skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can understand your viewpoint however I don't consider Scala ugly. How about some more explanation if you can.
Awesome. Now lets take that frustration and build out a solution. We're the ones that will change this all for the better.
It's a whole different way of thinking though. I'm probably at the exterme end of it: my siblings and I have decided that we will form a trust in which we will all be equal owners and any company we start(or wealth we acquire individually) will be owned by the trust.

The upside? It distributes the risk and almost ensures that none of us will ever go broke.

The downside(for some people)? When one of us flips the company, the wealth will be equally distributed between my siblings, irrespective of whether they actually worked at the company or not.
Natural Remedy
I'm surprised to learn that as many as 2% of Hacker News visitors use IE. Why? Who are you?
The 65816 address space was segmented, like the 8086's.
The tilt-shift effect is only applied to the text. So yeah, I cheated a little by adding a background image that is already tilt-shifted. ;-)
Like what imgur does?
I've always felt that corporate managers beyond a certain grade were career politicians anyway, so what's the difference?
The Nobel committee is awesome, since they can split a prize in three and still give one half to each winner. :)
And HN is at it again, downvotes for linking to the site? Or saying "can take up other endeavors" how did this not add to the conversation? This is a first hand article, very very relevant.
>You know who else is extremely involved in politics? The Koch brothers and their companies seem to be doing just fine.

Indeed, they've carved out a very large market for their enterprises, which has freed up time for them to dabble in politics as well. HP is not in such a comfortable position, they have serious challenges in a fast paced market.

In addition, Koch industries is a family business. There's a big difference between hired help (Whitman) and having real skin in the game. I'm sure if a competitor came along and started eating their lunch, the Koch brothers would scale back their political work.
Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5HOh7AgeL8
Some notes on the 2011 Open Hardware Summit and project hosting
The Pathological Altruist Gives Till Someone Hurts
Whitman's political ambitions died in the Governors race she lost in California. She spent over $100mm of her own money and couldn't get more than 41.7% of the vote. It wasn't even close and she out-spent Jerry Brown by more than 5:1.

She may be distracted by her desire to be a political insider, but she can't be so delusional to believe she would be a VP candidate or even a presidential hopeful, now or in 2016. She's far too polarizing of a figure. To put it another way, if Hillary, who was already a multi-tenured Senator couldn't get the democratic nomination then there is no way a non-politico from California would ever get a piece of the GOP pie. That was cemented after her loss in the Governor's race.

I think she's fine for HP, though I wasn't unhappy with Léo Apotheker. Then again, I wasn't an HP shareholder either. :-)
See also: the low budget 5-Hour Energy TV ads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUdoyYMTUJM
> She hosted a dinner?

Exactly. Private activities are pretty much out of scope in relation for job suitability, unless they're illegal or really "out there", but I think in the case of HP, the company as a whole has taken a series of beatings as of late and instead of appointing a controversial person to the top slot, the board would've better served the company if they'd gone out and found someone who could both unify and right the ship.

Personally, I'd have a problem working for someone whose public political views were in conflict with my own. I'd suck it up, but I doubt that I would be able to be as focus and committed to the company's vision knowing that any success that I may contribute may come back to bite me in another setting. I think business-minded CEO's should leave sex, politics and religion out of their public life and if they find that to be impossible then maybe they should focus on one or more of those topics to pursue but not as part of a global company's management team.

Then again, maybe I don't understand HP at all.
Koch brothers aren't politicians, they are financiers of political endeavors -- huge huge difference.

Meg wants to be in the spotlight, the Koch family wants to be in the shadows pulling the strings.
Sage advice, and yes it IS possible to follow (and I know it is too late for you now but here it is anyway):
1. Do not have sex if you do not want a baby.
2. Do not get married unless you can support a baby.
If you want to see another take on the whole problem, go to Netflix and watch the 30 Days episode called Minimum Wage. It's the same guy who did Supersize Me. He and his girlfriend try to work and live on minimum wage for a month. Doesn't go much better for them than it does for players of this game.
"The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was awarded "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" with one half to Saul Perlmutter and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess."

Seems clear to me. Perlmutter gets 50%, Schmidt and Riess each get 25%.
If I get bored again, I will make a version without canvas using only <div> elements :)

Code was written from scratch, so any similarities with the code you are referring to are coincidental, although the technique I used is exactly the same.
Of course I don't believe that morality is whatever suits you. Morality includes property rights, but I do not think the moral rights of the creator of some intellectual property, once his creation is released to the world, extend as far as to be able to impose arbitrary conditions on it. A creator is free to keep his creations private, but once he releases his creation to the market (presumably with the goal of gaining fame and/or profit), the market has a say too.
The mistake that this article makes is assuming that purely business decisions are what make or break large corporations these days. When it is, in fact, quite clear under the current system that politics can greatly determine such a corporation's success. Companies that play the game well, like GM, can get away with a shoddy performance on the business side of things; and companies that try to stay out, like Microsoft in its earlier years, simply cannot.

In the case at hand, Whitman is apparently going all in for a Romney win in 2012. If it doesn't happen, she'll probably go the way of Hurd and Apotheker. But if her bets do pay off, HP can expect to be showered with enough governmental benefits to more than cover up any deficiencies on the business side.

Bad business decisions, political obsessions, corrupt system? Maybe so. Disaster for HP? Not necessarily.
Belgian ISPs Ordered To Block The Pirate Bay
Well since Notch has TM'd Scrolls he in fact might be in a better position than if he TM'd XYZ Scrolls or Scrolls XYZ.

Either way this will be thrown out and Notch will win, but only after spending 6-7 figures on defending it. :-(
Lets assume that ten percent of Americans choose to take the ten grand/year you suggest.

Thats 30 million times ten times one thousand. Thats 300 billion dollars. That is ten times the cost for the war in Iraq back in 2001 and 2002 (both years). How on earth do you think the US could pay that considering that it has a deep deficit in the first place?
Mango, Android and Apple Mobile Platform Anthropomorphization (Webcomic)
Windows 7 Phone using IE (was curious and don't regret it)
At my investment banking job, which had IE 6 (1 month ago), Hacker News would occasionally find itself banned by the corporate firewall....quit.
The article posted 4 days ago ("The Slashdot Effect from the Other Side"), is pretty clearly a different article from this one ("Then Along Came Hacker News").
[LtU] List of language/Compiler design blogs
They're different posts
This isn't a repost. It is a new article following up on the last one.
On the Internet Marketing Organization at Your Doorstep
> 2. Will Assistant handle the "Should I dump my boyfriend or girlfriend" question?

Well, if your boyfriend/girlfriend also has an iphone, this service might well be privy to some information that would be relevant to this question...
Less a matter of math and more of culture, IMO.

Large organizations are, for the most part, slow to change, and they tend to treat all "talent" in a similar way. They've been able to get away with this for technical talent for some time because the grass wasn't greener on the other side. Now, and for the foreseeable future, it will be.

Many large organizations (in my limited experience having worked for two non-tech focused Fortune 100s) value years experience over real experience and talent, have a stratified (and slow) system for promotions, are wary of young people making critical decisions, are not meritocracies, and are not really champions of the methodologies/technologies that most of the startup world has adopted for years. Each of these things are working against them in a major way.

In short, it's about more than the paycheck, and in the current environment that's especially true. Large corporations have to be willing to adapt and make the changes necessary to adapt to this fact, but their slow moving and old school cultures won't allow it. It's going to require a change from the ground up, and only the most progressive organizations will embrace this fact. But, then again, if they're progressive, then they're probably one of the few that don't need to worry about this issue.
Army, Pentagon Seek Small, 'Throwable' Robots
Exactly: gigs, concerts. This is how musicians make the bulk of their money when they are locked into shitty record deals. And it provides an experience people are more than happy to pay for. Free music drives concert ticket sales (ie. radio singles promote new touring bands).
The point is moot. HTTP is just the transport protocol in this case. Doesn't have to say that it has to be the front end service that talks to the end user web browser. The OP of the "cancer" article made up that shit. I can bind the listener of a node service to an UNIX Domain Socket and talk HTTP over that socket with a front end web server, instead of plain TCP (reduces the IPC latency). It is IPC between distinct components. It delegates the dynamic page generation to another service. It is a text interface, although sometimes, well, most of the times, the binary protocols outperform the text based protocols therefore the theory is crap. Isn't this "UNIX way" enough for some people? Forget the part that says: any IPC adds extra latency to the request - response paradigm aka the opposite of the stuff a web stack should do.

Can you tell me at least one example from the myriad xGI protocols for interfacing a web server with an application server that actually brings any benefit over having plain HTTP/1.1 and a reverse proxy? Does it help to have yet another protocol for doing basically the same task: IPC between a couple of servers? Any xGI client (aka web server) is basically a reverse proxy for an IPC protocol. Does it say somewhere, carved in stone, that this protocol must be other than HTTP? I think that most people that spend the time engineering yet another xGI solution simply don't see the forest for the trees.

PS: nobody stops anybody to drop a scgi.js or fastcgi.js module for node.js if that keeps people warm at night. But maybe I'm one of those tired of this shit: engineering yet another xGI protocol for every programming language that floats around the web. NIH syndrome, I'd say. At least HTTP is ubiquitous, while most servers already HAVE a reverse proxy handler.
Actually, you know, in a lot of these places "enterpreneurs" do, in fact, exploit other people's work. After the fall of communism, formerly state owned enterprises, most of them nowhere near as worthless as they were made out to be, were sold for barely nothing to system cronies who then made obscene amounts of money when it turned out quite a few of these enterprises were, in fact quite profitable indeed. To which profitability the new owners contributed very little, if anything at all.
Transportation and storage of hydrogen is a problem too. Most metals become brittle when they're exposed to hydrogen. This is one of the big hinderances to using hydrogen as a fuel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
Highlights a good point, one which I often wonder about. But there's not much analysis of why ugly sells.

"A large amount of internet users are still afraid of the whole idea internet idea.

This is exactly why ugly websites work.

People trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the focusing on sheer profits."

That makes no sense at all. People also trust good design. It makes them feel they are buying from someone who cares and put in the time to make the product and site look great.

But it's hard to tell without lots of data. The real test would be if Google and Amazon looked like Apple and vice versa. Now that would be interesting.
It didn't happen to you, therefore it doesn't happen?
Xubuntu Review: It Packs a Punch (With Screenshots
Yep, valet parking was probably one of my favorite part-time jobs. They put me on a mailing list for valet events and sent out weekly emails; I picked the shifts I wanted to work. I got a good friend a job there, too, and we often worked together. It was a great way to get in shape making decent money to drive nice cars. And there was generally a 1-3 hour lull during the event to relax, shoot the shit, make plans for the night, and meet new friends.
Are you really making the claim that we have less liberty today than we did two hundred years ago? Maybe if you're a white male landowner. For everyone else, things have been getting progressively better over the last few hundred years.
How Silicon Valley office spaces create a culture of innovation
Does it really matter what browser you use to view HN? It's not like it has any modern requirements for proper use. I happen to use Chrome to view HN only because I setup a "clean" Chrome install for a handful of news sites I visit. I could have easily done the same for IE and it wouldn't change a single thing. Maybe I'm grumpy today but this seems like a waste of debate-energy.
a more visual alternative to css3please: http://www.layerstyles.org
A new Lost Decade is leading to revolution
You must have used some pretty shitty IDEs then. I use IDEs for the productivity boost, owing to code completion, fast lookups, folding, integrated documentation, syntax highlighting, integrated build system, interactive graphical debugging, integrated source control, project based search, GUI tools, etc.

Of course, all IDEs have their design flaws (like any other piece of software), but the benefits are compelling.
>> You buy premium healthcare but still need to pay the doctor?

Yes. That's the short answer.

The longer answer is that there are plans without co-pays, etc., but that they are to the best of my knowledge not available to purchase by individuals or far too expensive for our hypothetical $9/hr worker (think more like $1000/mo).

>> token co-pay

In the context of a $9/hr job, "token" co-pays probably shouldn't be called "token," when they can easily run over $40 for a single visit. I certainly don't consider 4+ hours of my compensation to be a token amount.

>> You can get fired for talking to a union guy?

The short answer is yes, you can be fired for talking to a union guy. As in your employer will not be stopped from firing you on the spot, and it's then your turn to try to get reinstated/compensated through legal channels. You're right that legally you can't be fired for organizing. But in the calculus of business and the working poor, it's actually fairly common for low-wage employees to be fired for attempts at organizing. The employer wagers (usually correctly) that the person who just lost his $9/hr job today will have more immediate priorities than finding an attorney he can't pay to take a case he'll probably lose due to being able to only secure the services of one lawyer and not a team of the best money can buy.
Wouldn't you get a ton of spam?
Macys introduces Fit Personalization for Online Apparel Shopping
Is there still a CmdrTaco user? http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CmdrTaco says no ...
The game is actually fairly accurate in my experience. I came out with $350 left, without starving or killing my dog, making similar choices I made when I was in similarly dire financial straits in real life. My parents kept me healthy and safe growing up, but I did have to miss out on some things that "everyone else" was doing, and I think if anything I'm better for it, especially if things get bad again.
The 10x product launch
Interesting debate.

I'm currently building a web app that not only works using pseudonymous accounts but also supports and encourages the use of aliases (multiple profiles) to allow people to say things that they might not under their main profile.

I've run several very large communities in my time, and none of them suffer a lack of identity by allowing username changes. However policies that restrict changing username can have some bad consequences to it as it's not always obvious at the time of signup that so much data might be associated to you.

I'm personally of the opinion that you either allow changes, or you shift towards the consequences of real identity without the benefits of that (anti-spam and reputation).

Not allowing change means that people will work out your identity anyway, undermining any reason to have pseudonyms which can be very good protective barriers against the potential consequences (which on stack exchange is your employability).
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/28/real-journalism-venturebeat...

VS

http://uncrunched.com/2011/09/28/venturebeat-needs-to-put-on...

I do not think he can.
It doesn't matter. I'm just curious. Sorry to offend you.
> Then a kind physics teacher finally explained what maths is really about, and taught me a few of the things I had missed in the last few years.

Sounds like you are hoping to follow in your teacher's footsteps and help others via education.

Have you considered writing about your experience? I would love to read about the math truths your teacher imparted.

Also maybe a program like Big Brothers Big Sisters would interest you?
http://www.bbbs.org
I share the sentiment, but am wary of thinking of battery powered cars as a panacea. The real problem is the design of our cities, and our lack of funding for public transit. In my city, our bus service is partially funded by a _gas tax_. Talk about perverse incentives.

Batteries are made from hard to mine and produce minerals, and unless we start reducing our reliance on cars, we'll have replaced one problem with another.
I'm assuming they'll buy Medialets eventually, and the only reason they haven't yet is they're not eye-to-eye on price.
A Review and Endorsement of Sabayon LXDE
It's that plus comparing what you wrote down to the bank statement at the end of the month to make sure that you didn't make any mistakes (and make sure the bank didn't either.)
Luxury Limousines in CT
The term comes from a paper process. Traditionally, balancing the checkbook was the act of reconciling your personal record of the checks you wrote (your "check register") against the statement the bank gave you at the end of the month, giving you a chance to correct errors on either side.

It is used in a more general context to mean keeping a budget, as someone who would check the bank's work and make sure their own accounting matched to the penny presumably is doing so to ensure he is living within his means.
Startups are a Remix
IPhone History: The Story So Far
> America was founded in liberty.

Does this mean anything?
Amazon rumored to be negotiating for WebOS
> Heck, save the $1 and make two 1.5lb loaves of great bread

Assuming you have the time and the oven, neither of which are guaranteed but both seem to be universally assumed.

(Also assumes you're urban poor and not rural poor. Urban poor has access to Wal-Mart and Albertson's. Rural poor has access to a gas station grocery and hunting/fishing if they're rich enough to afford the accoutrements and the time.)
Star Wars toy photography
It's fair to question a new CEO and have concerns about performance or if they're the right person, etc.

I think it's very unfair to suggest all the things this post does based on the fact that a new CEO is and/or has been politically active on their own time, in their own home, with their own money.
It is likely...but we don't want to weed emails in order to preserve the experience. You're still gonna get a lot of insightful discussion. But unfortunately, spam would come with the territory.
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Notch and company showed weakness by immediately offering concessions, so Bethesda probably figures if they push harder they will drop Scrolls entirely. Which is probably true.
TPB censored, again and again and again...
Many sites now use Facebook for comments, because everybody has a Facebook account.

For a technical readers, I'd go with Disqus, for a more general audience, with Facebook. (That is if you're playing the numbers game and don't care about Facebook taking over the Internet.)
Heiferman: "I Don’t Trust People In Our Industry Who Don’t Use Facebook"
Don't Bring Me Angel Investors...Bring Me Hero Investors
How to lock down Linux
That's basically it.

There is/was a small ledger in the front of most American checkbooks where you (ideally) log the deposits into your checking account and the checks that you wrote and calculate the balance after each transaction. Some people integrated their budget explicitly, logging 'transactions' to represent future/monthly obligations, savings targets and the like, but that wasn't at all common IME.

Practically speaking, this was a more necessary skill back in the days before direct deposit and debit cards. When a check might 'float', having been written but not cashed, for days or weeks until the recipient cashed it and the bank that accepted the check worked out the transaction with your own bank.

Nowadays what people mean by the term is simply the discipline and wherewithal to understand how much money you have in your account, what your obligations are and what you can safely spend.
Real iPhone 5 Cases Already Released by Thermaltake
What did the Big Red Button on IBM mainframes do?
Whitman was tapped on September 22nd. As best I can tell, this dinner was "last Wednesay", September 26th. Did she plan a $7,500/plate dinner in 4 days? Would Nerny rather she have cancelled it?

Is this really enough reason to pillory a former politician over? I mean, up until mid-September, that was her main job. What do you do when you're a defeated politician with rich friends? Raise money.

It seems a little ridiculous to jump from this fundraiser to the idea that "Whitman's political activities will accelerate along with presidential campaign. That's obvious."

edit: I don't disagree that she'll still care deeply about politics, but saying they'll be priority one based on one dinner is an extrapolation of the worst kind.
Need some nazis to shoot.