skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well all of the so-called robber-barons came out of an old economy (to them), but offered something NEW. if you think you are going to bust out of this recession with the startlingly novel idea of starting a website, you're actually trying to apply the rules of the old (as in ten years ago) economy to the new. the web is past the innovation stage and is moving into the economies-of-scale stage. if you don't think so, compare google's earnings to yours.

in any case its too early. lots of the carnage has yet to be unleashed...the reductions in consumer spending will likely only become obvious in the shopping season for 2009 as the job cuts of 2008 accelerate and are felt.

the blogger's thinking isn't new....the 30s was littered with traders who tried to play contrarian too early and got gutted. let it play out kids, this will take time. preserve capital.
how do we know what we're working on is worth it? In other words, how do we measure what we're doing?

you charge someone (an advertiser or customer) for attaching their name to or using your product/service and they agree???? we even have units to measure this, we call them dollars!!
except this book does nothing to address that point because it is as the title says, a history of western philosophy. it is about OTHER philsophers. on the internet you have to be careful about talking up books, someone may actually have read it and call you out
I wonder what the chemistry here is. He writes that the iron gets oxidized in the process, so some sort of reducing reaction with the pollutant, where the iron grabs the oxygen?

Doesn't make sense though, because the water is full of much easier to react free oxygen. Doesn't make sense in many other ways as well.

Maybe when he says the iron gets oxidized he means it reacts with the pollutant? But that doesn't make sense either because I don't think iron really reacts much with phosphorous or nitrogen.

So, is this fake or am I missing something large?

Edit: This seems relevant for some reason: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction_of_nitro_compounds

Anyone have more info?
Having real trouble hiring coders...
We're finding it a real chore finding a coder with the right combo of skills and fit. Too many applicants are either underskilled or just a poor cultural fit (that's corporate speak for boring AFAI can tell).

Some background: we're launching a number of built-from-scratch systems on a LAMP stack, that use a number of web APIs. Whoever gets the job will have CLOSE TO carte blanche to build the system however they like, usign whatever frameworks or code base they are comfortable with.

So if you're a PHP coder based in Sydney (Australia), whose keen to run your own projects (which pretty much comes with complete control over how you do that), and want to work in an office in Bondi Junction (above Westfield) that is small and happy, drop us a line: http://www.excitecorporation.com/contact.html
It's possible, but whether you actually want to and have the know-how is a different matter. I would assume that the cost of a used MacBook or Mac mini would end up being more cost-effective in the long run than finding any other way to develop apps for the iPhone in terms of the time it will consume. For what it's worth, I have some friends who bought a Mac expressly for iPhone development but when they're not doing that, they use their prior computers and run Windows in bootcamp. If you are really dead set on not buying a Mac, then http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/11/11/develop...

There is also osx86, but if you run into any problems either with the above suggestion or a hacked version of OS X to run on non-apple hardware, you're pretty much screwed, especially if it doesn't happen on "legit" installs. Apple won't support it (you do get a couple of opportunities to get code-level help from apple engineers with the iPhone dev program), and neither will most people you encounter on forums/mailing lists due to all the little complexities of running an OS on unsupported hardware.

Lastly, what's up with the "trendy"? I just use whatever works for what I need. For the iPhone, that is a mac. Getting a mac for iPhone development only makes me trendy in being an iPhone developer, but still I'd be getting it because I needed it. There is no shame in that :)
"The feat suggests traditional media companies can make money online without having to cede control to Google, as the music industry did to Apple"

Well duh. The reason I think many corporate backed ventures in this this area flounder is because they lack the start-up mentality. They start out with a set of expectations and are usually unwilling to experiment or be flexible. CEO Jason Kilar has done a great job convincing NBC (and others) to make their content available in an unprecedented format. He is probably the largest reason for their success. He is the reason Hulu rivals sites like Sidereel.
Malcolm Gladwell's Method
I don't really disagree with anything you wrote. This might be one of those times, and you might be able to become the next captains of industry. But then again, any time might be one of those times. The statement isn't predictive.

I think the article went off the tracks when it theorized that now is one of those times, based only on the observations that Rockefeller et al. got rich when they were young, which also happened to be during a time of great economic turbulence. So I suppose the logic is that since the economy is currently screwed, and since there are currently 20-year-olds working hard somewhere on a business, this is the time when we're going to produce the next Rockefeller. QED, right?

My point is only that Gladwell's thesis revolves around the central role of chance in success, and this article seems to want to take his examples, and torture them into some kind of prediction about the future. I think that's a bit silly.
Startup lesson 1: Better have a marketing plan. EDIT: That is assuming you already have a great team building the product.
I guess they aren't adding enough.

Or perhaps the lack of scarcity in the market is causing them to do worse.
Traffic for many of these sites is much lower than I would have expected.

Looks like HN might get more traffic than several of them.
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The only version of OS X that can be run in a VM is Leopard Server. And even that requires Leopard Server to be running on the host machine (according to the EULA). So unless you want to delve into osx86, the option of running OS X in a VM is out. And if you're messing with osx86, you might as well go all the way and do a native install.
See also: http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2000/10/pocketful -- I think I first came across this from a link on YC.
Are you (or your compatriots) active in the user community in Sydney? I've found that's a great place to find good developers.

Otherwise, write a job posting that YOU would be excited about answering, and post it in a few places.
In Camera Pixels, More May Not Be Better
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Big ups to the author of this post for getting me to read what is essentially a job posting.
"constant fanboi-ing is really putting me off."

Rejecting a language just because it is popular seems just as misguided to me as choosing a language just because it is popular.

Can't you just ignore the boi's and use Clojure anyway, if it's a good language?
Angels are just wealthy people who typically sums of between $10 and $100k, with $50k probably being a good average.

Did you accidentally the verb? (sorry, couldn't resist).
A recent version of the SDK or one of the old beta versions?
How many of them worked? Paid taxes? Contributed to growth in the Latvian economy and GDP? Helped a little old lady across the street?

You don't have to lead or influence leaders to contribute, and I think contribution is the key to the ajkirwin's point.
"if you go with Java, you are subject to Sun/OS direction"

Not as much, now that Java is open sourced.
I'm not sure it matters if he was layed off or fired. If someone is capable of getting angry enough to kill people (either random killings or targeted) the perspective of how/why they became unemployed may not matter much from the killer's perspective. I'm no expert in such edge case mental instability. I just think that when people get that far over the edge, their irrationally doesn't factor in the predicates in the same way as the rest of us.
See also 'BountySource': https://www.bountysource.com/

(Never used it, don't know much about it, just made a note of it when it first got attention.)
JetBrains has an add-in for VS called Resharper: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

I wouldn't consider using VS without it.
Thanks for submitting this, that's a really good interview.
From my experience (as a business coach) a good math model will usually help a business find extra turnover and profit.

In the examples here, though, it probably wouldn't be the best use of strategic time. Good marketing / positioning, creating solid referral relationships, as well as staff training (which brk nicely discusses) would probably add more than the math model would.

Which is almost a shame, since modeling is so much fun!
Adobe to demo full Flash for mobile phones
2012 Obama, Obama 2012 either way does it sound right?
2012 Obama will four years of Change get me elected again or will change force me out the door?
Are you an idiot to keep paying your mortgage?
Lies, Damned Lies and Appleinsider.com statistics
You're right - these articles do make a very good pair. The one helps to explain the other.
Yes, you would be doing better by torching the money. You'd restrain inflation slightly.
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Is OCLC really non-profit?
Who is Matt Maroon? I see his blog posts always get a lot of attention here. Just a quick bio would be appreciated!
Does anyone have more technical information about this? I tried googling but just found marketing babble. Also, turns out the headquarters for this place is a couple blocks away from me, haha.
Is anyone aware of research done into how mentally stimulating various video games are? Maybe someone with one of those open-source EEGs could hook themselves up and do us a favor?

This article comes at an interesting time because I noticed recently that playing games like Rockband leave me much more mentally fired up - and tougher to calm down afterwards (oh, the irony...) - versus playing games like Team Fortress 2.

My guess is that it'd be correlated to how much direct focus the game requires. Obviously one can't do much else when they're concentrated on getting thousands of colored dots played perfectly.
"Post-religion anti-indoctrination memetic inoculation"

Those words all make sense in my head, but not really together. I really don't understand the anti-religious dogma, I think that there is a gradient in the beliefs of religious people and while there are definitely some reactionary elements, I don't think people who are "anti-progress" are united by religion.

Anyway, global average makes a great deal more sense, and I'd be willing to believe it'd work, but have my doubts on how fast most modern nations are willing to transform themselves into seas of highly educated citizenry. (Not to mention its hardly known at this point what the "best" education method is, so I'd imagine even such a fundamental retooling would involve lots of split testing at first ;))
Point taken, but if I was the President and people would stop mid-sex to take my calls and I had a staff to screen incoming calls, I'd probably warm up to the phone.

The law's a bit unfair that all email is public record but no phone calls are, until that changes I don't expect a President to be a big emailer.

I wonder where text messages fall, public record?
http://beagleboard.org/

The Beagle Board is a low-cost, fan-less single-board computer based on Texas Instruments OMAP35x processors featuring the ARM Cortex-A8 core with all of the expandability of today's desktop machines, but without the bulk, expense, or noise.

This looks like a good alternative in situations where the arduino is not sufficient.
> if you're a PHP coder

I think I see your problem.

A good programmer can write PHP; but a programmer who only knows PHP is not good.
When an applicant is expected to provide references, they probably call first to let these references know or ask permission. Since these are often not close friends, that isn't something you want to be doing multiple times. He/She must also reveal that they are applying for a job, something they may not want to discuss given the likelihood of rejection.
If you are going to 5 - 10 interviews over the course of several months, that's a reasonable inconvenience to juggle.

To avoid this the hiring company would simply have to obtain this information at a later stage. As you mention, they would have been in contact anyway to discuss compensation & such. A pretty minor detail.

Some things are unavoidable: Writing a job application is more emotionally draining & time consuming then reading one. Interviewing less then being interviewed.

But things like these really put to light the asymmetry: A major inconvenience for the applicant is acceptable to avoid a minor one for the employer.

I think the reason you get such seemingly strident positions from the applicant side of the street is that it feels a lot like abusing the asymmetry.
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I think there will actually be a certain amount of this; that is, advertising dollars will migrate to the web, at the expense of traditional media. That being said, overall ad spending will fall, spending on traditional media will get hammered, and online ad spending will also get hurt, just not as much as traditional advertising.
ASU student pummels would-be robber
Well, looks at Jobs and Gates.

Would you call them techies or biz guys?
Are You Installing A New Gas Boiler?
After much deliberation about which heating system to install in your house, you finally decide to go with a gas boiler. You have probably investigated various options and decided that gas would be the most economical because the gas itself is clean, cheap to buy and the perfect choice for getting you through those cold winter nights.
It sounds like a cross between a traditional CPU + FPGA. The twist is that the FPGA portions can easily be reconfigured by simple instructions instead of having to do something complicated like running a CAD tool from Synopsys.

The right way to use them [FPGAs] , he decided, was to couple them so tightly to the microprocessor chip that it would appear they were simply a small set of additional instructions to give a programmer an easy way to turbocharge a program. Everything had to look exactly like the standard programming environment. In contrast, many supercomputers today require programmers to be “heroic.”
I don't think having a standard processor coupled with programmable gates is a new idea. The key is in making it simple to use. A basic adder or multiplier is a well known piece of logic and would be included in a standard FPGA component library. Will arbitrary custom instructions require an engineer to develop the FPGA macro? Having a software and a hardware engineer working together to optimize execution time does not seem new to me. Is the simplification in the interface between the processor and FPGA gates?

They must have done some research into min and max gates required to implement logic for custom instructions across the targeted problem domains. An important question is the time required to reconfigure the FPGA gates. Multiple FPGA tiles will be needed since it'd take longer to reconfigure the FPGA gates then to jump to a new branch of code that had its own custom instruction. This may require a customization to the compiler as time to reconfigure FPGA gates may need to be taken into account in the order of execution (not a new problem; just another variable to take into account).

It could be very interesting, but more technical details are needed.
If you're building from scratch, is there any particular reason you have to go with a LAMP stack? Any reason not to go with Python, ROR, Java-type stacks? If you expanded it a bit, you might have better luck...
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Cool. It sounds like maybe they're adding a FPGA in a manner similar to a FPU -- an annex to the CPU. It would be huge to be able to design, load, and execute custom instructions for your CPU. For example, it would be pretty slick to be able to add specific operations that would aid in garbage collecting, or context switching, or deeply pipeline simple but long serial processes (a lot of network server or media processes come to mind).
you do realize PHP is the most boring, conventional, middle of the road way BDC's get into open source stacks. Why don't you just post for J2EE engineers? Other than the obvious fact that they will probably only know Java you are going to get the same type of person.

If you want interesting ask for interesting, not safe. Ask for people using python/ruby and then let them use that.
If the programmer has "carte blanche", why are you restricting them to PHP?
I recently offered to hire and manage three local C programmers in Cebu, Philippines for the company that owns the web scripting software I've been using for more than a decade. My offer would have cost them about 2/3 of the cost to hire one intermediate level C programmer in the USA -- yet with my offer they would have had a 4-man team developing their newly purchased software instead of only one.

They could have made substantial progress these past 5 months, but instead they have apparently made no progress whatsoever, and they are still wasting time trying to hire one C programmer in a little midwest city where one of the owners lives. I guess five months of wasted time with no progress to speak of is something that does not bother them very much -- but I think it should, because the more time they waste not hiring a programmer and failing to make some real progress, the bigger and stronger their competition grows.

I ran my own outsource programming business here for several years ... and while it is sometimes a challenge to 'train' a skilled programmer from scratch over here, there are so many who already have the requisite skills that I find it amusing that problems like yours actually exist. I mean, what's wrong with hiring an outsource programmer and getting the jobs done? Especially if the programmer you eventually hire is going to be given as much autonomy as you claim?

I just don't see why every person that's contributing to a startup company needs to be part of the 'local startup family', that's all. It seems to me that sometimes it just makes more sense to get the work started and finished -- one way or another -- even of you have to change your approach to make it happen.
Am I the only person who cringes at the word "coder"? For some odd reason, I've never liked being referred to as a "coder", particularly when the word is preceded by "my".
Poker player gone YC entrepreneur gone HN hero FTW.
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I'd like to split a hair: if you make them drop their prices, you'll hurt their margins and possibly their revenue, depending on the elasticity of the product. I'm not sure you'd win out in the end, but strictly speaking, you would be undercutting Apple.
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Not going to argue either way (I do like both Java and C#, choosing one over the other depending on what I want/need to do)... but don't you think most enterprise languages mature over time too?

Java seems to be no exception: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history
I'm surprised Umair Haque hasn't written about this yet -- it's right up his alley.
"I'm so glad he watched all those police shows his whole life … He knew how to take care of himself … I'm very, very, very proud of him."

Best. Mother. Ever.

I would do the same to protect my laptop.
I was thinking about building a service on top of BrightKite, but at 1/20th the number of visitors vs. Twitter I'm not sure.

Are there any other location-based social networks with a published API? Loopt seems to see itself more as a program and less as a platform.