skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool, I've been doing something similar w/ the combination of the google command line tools and Mac's folder actions. Although it is only one way.

Basically you designate a folder to always upload to google docs, then when you add a file you have the folder action run the google command line tool to upload the file.
There's a good mix of english and norwegian videos. Lighting talks are also included.
Not really, the author of that piece clearly did not read Graeber's book, and Graeber himself chimes in, and eloquently "rebuts" this rebuttal:

http://mises.org/daily/5598/Have-Anthropologists-Overturned-...
"you can't define a method inside of a method" - false
Research papers
Well-written research papers can improve your school record if you pay for reliable help at a reputable website.
Would it? With the current level of unemployment, having companies forced to hire more people might be a good thing.
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
— Henry Ford
I am a designer, engineer and entrepreneur, but I have also taught high school in the past.

As an engineer, I would not consider working for a place that had a problem with less than 4 weeks vacation. It is absolutely necessary to have that as a minimum to recharge and do a great job. If I'm not allowed to do what I need to to do a great job, I don't want the job, I tell people to give it to some lackey instead and just be comfortable with their full on corporate BS environment.

I think that the extremely lengthy vacations should be taken into consideration when discussing teacher pay issues. It's relevant since a lot of teachers take part time jobs in the summer, something 12 and 11 month workers can't do. Some even write books and generate additional income that way, and recognized copyright case law in the US has the cool exception that books written by full time academics are not work for hire by their bosses. That's not the case for those of us in engineering where companies try to grab all they can.

Teaching high school in the US is extremely emotionally exhausting. You're expected to be a social worker and you deal with people with problems, yet you have little training and no support or back up or authority for dealing with this. When I was a teacher, if I did not have the entire summer off, I would have gotten a gun and come in and shot the entire administration. Not because I am crazy, I've had a psych eval for security clearance and am completely stable. It's just how close to breaking being a teacher in the US will drive you. The system is incredibly dysfunctional. Work stress is comparable to being a soldier on the front line. Most teachers are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. I am not surprised when I hear of so many female teachers having sex with their students - that is not because they are pedos, it is a stress response from having a total emotional breakdown from working in a horrific system.

If the 3 months of vacation time was removed from US schools, we would see a wave of teacher led psychotic breakdowns, suicides and massacres that would be so legendary they would be spoken of 1000 years from now.
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Almost starting to feel bad for Groupon - what else could possibly go wrong? The only thing that seems left is insolvency.
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Screencast on new Cluster Membership protocol in Riak 1.0
"Your product-idea might be the best thing since slice bread, but it's worthless if no one wants it."

I'm not arguing about that, that I agree actually. But your brilliant execution is equally worthless if you do not have an idea HOW you should execute. Creating an algoritm that finds better results is not something you just sit and do.

But.
- As you may not know. Customers did not what mobile phones. At all. And they absolutely did not want SMS. By listening their needs, we still be using landlines these days.
- Customers did passionately, desperately want videophones, since 70's I remember. :-)
What's In A Name? Maybe A Lot...
Is there really someone out there who will stick with Java if lambdas are added in the next twelve months, but switch to C# if they aren’t? Is there someone thinking about a new project who will choose Java if it has lambdas?

On the margin, sure. It's like asking "will we really sell more widgets if we reduce the price by 1%". If you want a specific case, look at Apache Wicket. It uses tons of anonymous inner classes to emulate lambdas and developing in it would be a much better experience with less cumbersome syntax.
It takes more discipline to decide not to do something.

In the case of Rails, it's a framework and the patterns of that framework are established. I know to look for models in the models directory, controllers in the controllers directory, and helpers in the helpers directory. When I come into someone else's project, it's nice to know where things are. I've inherited lots of code from consultants who know "best practices" and move from one project to the next. Some of these projects barely resemble Rails anymore.

It's led me to ask the question "If Rails isn't good enough, then why are you using it?"
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To paraphrase professor Krishnamurthi [http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/] "Just semantics. That’s all there is!"

HFTers don't have to justify their existence at all. They exist because they are able to profit and their existence is not against the law. As far ethics and morality, I guess that is what we are arguing here :)

Liquidity is not pregnancy, there can be a little of it.
Ford didn't invent the assembly line, he mastered it. Ford's naming conventions also hint at the continuous deployments, small batches and quick pivots that Ries is talking about:

When Ford finally found a hit with the Model T, there were 18 prior prototypes (A-S), including many production models - A, C, F, N, R, and S. The revolutionary idea of interchangeable parts (again, congruent with Ries' thesis) had a lot to with with why Ford was able to iterate so much.
This is absolutely my thought, but I was not able to express it as well. :)
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Visualizing the Local Effects of Recovery Spending on Job Loss [Interactive Map]
This might be a good headline for WSJ, but it's just sad that Wired calls this radical and new. How far they have fallen.
Check out Haydn's "Lord Nelson" mass, specifically the recording by Banchetto Musicale (it's very light and clear). For the antithesis of heavy-handedness, pay attention to movements 2, 4, 5, 7, and 12. But the whole thing is only about 40 minutes and really easy enjoy start to finish, especially since those movements I mentioned are meant to contrast with the slower ones.

Movement 5, while not my favorite, is especially notable for being a canon at the 5th. It's quick, fun, the imitative counterpoint is very easy to hear, and at a minute-forty, hardly overstays its welcome.

Overall though, Western music between Bach's death in 1750 and Beethoven was anything BUT bloated and heavy-handed. Balance, taste, and clarity were highly valued.
I won't be impressed by your robots until they can do this.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c2JChnwv2Ws
Shit meet fan.
The author has the concept of a patent troll entirely backwards. The author is arguing that the trolls are people who have prior art to a patent and then come along and submarine legit patents after they have been issued. In the author's world, the victim is the patent holder who paid the money to get a patent.

In the real world, the patent trolls are the patent holders that don't actually use their patents, not the ones invalidating patents with prior art. This law only makes it worse, now the patent trolls don't even need to buy patents from legit inventors, they simply have to patent inventions before the inventors get around to it.

Before this you could keep good records of your work and be safe in the knowledge that if anyone patented your idea after you created it, you would at least have the prior art to prove you came up with it first. Now you must patent it in order to be safe. A troll can come along at any time and patent your idea and screw you out of your hardwork.

If I'm an un-employed patent lawyer, why don't I just sit around reading tech news all day and patent every un-patented startup idea that comes up and sue the companies for their VC money?
Reid Hoffman:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1718-if-you-review-your-first...

http://venturebeat.com/2011/03/15/reid-hoffman-10-rules-of-e...

http://www.cambrianhouse.com/blog/startups-entrepreneurship/...

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/16/reid-hoffman-startup-school...
It would be better to show the timezone, whether it's UTC or what. For example here: http://typed.it/reports/traffic/stackoverflow.com/hour
Gravity's Rainbow: recognized, but not recalled, as science fiction. I don't necessarily object to the classification, but it might not come to mind if I were making a list.

Also, Pynchon's prose is very rich - I expect popular lists to be dominated by lighter fare.
...why doesn't standard jQuery have pushState?
The stock market has never provided capital for companies. Companies generally sell their stock to investment banks (stock offerings, initial or subsequent). Those initial share owners turn around and sell in the secondary market -- what we call the stock market. When I buy shares of MSFT, they don't get my money.
There has GOT to be a great case study there once all the dust/ashes settle.
Permissions fixed. Sorry!
I'm a big fan. My only concern is figuring out how best to interact with my google spreadsheets to avoid creating a lot of redundant data.
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Bujold has a noteworthy digital philosophy as well. The entire Vorkosigan series is available online http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/24-CryoburnCD/CryoburnCD/

... all of it beautifully unencrypted and unencumbered. What’s the catch? This disk and its contents may be copied and shared, but NOT sold. All commercial rights are reserved. That’s it.
OP's post misses the root of the problem: Increasing technological productivity slowly eliminating the market for manual labor and low-skill jobs. The only jobs left for these people is service jobs which don't pay enough. These people aren't going to go away.

Not every human being is a well-adjusted intelligent computer programmer. Some just want to be told what to do, and get paid for it. These jobs are slowly being replaced by machines and they will never come back. McDonalds will eventually replace order-takers with machines, but they will still need customers. What will this segment of society do?

That seems to only leaves three options to solve the lack of jobs:
1) Create busywork jobs for them
2) Provide welfare for them
3) Oust them from society

First and third options tend to be impractical, and the second and third options are objected to by the populace on moral grounds. Leadership chooses the status quo and the problem just gets worse as the economy becomes increasingly knowledge-based.

You might think that another option is to give businesses money, but that doesn't work in the long-run because business' opportunity for investment is increasingly in ventures where menial labor/low skill jobs are either done overseas or by machines. Especially in America where you can often get that labor elsewhere for much cheaper.
And even though it sucked on Linux, and held back the platform (by e.g. making ARM a 2nd class web platform and not working with pulseaudio or 64-bit) it also gave Linux access to consumer-focussed software that might easily have been delivered with Microsoft-centric technologies that wouldn't have worked at all on Linux.

Google's support of Flash on Android and Chrome OS has helped it to become slightly less crappy. Meanwhile Apple's anti-Flash stance has encouraged people to push web-standards harder so Linux has done okay out of the battle.
Adobe provides path to make Flash work on iOS
Very slick. Shall be experimenting with it, thanks! I've wanted to make something like this for a while.
A side note - I have been supremely impressed with Groupon's customer service. Emails personally returned within minutes and no problem refunding groupons I no longer wanted.
AOL & Yahoo Discussing Merger
Create a doc inside gdocs and that will be maintained in gdocs format.
I never really understood Groupon's super high valuation. I think they grew too fast, and possibly needed to cut corners to sustain their growth. Can anyone explain what the appeal has been for investors?
What You WANT to Know About Cash Advance Payments
I'll 2nd Asher. Just read the prologue of Gridlinked. On par with Game of Thrones.
Milestone: Tumblr hits its 10 billionth post
If I'm an un-employed patent lawyer, why don't I just sit around reading tech news all day and patent every un-patented startup idea that comes up and sue the companies for their VC money?

In theory, there are two reasons why you can't do this: (1) Patents don't cover abstract ideas, but specific embodiments of them. And (2) if you could patent an idea, that idea being written up in tech news would constitute prior art.

In practice, nothing's stopping you from doing this. The patent system and patent law are only vaguely related beasts.
Thanks! I guess that pretty much answers that question ;)
Hard to scan, the keyword headings are a good start but I still have to drill down into the article headlines to see what the article is actually about.

A summary of the issue (eg."Google buys Zagat" instead of "Google, Zagat") would be helpful when scanning.
This must be the runners up list. The best list is mostly Stanislaw Lem with a sprinkling of Philip K. Dick. :)
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Sprint to offer unlimited data on iPhone 5?
All gone?
Kitty - A Fork of Putty 0.61
Java is C for the JVM. I stopped caring about closures in Java when I realized that there are a bunch of great languages[1] on the JVM that have every feature I want, integrate with other Java libraries, and can even be a testbed for brand new language features.

This is exactly why people aren't clamoring for new features in C, because we've more-or-less moved on to building compact, high-level code in other languages.

[1] Clojure, Scala, JRuby, Jython, Rhino, etc.
Who is hiring AND offers 4+ weeks of vacation?
I would "never" work for a company that only offers 10 days of vacation. Please post links of companies offering 4+ weeks of vacation each year. Here are two that I know of.

https://careers.blackbirdtech.com

http://woti.com/benefits.cfm
Just added more.
Slide 38 says: "No custom statuses. This one decision defines Sifter."

What does "No custom statuses" mean? Can you please elaborate?

PS: Thanks for sharing. Great slide deck.
For those that work, they do go mad. Haven't you noticed that Americans are obese drug addicts with little knowledge of world culture, don't speak any other languages at all, and love to declare war or otherwise bully anyone they can while shouting rah rah patriot freedom? That is part of what happens from never being able to take a month of vacation, which means no long trips to europe or south america or africa or anywhere really other than across the state line to the indian casino for a few days of gambling and buffet eats.

All right, perhaps not every one would go mad. There's quite a few jobs especially in bureaucracies like government and banks where work is a social club where they chat and drink coffee all day. These people probably don't need a vacation, but they are the ones where there is no problem for them to take it since they weren't contributing much in the first place.

It's the productive people that get backtalk from managements about vacation: "You can't go, we are in a crunch."; "This is a crisis, where is the team spirit."; "I can't believe you are considering taking 5 days off this year when things are the way they have been lately."
No, you've completely misinterpreted the argument.

The fundamental problem is that this essay isn't really about Java. Java is just a handy example. The current title of the actual essay ("Software's Receding Hairline") is a much better one than the one here on HN. It looks (from the URL) like the essay has been retitled? That was a good choice, and that retitling should be reflected in the HN headline as well.

I don't believe that the essay ever suggests that Java programmers should not program in Java. Indeed, it explicitly suggests that you should avoid making harsh judgements on people with combovers!
I paid tax on my online purchases (though I don't live in California). There's a line on your form where you're supposed to declare this stuff, I paid some $60 and have a clean conscience and clear legal record.

It's startling to me that you assume that people who pay use-tax for goods purchased online would be hard to find.
In order to get funding, you need much more than a revenue stream. You need to show the investors that you have carefully built your business to withstand any challenges that face you. Sales is important, but if you are surrounded with the wrong people then you won't go anywhere.
thanks! that's very helpful! seems like lots of people have the same complain, and on several occasions google is actually reviewing and approving the request. i hope they will look into ours.
And Chaucer is the Decameron, rewritten in English with English names and toponyms. And the Decameron is the 1001 Nights, rewritten in renaissance Italian. And let's not forget the 16th century "Cent Nouvelles nouvelles", which is obviously related by format and plot.

TL;DR: These are timeless tales, retold to fit the author's time.
French Judge Orders Man to Pay Ex-Wife $14K for Lack of Lovemaking
Love this comment: The plans may draw other customers because “people don’t like bill shock,” he said. “Consumers will pay a premium for unlimited.”

So true. People will pay a premium to know that that is all they will ever pay.
i thought this was going to be related to the memory errors causing incorrect dns lookups:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/10/bh-2011-bit-squat...
Thanks guys, great resources! I have a massive flight coming up so I'll have a chance to get into Forth during that!
Go to Sweden instead ;). IIRC they get 5 weeks.
If the majority of your revenue was from the small & medium accounts, why not just create a single plan, remove the lower plans entirely? Why continue with the personal plan if that resulted in higher turnover and less desirable customers?
Great. Now make an app that does the opposite :)
It's a feature within Sifter. Here's a few blog posts that go over the details.

http://journal.sifterapp.com/blog/2007/08/bug-issue-tracking...

http://journal.sifterapp.com/blog/2007/08/tracker-status-com...

http://journal.sifterapp.com/blog/2011/07/resolved-vs-closed...
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Whoops: The post was way too long initially, and "The assumption" referenced a statement that I subsequently deleted when I tried to trim it down. It went something like "assuming that online purchases are evenly distributed across the population", and wasn't intended to be correct - Just a first-order approximation.
On your website it says "If you have an interesting project to propose to us then we’d love to hear from you."
Is that still the case, or are you guys swamped at the moment ? If you are still accepting new projects, would you perhaps go into some detail on the workflow/costs etc. Thanks much.
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This is pretty similar to my current job and I really enjoy it. I took ~5-6 weeks of vacation last year, and it was nice to not have to worry about it. I didn't do more than 2 weeks at a time, but I'm pretty sure I could take a month off without any complaint if I really wanted to.

Incidentally, we're hiring if you want to try it out yourself ;)
This is the textbook for one of my classes at Northeastern. The prerequisite class used HtDP (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/) and Racket (http://racket-lang.org/), and the focus was on design principles and writing good code more than it was on the actual language we were using. I'm expecting the same from this class, but I'm not against becoming more experienced with Java either.
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"How To Almost Go Public By Making 50 cents for every $1 spent." - HBS Case (2012)
Not currently accepting new projects, hit us up in the middle of October - we might have more time on our hands then.
I'll give it some thought, but I've always failed miserably at trying to do that. I'm thinking it's easier/more efficient for everyone if focus on answering questions.
OK, now I get the idea

Still there could be some edge cases - like hibernating filesystem cache as a part of kernel-related RAM , then shutting down, booting Linux, changing the filesystem and then booting windows (which does not know that filesystem pages were changed from outside and working with obsolete copy from cache).

This one is a non-issue actually, because Linux ntfs-3g driver deletes hiberfil.sys when mounting NTFS partition in R/W mode, but there could be other edge cases like this one.
A Future Where iMacs and MacBooks Don't Exist
When you say "run billing daily", I assume you don't actually charge customers daily. What is it that runs every day?
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The tech world deserves to read a post on one page too.
> ...just because people don't like it, it's neccesarily a bad move...

In business, it almost always is.

If your user base is uncomfortable with significant changes to your design or interface, you should take that into account. Why are you changing the design or interface? Is it really improving their experience, or is it just because you like the new one better? Why not roll out a new design in lots of small changes over the course of a year or more, so that people don't tend to feel as disoriented?

You should keep in mind that a lot of people out there don't have the learned ability to glance at a screen and immediately pick out the relevant bits. Many of them deal with lots of different interfaces every day. When you radically change your design, for these people it's like having to learn a whole new site all over again.
My take is that the appeal to investors has been to 'ride the wave' and make sure not to be the last one holding the bag.
Too much ego — won't happen...
Apart from the abvious snarky comments that leap to mind (French, sex, DSK, trouffles), here's the important question: isn't lack of sex in marriage, like infidelity, cause for divorce but not for punitive action? How can you fine a partner for not "putting it out"?
... or "When Google offers you $6B, take it."

Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered.
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It's not bizarre, it's sensationalistic. If you hadn't heard the phrase "link bait", you've now been introduced.
Fear & Envy Drive iPad Competitors
I think it would still be possible for a neutral report to end up helping either party significantly. After all, objective truth may be to someone's disadvantage as well as to their advantage. The whole point of a lawsuit is to try to convince a judge that 'your version' of the objective truth is supportive of your claims. When a neutral party ends up disagreeing with you that will help the other side.

In this situation that's likely not the case (since Astrachan is paid by Google it is clear on whose side he is), but most of what he writes strikes me as quite neutral rather than explicitly usable against Oracle. Google could find itself on the blunt end of those arguments just as easily in another lawsuit. These observations seem to use the evidence from the case as an illustration of a much more general case.