skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Pick the langauge you want to use.

I can't, because I am just one worker and the language is choosen by the top product manager. That's not a complaint, my point was that you usually can not choose a language you want to use in professional setting. You can do so for your hobby project.
Why aren't you doing some of those things during your free time right now? You certainly don't need money to create a series of games or research robotics in your free time. If you're not doing it now, what makes you think you'll do it if you are relieved of the job obligation?

I find that flaw with myself: come up with reasons why I'm not doing what I really want to be doing. I'm trying to overcome the friction of day dreaming and start actually doing something.

These thought exercises are cute, but in the end, counter-productive.
It's not "bias" just because you sympathize with the argument. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence; instead of offering any, this commenter simply says "oil is rechargable and we have enough of it for the foreseeable future", despite a welter of evidence contradicting those statements. That strikes me as less of an argument than a cry for attention.
It's also in Google's self-interest to work for looser regulations on the use of wireless spectrum, which is the example at hand.
Yes, apparently it does.

This leads me to propose a new mantra: forget being different, just be the same.

(I'd blog about it myself, but unfortunately my own blog is devoted primarily to motorcycle stunts and zebra penises.)
Get a good night's sleep.
I think what Prrometheus was trying to say, that just because it was in self-interest, doesn't necessarily make it evil.
I am doing some of these things now. The reason I asked this question is actually somewhat related to #6...
I dunno about that, Oracle have been pushing "grid" computing long since before "cloud" became fashionable.
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ESR has contributed plenty of code: http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html

Why do you refer to Stallman as a wacko? Why do you accuse him of being insane?

I would love to read the opinion of someone trained in human mental health care insofar as Stallman's mental health is concerned.
i agree with this. recently I've been thinking about what to do when i retire. I know i'll get bored eventually. I think returning to school and getting a teaching degree and then working part time as a teacher would be fun and rewarding without too much stress. Ideally teaching math/science at a community college.
That's not necessarily true. To decentralize production it merely needs to be the better economic choice. There is no fundamental reason why polluting energy sources should be cheaper: this is only true with most current technologies in most current situations.
I have no idea. I only know that its not going to be boring.
Wow. That's quite a statement. How does that match up versus this graph, Eric?

http://www.wattzon.org/plan/pages/GamePlan_v1.0%20040.htm
I'd open up PARC again.
I'm not following. The discussion is about C++, which shares the same heap management as C, so I don't see what you are trying to say here.

And I'll be frank: the hubris in your discounting the programming skills and choices of all of those working, mature, robust and very successful projects is just absolutely stunning. Have you ever delivered anything of comparable quality? Until you have, please don't condescend to tell Guido or Linus or Larry how to write their code. I'll submit that these projects are written in C because their rather talented authors see something in that environment that you don't. And that the fact that you don't see value in an environment that is undeniably producing valuable software says more about you than it does about them.

Seriously dude, you gotta check that attitude.
Well, it's used for music, so, i.e. composing a piece of music where you wanted to have fine grained control over the synthesis, timing or sampling. The alternatives are still basically programming, just done in a visual environment rather than in code. Here's an example in Max:

http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/images/polysynth-jmax.png

And the same in ChucK:

http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/files/polysynth.ck

There are other more concrete examples mentioned in some of my posts here. (Didn't post the article, but I've been one of the more active people on the ChucK mailing list for a long while now, so it was a surprise to see it turn up here.)
Study: 93 Percent of Americans Want Companies to Have Presence on Social Media Sites
Me too, and I would do it in a non-industrialized country (South America/Eastern Europe) which would save me money, and possible lawsuits/BS.

;)
Yea sorry I only focused on the biggest fan draws at launch - if it goes anywhere NHL and college bball will be the first added.
i was also trying to figure out the title. thought i missed something.
It's about business, not the technology.

A big part of cloud computing is the idea of SaaS where they charge pay-per-user monthly or based on usage. This is driving costs down and the software vendor is responsible for upgrades and maintenance (a major part of Oracles revenue).

He has been quoted saying that there's no money in the on-demand model. These enterprise software companies had massive profit margins in the 90s with the licensing model.

It's in Oracles interest to slow the transition towards cloud computing and SaaS. Although it is overhyped, like all new technology.
Accessing those 70,000 years worth is very costly. The carbon in accessible fossil fuels is around 1600 gigatons, which will be exhausted in much closer to 100 years than 70,000. Doing so would pitch our atmospheric carbon content around 2200 gigatons, nearly three times the current content of 600 gigatons.

http://www.wattzon.org/plan/pages/GamePlan_v1.0%20050.htm

Based on physical models pointing at similar conclusions from a plethora of different directions, this will raise temperatures. By how much? We'd reach approximately 1650 ppm carbon. At only 1000 ppm, many models predict a raise of temperature from 3.5 to almost ten degrees C (varying across the world). Most importantly, the heat will mostly be circulated to polar regions, melting them. The last step of the argument is quite well known: at 4.5 degrees C, the land borne glaciers will begin to melt, drowning entire cities and countries. Before that happens, 20-50% species will be lost, and billions will face water shortages. The ensuing ecological niches and prevalence of human targets may end up creating many new diseases.

http://www.wattzon.org/plan/pages/GamePlan_v1.0%20046.htm

http://www.wattzon.org/plan/pages/GamePlan_v1.0%20054.htm

Why replace oil? Because it's tremendously risky not to, and not nearly so hard as people seem to believe.
I'm not sure that I would have called off the test with three upvotes.
Senate Passes Bill Creating 'Copyright Czar'
With nothing holding me down to a specific location I think I would travel most of the time, "live" in a certain part of the world for a time before moving on.
I'm going to move to Argentina and build a sailboat. Its been my goal for 3 years.
Utility scale flywheel systems are being added to new powerplants, but it's been slow going. Utilities are not exactly dynamic organizations; my cofounder used to consult for one, getting them to change anything was an enormous pain. There are many growing companies in this area: Beacon Power is one in particular.

http://beaconpower.com/

They aren't being added to nuclear powerplants because nuclear powerplants have a wide and controllable dynamic range (they can run higher or lower depending) and new ones aren't being created.

There are large scale installations of flywheel systems in government use, though. The Princeton Plasma Physics Lab used a flywheel system for peak power delivery, as did many other government labs; including particle accelerators.
Pumped storage is quite low capacity and low efficiency for the cost and surface area. 1 kg, that is, 1 liter of water, up 20 meters, is only 200 joules. An apple laptop uses 40 watts: which is that amount every five seconds.
Wall Street's collapse may be computer science's gain
Also, electric car manufacturers seem to be great at making cars that get more km per kJ. They get 2.18 km/KJ of power, which is more than four times the efficiency of the Prius.

http://www.evworld.com/library/Tesla_21centuryEV.pdf
actually, 2 meters gives you 20 joules...but your point is still valid
Go back to school and finish my degree first. These days I really want to go back to school despite I've a good job. More I work without a degree more I realize I need to learn more. But then again I'm getting married soon. Ah, well......
I think pg is taking this 'nickb' thing a bit too far.
Whoops. g ~= 10. Always I forget...
Twitter Readies Fail Whale For Presidential Debates
I don't know why C++ is much hated when all the big applications at amazon, google, microsoft, adobe, apple are written in C++. I think it's the best practical language for good scalable applications.
Early build of iPhone 2.2 OS has new Safari, no copy & paste or Push Notification
I'm a sports junkie so this could be up my alley.

First impression: looks like a web 2.0 social aggregator site, which is not what I am looking for in a sports site. I'm looking for new articles about the few teams that I am following.

Second: Where are the week four picks for NFL? I don't care about what happened in the past...

Third: How is this a pick in favor of Green Bay (and where is the link?): “Right now, it's hard to be against the Cowboys. That offense is clicking and so hard to stop. Throw in special teams play like Felix Jones returning kickoffs and a team has to be ready to score or it'll be left behind. That said, Green Bay can win this game...”

Fourth: I do want to see the spreads

Anyway, good luck!
Wow, it's just going to be one giant clusterfuck.
what I am doing now with a tad more surfing :P
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EntreCard.com On Sale?
Entrecard.com is on sale on Sitepoint - http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/46763 . Entrecard.com is basically a traffic exchange services for bloggers.

As what the founder said, he has no enough resources to expand the network and he said that the website has potential to make more than USD30k per month. According to Alexa.com, the website has very stable traffic. Anyway, if you are VC with thousands of dollars in your pocket, will you invest on it?

Let discuss about this deal.
Isn't that what CushyCMS does (minus the charging in most cases)?
If ... it doesn't weigh too much, you can power ships, in particular, container ships. If the fuel is buoyant you can make a double hulled vehicle and store the fuel in it. (compressed air works very well here).

Why would the fuel need to be buoyant? Ships use steel hulls, steel is denser than seawater, and, despite that, ships float. Some ships are even powered by lead-acid batteries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine#The_snorkel) -- though these batteries are recharged by onboard diesel generators -- and yet they float. Aircraft carriers and icebreakers are even powered by uranium -- 18 times the density of water.

Pressurizing the space between the two hulls of a double-hulled boat would require thicker steel than normal. (For a single curve, the tensile PSI needed is the air-pressure in PSI multiplied by the radius in inches -- for a sphere, divide by two.) Since steel is denser than seawater, this would tend to make the vessel sink (so the fuel would hardly buoyant unless it were further being contained in-between the hulls in carbon-fiber cells -- but that would obviate the need for two hulls). It would also impact the shape of the boat, since containing pressure is easier with a smaller radius-of-curvature (e.g. the usual flat-sides of containter ships would be counter-efficient for this task of retaining air-pressure).

An efficient design of such a container-ship might have two or three long, parallel tubes as hulls, with a container-platform mounted above on blade-pylons (to slice through the water). Optimally, the tubes would remain entirely submerged during cruising, so as not to interact with surface waves (which interaction normally causes efficiency losses).
I need to change the actual IP address contacted, and URL (path) requested.
Ibiza :)
The principle was to make the air stored in the volume surrounded by the hull, not to store the air in between the hull cases.

One of the major costs in storing air at high pressures is the impact shell. This can be merged with a thick hull, which are already designed with this purpose in mind.

True, there are other alternatives. One can have a heavy fuel and a much larger hull. But if the fuel and tank and hull combo are buoyant you minimize the required material, lowering cost.
Related post written by one of my reporters: http://windycitizen.com/news/magnificent-mile/2008/09/26/pre...
As a current college student, something bugs me about this... Not sure what, but this looks awfully strange.
...thus cementing their fate.
I don't know - I tried teaching for a year thinking the same thing, and while it was rewarding, it was way stressful.
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Ok, I'll bite: Does anyone have an idea how this exploit works?
something smells fishy about this. if the site's doing so well, there are so many possibilities for monetization/expansion, why isn't he getting the funding? or at least a little funding to push him into profitability? "VC fell through at the 11th hour" that leads directly into auctioning off the site is a warning flag to me.
Bankaholic sells to Bankrate for 15 million and no one noticed
> a useful member of society

Sure. You can gauge a hacker's grip on reality based on what specific year they stopped taking him seriously. One does not get granularity that fine very often. Few people spend a day a week composing more and more whacky odes to junk science and more and more possessed rants against the cultural tapestries of entire continents. Even fewer people manage to slowly but consistently rack it up over the better part of a decade. Every field should get itself some Raymond or other, really.

Now excuse me while I go sip some latte, nibble some brie, and appease to some Islamofascists with my fellow Idiotarians.
Forget being different, just be better.
I would never suggest taking money from someone who doesn't share your vision, I just know that Sequoia and YC don't have a monopoly on technology success. I especially find advice from serial entrepreneurs in tangible technology space useful - while they don't have the big exits that the early/lucky digital technology entrepreneurs have, they know "real" business better in my experience, and always have something useful to say.
damn. this is ridiculous and i knew him when he just started the site.
TankEngine: New plugin for Rails iPhone Development
I was at the first two, at the Rivers Club and Creative Treehouse. It wasn't what I expected. I was expecting a place where a bunch of hackers got together to work on a quick project for a charity. It was really just a mini "unconference".

Not that that's a bad thing... I'd feel out of place with the coding.
Noble Causes:

-Be a high school teacher for math and computer science (a la lockhart's lament)

-Start some form of programmers without borders to see how tech can help those in 3rd world nations

-Write as much free medical software as possible (I.E. PACS servers and dicom viewers for MRI's. OsiriX already does this for mac, but nobody has even come close for windows or linux)

Eccentric Causes:

-Put a paintball turret on a golf cart, have a mad max style race with buddies

-Build a rocket with an autonomous guiding system. Seriously, fricken rockets with computer vision on their heads.

-Write stock picking software based on my own random math theories like Ed Thorpe did (Which was very well recounted in "Fortune's Formula)

-Surf more. I already get about a day a week, but I'd like to up it to 4.

-Related to surfing, tap into publicly available weather data to write software to predict swell sizes. FFT here I come!

-Build a poker server with an API for bots. Pit humans against AI.

A billion more things to put here...

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Sorry, but I find it hard to believe that 93% of Americans even know what a "Social Media" site is.
Microsoft unveils $40bn stock buy-back
I like the design.

I had absolutely no idea what the site was about when I visited. I scanned the page for about 20 seconds trying to figure it out. (Why doesn't it tell me somewhere what it's about?) I only got a clue when I looked-up at my browser's title bar when I was trying to leave the site in confusion.

Good luck!
Well, I've got one album recorded and another written (need to rehearse with a band again to record this one), so I'd get back into pursuing a music career. My lawyer actually made me promise my next "startup" would be my music, so I guess I have to now...

I'd read a LOT more (classics and non-fiction mainly), get back into Muay Thai (planning on starting again this fall anyhow, money permitting), donate some volunteer time instead of just money, and travel. I'm interested in studying chess too.

After all that, I'd most likely start another company. What else could I do? ;) In reality, I love the challenge of starting companies, and there's nothing like going from zero to success to prove to yourself you can (even if I had a safety net next time!).
ummmm, just a note, did everyone notice ALL of the icons on the header of this site?
They aren't being added to nuclear powerplants because nuclear powerplants have a wide and controllable dynamic range (they can run higher or lower depending)

Nuclear powerplants, typically, are capital intensive. For this reason, their operators aim for high capacity-factors. Unless economic forces are being ignored, they cannot easily be throttled. They run at 100%, all of the time, except when they are being refueled. The only nation that uses its nuclear powerplants in load-following mode is France -- since such a high proportion, some 80%, of its electricity is nuclear -- and France pays a price for that.

Additionally, it is not mechanically good for a nuclear-powerplant to throttle up and down. Such cycling causes parts to wear-out faster. If it is going to be used at all, it is best to keep it on, at a steady output.

There are other considerations. The nature of reactor poison build-up is such that throttling-up immediately after throttling-down tends, in typical reactor designs, to be difficult to do.

Unlike nuclear-powerplants, hydro and gas-turbine powerplants load-follow well (though the more-efficient gas-turbine powerplants take longer to start-up and might have to burn fuel, idling).

.

new [nuclear powerplants] aren't being created.

The United States continuously adds nuclear capacity (through uprates, improved management, refurbishment of previously shut-down reactors, etc.). (http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/press/images/press191_02-06-1.gi...)(http://uspowerpartners.org/images/Section2Topic-NuclearEnerg...) Additionally, up to 33 reactor-units are expected to be on-order there, soon. (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf41.html#preparing) Several reactor-vessels have already been ordered for new reactor-units to be built in the United States. Worldwide, 36 power-reactor-units are under construction, 97 are planned, and 221 are proposed.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/reactors.html

Japan's nuclear share of its total electricity production (past and projected):

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf79.html

2008 30%
2009 37%
2017 41%
2050 60%

It has 3 reactor-units under construction, and 12 more are planned.

South Korea's nuclear share of its total electricity production (past and projected):

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf81.html

2006 39%
2017 47%
2035 60%

It has 4 reactor-units under construction, and 4 more are planned.
As far as telephones and facebook go, I would say it's about the same at my college (SUNY Brockport). The college gives every room a free landline (and as of this year, a phone to go with it) - but I only know of one person that doesn't have a cell phone and chooses to use the landline instead.

Whereas I don't know of anyone without a facebook account. Not to say that everyone checks the facebook account daily, but the account exists.

Though the bit about Mac's vs PC's doesn't pan out over here.
I'd consider going into teaching too, if for nothing else than to try to be different and make a difference (Alan Bloom or John Gatto style maybe :).
15 million? nah...these days you have to worth 15 billion on the paper to get noticed
Flash in Safari would be a welcome update too, but no mention of that...
I'm sure it involves iframes and some sort of absolute CSS positioning. That's about as flexible you can get if Javascript is off. (I'd guess the affected Adobe product is Flash)
I'd probably work on molecular nanotechnology... in my spare time, I'd try to solve poverty.
wschroter was questioning the general case, and I was responding to the general case.

I'm curious why you are so offended by a general viewpointon executive compensation.
ha. its just funny you can do something so under the radar and make a crap ton of money.
HowTo: Web server on a business card
Analyst: Fundamentals are deteriorating at Yahoo
> we can't justify spending insubordinate amounts of time

inordinate
You've always been able to do that - most successful entrepreneurs exit for $5-20M and you'd never know they were millionaires unless they told you about their work history. I knew a couple of them growing up...
At least this guy's 15 million is on green paper.
Ask YC : How to hire moderately skilled help at a startup?
At our startup we have various tasks that require some technical knowledge but no real training. For example, system administration work, running UI tests and this sort of thing. So, basic linux knowledge would be useful and any programming skills an added bonus.

We are wondering if we could find an undergrad intern or someone else looking for experience to do this kind of tasks - where does HN suggest I look? Would some stanford undergrad be interested in this and could we potentially setup something for course credit with additional, more interesting work? We are a semantic web startup operating out of moffet field in mountain view.
Possibly the stupidest non sequitur I have read here in a while. You're joking, right?
No, I had no clue what any of it meant either.

I was confused as to why they were bolded when they had the lower score too.
Do folks 3 years out of college count as "old" or "recent grads"?
Thanks for pointing out the biggest flaw in those 37s/seth godin style blog posts.

You can't bring a business strategy down to one generic phrase/idea like that. Every business is different: markets vary, products have different requirements, etc. Take your example, in competitive markets with commodity-style products, being better is not an option and differentiation is essential.

And this post, what if your entering a new market? Trying to be different is a waste of time when there is little competition.
I thought that said landmines for a second
As a Williams grad, I am working hard to make sure that MORE Amherst students have landmines.
Revisiting SECD and the power of Lisp
Slashdot to the rescue:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=976325&cid=251571...

My interpretation is that an attacker can make a user do something on a website, but precisely what, I don't know.
If you're looking for undergrad help, most of them hang out at universities.

Yes, I'm being facetious, but it is true. I think the best thing for you to do is to find the best school in your area, and post the job in whatever bulletin board or website they use for these things.

Good luck. Hopefully you can find a real geek though and someone who's not just "taking computers".