skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In reality, executive compensation tends to be a tiny drop in the bucket, except in the financial sector.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/news/1004/gallery.top_ce...

Consider - Larry Ellison (the highest paid executive in 2010) took home $85M, or 0.24% of Oracle's revenue. (Note that his comp, in the form of stock options, would have been vastly lower if Oracle did poorly.)

As for corporate governance and paying shareholders, you are absolutely correct on this point. But you are wrong when you try to paint opposition to it as a partisan issue. It isn't. Guess which party is opposed to corporate raiders buying and liquidating unionized firms?
It looks like, in the US, you actually get taxed on the gold when you sell it, not when you dig it up — http://www.irstaxattorney.com/tax-topics/irs-audit-technique... says:

"It is not uncommon to examine a return where the taxpayer claims to be in production yet keeps no inventory. Since the gold recovered must eventually be recognized as income, inventories must be maintained."

This is precisely equivalent to the situation with patents.
Except that it's still very hard to make distinctions about what is innovative in software design.

Node.js is pretty innovative. Is anything in there patentable? I think most people would agree it isn't.

You can't use the metric of capital investment either. It takes a lot of capital investment to mine BitCoins these days. Should I get a patent on the number that I find? If not, what's the difference between that and an algorithm I found through tuning a neural net, or through genetic algorithms?

I agree with you that RSA is the paradigmatic example of software that ought to be patentable. I still can't think of any objective way to show that, other than the judgment of other experts.
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It comes into play when someone under an NDA violates it. It seems reasonable that a company shouldn't be able to use something that required violating an NDA to find out.
SQueRT 0.9.0 - New version released
To make development easy and to make it easy create good user experiences across all iOS devices. None of their iOS devices have multiple versions in a single product cycle.
I have Yahoo, search.com, Videos of Search (!) and then google.
I find this fact to completely destroy most libertarian principles.

How does it do anything of the sort? The most fundamental libertarian principle is simply that one should not use force/aggression/fraud to compel someone to do something against their will[1]. That people should be free from use of oppressive force does not require that they be purely rational.

As for the economic arguments that libertarians often use... understand that consequentalist libertarians like to demonstrate that free market principles usually result in better outcomes for most people, most of the time. I don't know any libertarian or free-market advocate who will contend that there are no pathological edge cases to the free-market / laissez-faire approach. They simply accept that as part of the system and acknowledge the role of private charity to fill gaps.

And to add one more point... while the Austrian School of economics, which is very influential to libertarians, and may sometimes be thought of as almost synonymous with libertarianism, does indeed put a strong emphasis on deductive logic and universal laws, I don't find many (if any) libertarians / austrian economists, who contend that humans are strictly rational, all the time.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle
This is a really cool idea. Much less to worry about in terms of damages.
I agree that it looks better with two buttons, though I can't quite articulate why.
...and natural flavors too! I used an exclamation mark so I must be female.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2010-title21-vol2/xml/CFR-2...
"Ryan forgot to take the trash out" wouldn't get many clicks, while "Ryan lies to his wife" can enjoy some traffic for few days.
Khoi Vinh's just responded with, in part:

"I’m purposefully not identifying this person or the project or providing a link back to the redesign itself, mostly because I think it’s counter-productive to continue to reward this effort with more unwarranted attention. To me, it felt less like constructive criticism than link-baiting, and so I have tried to avoid making any public comment."
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The winner of the second Audi Cup tournament is FC Barcelona. In the final against FC Bayern Munich Thiago Alcántara scored twice in the sold out Allianz Arena to ensure the 2:0 final score.
Unsolicited Redesigns (Khoi Vinh responds to NYTimes redesign)
Thanks for your post, it was very enlightening.
Lynx?

Or using telnet on port 80?
Ask HN: Does college build a worth ethic? 
My story: I dropped out of college 6 months ago to build a startup. I had little to know programming knowledge (but extensive computer knowledge) but was (and still am) passionate about the idea. The other reasons for my dropping out were basically: it's a relatively useless liberal arts degree from an average state school in a town that I have no intention of living in upon graduation. And I really don't want to go into debt.

Unfortunately, I didn't get much of anything done the past six months. I can point fingers and make excuses, but it essentially comes down to my lack of work ethic. It's not surprising that I have none; it's difficult to go from a life of non-pressure to full-blown passionate startup hours (typical lazy-smart kid here - didn't do much in high school or first 2 years of college).

I essentially just spent a lot of time reading literature and history books. This sparked an intellectual interest within me, but didn't help much with the dream business. I have become more familiar with the web dev world, and decently good at HTML and CSS, but that's about it.

So, I'm kicking around the idea of going back to school, but this time, going full out - 20+ credits, or 7ish classes per semester. I need about 67 credits to graduate, which means that I can theoretically graduate within 2 semesters+a summer. The credits all work out for my major and such, so it's really just a question of "yes or no".

Does this make any sense whatsoever? At this point, I need to get on the ball, big time. My idea is that I need to get used to working hard, and perhaps the best first step towards this is to handle a crazy academic schedule. I'm also much, much more interested in intellectual subjects now than I was 6 months ago.

It's either that, or keep working my minimum wage job, bootstrap myself (I pay my own bills) with consulting work (or something) and try to get a work ethic on my own. No matter which path I take, I intend to start the company as soon as I have the skills.

Thoughts, help?
>The "appeals to authority" fallacy applies when I'm citing non-experts

// Not really.

"Appeal to authority" simply means that it's fallacious reasoning to assume a position because of who stated the position.

To restate it, if a usually trustworthy person says some thing that doesn't _necessarily_ make that thing true. Bringing that back to the case in hand, if Cato make a statement on Economics that statement doesn't acquire it's truth from the status/authority of Cato.
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Don't look now, but language, culture, and technology all change. Change right out from under the most carefully-written of legislation, in fact. Adapting to the now is what I think is the "only reasonable way" to come at the document - and has the advantage of admitting that it's an interpretation, instead of attempting to sneakily de-legitimatize all other interpretations.

But you go ahead and ask James Madison what he thinks about LulzSec.
Short URLs and the like make this without context or indication of what it is and a bit useless as a result. Maybe if images/videos were thumbed and short URLs were expanded?
With your tech track record you're really talking about them hiring you on as a founding CTO. You should get a corresponding amount of equity + salary as investment is raised.

The in-between is to take cash up front with the idea that they can hire you on long term as CTO as they raise cash.
The domain of biology that Folding@Home works on, i.e. predictive in silico modeling of protein folding, is microscopic in comparison the everything else biologists study. So while they may need more computing power a lot of biologists simply need more slave labor (grad students) and grant money.
I did the same thing, growing up with the various Super Solvers games from The Learning Company (Outnumbered!, Midnight Rescue!, and so on).
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As of a couple months ago when I asked this question in relation to duckduckgo.com: Yahoo's primary search page uses Bing, but yahoos API search features still use Yahoo's old system. At some point in the future Yahoo will move the api to use Bing as well. No idea if that time has come and gone.
With that kind of welcome, I'd just say screw it and leave. The US is a big market sure, but there's lots more Europe to do where there's less crazy.

I'll go back to listening to spotify via a vpn through our sever in London. An IP curtain has descended across the continent...
True, if a bit cynical. Biologists are like any other profession - resistant to change. Many research biologists are not tech-savvy and afraid or unwilling to learn new computer-aided techniques, algorithms, tools, etc.

This is further compounded by ancient tenured PIs who went to grad school before typewriters were mainstream and a publishing and grant system that stifles innovation.
A much more common problem is that the hardware/bios/low-level bootloader is capable of booting from a USB CD drive, but not from a USB mass storage device.
A business also cannot be run by its CEO shooting from the hip.
I don't know about anybody else but my work "ethic" is derived from needing to eat.

College don't give you anything you ain't got inside.

What you need to do is to start doing something right now, or else you gonna waste your whole life deciding. It is better to correct your decisions on the way than to stay put in one place and rot.

It's up to you.
My pleasure. If you ever want to discuss strategies or share victories, my email is in my profile.
Work builds a work ethic. College (MIT) helped me in that area, but your mileage may vary.
Hi, prawn.
You gave me a good idea, I'll take a look on how to do this because I'm not a good programmer.
Thank you
Hate to be cynical but I suspect the whole point of the article is to sell you on buying a juicer.

The domain is owned by a copy writing firm called http://www.wonderworkingwords.com/ . I can't prove it but I am willing to wager that a juicer firm commissioned the article. The firms motto after all is 'words that sell'.
I've heard this as well. Can't remember where from.
Part of the problem stems from the calling semantics of the language, namely when the operation hangs off of an object. Broadly speaking, functional languages avoid that manifestation.

The other part of the problem stems from handling nils when one is given them, either as the result of an operation, or the arguments to one. Either way, this necessarily needs to be a context-specific decision.
Hmmmm.... http://dontbubble.us/
Tldr; 100% juice like tropicana is deoxygenated to remove all the flavor and make it last a long time and then natural flavor is added to make the taste consistent.

They shouldn't be able to say its 100% juice. WTF.
Build a small project and start working up.

Here's a simple example, and I and some of my compatriots would be willing to pay for someone to build, maintain, and possibly open-source it:

Build a parser that can read logs in the NASDAQ OUCH 4.1 format (http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/technicalsupport/specifi...) and generate compliance logs. One example is OATS format (http://www.finra.org/Industry/Compliance/MarketTransparency/...). I currently use a unmaintainable perl regex-happy monstrosity, and would like a clean python version with which I could quickly make changes.

The python workflow should be straightforward and this should not require any esoteric or nonstandard module (but since this is a learning exercise, I won't spoil it)
OR "How to many chefs ruin the broth".

Makes me wonder about the level of academics at Harvard when they are promoting articles as useless as that one.
Ask HN: What's the coolest PHP snippet you know?
I'm redecorating the office, and came across the challenge of needing 8 lines of PHP to spraypaint onto the wall at LinkUp.

The problem: I can't think of any code that's cool enough to display in 12" lettering for an extended period of time.

What code would you put up? The heart of phpBB? Leaked source code from the early days of Facebook? The first sample code that Rasmus ever made public? A WTF answer from phpGolf?
Larry has one of the most recognizable voices on the planet, in my opinion. He's probably tied with Tom waits.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf
As perhaps the canonical Hacker News example, pg had his PhD and rtm was working on his when they founded Viaweb [1].

[1] Scroll down to "PEOPLE": http://paulgraham.com/vwplan.html
> The United States would obviously never sell such a ship to a random third world dictator

You might be surprised by the lengths that the United States (covertly) goes to to please third world dictators in its quest for global hegemony.
Lately I've started drinking OJ from a brand called Evolution. They claim to just squeeze it and bottle it, more or less. They use cold pasteurization, a.k.a. irradiation, which doesn't bother me and helps preserve the taste. I've also found all I really need is a small glass in the morning.

It's quite expensive, however.
Internet abuzz with claims that UK police picked up the wrong Topiary
Did you see the second graph? Firefox is the most popular browser among people who were in the 99th percentile.
I can't see duckduck :(
The First Computer? Jacquard loom
The first time I heard Steve Jobs' voice a few months ago, I was really taken aback by how much of a nerdy voice he had. Strangely, I give him a lot more respect because of it. I imagined he would be one of those sly-talking, politician-types, but it really made me amazed at how much he was able to accomplish without "the voice."

P.S. Yes, I really heard his voice only a few months ago for the first time. I never watched any keynotes or anything like that.
It certainly has a rich tradition!

Although I don't think it's accurate to say Sulla took power more completely than Caesar did... Remember that Dictator was an actual office in the Republic, normally time limited, and that Sulla voluntarily resigned the post where Caesar took it all the way to Dictator for Life.
Follow the money for all of this food-related propaganda and you'll find an industry funding it that stands to benefit somehow.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dst56/today_i_l...

One of the code examples from here might be good if you're looking to scare people :-P

Edit: I have a more serious suggestion. Why not pick 8 lines from your own codebase?
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UK judges don't seem very experienced with copyright cases.

I'm sure they're plenty experienced. Their experience just isn't what we want it to be.

As they say, Practice makes permanent, not perfect.
A leftover from the era when searching was about "Do you have the page in your index? Can you find it at all?" and not "Which of these 10,000 results should I return first?"
+1 -- I imagine it was a merging or at the least a talent acquisition.

Which I don't mean to downplay, having a strong, independent Mongo PaaS company is fantastic.
This is a problem that is pretty endemic to acadamia in general. The revolving door of most academic labs means a lot of knowledge and tools are lost or not maintained. It is frustrating to see this happen in every single lab, but short of fixing the labor-mill mentality of acadamia, this will never go away.
I wonder if it can even print a "mostly concave" shape like a Minecraft lair.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the redesign he refers to but does not link to is this: http://andyrutledge.com/news-redux.php
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I wish they would stop referring to their documentation as a "book." The keep calling the link to http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/index.html as their book, yet it offers no ebook manner of being accessed (my kingdom for a PDF.)

I can't help but wonder who this "book" is being marketed to because of this "you can only access the book while you're fully online" limitation.
It's a question of taste. Some people's taste works like this: If it's in Rails, it must be the right thing to use. Other people's taste works like this: #try is simpler than #andand, and simpler is better. Others prefer andand's more natural syntax regardless.

For example, I prefer #andand's syntax for methods with parameters:

User.first.andand.max_attempts = 5
Phone.first.andand.dial(last_number)

#andand handles methods with blocks:

Supervisor.first.andand.oversee do
...
End

foo.andand.into { ... } is a common pattern, so #andand bakes it in:

Student.where( ... ).first.andand { |valedictorian| ... }

For some strange reason, I feel like I've been using it longer than anybody alive on the planet.
Going to be on http://moth.ws/dev/ for a while
Secret ingredient? It's sugar water.

This is like talking about the chemicals they put into Coke... Yeah, they're in there, and maybe they shouldn't be, but that's not why you drink it and that's not why it's bad for you.

Edit: Downvote why? Sugars in 10oz Coca-Cola classic: 33g. Sugars in 10oz Tropicana Pure Premium original orange juice: 28.1g.

[1] http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-coca-cola-classic-i98...

[2] http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-tropicana-orange-juic...
I wonder if some students have a problem with study groups because they can't find one to join. So they accuse the group of having an unfair advantage ("cheating"). As long as HW is not weighted as much as the tests (like 10%-90%, 5%-95%) I don't see a problem with groups. You can't make things "completely fair" anyways. Also, in the real world, people collaborate on problems all the time so it's good practice to get students working together. The point of a course (you'd think) is to teach the material to the students and if study groups contribute to this then all the more power to them.
I don't even see the connection, other than that you're an incredible cynic perhaps making a reference to Oryx & Crake.

It's not about pounds of meat per animal, it's about input energy to output energy. Chickens are simply better at harvesting energy from their food, and not because we've "engineered" them to be.
The Hopelessly Egocentric Blog Post discusses this anti-pattern:

http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-02-0...
Android tablet PC VS Google Chrome tablet PC 
Steve Jobs recently at Apple headquarters staff inside meeting fiercely said, Google called "Do not be evil" principle is nonsense. Jobs freak for the simple reason that Google and Apple have been in various fields at a fierce competition, including browser, operating system, smart phones, and tablet PC.
In general, motorcycles trail the automotive world by about 10-20 years in all respects.
sigh

People thought we were "unlocking the genome" ten years ago with the Human Genome Project. If that taught us anything, it is that biology is a lot more complicated than simply parsing data. Biology is messy, complicated and breaks every single one of its own rules. Repeatedly.

I'm not saying bioinformatics is unimportant or unnecessary, because it truly is important. I'm simply tired of people (particularly famous people who are grandstanding) boasting that XYZ will "cure cancer".
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print_r( json_decode( file_get_contents( "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/hntweets.json?coun...),true ));

Oneliner: prints out the latest HN frontpage story
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I believe that is the one.
I'd say Java targeted to improve on C++ by abstracting the machine, and only took some cool features from Obj-C. Which by the way came from Small Talk.
But within months, Newzbin's source code began circulating on the Internet, and anonymous parties with servers in Sweden relaunched the service at the same domain.

This colors the event somewhat oddly. To be clear, once the service was defeated in court in reopened being run by people unknown who had a starkly similar administration style, the website operated under all of its old domain names, all of the software was the same, the entire multi-year database was the same, all user accounts existed and existing passwords worked, and existing credit balances (you paid a certain amount per month) existed and were honored by the new admins.

So, uh, yeah. While it doesn't excuse the behavior of trying to get it blocked like CP, it does somewhat explain it. You can't thumb your nose so completely at the process and not expect to piss people off to the point that they'll continue hunting you.
"Since software patents are no different from hardware patents"

I stopped reading at this point since PG appears to have just stated that software patents are the same as other patents but not really discussed this point very thouroughly.

I would disagree completely. Software patents are certainly nothing like any other form of patent.

I'll leave the copyright vs. patent argument for the moment (because although there are some cases where software patents are equivalent to trying to patent, say, a minor 7th chord), but I think the key difference is this:

Software patents protect IP that is more often than not, common knowledge or completely trivial but where the implementation of that idea or concept will prove the success of the venture. "One click shopping" is like the canonical bullshit software patent. There are a million different ways to skin that cat, and patenting that as a concept is absurd.

Other patents protect inventors who come up with a unique idea, process or design, the implementation of which is relatively trivial once you have that insight or knowledge.

Things like fabricating a new kind of mouse trap are just so easy that anyone with a couple of bucks can do it: buy competing product, send to china, make profit.

But I can't just go out and build, say, Farmville, unless I had all the source code and the engineering team at my disposal.

I'm not sure how to codify that distinction, but I think that's the key.

It's a bit like trying to write a computer program for common sense. I can tell the difference between good and bad patents (and I've never seen a software patent that I didn't think ridiculous) but codifying it in law is another story.
I'm a parent of two who does NOT plan on putting his kids in public school because I think they won't be served well there (plan on "home schooling").

6th through 12th grade is where people learn that life isn't about smart-ness. It's about social-ness.

Are you really comfortable with the idea of potentially stunting one of the most important aspects of your child's abilities --- their ability to interact positively with people? (People other than you. People who don't already like your child.)

I was sent to a "Montissouri" school Kindergarten through 3rd grade, and it was ... Well, let's just say it turned out quite badly. Then I was sent to a private school 4th through 8th grade, with small class sizes. It was one of the most terrible experiences of my life. Personally, I wish my parents had sent me to public school, because I believe I would be a better person today.
Per the FAQ, files are not encrypted on their servers. Sorry, that's a showstopper.
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