

The MySQL / Qt model is a mixed proprietary / open source model. They offered their libraries under the GPL (instead of the LGPL, BSD or other more permissive licenses) meaning that if you wanted to be able to distribute their libraries as part of a proprietary application, you had to pay for a license.

Since nginx is BSD licensed, I assume they are going for the prior.
Well I guess you're wrong --> http://web.archive.org/web/20061216012023/http://www.aas.org...

It was discovered in April 2005. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Cancri_f
Firstly, squatting is a problem that ICANN itself created (or at least contributed to creation of) through their broken reseller policies.

Would you mind elaborating on that? I'm curious what you think they should have done.
You're right, I meant PCM WAV really. You can put MP3 in a WAV container, but it doesn't change the licensing situation.
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Yes, use pointer. I don't know why G doesn't, but that is not good practice. There should be a visual indication that an object can be clicked, other than a highlighted border.