skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's up to the web app developers to expose the information they want indexed. Google absolutely should not start indexing private data in their public index, and I seriously doubt they're that dumb.

One thing I could see them doing is having a separate opt-in service for web apps, something akin to OS X's Spotlight or Google Desktop Search.
So much for Disaster Capitalism (http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine) then, huh?
Straight PHP and MySQL. http://www.tizag.com/phpT/ http://us.php.net/tut.php or just google for PHP and MySQL.

Understand that a blog is nothing more than a list of posts/entries. Simplest case is have one php script that just dumps the entries from the SQL database on to a page (you can improve up on that with things like pages, tags, trackbacks, etc) but those are all extras.

Comments are just entries, except they have a extra field that specify which post/entry they belong to.

Posts and Comments, the only two things required for a blog. Now just improve upon that.

Do a few PHP/MySQL tutorials and you should be able to do this pretty easily.

And this can be done very short too... mine is 1700 lines (that includes whitespace and comments) running janitha.com right now
* Posts/Pages
* Comments
* A Captcha-like Implementation
* Gallery Intergration
* A simple Plugin/Widget Architecture
* Simple Admin Interface for adding/modifying/deleting posts
* RSS
* URL Rewriting
* Automatic Static Caching
Depends where you are, but people often question all non-competes. Also, in some countries/states they are proven to be unenforcable (so generally companies don't try, except for US based companies that try to slip it in).

Non-compete is really a joke, look at half the large tech companies out there, lots of them came out of people forking off from another large company (heck, oracle execs have spawned heaps of companies).
In sensible hands, you can exchange Java for C++ and get very similar performance for a lot less hassle, and (increasingly) lean on scripting the same way you would with python/ruby. Of course that means ignoring the way "enterprises" mostly use java (which is just silly), and using it more the way google does.
Isn't (and I haven't read it, I stopped at C and never made it to the ++) "Effective C++" an important book?
I think that's what the authors meant by it. In the sense that your information should show up in your google search results, similarly to how GDS works. It's of course unfeasible, and probably illegal, to make that information available to the world at large. But if you have access to password protected content, there is no reason for it not to be visible to you when you google for it.
Sorry, I meant non-compete while you're there -- which I think is pretty standard everywhere. After you've left the place they're not enforceable where I live either.
Greatest website built using the open-source reddit code? I think so.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself. Props to Chris (KeyserSosa) for building it.
OK, firstly, if this is what "neo-con" means to you then the word is sufficiently broad to have lost all meaning.

Secondly, I'm guessing this has more to do with broader demographic trends. Since the 1970s there's been a huge increase in the number of people who go to university, so a university-educated person has a broader pool of other university-educated people to choose from.

Even more importantly, while in the distant past there were significantly more men going to university than women (and as such there weren't enough educated women to go around), in recent decades the numbers have been more or less equal (though recently women have been overtaking men).
I'm not sure New York is going to be a great help unless you're targeting news shows / talk shows. Los Angeles is the main post production hub.
Found a vidweo as well (this time not German but Japanese... ). I actually can imagine it to be extremely useful if you can look at your phone (type in numbers, surf the web...) while talking: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=6POxl0nZZo...
The US is going to need to go through a complete meltdown. A Great Depression probably wouldn't make people angry and organized enough to cause the change that we need.

My prediction is that the United States won't stick around for too long (if you take a history textbook perspective on this, which you can see other failed societies have made the same mistakes that we are now repeating).

I think we have a fighting chance to create the desirable society that eliminates corporatocracy. Did you know the planet contains 13,000 zettajoules of geothermal energy? The entire world uses 0.5 zettajoules of energy per year. And we can harvest this, but there are patent wars to suppress this from easily happening.

Let's look at the other resources available, which cost us nothing at all. Wind? 3 states of wind energy can power the entire United States. Water? The UK alone could be powered by water/tide energy alone. Solar? One hour of thermal energy in the day could power the United States for an entire year if we harvested it properly.

Travel by plane? Who does that when you could travel by AT3's mag-lev trains, which can reach speeds up to 4,000 MPH with zero moving parts and zero emissions. Oh, and it uses about 10% of the energy of an airplane. Yes, they work in land and water.

What happens when technology replaces humans? You no longer need to work. In our capitalistic society, it's called unemployment. If you look into the Venus Project, it's called you get bored and start thinking about space exploration.

Once people figure out that we don't really need these corporations, we'll never have this type of problem come up again. The corporations are holding us back and creating scarcity (real or perceived) at every opportunity. Like I said, I don't think the United States is going to get it right, we're in far too deep over our heads. And the attitudes and apathy of the American people never ceases to amaze me (in a bad way) as an undergraduate.
So basically what the Economist, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, etc have been doing?
The above manufacturer counts on getting 80% of the source price back for their scrap. So you can imagine if apple rough mills the bricks to remove most of the material as chips and gets 80% of the rate for those pounds of chips, then uses their exotic processes for the final work they will generate more valuable scrap, cutting their end cost.
It's not true that "during an election year, everybody thinks the economy sucks". Recent counterexamples are 2000 and 1996.
First of all Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac are not the main and only contributers to this mess. You also have a lot of private capital being lost, that never went through Fannie or Freddy.

AIG is not goverment's mess. They decided to insure insane amount of CDO, which are not regulated, and being used not for hedging, more like bets in the market. Lehman Bros/Bear Stearn are not governments mess. They decided to leverage themselves at an absurd 1/30+ ratio.
The goverment has been staying away from them, and look what happened.

Also, if you noticed, that there are banks that are actually doing really good, mainly because were smart enough to stay away from this madness.

And there have also been major crashes (1929, or 1873) where the gov. was almost non-existent, and the dollar was backed by gold.

For some reason, just like in reddit, there is always post "Blame the goverment about everything for over-regulating".

How about blaming the individuals for taking too much credit card debt, and too many loans(may they be greedy or stupid), and the people that led these companies to ruin for once.
You know, when I read this I thought exactly of the Economist. And what's funny there - not only do I love their content and perspective, but I also look forward to receiving it in the mail. That and Consumer Reports seem to transcend the web, for me, based on the authority with which they seem to report.
I remember loving On Human Nature when I read it, but I can't respond to your specific question.
That sounds like an interesting book. Does he come at the problem from a left-wing or right-wing perspective?

In my experience, academic leftism is seen as more of a social obligation than a set of deeply-held beliefs. (There are, of course, many exceptions).

This, of course, is one of the reasons that I hate to socialise with my fellow academics.
Well I "quit" school last year, I did so because I think I can learn more solo than I can in a schooling environment. Or maybe not "more", but different things that schooling may not focus on. (and I'll be able to return in a few years)

In this time I do what I want with my time (OK most of the time, I still have to do free lance to pay the bills), I don't just learn things, but I learn what I need to do for the task I'm trying to do.

Founding a startup isn't a priority for me, but if the idea comes along then thats great. :)
This title is pretty misleading. The author claims that inflation is "implicitly repudiating debt". This is really not how the phrase "repudiating debt" is used.

Nobody is too surprised when the dollar suffers inflation. But it would be shocking if the U.S. actually refused to honor T-bills.

Also, the devaluation of the dollar is hardly new. The dollar has been weakening vs the euro since early 2006.

http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?from=USD&to=EU...

Don't get me wrong, inflation is bad, and it hurts the poor who are honestly trying to save the worst. But it isn't the end of the world. It's not even nearly as bad as the 70's, inflation-wise. The real danger is in the hard-to-predict "black swan" disasters that could still happen.
This is a great read, and highlights a common thought circulating in the media industry: investigative journalism is dying because of cost cutting in newsrooms. But that is exactly the kind of journalism that can save newspapers. Rather than focusing on keeping the main thing the main thing, newspapers are effectively cutting off their oxygen supply.

On a note related to my startup (NewsCred), I found it very interesting that the author could empirically prove that trust in a newspaper directly leads to increased ad rates and circulation.
Disclosure: I'm one of KLone developers.

Use KLone http://koanlogic.com/klone/ .

It lets you write web pages with embedded C/C++ code (php-style escaping).

It's VERY fast and provides all common functions/features you need to parse incoming HTTP variables, sessions, file uploads, etc.

If you need more features you can link it against any C/C++ library and call library functions from within web pages.
right yes, well for OSS that could put a dampener on things if the OS project does indeed compete (but then why join? or, join, and let someone else take over the project !).
Great interview with him from RadioLab

http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2008/09/23/chasing-bugs/
It's not like if you outlaw corporations, suddenly a new form of organization will appear where nobody is greedy any more. It's not like "the corporations" are sitting on the secret to infinite wind energy and they're just afraid of change. Corporations are made up of people. They are not perfect because people are not perfect and organizing large groups of people is hard. Outlawing corporations will not solve either of those problems.
Thanks. I thought so.

I tried to keep the dialogue respectful to both the poster and the homeless, it is unfortunate that others have not. In my experience most people want to help in some way when confronted with homelessness, but they don' know what to do. Rarely do they wish to hand over cash. Rarely do they wish to have a conversation and understand the situation. Many are interested in aiding programs which empower homeless people to dig out of their situation. There is low-hanging fruit in connecting those who wish to help with those who are already organized to do so.
I think they're suggesting that if you're paying for email,

(a) you have a number to call if it suddenly stops working, and

(b) you can threaten to stop paying them if they don't sort the problem out.

Personally, I use GMail as my main account, and it doesn't worry me that there's some (probably miniscule) risk of being locked out of my account. If anyone wanted to get hold of me, they could still reach me via my work email address, telephone, or Facebook.

I'm slightly more worried that they could lose all my past emails - in which case there would be very little I could do to get any sort of redress from them - but I'm pretty confident that I'm more likely to lose my own data than Google. It is possible to back up your GMail messages to your local machine, and I have taken this precaution, although I don't do this very frequently.
Ask HN: Which license manager to use?
Our enterprise product is in the operations management and Asset Discovery space.

We need a good free/opensource or low cost license management product to integrate with our J2EE based product.

Suggestions from your experience?
I forget where I was reading an analysis of this kind of thing the other day, but it argued that there are really two middle classes: the commercial middle class and the academic middle class.

The academic middle class loves the lower classes (in theory) but can't stand the commercial middle classes, whom they see as ignorant boors with the temerity to earn more money than professors, while doing less work. This, I think, is what drives a lot of the contempt for things like SUVs, "McMansions", soccer moms, Sarah Palin, and all that other gunk that people in my circle seem to enjoy whining about nonstop.
I don't want to spend all the good years of my life living exactly like a rat doing whatever gymnastics get me enough pellets (dollars) to survive. I'd rather say "fuck that" and do what I want.

It's not a lack of money that would make me kill myself (and I don't drink alcohol, preferring drugs that enhance cognition). It's a lack of meaning. As long as I can write books, papers on ideas that interest me, or work on my patentable inventions, my life has meaning regardless of the money situation. But, if I'm spending my time worrying if I have tucked away my pellets as good as the neighbors, my life has no interest, and, at that point, why not get off the ride instead of spinning the wheel for no good reason?
Rebel Alliance
Slashdot can get a little heavy on the FOSS evangelism, but I think it's fair to say the company is being underhanded.

Think of it this way: the company wants to hire him because of the open source project. To rephrase: the open source project got him that job. As such, it is logical that the open source project could get him other jobs in the future - possibly several. By agreeing to a non-compete on that project, he is agreeing that it will never be a selling point for his future employment since he can never work on that code again.

I'm perfectly fine with developers spending their time on closed source projects. I'm perfectly fine with a company demanding that their code stay proprietary. What I think is crazy is a company demanding that you give up what got you the job with them.

That is, unless this is being treated as an acquisition. As such, the author should be entitled to a sweet buyout deal. But that isn't the case here. The author is being ladened with the conditions that should apply to a buyout deal without the buyout payoff. If you founded a company and produced proprietary code and another company came along and wanted it, you'd ask for a buyout (of your company, of that project, whatever). Pay day! Here, the company wants that kind of control without paying for it. Not ok.
School mostly sucks. College is a mechanism where mediocre minds fight for status, publishing and tenure like dogs over scraps and ensure the most brilliant people are reduced to a low common denominator, and train people to approach life like children even when they are growing up.

If you aren't 100% certain you need to be in school to do what you want with your life, start the company. Learning is awesome, schooling functions as a mechanism of control to make sure the really smart people don't learn so fast that they live up to their potential.
Do you plan to move there? I'm thinking about this too :)
I am deeply fearful that the current economic problems will lead to the resurgence of the kind of idiotic socialist ideas represented by this Guardian piece.
What you and this post are talking about is transitioning toward being an intelligence service, not an all you can eat info buffet.

The Economist provides actionable intelligence on what's happening in the world. It truly is "news you can use."

Example: Back when I was applying to be a CIA agent (i pulled out after passing the first few steps) the interviewers routinely told me to read the Economist from cover to cover. The CIA considers it the definitive, authoritative consumer news product, full of information you can act on.

Same with the other example mentioned here, Consumer Reports.

That said, even if that's where newspapers go, they're still overstaffed. You don't need 1,000 reporters to break down what's happening in Chicago that week in a useful way.

The link economy that Jeff Jarvis blogs about so much (BuzzMachine.com - a must-read for people interested in the future of news) means you don't need as many people to re-report all the stuff your competitor reported.

Over at my humble Chicago news startup, I'm laying the groundwork for what I believe is the next sustainable metro news model.

Three pieces:
1. A crowd-powered, local link aggregator. Digg for Chicago, to be succinct. Open-source your tip line. Let your readers vote up, discuss and share neat, weird and important local links.

2. A blog network. Stick 2-3 local experts on every topic that newspapers typically assign beat reporters to. Have them aggregate, comment and contextualize 2-3 times a week. Create conversations around hot topics. We started a blog about Lollapalooza over the summer and posted to it just for 4-days. It was a big hit for us and was noticed by every news organization covering the festival.

3. Hard-hitting, impactful reporting/features that draw on what's hot from the link aggregator and the blogs. Once a week we publish something that you absolutely have to know to stay ahead of the conversation. To use blogger lingo, this should be linkbait of the highest caliber.

Anyway, I agree with the assessment in this article. You can either go low-brow (The Chicago Tribune now has a CollegeHumor-style blog that their interns run...it's awful) or you can go high.
The Gamed Pew Study
The very article you link to carefully distinguishes Rand's definition of selfishness from the common understanding of the word. Rand was herself against the base selfishness that most people are against.

The problem is that pure free markets allow those operating from base selfishness to prosper. You need a credible threat to keep these people in line. Rand perhaps hoped that an Atlas Shrugged style revolt of "prime movers" could provide that threat, but (1) it's much too blunt, (2) relies on Rand's simplistic view that humans are either ethical and productive or looters (which allows her to justify the consequences of that revolt), and (3) has very little chance of actually happening. Which means turning to the state to provide the necessary threat, compromising the cherished ideal of completely free markets. The state may operate imperfectly, and require an ever-vigilant electorate to ensure that it does not overstep its bounds and is constantly improving its methods in accordance with a well-specified set of metrics (which is true of just about any government function), but it's better than letting businesspeople run amok in the name of purity.
Physicist named MacArthur Fellow for work on Quantum Computing
Eacy day it publishes the Wall St. Journal has three page one articles that to a large extent provide in-depth reporting. They spend the time and money to fully report and edit these stories. Reporters I know are jealous of the time WSJ reports can spend developing these stories.

The point I take from this is that the kind of deep reporting papers need to differentiate themselves is not cheap or easy.
Book Review: The Race Between Education and Technology
Thank you :) My spelling is ok (more or less), but my pronunciation is terrible.
"Which leads me to point that out that Java is far from suitable for a start-up"

You can't generalize like that. It's a language. It works. It scales, and is solid.

Sure, if you're just putting up something that needs quick prototyping then java is probably overkill, but if you're writing something quite complex, java can do a great job.

I think the "golden bullet" for startups is having a good programmer with a passion for something. Language isn't so relevant IMHO.

(Mibbit currently handles around 3.5million visits a month on a single VPS in java which I'm pretty happy with).
I don't know what you're talking about. Could you provide a link to the thread?
IPhone app install issues
Didn't the same people just get 850bn dollars more to play with?
Great Thoughts
Haskell uses \, which isn't too far from λ. it also reads better than -> imo
"But what if Google could convince users of the value of indexing web app data without identifying the individual user..."

I'm not sure what they're trying to say, but they don't seem to be talking about indexing your own private data for you.

How can password-protected data not be user-specific? If the web application writers want to make certain data public, they already do this - for example, my Facebook profile is indexed by Google, but the messages I see when I log in aren't.
Put up or shut up (until patch is ready.)

Simple. Else, it's egomania.
Guh. When you can't effectively measure the effectiveness of each ad dollar or you don't have a meaningful or differentiating product, I guess you take what you can get. Even "I don't like X" is advertising for X. I think this says more about the advertisers and the products than the ads or the consumers though.
What's the point of establishing credit if I'm never planning to go into debt?

This is actually a serious question -- I've been in the US for three years and I haven't bothered to acquire a local credit card, so my credit report is completely blank. Are there circumstances under which this can come around and bite me in the arse?
I've started companies in the past, but can't decide what my next company will be, or when... so I don't think that disqualifies me to give advice on what I've learned.
I had a look and found this: http://www.ars-inc.com/ROI.htm
Still, buying expensive aluminum billets and then turning ~99% of the material into chips as would happen with a case design similar to the current MBP wouldn't be very efficient.

Perhaps they are moving to case designs that are a combination of CNC machined parts and stamped pieces? I'm sure Apple's design team is a lot more imaginative than me. There are some CNC-looking parts in the current MBP like the bracket that fixes the HD in place.

But let's face facts. Steve will not rest until he is selling Cube shaped computers again. :)
Yea but LJ just felt more nostalgic, and just as the article said the community feel of the site was just great.
It's the cost of entertainment. As opposed to slots, you get to interact with a live person (the dealer) who's there to keep you entertained, and you get to hang out with your friends. There's a little at stake, which keeps things interesting; blackjack and poker are pretty lame when nothing's at stake. And if you go to a low stakes table, you'll probably spend $15-20/hour for fun, and they'll comp you some free drinks too. Not much more expensive than seeing a movie.
That's especially true at BYU, where I go. Several successful entrepreneurs, including the founder of SEO.com, FundingUniverse, InfoSpace.com, Omniture, and other successes, work with us in and around the Marriott School.

There's a very supportive startup environment in Utah overall, as well (http://www.siliconslopes.com/).

All of this support and all of these resources is one of the reasons I've been considering starting something new. When else will I have the opportunity to have so much support and so many resources?