skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another indicator that Spore is doing well are the 12 million plus creations that users have uploaded since launch. (To see them, go to Spore.com, click on one of the creations, and then click on "All Creations")
if the only reasoning as to why is because the blogs are hibernating, point me to a large-ish blog that doesn't post on the weekend. many of them post less, but many of them post less because there's less to say.
That's exactly where I thought he was going...

I just recently started writing software >40 hours a week, and have been constantly torn between "getting things done" and "doing things right". The best way to program well might very well be a variation between the two modes.
smells just like http://radiantcms.org, but i didn't seen any support for custom tags. (same basic, ruby/rails instead of python/django, a shade more mature.) having developed a LOT of radiant code, i can recommend it.

if django-cms follows the same pattern (and the demo looks like it does) it's good for building content-based sites, brochureware, blogs and such. doubly good if you're building a site for a company who wants to manage their own content.
Denmark is an English-speaking country? A lot of Danes speak English, to be sure, but their first language is still Danish.
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The real deal-breaker for someone like this working in a services firm, is that you cannot be recognized unless you control projects end to end.

My few successes in my time working in services came about when I was poorly supervised, and was able to rigorously control the eventual output.

In contrast, working on projects that other people controlled was often an exercise in frustration and compromise.
Photoshop is just as capable of doing a fast, pixel-imperfect layout, filling the role of MSPaint, fingerpaints, or whatever. If the designers find themselves thinking of the Photoshop sketch as the final product, that strikes me as more the designers' problem than Photoshop's.
Congratulations, dude. Just don't forget us and keep us informed.
"It only takes 24 hours to set up a business in New Zealand, the speediest start-up time in the world."

How many companies do you need to setup???
Why are we using landlines, and not cellular?

Wherever there is infrastructure and someone making money out of it, new technologies will be slow to adopt.

VoIP is much better and cheaper, unfortunately its going to take awhile before we can really start enjoying it.
It's not a $15B valuation.

Microsoft didn't invest all $240 million for the 1.6% stake. Some fraction of that money was for the advertising deal that Microsoft got.
Tear it up, brother. I think we're in the same town and I've lived a few years in a van with a crappy band... You ever need anything give me a shout.
I missed your original posting, but other than the fact that your site is in dire need of a redesign; I can see it being very popular.

I sent it to all of the administrative assistants in my office, and they all said they were bookmarking it for when they have to send out letters to our clients.
Facebook finances: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/31/facebook-finances-leake...

2008 cash flow is supposed to be minus $150mm.
Putting the global warming debate aside, I totally agree with you.

However, I don't see them being transparent. Furthermore, I think given the complexity of determining what they claim, the simplicity of their model is almost certainly not adequate.

I like your Avian Flu example. I think in that case, we would both agree that there is a point at which preparations for such an event would be almost useless when there is a certain lack of information, when what we do know and what we don't know is so muddled that we are not even sure what direction to take. Obviously doctors and scientists are not blind here and know generally what direction to take in their preparations, just not to what scale.

What I am arguing in terms of CO2Stats here is that the likely inaccuracy of their calculations just about voids what they are offering because you don't know that what you are getting is in the proper proportion or even that it actually helps to the degree that they say it does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_where_English...

There are over 50 countries where english is the main language. So that's not really possible.
Canada here and yes.

I'm not sure what their definition of "Starting a business" is though, since technically in Canada all you need for that is a GST number, which you can apply for online for free and comes in the mail as soon as they can get it to you. You get a temporary number that you can use prior to that.

Trade is about right though, especially from the US. Where this free trade that we're supposed to have is I have no idea.
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Because modern capitalism was an export of the British empire. Simple as that.
Can you convince me you're just as fast if you have to look at the keyboard?

I bet you'd be faster if you didn't need to.
Just wait in see.

But what if I can't swim?
Even after the loss of its empire, England is still a nice place.
Ignoring the conversation at hand, the reason why I'm going to stay in Atlanta for the next few years: For an affordable rent price I have a badass apt in the middle of the city in a highrise with a concierge and locked gates and assigned parking spot included for free.. I would never, ever be able to have even half those amenities if i moved to the valley. SV is for me, but when I have real money.
As you wander into the great unknown to create the next big thing, remember two important things: 1) The little guys and 2) The great words of Dave Chappell, "Byahhhhh!"

Best of Luck.
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There's a difference though between taking a best guess because we need to know, and selling a service based on your best guess without putting that methodology up for scrutiny.

Without seeing how they calculate your imprint, they're basically working on the same "trust us" principle as the guys that sell that Q-ray bracelet.
Congratulations. I'm on week 2 of freedom and it's an excellent thing.
Can you convince me that the quality of a programmer has anything to do with speed?

(At least, to the degree that keyboarding skills would make a measurable difference. I'm not arguing that it's ok to spend all week building a single function.)
I also disagree with the subsidies... but I thought that was apparent. It's hypocritical to be against regulation and for subsidies.

I don't know which subsidies you are referring to though. Since telcos, cable and wireless were/are all subsidized at different times to "build out their networks". Either way it's a good point. To me it's just proof that competition is more effective than government support. Even with the government subsidizing entrenched old technologies, the competition still wins out.
Good luck! Always nice to see the real world result of sites like this!
Personal request: next time Steve posts, let's just assume the "long post is long lololol" angle has been thoroughly covered, and let's discuss the contents. If the contents do not merit discussion, let's ignore them.
pg, let's ask a different question. Measurements aside, is what they are offering really reducing the carbon footprint of a website?

I would argue no, it does not. And here's why:
They are buying credits which make clean energy cheaper. The trickle down effect (not a reference to Reagan) means that others will be buying cheap energy, which is good, but it does not mean you will be buying cheap energy. So I don't see this as directly translating into reducing your carbon footprint. Moreover, who actually gets the reduction in their personal carbon footprint here: the person actually using the green energy or you, who helped pay for this energy by proxy. I would argue that it is to a much greater degree the person who actually bought this energy who gets most of the benefit. You would be much better off using your time to plant trees in proportion to the amount your site uses or finding a green hosting service than use CO2Stats.

Even if CO2Stats is measuring this even remotely accurately (which they couldn't possibly be), their model of buying these renewable energy credits still translates into a very low reduction in your actual carbon footprint.

Having said that... is their service worth whatever it costs? Most likely no, since for it to work you would have to pay a disproportionate amount to get an amount that would indeed offset your footprint. Is CO2Stats capitalizing off people's supererogatory desire to do good by nature, regardless of whether there are no benefits? You bet.
If Dilbert started his own company, then Dilbert would become the pointy-haired boss, or the VC that controlled his fate would be the pointy-haired boss. And the underlings would become Dilbert. Nothing would really change.

Dilbert (the comic strip) isn't really about any particular character. It's about patterns of relationships in all hierarchical human organizations. No escape is possible for Dilbert (the character) because his tribulations are all the result of emergent phenomena. The comic has distilled those conflicts down to their essence, so they're visible anywhere. Call it the Dilbert Pattern.
You should base your startup where your market is.

If your business is tech related, it would be best to do it in the US since they have the largest spending power for tech-related services.

If you are a mining contractor, you should do it in Australia as they are rich in resources.

Follow the market.
It is worth trying if you're trying your smartest.

If you're simply abdicating the responsibility of doing the hard thinking to someone else, then you're not trying, just flaunting a green badge.

This type of measurement ought to be perfect.

1. Computers can report how much power they are using. Laptops directly, for servers you might have to do something fancy like keep track of uptime and check your power supply's wattage.

I think the latest Laptop CPUs can reduce power consumption when not fully loaded, not sure. But I don't think server chips are that complicated... yet.

2. Call your power company and ask them how much of the power they provide is hydro, coal, wind, solar, nuclear, etc.

3. Do some math.

That should give you exactly how much CO2 you're using.

The next question is, does funding green energy sources make sense?

It might not. It might be worse then doing nothing. Here's how:

High tech has a much lower CO2/output ratio then almost any other industry. So it would be much easier for high tech to pay a green penalty, especially if it comes with bragging rights.

However, the other 90% of CO2 producers, will only switch if it is profitable.

And here's the crux, by funding unprofitable green sources, you could be hurting the development of ones which are truly economical.

OPEC is cutting production with oil over $100 a barrel, for sweet zombie jesus' sake! Alternative energy ought to be competitive without help.

If you're still worried about your CO2 emissions, pay someone to plant a tree, that won't compete with green tech. Or buy more stuff from an organic farmer, because organically worked soil is a huge CO2 sponge. Or spend some money on lobbying politicians.

Or at least don't give money to someone who: " reserves the right to cap REC purchases in case of excessive use, as its own discretion."
I was listening to (I believe it was) Mark Shuttleworth the other week and he basically stated that:
"All forks are generally a result of lack of good communication between developers."

From what I have seen Pidgin developers are morose than normal. This clashed when they refused absolutely to listen to users who wanted at most an option to disable this effect from the options menu.

In the end this isn't about a text entry field its about developers who will listen and act on user input.
Then he will leave to create his own startup
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This is the page that made doing OOP in Javascript click for me.
If you're interested in flog but disagree with Ryan's scoring of various constructs, check out the self-flagellation gem: http://github.com/bscofield/self-flagellation/tree/master

With it, you can specify score profiles in a YAML file. We've also got a website in the works that will allow people to share score profiles for various types of code (for a Rails app, for a test suite, etc.)
Hi,

I would be interested in advising you and helping you as much as I can. I was recently the Vice President of Product Management for MocoSpace, which is the largest mobile focused social network in the US.

I'm now launching a mobile interactive agency called Liquid Wireless. Shoot me an email at cianchette at gmail if you want to connect.

Jason
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i am going to shoot for someplace in the mission in the morning, and then maybe citizen space/desk in the afternoon. then maybe someplace else later, any suggestions?
Well. If you by "the summer" mean "ever since Napster hit the internet and digital music became mainstram", I'll fully agree.

Though it is interesting to see how even marketing people, not just geeks or "pirates" are starting to catch on to these people doing absolutely everything wrong.
When talking with a friend who wanted to start an on-the-side business I was surprised by how concerned he was with the legalities (and how little with marketing).

The value of speed is simplicity. Outside the hacker world, I think there are a lot of people that are simply too scared by even minor legal paperwork to see past it.
The fact that this story isn't even worth voting up is kind of sad. (And in case you're reading that the wrong way, no, I didn't vote for it either.)
You do 130wpm with two fingers? Try using more, you'll do >200wpm easy!
Only one, but if it takes a filing cabinet of paperwork, three bribes, a $20k processing fee and a four-month wait after personally visiting the application centre 200 miles away, you'll be unlikely to start that business.

The time and resources required for incorporation are a good metric, but since the difference in the top-ten is only a matter of hours it looks trivial. In far too many nations, it's not.
Also 10 worst: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/smallbusiness/0809/galle...

Congrats to Venezuela for being the only non-African country to make the list!
Well done! Thank you!
This constructor makes three private instance variables: param, secret, and that. They are attached to the object, but they are not accessible to the outside, nor are they accessible to the object's own public methods. They are accessible to private methods. Private methods are inner functions of the constructor.

Call me dim, but if you can define private members which can't even be accessed by public members and only in the constructor, how are they anything except local?

I might be doing needlessly geeky nitpicking here, but "private" has a standardized meaning in pretty much all OOP languages, and calling this private just seems silly.

Edit: Reading the whole thing, it seems the butchered public and not private. Making public something different all together, and having "privileged" being the actual, usual public-modifier.

Ah well. I never liked javascript ;)
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the only way they are acting like a startup is cultivating an aggressive, edgy, hip culture. better example is a law firm that IS a startup: axiom legal (http://www.axiomlaw.com). backed by benchmark (kagle) and panorama. and yes, they too cultivate the edgy and hip.
He said "All English-speaking countries are in top 10", not "All countries in the top 10 are english-speaking".
I'd have to agree with you there. No matter where he goes it's basically going to be the same.

If you look at the work place as it exists in the US, or many other countries for that matter, there is a fairly defined and constant relationship between the company and the employee. There are those companies that try to break the mold and have a different relationship, but for the most part it's fairly constant across companies and industries.

As company size increases the number of people in management also tends to increase and the upper management tends to become more and more removed from the people who are actually working with the customers and writing the code or doing the real work. The people making the big decisions know less about the situation than the guy on the front lines hence the large number of problems that arise that are satirized in the Dilbert comics.
See Achewood calling out Dilbert:

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=07312008
yeah I think thats one of the biggest obstacles people need to overcome when deciding on it
Eh, made for an easy read. I'm ok with it.
Crockford is an excellent writer. You should check out his book "Javascript: The Good Parts" if you liked that article, it's one of the best programming books I've read in a long time.
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While the Microsoft representative makes some accurate statements, some of them are a bit misleading and deflect blame, and some of them indicate that Microsoft may not really understand its competitors.

For instance:

- "bad drivers from GPU companies and printer companies for the majority of Vista’s early stability problems"

Even if technically true, bad drivers are never completely a 3rd party's fault. Microsoft should have had a keen interest in helping hardware vendors write good drivers. Microsoft also designed the driver interfaces!

- "assailed OEM system builders for including bad, buggy, or just plain useless apps on their machines in exchange for a few bucks on the back end"

Again, probably true, but this isn't new to Vista. It may even have been made worse by Vista; if machine sales were lousy due to Vista, OEMs had to make a buck any way they could.

- "he conceded that Apple appeals to more and more consumers because the hardware is slick, the price is OK, and Apple doesn’t annoy its customers (or allow third parties to)"

Somewhat true statements about Apple, though Apple has annoyed its customers, and 3rd parties such as Adobe have incredibly obnoxious customer-annoying things even in their Mac software.

But I think Microsoft needs to identify more significant reasons for Apple's appeal. What about Apple being "cool", or offering integrated solutions that Just Work, or having an OS that is far more compelling (so much so that people hack hardware just to use it)?
That's a nice app.
Don't call it toastmasters. Toastmasters is about helpful evaluation in a supportive environment. Startup Gauntlet is about tearing presenters apart.
Keyword Analysis Of The McCain And Obama Acceptance Speeches
Instead of corporate blog copy, how about blog comment copy?
It is behind login but totally worth it.

Some extracts:

- most used word by Obama - "promise" (31 times) and by McCain - "country" (30 times)

- Under issues, Obama's top word "economy" and McCain "jobs"

- Two-word phrase used most by Obama was "John McCain" (15 times
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Blog about how faith is the missing piece to putting your Start Up on top.
The iPhone SDK agreement forbids the development of VOIP applications.
Oh well. We can only hope that now that DRM is removed from this weird cyberspace environment, people will start to realize how strange and harmful it really is.
Heh. Obama mentions McCain very often and McCain mentions Obama very often. They might as well give speeches for each other!
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I don't think it's clicked for you yet.

And when you say this:

"private" has a standardized meaning in pretty much all OOP languages

don't you mean "in C++ and Java"? Because Ruby's private is significantly different.
There's value in public steps taken to be green (engaging, marketing) and there's value in saving energy. There are externalities which can't be accounted for by the process of simply reducing consumption, and offsetting, by RECs or otherwise, should be considered something to do after conservation and reduction, but a valid last step.
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Whether any of those quotes are snide depends on the context: especially whether they were directed against someone in particular.

Further: wit is often self-deprecating (and some of those Wildisms may have been offered in that spirit), while snark hardly ever is.
At least this one. I've been trialing it and am planning to sign up at the end of the trial. The service works well.
The video lectures on yahoo from Doug are even better. He goes through all of these details in them.

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/111593/1710507 (Part 1)

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/111594/1710553 (Part 2)

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/111595/1710607 (Part 3)

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/111596/1710658 (Part 4)

There are also a series on DOM, advanced stuff etc
Dr Nigel Bannister’s calculations were used for the Channel 4 Dispatches programme "The Mobile Phone Rip-Off".

He worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble and compared that with the 5p cost of sending a text.

He said: "The bottom line is texting is at least 4 times more expensive than transmitting data from Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that.

The maximum size for a text message is 160 characters, which takes 140 bytes because there are only 7 bits per character in the text messaging system, and we assume the average price for a text message is 5p. There are 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that's 1 million/140 = 7490 text messages to transmit one megabyte. At 5p each, that's £374.49 per MB - or about 4.4 times more expensive than the ‘most pessimistic’ estimate for Hubble Space Telescope transmission costs."
Title correction: "How the Music Business Continued to Kill Itself this Summer"
Allowing government to dictate an enterprise's pricing structure or profit margin is a dangerous road to walk. Government should really only bust fraud and handle arbitration, to keep markets competitive.

Anyway, there's no source of money in the world that Congress won't overspend...
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Throwing rocks at a hornet's nest ;)
Because secretly he likes feeling smarter than his co-workers, and he dreads the responsibility of accomplishing something real.
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"Malaise" ... we have been hearing this spiel in one form or another for 30 years now and the US is still a hyperpower.

Eventually though, they will be right.

Remember that "trees do not grow to the sky" as Baron Rothschild famously said - and there are real limits to growth, limits that China and the other BRIC countries will be facing now, or if not now, then soon.
Call me when they're actually dead and I can get into music again. Until then, meh.
Thanks for the review, I've been thinking if I should buy it, will now ;)
To me, a Law firm that has 3m revenue per employee sounds a lot like a symptom of a system that's broken.

A real startup, to quote PG, would be the law firm that turns this multi-billion dollar market (Im just guessing here...) into a multi-MILLION dollar market.

Disclaimer: I don't like lawyers.
Apple goes too far in iTunes 8
64 pages seems agonizing enough... after a quick glance it still seems like an excellent reference, though.
Ah well. I'll rephrase myself and say any OOP language I have any significant knowledge about then ;)

But both C#, VB.Net and pretty much any OOP language I have touched has been like that. Granted I've seen different meanings for static and protected, but I've never seen this behaviour before.

I'll simply admit my own ignorance, I guess.
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I've found Photoshop great for retouching digital photos, but Illustrator far easier for UI mockups. I do not see the benefit of setting anything in pixels until it needs to be.
This is for jailbroken iPhones. The SDK is irrelevant.