skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft's Live ID absolutely supports this when signing up for, among other things, Hotmail accounts, Messenger accounts, etc. It follows the same basic process as Yahoo, including the $0.50 charge that's partially donated to charity.
Shouldn't the small size make transportation easier to build? I've always assumed muni sucks so bad because it's part of some grand plan I never understood. Incompetence cannot explain it, it's so bad it has to be deliberate.
Should've seen this a couple of weeks ago when it was the topic for AI class. Will probably use this as a reviewer for the finals. Thanks! :)
I agree about accepting (most) standard key bindings, but here are two clever bindings I adopted:

" Enter command mode with SPACE instead of :
noremap <Space> :

" Exit insert mode with jj (double J) instead of ESC
imap jj <Esc>
Obama's Startup Plan
I like the children's drawings better. I've always wanted to build a collection of children's art. There are things about it that someone more experienced in the world would never be able to replicate. "Kids Draw The Darndest Things," but my collection would take an earnest, philosophical bent, not a condescending, humorous one.
The violinist you're thinking of is probably Joshua Bell. There was an article about his subway performance in the Washington Post several years ago: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04...
As another data point, I had been doing Ruby for five years when I switched to Clojure. After a single year in Clojure, I knew the language much better than I had ever known Ruby and was able to read the source for the compiler itself and spot issues in it. Common Lisp is a lot more complicated than Clojure, but certainly simpler than Ruby.

Personally I had a hard time remembering the difference between Procs, blocks, and lambdas in Ruby, though I believe this is partly due to the fact that the differences shifted in minor point releases.
Your only mistake is learn PHP. Learn Ruby or Python, you''l better off on a job market (if that is your goal).
It depends if the interviewer has a sense of humor. Some people are so stuck up about that kind of thing although.
Discovering Autism: Unraveling an epidemic
After reading through your other comments, I think I have an idea of what you're trying to say, and I think that you're correct. However, you've chosen an inartful way to phrase your argument that you know others will find abrasive. Tailoring your words to your audience isn't political correctness; it is communicating effectively, and it's something you should attempt to do if you care about getting your points across.
Yes... But don't disregard the nasty collective action problem they have.

Let's say one of the big labels suddenly gets religion, and rewrites their contracts with Spotify and others to be fair and generous. Great! What happens now?

Well, Spotify is going to make a lot more money...or they would, right up until the other big labels step up their demands. If, say, Warner decides to cut the share of Spotify's revenue they demand in half, that just means Sony BMG and Universal can up their demands. And both of them will be convinced that if they don't, the other one will, so both will...which means Spotify would be no better off. The entire process would just be Warner giving money to Sony BMG and Universal, which is hardly helpful to anyone other than Sony BMG and Universal shareholders.

And even if - through some miracle - you got the big three to agree to give Spotify an even break, there's the constant risk that one of them could come back and demand every dime Spotify is making at any time. And since everyone knows that any one of them could do that, they will feel compelled to get their share. And even trying to come to an agreement would probably be illegal collusion and price fixing.

The government created this problem via the very specific details of how copyright law is implemented; only the government can solve it - probably through some mix of mandatory licensing regimes and major curtailment of copyright duration. And good luck getting anything like that through Congress, ever.
The Higgs Particle Discovered?
how about profits earned?
Sorry, are there any English sources for this stuff?
If you prefer the e-reader to the bound book, what choice do you have? I "showroom", but then again, I only drop in bookstores because they're a calming detour in a busy day in some city - almost never as a lone destination (which was common for me 5 years ago). As much as I love the stores, I've completely bought into the convenience of e-books and Audible, which have made it possible for me to take in orders of magnitude more books in a given week than I could in the era of the printed page.

The focus on customer ethics is misguided when you consider the likelihood that a good portion of bookstore's best customers are probably exactly the kind of people ready to rapidly adopt new reading mediums.
I've decided that while urban areas generally lean left, there are definitely "red" cities and "blue" cities, with the classification basically coming down to the citizenry's thoughts on what constitutes police brutality/harassment/whatever.
Nope. We didn't even discussed about it.

We were GPL. We want other people to use the Library, so we went L-GPL, since this was the simplest solution and the more respectful of the spirit of old developers.
"If Spotify were so awesome that I'd never switch, then they'd be in the money."

The article implies that even this is not the case. If there were a single distributer who could increase pricing, the labels would simply increase their take accordingly, leaving the single distributor in the lurch.

Until the labels are forced to deal with standard market economics directly, rather than using VC funds to back a series of failed distribution schemes, I don't see why they would allow anyone else to make money.
Static Blogging or Not?
Makes me wonder if taking them private will help.
I disagree with it. If I am conducting a free for all art exhibition (no selling of arts, just for people to see), then the visitors are not my customers. They are just viewers. I could have advertisers or sponsors for that program and someone could even be paying me based on the number of visitors. That does not make the visitors my customers.

On a side note- even if I lose my staff, I lose some chunk or revenue, that does not make my staff my customer.
Why iPhone apps are no longer selling well
getting a 500 error
> I think the labels will be more than happy to bleed it dry and leave its lifeless corpse on the side of the road as they search for the next Big Thing to strangle, bleed dry and leave behind.

Absolutely correct.

The intermediaries in the music distribution network (i.e. "the labels") already know that they have lost in the long term.

They know that their best move now is to extract what revenue they can from the current examples of the types of service that will eventually replace them.

Maybe this is "evil" or maybe the execs think of it as their job to try to earn as much as possible, perhaps for their shareholders' sake.

Ironically, those services which seek to replace the labels in a way compatible with the law (i.e. startups rather than torrent sites) are the ones who will end up paying (perhaps too much) for it, and will risk going bust as a result.

Meanwhile, sharing via torrents etc. is gradually killing off the labels. It may be in the interest of everyone to just let this occur without starting up a business which tries to find a middle ground.

But there will always be companies springing up to take a gamble on being the first to exploit a new opportunity. If Spotify (or whoever) fails, perhaps the next music streaming service will be the one to meet a much weakened music distribution industry in the courts.

Once the labels are gone, services which offer subscription models for music will thrive without the threat of legal action. And the quality and variety of music available to the masses will thrive.

This is a waiting game, and I think we all know exactly how this will eventually play out. Meanwhile we're still in the wild west, waiting for the shootout at the O.K. Corral.
PHP is an astonishingly inept language with an inexhaustible supply of WTF, but not necessarily a bad short-term career move. I think the industry might see a mini-COBOL phase as some really flaky yet successful legacy PHP needs to be maintained and finally replaced, and nobody smart wants to deal with it without being paid well. You'd definitely want to stay sharp on something better, though, both for sanity and to remain employable long-term.
I'm really curious what netflix is gonna do when each of the big 6 studios start demanding $5-$10 per subscriber for content access.
3) Pay that already-employed local talent more than their current gigs will.
Tips on how to integrate with cloud-enabled printing business Moo
Many proxies deployed today won't understand the upgrade header and in the case of an explicit proxy config will ignore the CONNECT operation if performed on 80 (rather than 443).

WebSockets works best over SSL.
New Game of Thrones Season 2 Teaser
And a while back, French was the language of international diplomacy, Latin the language of science and mathematics, Italian for music.

An argument could be made for all of them. Probably even for German, as it has a lot of native speakers in Europe.

I don't think anything will remove English from its throne as the de facto "lingua franca", but I think the chance of making it a true, unified de jure version is about as unlikely as seeing Esperanto seated there.

And I don't quite get the "key point". We're not talking about Latin here, updating Esperanto shouldn't pose a problem. Although it's more likely to be in the French style, with a central committee.
Oh, the world doesn't always seem so obvious to me. For example, I have no idea whatsoever what you are attempting to say.
an inode cloud service, so that programmer can build their own dropbox on the cloud with private addons .
High School Math - Net of a triangular prism
Great idea!

My two cents: make the homepage much easier. An example could be a big button that says "click here to watermark your own image for free". Another example could be less text - your goal is to have a user try it, so you don't need to explain so much.
Virtual Mastermind Groups: Hassle-free Collaboration
Repellant? They're providing a valuable service with both expertise and physical equipment; I see no reason why they shouldn't charge for it.
I meant in lieu of having full access to their books.
The main selling point of the various NoSQL products out there today isn't the schemaless storage, instead it's the ability to grow beyond a single server that's compelling.

That's just not true. Some NoSQL products (HDFS, Cassandra etc) sell on the ability to easily scale out. Other (CouchDB, MongoDB etc) focus on other features. CouchDB (for example) doesn't have a real scale-out story at all (beyond "manually shard your data", or try http://tilgovi.github.com/couchdb-lounge/), but that isn't really a problem because it has other features that sell themselves.
I wonder if this scales up to extra-large screens.

I've got a 120+" projector screen that I use via Mac & Plex. I'd love to mount some LEDs behind the screen.

Guess we'll have to wait for GitHub to come back online before checking out the specs.
techcrunch analysis should standardize their metrics with dividing by total number of startups funded. in addition to including revenues/profits, etc.
Damn it Google. I thought I could count on you not to mess this up. I want to be able to tell my mom that she should get a galaxy nexus and not have to worry. Now I have to track down a GSM edition from abroad that has a particular software build on it? You're not making this very easy.
Google deploys IPv6 For Internal Network
Restrict the Government's Broad Access to Personal Info
http://jacobirw.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/conceptual-vision-to-limit-citizens-privacy-invasion-by-the-us-government-part-1/
On a tangent, does it really take 15 years before you can start tossing about the phrase "senior"? The only job ads I see asking for that kind of time appear to be aerospace/government, so I'm curious if it's just the startup bubble making me think 7 years is fine?
"The Linux example in particular is awful. Linux was not a product released as open source, it was an open source project from the beginning."

I'm pretty sure that was exactly Gassée's point, though it may not have been clear enough. Linux and Webkit (and Apache, etc, etc) are very successful FOSS projects, but they grew organically out of open source and weren't closed software that was thrown over the wall of a company later in life like WebOS will be.

One could point to projects that were handled somewhat like this and were still successful (like Mozilla), but IMO there's still a valid point that situations like the WebOS release result in stalled projects more often than they result in a successful long term FOSS project.

Unless there is very clear and committed leadership (which would probably have to come out of whatever is left of the existing WebOS team to have any sort of authority), the project will be doomed.
'doh

Although, that really just pushes the same decision down to the talent's former employers. After enough poaching, I'd expect that the price of local talent would increase until it became more cost-effective to relocate candidates.
link to html version: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455

instead of the plain-text one: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6455.txt
Presumably because developers wanted, or VLC wanted developers to be able to use libvlc and libvlccore in their programs without being forced to use the GPL.
In the new album, Sean Paul Give Surprise ~ news and entertaiment
the paper [http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/tech/full_papers/Babiker...] contains, as is usual, much more information/detail.

edit: couple of useful things from the paper itself

1. When trying to talk to vendors they were always saying: if there is a demand for IPv6 support at all, we've never heard it before

2. we should not expect something to work just because it is supported
Right, thats an excellent point and I glossed over that. A lot of this touches on a very gray area. In general I'm for copyright and I'm talking about the huge number of people who think there's nothing wrong with pirating movies, music, and software and have a long list of excuses for it. Now, even I can get on board with what you're saying. The 15 year old kid who uses some copyrighted video or audio in a YouTube video should not be prosecuted. And there are lots of cases like that where it would be silly to prosecute. Now, in the case of the Pulp Fiction scene reordering from the post, I don't think anyone should get in trouble and I personally think there's no need to take it down but that's not my call and I think if the creators decide that it shouldn't be published we need to respect that.

We have to remember that the YouTube system is automated though so they can't review things manually. That means no one is there to judge that gray area. So even in cases where we think something has been taken down for some silly copyright related reason we really can't bitch because A) it's automated and B) copyright is the law and the holders do have their rights.
I believe the correct term is 'cartel'

However, you are right - there should be....
Github is down
For what it's worth, I grew up around Austin and have absolutely no desire to move back.
Not just longjmp and goto, but Objective-C's @throw.

As much as I'm a fan of RAII in C++, it really is a "pure C++" idiom. If a C++ class is needed in Objective-C code that can @throw an NSException, then the C++ cleanup code really has to be invocable explicitly (because the destructor might not be called). For example:

MyCPlusPlusObject object;
@try
{
...
}
@finally
{
object.cleanup();
}
Why isn't this a commercial product?
Thanks. I should have thought about the other angle of this. Mostly I was fascinated with the fun possibilities.
"Please, tell me, what senior engineers in the Phillipines or India have 15+ years of software development experience."

I do. Started working as a software dev in 1994. Moved to Bangalore to take up another sw dev position at CyberCash India (an offshore office of a Virginia based ecommerce product company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberCash,_Inc . ) in 1998. C on VAX Unix. Those were the days. Lived and worked in the US for a while before returning to India (and have no plans of going back to the USA :) ).

" They don't exist, because the software industry has only been there for the last 5-10 years."

You have no idea what you are talking about. Infosys was founded in 1981, for example.

I never worked for Infosys or any of the large outsourced services dev companies, but the idea that there are no developers in India with 15+ years experience is rubbish. (Not getting into whether 'number of years of experience' is a valid metric for judging sw talent).

And as for "living and breathing code", I started programming when I was 10 years old, on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the Eighties, writing games in ZX-80 assembler. We even had a club for Spectrum devs - in a small town in South India, in the eighties. I have many classmates who still code every day (though they have fancy titles like "Senior Architect" these days).

Did most of my generation of coders move into management? Sure they did. Are the good developers swamped by tonnes of clueless people flocking to the "hot career"? Sure they are. But none of that is specific to India.

If you have to deal with dumb Indians off a boat who can't speak English but seem to take your jobs, I sympathize. There are a lot of dumb Indian devs. But I've also had to deal with a lot of dumb American devs who think they are automatically superior to all Indian devs "just because". Plenty of those too.

(all this is just to counter your idea that people with 15 years of experience writing code don't exist here and "the software industry has only been there for the last 5-10 years" (roll eyes). Please educate yourself before making such emphatic (and false!) statements.
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Entrepreneurship & Opportunity Around The World
HN via RSS is annoying, this is how it should work
I, like many folk here I'm guessing, read HN via RSS.

And, when I wanna click through on a story have this annoying experience whereby.

a. I click through 'comments' and then have to click to the main story and then back to read the comments (sucky)

b. I click on the main story element (all too often) and miss out on the comments here

I'm not suggesting iframes, or anything ;) Oh heck, I might be... but fundamentally I'd like to have one click which gets me to the story and then follows on with the HN comments.

Any chance?
In digital agency world "senior" is usually two to four years.
Parallelizing Loops - not enough for Multicore Computing
It would have been great to have cop-opted some outside help to keep it going.
I use backspace as a substitute for ESC. I find ESC awkward to locate while typing, but backspace is easy.
The stories aren't the same, though.

This story is pretty different from, say, Yehuda Katz's story about switching to Vim.

I find all the different takes interesting, and I think you can casually learn from the differences between them.
Making money in music today's music industry is absurd. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if major record labels vanished in the next 100 years.

You'd imagine a band that's put out a record on a successful label and toured the world multiple times would be covered in wealth. That's not the case at all. In fact, most touring bands don't even make enough money to be in the black. At the end of the day, past the flights, cost of gas, and cheap meals lies an elastic state of negative to mediocre profit.

Why then do small acts still tour? Well, it's fun and it's probably been a dream of theirs for some time now. I for one am extremely thankful that bands continue to put out amazing music with only enough money to barely support themselves.

Here's the thing: bands don't need major labels anymore. That's because it's basically level playing field now: you can make an amazing album on your laptop in a barn in rural Massachusetts and still have the ability to compete with the major labels. No longer are people sucked into the radio aggregate of the 90's when all you could discover were boy bands. Now we have these amazing things like Bandcamp and Spotify that allow you to stream virtually anything! That's pretty amazing, but what's the use if everyone is listening to the demands of a major label?

So with that being the case, couldn't this problem be solved? All it will take is a push for bands to stay away from huge labels and for listeners to find that music. That's where Spotify should come in.

What's interesting about this entire thing is that a long tail company like Spotify is potentially able to shift the power from the shit that most major labels produce to better and more meaningful music. If Spotify can find a way to direct people's tastes away from most major label garbage, they might be able to solve this issue.

Maybe Spotify will push for more independent artists and incorporate musicians on Bandcamp into their catalog.

Although I'm pretty sure that musicians who put their music directly on Spotify only receive a pretty small cut, Spotify should be able to overcome their major label woes by putting a focus on smaller more niche based music.

It is my hope that musicians stay away from large labels. And no, I am not some indie purist, I just think that major labels are diluting the quality and diversity of music and that we have the power to change that.
> There are several studies showing the huge benefits of the CAA relative to its costs.

Yes, but that wasn't the question.

> Banning leaded gasoline alone was a net $16 billion/year benefit.

The last time this came up, someone cited a study claiming that the CAA was responsible for 1/6th of the US economy. While I agree that there were net benefits, the 1/6th claim is absurd.

While every one of these "studies" claims to be conservative, I've never seen one that actually is.

Moreover, as with the space program, we may have gone through a "golden age" wrt certain kinds of regulation, where the small things might work but the big ones are one disaster after another. (That's not unexpected - we started with the low-hanging fruit.) Note that the acid-rain regulation is one of the disasters. (Yes, there was a problem, but the regulation was overkill.)
The idea of a Django-centric development environment is interesting, but I'm not entirely sure what this is offering over the usual terminal + editor + browser setup. That's not to say I don't think an IDE would be useful, I think it would. It could integrate several popular Django debug tools, database tools and (if your into it) some WSYWIG HTML tools.

I would love to have see the README updated with some idea of what the developer's long term vision for this project is. That might generate more interest and constructive feedback for the community and developer.