skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to get numbers on the RIAA and MPAA. I didn't go deep enough to get specific employee counts from RIAA and MPAA companies, so most often I went a level up to parent companies. There's a lot of overlap.

It also gets murky quick when you try to decide whether a job is destroyed, created, or moved.

So this was a lot of wasted time because first we'd need to agree on a methodology for measuring this stuff, and that's a hard thing to do.

MPAA

The Walt Disney Company	156,000

Time Warner	32,000

General Electric	287,000

Comcast	102,000

News Corporation	51,000

Viacom	10,900

Sony	168,200

RIAA Big 4

Citigroup (!)	260,000

Vivendi	54,560

Total: 1,121,660
Two of the three have come from the same IP address, so it's possible it's the same contractor, and is being handled now. Admittedly, two in the same time period still isn't good.
I'm not saying Google should have sacked them which they probably can't do at least not directly.

I'm saying the writer at Verge should not have used the word "sacked" because it does not accurately describe the situation.
Explaining SOPA to middle school students
First thing that pops up to me it's how beautiful and well designed the TB is when compared to Zurb.

In terms of implementation I've only used TB, and it was simple, not very intrusive.
List of Stop SOPA Day page templates
A list of Stop SOPA Day page templates for anyone with a site joining the anti-SOPA action tomorrow, Wednesday January 18th:

SOPA Strike has HTML and JavaScript options. The HTML template has a nifty newspaper graphic
Site (links to JS option): http://sopastrike.com/
HTML template: http://sopastrike.com/strike/

zachstronaut's spotlight/going dark HTML template (already mentioned on HN)
GitHub: https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa
HTML template: http://www.zachstronaut.com/lab/text-shadow-box/stop-sopa.html

nitrogenlogic's fork of zachstronaut's template, has some different versions linked to from the GitHub README:
GitHub: https://github.com/nitrogenlogic/stop-sopa
HTML template: http://www.nitrogenlogic.com/sopa.html
Drupal module: https://github.com/mcantelon/drupal-sopa-blackout

SopaBlackout.org has both JavaScript and WordPress versions. Go to the URL to see what it looks like and click anywhere that isn't a link to find the code:
http://sopablackout.org/

WP-SOPA-Blackout is a WordPress plugin to replace your blog for the day with a splash screen, which you can see a screenshot of at the link:
https://github.com/chrisguitarguy/WP-SOPA-Blackout

Please comment below with any others you find.
Cheap in the sense that we have lots of them that can be put to work for a pittance. I suspect there would be no shortage of fully developed humans willing to go on "one way" missions to Mars or further. I know I would do it myself.

(dredmorbius: I am in fact referring to humans. Using microbial life is an interesting idea in its own right however.)
The wording is ambiguous.

And the term "sacked" can certainly be used to apply to service providers / contractors:

http://www.governoruduaghan.org/infocus_listing.php?head=3&#...
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-11-18/delhi...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3741846/BBC-sa...
Good luck. Berlin is one of the greatest cities. If you get homesick, the Sony Center in Potsdamer Platz, shows american movies in english. Be sure to check the times of the Fernsehturm in Alexander platz- we were there 3 months and because we didn't make a specific plan to do so, never got a chance to go up the tower.

Also, if you go to Checkpoint Charlie, the Museum there is pretty good, and big, but during peak hours it is extremely crowded and this detracts from the experience. Worth trying to go in off hours for that one.

Also the DDR Museum is really great, as is the Berlin City Museum. Especially if you've an interest in the soviet era.
S3 doesn't have ipv6 addresses yet, which should be the easiest thing.
I've been working on my startup fulltime for close to 6 months now. I've been able to do it because of savings.
You can also download directly to your Kindle for $0.99. Search for "mashed code" in the Kindle store.
What's in a Domain Name?
I don't seem to understand the author's intent in the realm of entrepreneurship. Is this an business related article or is it an editorial?
I 100% agree about the importance of clear and accurate docs, and we'll work on an improvement to this quickly. Thanks for your time and insight, Chad.
Does anyone else see the "Example Blockquotes" section all f*ed up or is it just me. (FF 9, Ubuntu)
Google definitely holds some of the blame here, and I'm glad to see that they've been completely transparent and apologetic with every instance of Contractor shadiness that's cropped up in the past couple of weeks.

But don't try to drop facts because it doesn't suit your argument. They were contractors working for Google. Saying anything less than that is dishonest. You could just as easily fall further down the slippery slope and condemn the entire human race for the actions of a couple of contractors, because the contractors were humans.
I told my child to get a head start researching their upcoming report.
Upload images from the Web
I see, thank you.
So, cloud search... a bit boring at first glance, but it sure would be nice to have something like google site search, with an amazon like api...
They already have the power to fight domestic IP "abuse", though—that's what the DMCA does. These acts are basically just to try to fill in the cracks the DMCA can't touch (foreign companies which allow domestic consumers breach IP law.)
The XML is generated manually through statements such as:

SELECT
xmlroot(
xmlelement( name root,
xmlelement( name description,
xmlelement( name title, table.title ),
xmlelement( name diet, table.diet ) ), etc.

If the format of the XML was out of the developer's control, XSL is a relatively easy way to convert XML from one format to another. If XSL won't handle it, then any number of ETL tools would be more than sufficient. Unless you mean something else by "flavour of XML"?

To get the same document using a language external to the database requires the following steps:

1. Write the SQL statement (a stored procedure, view, or string).
2. Instantiate an XML document library (e.g., PHP's DOM).
3. Iterate over the result set(s).
4. Build the XML document from the results.

Note that the first step is always required in both situations (whether the query is internal or external to the database).

Steps 2 to 4 effectively echo the first step: they tightly couple the XML format to the expected result set(s) from the database query. There is no abstraction to the application, there is no visible gain.

Also, with XML you can add meta information to the element: <date format="dd-MMM-yyyy">02-FEB-2012</date>. In PostgreSQL, you would use the xmlattribute function.
Could you explain how Saaave makes bookmarking more organized?

Few weeks ago I've written on HN about my side project LStack (http://lstack.com), which essentially is also about better organization of bookmarks. It features bookmark parameters (like - price:100 USD, type:webapp, genre:jazz), powerful filtering and organizing bookmarks into groups and folders (I call them "streams").

How would you compare LStack to Saaave? What are the differences and / or similarities?
"Good on Google for (apparently) taking appropriate corrective action in this case."

Considering:

(1) this is the same India contractor that was involved in the scandal last week.

(2) The new infractions happened after that scandal broke.

(3) As far as we know they are still giving their business to this contractor.

Then you have to seriously doubt whether "appropriate corrective action" has been taken.
A very in-depth look at the new IBM z196 mainframe architecture
Tech industry reporting and conflicts
Vim and tmux on OSX(most of it can be used on other OS as well)
Does it seem weird to anyone else that "sending emails" is suddenly a money-making venture? Have our spam detectors gotten so screwed up that this is the only way to guarantee delivery?
What do you mean? I'd say the markup for that page is a bit lousy (e.g. pointless layout tables, abusing the strong tag just to make text bold), but it's hardly the worst thing I've ever seen. I can't even tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
This looks great. One thing that's a little annoying is how the vertical axis automatically scales to the range of the data. It makes it hard to compare peaks that don't occur within the same view range.
I am sadly unable to tell whether you are serious.

http://xkcd.com/763/ relates.
Being a professional footballer sucks... and so does client work
Email Notifications Getting Out of Control? Zap 'em With This Handy Tool
I agree. The vast majority of what I've read regarding teaching, and my personal experiments tutoring, have shown that alternating between different layers of abstraction is a far better approach than going purely bottom-up.

One example is the popularity of Stanford Professor Andrew Ng's Machine Learning class. The course is almost entirely top-down, with concepts, then trying out basic code, then finally learning some of the Math behind the algorithms. But people have definitely been able to learn from the course-I remember seeing an HN post about a guy who built a self-driving RC car using the algorithms in the ML course.
Wow. Only 5 years after Hulu, with their 'subscribe' buttons. They're stepping up their game.
I don't see anything this adds to what PhoneGap already offers.
Really cool, any plans to add other data sources? FB might be harder, but I think G+ has a public search API. I see it's just a demo for now, but a dashboard view would be great as that "go-to source" for top breaking news.
The main thing to think about is this: do you want a one-time, round-the-world experience, or do you want this as a lifestyle, say working 6-8 months a year and traveling the rest?

If you are like me and want the latter, then become a contractor and specialise in something that pays well (for me, J2EE - not a great technology, but Big Corp Inc. pays well for these skills).

The OP seems to suggest a work/travel approach, but to be honest I found that can be tough to sustain. To be maximally productive, it's really helpful to have comfortable and familiar surroundings, very solid internet, etc. I tend to do just-for-fun coding on trips instead, since I found trying to get setup in new places to be stressful.
TechStars Startup Reality Show • Episodes 1 - 5
List 5 of these "engaging, good-looking apps implemented in HTML5."
shameless plug.
Sounds great. Any chance you guys will be getting involved in HTML5 game support?
Loyalty to one's comrades in the military can be a matter of life and death and thus is important.

Your boss's five year plan may be sensible, but you have outgrown the position into which you were hired.

It was probably likely to be transitional from the beginning regardless.
Thanks :)

I deeply believe entrepreneurs don't understand how important outsourcing can be for their business.

I am on a mission to make it easier :)
Am I the only one that wishes I were wealthier just so I could invest more in AMZN?
Twitter Calls SOPA Shutdowns "Foolish"
Heh. Well the current threading models are much worse from the perspective of libraries and hierarchical memory. I work with some of the MPICH developers and members of the MPI Forum. Nobody is satisfied with the status quo, but we need a viable threading system. Some people think we'll end up with MPI+CUDA/OpenCL, others (myself included) would generally prefer a system with in-node communicators and collectives, with a concept of compatible memory allocation. The system-level tools are basically available in pthreads and libnuma (unfortunately Linux-only), but we're working on formulating better APIs because the annotation-based approach of OpenMP isn't very good for long-lived threads or heterogeneous task distributions and systems like TBB are too intrusive and still don't really address NUMA.
My first thought was that more used fixies for sale might mean the trend was over in those cities, and the hipsters were all trying to get rid of theirs so they could buy glow-in-the-dark parkour shoes (I just made that up).
I particularly like this page: http://clojuredocs.org/quickref/varsonly/Clojure%20Core
Of course it's not over. Our corporate overlords haven't gotten their money's worth yet.
I noticed that too, although I'm not sure how they'd deal with an overly large peak distorting the rest of the data, even years later.
> I dont see the average 401k investor investing in IPO's

Nor, for that matter, do you see many investors at all getting pre-IPO shares. Most of the small guys come in after the IPO.

The problem is that the 401k's go to funds, who are playing a big game of averages. They buy the S&P +/- some delta. IPOs form the delta for some of the funds. (And all of the money buying the S&P means that valuations in general have gotten quite a bit higher over the timeframe of 401k's, which drives post-IPO valuations, which drives pre-IPO valuations.)
IndexTank sold at a good time. Exactly why I wouldn't consider creating any kind of infrastructure like this.

I already use nearly all of AWS services, and I'll likely switch from Solr to whatever this is. They keep doing such a damn good job on features, reliability, and price.
It's going to "necessarily decrease" in inflation adjusted terms: Sure. It's going to necessarily decrease by orderS of magnitude? No, I think that's too strong. Our most wild technological extrapolations only cover 2 or 3 orders, tops, and there's no guarantee they can or will be built. I do not see prices dropping to 2 cents per ton any time soon.

On the flip side, yeah, actually we can make a pretty good guess at how to mine this water. We actually are pretty good at mining. Run in through a machine that literally boils it out. Done. Throw the leftover rock in a big pile. At 2% concentration that's more than enough to get you started, it just needs energy, which is also fairly easily to get in this context. A real miner might do something else but that would certainly work.
http://www.worldipv6launch.org/ is now back up.
Costa Concordia grounding pictures
.. or a web proxy
Why do you think Google hired these contractors? Why use contractors on these kind of dirty jobs? Do you honestly think that Google wasn't aware of what they were doing?
What I expect is that it will eventually get passed and attached to something that will create a bad situation if vetoed. If nothing else, they will probably scale back a provision or two, and reintroduce those at a later date.
This has been a wonderful resource while trying to work through the http://www.4clojure.com examples.
Can you point me to any funds that invest immediately in the illiquid shares of a recently listed company?
Samsung Commits To Increasing Battery Life In 2012, Hopes For All-Day Use
Functional Placeholder Images
MPAA Calls SOPA Blackout "Dangerous"
This dilbert take on it still makes me smile:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-11-26/
Yahoo Announces Resignation of Jerry Yang
George Lucas Is Retiring (or so he says)
Thoughts on Product Development: My transformative journey
Jerry Yang Leaves Yahoo
It does vary, but I didn't want to pigeon hole pop. Mostly because it happens in a lot of other genres such as country/wester and even folk. It also occurs more in places such as Nashville, Austin and Memphis where there is a strong songwriting tradition.
Java: Threads Managed By Reference Counting: Avro and Netty
Yes, most of our early customers are in development mode, but here's an early example in the Android Marketplace:

https://market.android.com/details?id=forge.generated.galact...
Ask HN: Best short article that explains SOPA/PIPA?
It appears that few people outside the tech community understand why SOPA and PIPA are bad. Not even Wikipedia's "Learn more" page about their impending blackout explains what the fuss is about. What are the best short articles — the right length to share with our friends, family, and followers — that explain why SOPA and PIPA and why they are detrimental to the internet?
You'd be surprised how many people type "google" in to the google search bar on their computer, then click the first search result so that they can go to google.com and then enter their search terms.

It seems ridiculous to us, but I've seen many non-techy people do it.
True, a dual card GPU system can have 1000 cores today, however the cores provide primarily computation on a small (or procedurally generated) data set. This makes them great for simulating atomic explosions, CFD, and bit coin mining but for systems which read data, do a computation on it, and then write new results they don't have the I/O channels to support that sort of flow effectively. Back when I was programming GPUs one issue was that channel bandwidth between the CPU's memory and the video card was insufficient so that textures had to be maximally compressed or procedurally generated or you would starve TPUs waiting for their next bit of Texel data. I'm not sure if that is still the case with 16x PCIe slots however.
I wouldn't say I was spamming but promoting an alternative place where people that think that having root on and having control over your own phone is a good thing and won't get down voted for it.

At least that was the point when I wrote the original, as you say spammy, comment.
The basic problem with the Agile movement is that it took a few
proven helpful practices -- almost all of which were well known and
often used by experienced software developers before the buzzwords
were attached, even if managers didn't realise -- and instead of
promoting those, it wrote a "manifesto" so vague that it would make
a political speechwriter proud, which didn't actually say anything at
all about the practical steps that were useful.

Avoiding creating a list of helpful practices was by design. The signatories of the Agile Manifesto were all very seasoned developers, and like all seasoned developers they knew that a practice that helps in one case harms in another.

You can kind of see how it might go wrong from there:

* Seasoned developer makes list of helpful practices,
without providing context, i.e. "Helps in this case,
harms in this case."
* Unseasoned developer doesn't understand when and where
practice is "helpful", tries to use it in all and every
case. Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails.
* Unseasoned developer who complains: "Helpful practice X
didn't work for me" is told "You're doing it wrong."
Again, no explanation of when and where the practice is
helpful is provided.

The takeaway here is to always, always, ALWAYS describe the context when describing a solution, i.e. "This is what worked for me, in this situation."
So let's see here. Google "contractors" in Kenya get caught stealing customers red-handed. Then "contractors" in India take over where they left off. They also start messing with OpenStreetMap.

And somehow, no one at Google had any idea? Oh, please. If this was Microsoft, you'd all be raising hell, but because it's Google everyone is talking about how great they are for dropping the contractors? I'm disappointed in you all.
This needs to be seen by more people than the 4 votes it has.
In my opinion, the only way to kill the RIAA/MPAA. They seem to be the 'tap root' which produces weeds long after the ground appears barren.
Unfortunate that it is harder for us to take action, yes. But we are very much affected by SOPA/PIPA anyway and even though I live in Europe going to the English wikipedia (etc.) site during the blackout will only make me smile.

We have our own laws to be afraid of so I certainly wouldn't mind localized versions of wikipedia going down as well, just to raise awareness.

(just taking wikipedia as an example)
I'm wondering why Google is so stupid to use their own IP address for these dirty jobs? I guess that's the real mistake the contractor was doing from Google's point of view. They were probably instructed to use random proxies around the world, but somehow this particular 'contractor' didn't manage to do that.
ARM’s stiff upper lip trembles at Chipzilla’s Medfield
Presumably though it was a "work for hire" so MLK would own the copyright?
Do you know any US citizens? You can certainly encourage any US citizens you know to contact their Reps and Senators.
Jerry Yang Has Left Yahoo
Very slick UX and very informative as well! I would love to be able to create custom topics, such as 'D3.JS' and generate timelines with top tweets.

Quick question: how did you obtain the real-time metric "# of tweets per hour"? Are you sampling to determine an estimate using the Search API, or do you have access to a proverbial "firehose"?
Seems like an overall issue with vendor management.
The aspect ratio is also problematic with taller windows; best practice is to bank to 45º:

http://vis.berkeley.edu/papers/banking/

It's hard to pick the right aspect ratio without knowing the data beforehand, but you could make some reasonable assumptions about how spiky the peaks are. Given those assumptions, you could choose a fixed-height (say, 400px), and then adjust the visible time range if you still want variable-width. This would allow the chart to increase in size without compromising the aspect ratio.

Alternatively, you could use a responsive layout and just choose between two or three fixed sizes.
I only see two in the notes section on Kickstarter. Amazon Payments would be the definitive place to check but I don't know the password for it, and I probably won't be in our office until Thursday because of snow in Seattle.
They were operating from within the Google network, while (presumably, otherwise they shouldn't be onsite) working for Google - hence the difference between being a contractor and an employee is pretty small.

We have contractors onsite where I work. If they did something bad (especially if it is in any way related to what we do, as in all those recent Google cases) I would say that we would be to blame to the same extent as if they were employed by us.

What Google should do, and probably should have done after the Kenyan thing, is terminate any and all contracts with the contracted firm.
And then you die on the floor of the ER during your 8 hour wait to see a doctor, when you could have just saved your own life by doing a simple Google search.
My claim is that if transporting a liter of water to the moon does not decrease by orders of magnitude, then we won't have colonies on the moon. No colonies on the moon mean no reason to mine the water.

In other words, I think that the only circumstances in which we would want to mine water on the moon, transporting water would be orders of magnitude less expensive than $20,000/liter.

The "unknown" bits I was referring to are the infrastructure required to be on the dark side of the moon.
VirtualBox provided an apt repo before Oracle (or was it Sun?) bought them. So they already had the infrastructure set up for providing apt packages. No reason to dismantle it after the acquisition. In contrast, I don't think Oracle/Sun have ever provided debs for Java, so doing so now would require an investment of time, effort, and community collaboration to ensure that their debs incorporate themselves correctly into the system (via "update-alternatives" and such things).
The problem is having no roadmap. We know they're working to make AWS better... somehow. And you can't assume anything; there are EC2 feature requests that have been open for five years.
> Taking a real long-term view...

...we really need to get the hell out of here. In 1 billion years the Earth will be a dead planet, because the Sun keeps changing. And a dinosaur-killing boulder will probably hit us much sooner than that.

Eggs in one basket, etc.
If the MPAA was really concerned about jobs, the corporate officers of its members would forego their personal bonuses so more low wage earners could continue to be employed. But no; just like every other corporate officer in America, their goal is only to enrich themselves in the days of a modern depression.