skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "mood" after a recession tends to last until about 4-5 years after the recession begins, assuming it's not a total bear market like the 30s or 70s were (in which case, it tends to last at least a decade). People didn't really feel like we were out of the 1979 oil shock and 81/82 recession until 1984. (Some of my earliest memories are from about 1984, and I recall my parents being very careful with money.) They didn't feel like we were out of the 1991 recession until Netscape's IPO in 1995. They didn't feel like we were out of the 2000 tech recession until FaceBook and YouTube hit it big in 2005.

So yeah, if you date this recession from late 2007, we've got until 2011 or 2012 before people really think we're out of it. And that's assuming there's not a further shock, like an oil price spike, another recession (the 1937 recession hit right as people were starting to recover from 1929-1932, the 1979 oil shock hit just as people were recovering from the 73-74 recession), or a war.
The site is written a lot like a splog. There are a few sentences that exist in multiple posts with few changes.
FWIW, I'm currently double majoring in Computer Science and International Relations. As far as i can tell, a majority of the students who plan on going into law stick with Political Science as their major instead of going IR.

Skimming the required courses for the prelaw program my college offers, the requirements for that are much more aligned with what's needed for a polsci degree then an IR degree. Theres only two classes from prelaw that overlaps with the IR requirements and one of em's not even being offered anymore. Also, the polsci half of the department offers scholarships aimed at prelaw students specifically. (Technically Political Science and International Relations are the same department here, though they have pretty different requirements and different people in charge of the programs)

To generalize the courses, polsci is more "American political science meets history meets business with a dash of criminal justice" while IR is more "Global political science meets history with dash of anthro".
Already in development - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs
I couldn't pre-steal Gladwell's next book because I have no idea which pseudo-intellectual thesis he'll concoct based on a very small, very carefully selected sample of anecdotes. And even if I did, since I don't write for the New Yorker people would feel free to call BS on me and wouldn't feel intelligent just for reading my well-written pap.
Please stop posting your spam links here. No one likes your blog.
There have been services like that for eBay. I used to use one that did auto listings for me. I think Auctomatic used to do something of the sort too.
According to Wikipedia, the VA Linux and RedHat stock options were worth around $20M. That's an awfully nice house. ;-)
Axolotl Corp. solved that problem years ago. Our software allows sharing medical records (including vaccinations) across a whole community of authorized care providers.
http://www.axolotl.com/products/index.htm#community
This is something that I've thought about for the last several years. I think that this article should mention that what is meant by VC is really "VC for web companies". What I suspect will happen is that there will be fewer and fewer web companies (with good ideas and the need for large capital) that need funding, and it will make more sense for VC's to invest in startups that are in more capital-intensive sectors like energy and biotechnology.
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Just be honest.
Tried to see what it was, found a clickable link to something that sounded interesting, but couldn't see a sample without registering; so I gave up immediately.
You wouldn't be saying that if you did a lot of editing via network shares...

TM is awesome; I used it for years. However, it's quite ridiculous that at least as far back as 2006 folks were being led to believe TM 2 was "coming soon." At least the developer has now stated it'll be released "god knows when," but for commercial software I'm not sure if that's any better.
we had some unintended guests and so were 1 berry short and had to share. at first, we weren't sure if it was even going to work. and then, suddenly, it did. guinness & sorbet mixed into wonderful. straight tabasco sauce. straight white vinegar. all sorts of fruits. the occasional cheese. the effects lasted around an hour, at the end of which it became clear that although the mouth can enjoy these things, our stomachs maybe less so. we never made it to the birthday cake.

anyone try the thinkgeek extract? i'd very much like to introduce more people to this but the poor durability of the actual berries has made it problematic.
By these data, "information technology" must mean computer-industry technologist (non-college-graduate) skills dressed up as a college degree program, because the computer scientists and the computer engineers surveyed here still comfortably outearn the philosophy majors.
Or better yet: don't give gifts at all, until you're in a long-term relationship.

(Yes, seriously.)
I suspect that people were being led to believe in 2006 that it was "coming soon" because Allan Odgaard really did believe at that point that it was coming soon.
If you just wait for the mind-blowing-awesome-woman, you will never have any.
You are completely wrong to think that websites that list phone numbers and other people's histories with said phone numbers are perpetrating the actual calls. Site such as WTFcalls.com are only trying to seek traffic through ranking for phone number keywords in Google (because it is very easy to do so - those phone numbers occur on very few other pages on the web).

If you look at this example page:

http://wtfcalls.com/649-200

You can see that WTFCalls has automatically generated every conceivable phone number in the United States - in an attempt to rank highly for those numbers in search engines. WTFcalls.com receives around 200,000+ unique visitors monthly, almost all from search engines. Their ad revenue from Adsense should be a sustaining amount.

Not bad for simply creating a script that makes a page template optimized (to rank in search engines) for every known phone number (example: http://wtfcalls.com/n/649-254-1011).

I put a random number into Google:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&...

Look who came up first! WTFcalls.com

Rest assured.
Burning out on Capistrano (Jamis Buck)
I wrote a lot for my own band and that was probably the best way to get into the business and get to know the right people. Our first album was released in 2004 and people still buy it (word of mouth) so I'm still getting royalties. Lately, I've been writing for other artists as well but you never know if they pick your song and when they do, whether it picks up or not. So luck is a huge factor.

It's not something you pick up just like that. I've been making music as long as I've been programming (about 27 years). So take this "passive income" and divide it by all those hours spent. You'll get something close to zero.

There are books on the topic. I recommend "Tunesmith" by Jimmy Webb. It's about the art and the industry.

On another note, it's really hard for me to bring the two things together. I could program audio software but that's programming, hardly any "art" involved. Lately, I've been making music for computer games but that's just the art, no technical knowledge required. As long as I can think, it's been either/or.

I'm actually that "rockstar programmer". ;)
Man, the BBC really loves to let people rail against the FDA.

The reality is that if this berry has a theraputic effect it needs to be tested and proven safe. "Anecdotal evidence from Africa" really isn't a great idea. And industrial espionage in the flavor industry isn't new, it's commonplace, so reading into a burglary for a potential flavor breakthrough seems a little absurd.

In any event, it seems to be legal to sell in the states now.
"The scientists plan to develop a home test," it says.

While the article itself is about par for the Daily Mail, this is a great research area that's being commercialized now. A team at Stanford is doing something similar for various cancers:

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/12/02/stanford.blood.s...

and a lab at my school is doing the same thing for stomach cancer in particular. The prof I talked to said it would become a product in about 2 years. This technique of identifying a disease by its protein/RNA profile is easy to get lost in, but powerful and broadly applicable.

A test for the common cold (which bug is that, exactly?), developed on a sample of 38 yacht racers, is a bit dubious, though.
Me too; it was like apartment hunting all over again.

We should post pics of TS world headquarters. ;p
Agreed. Despite its age, TextMate is still a cutting edge text editor, primarily because almost no-one has tried to innovate in the space lately (Coda excepted).
Maybe TM users should think about creating an open source version. I personally tried TM and liked the general feeling of it, but I won't commit to an editor that (1) is not open source (2) is not multi-platform (3) is not vim :-)
Interesting. I did not know that British English uses "learnt" for the word "learned" in American English.
I wasn't implying he was being dishonest. There have been approximately 1 million cases of me saying and believing that feature X or project Y would be done "this week" when it turned out to be more like "this month" or "next month". When you're off by three years at least, though, it's cause for reflection.

At this point I've basically given up trying to provide accurate ship estimates and I just say "It'll be done when it's done." The main differences between my work and TM are:

- Many people rely on TM for their day-to-day productivity.

- There are a (small) number of pretty nasty bugs / shortcomings that are essentially non-starters at this point if you encounter them.

- It's much harder to become highly proficient with an editor than a web app, making it more difficult to switch on a whim.

- TM is commercial software which assumes a certain level of continued evolution and support, unless otherwise noted up front.

Again, I think TM is an awesome editor and is more than capable for the majority of use cases. I just also happen to believe an update (okay, overhaul) is long over due.
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I wish I could "watch" threads for comments.

I use a Wordpress plugin called WP-Footnotes (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-footnotes/) that handles everything. It has a few issues, namely, I can't use Markdown syntax within the footnotes, so I have to hard-code links within them, but it's worth it to have everything automagically work.

I'm glad you found my writing worth subscribing to, thanks!
"I had always known of it but had shied away from it for so long because, again, it didn’t follow the same rules as my comfortable PHP shared hosting comfort zone."

I'm pretty sure that this comment applies to 99.9% of all language complaints I read on the internet. Even smart people have a tendency to bash what they don't understand.
7 Tips for Virtual Collaboration (Tips from Automattic - Company that runs Wordpress.com)
And I'm pretty it's as a fire hazard.
Is there any Startup dinners in Boston area ?
It's not that Perl examples are unusually bad. It's that Perl's syntax is bad. Really bad. Especially for newbs.

Declaring a function in PHP which accepts a scalar, an array and a hash:

function foo($bar, $baz, $quux = array('quux' => "default")) {

Declaring the same function in Perl:

sub foo {
my ($bar, @baz, %quux) = @_;

Which is already terrible. Worse, despite being relatively intuitive (I've made the mistake of writing this more than once, whenever I forget too much about Perl) it's completely broken. In the words of the Camel book:

If you want to pass more than one array or hash into or out of a function and have them maintain their integrity, then you're going to want to use an explicit pass-by-reference. Before you do that, you need to understand references as detailed in Chapter 4. This section may not make much sense to you otherwise. But hey, you can always look at the pictures.

Here we see that Perl's syntax isn't just very ugly: It's hopelessly entangled with relatively-advanced concepts like references, and dereferencing, and pass-by-value vs pass-by-reference, and wacky only-in-Perl nonsense like "array context" vs "scalar context".

Even PHP can do arguments right. Meanwhile, Perl doesn't even apologize for being a language where you have to learn about pointers before you can walk.
I would recommend Wells Trade. If you have more than 25K to invest, then you get 100 free trades. Very good customer service
Interesting that you should complain about Perl, then say that you've moved to Ruby, because in my opinion, Ruby is no better constructed than Perl. The biggest crime I see attributed to Perl -- flexible syntax -- applies to Ruby in spades. (Ruby's actually much worse, since it allows you to do obtuse metaprogramming tricks that would make a good Perl coder blush. Not to mention the fact that it's a LOT slower.)

I think the main difference is that Perl is old, and Ruby is new. Geeks are a cantankerous, competitive bunch, and it's harder to be the hot new guy with mad skillz if you're working in a well-established language that has a huge base of expertise and good programmers. As a result, lacking outside pressures, programmers will always migrate to the flavor of the week, so that they can stand out from their competitors.
True, and most of these companies mentioned have plants/partners in other countries.

Just like Apple has components and products created in other countries, so Canon also has US-based plants.
http://commonphp.blogspot.com - started to document working through common lisp in php, slowly turned into a documentation of giving up on php and writing a new language... sort of.
Corollary: apply basic sales pipeline management techniques to everything (fundraising, customer acquisition, pr, market discovery, etc). The only place this gets dicey is in product development. Products are like girls you're starting to get serious with. For any significant product with a small team, you can only really devote detailed attention to one. On the bright side, your customers will help you decide which girl you should be spending the most time with.
So how did those services solve the problem - ask for the ebay password?
I didn't come up with this, but it works:

--

An architect, an artist and an engineer were discussing whether it was better to spend time with the wife or a mistress.

The architect said he enjoyed time with his wife, building a solid foundation for an enduring relationship.

The artist said he enjoyed time with his mistress, because of the passion and mystery he found there.

The engineer said, "I like both."

"Both?"

Engineer: "Yeah. If you have a wife and a mistress, they will each assume you are spending time with the other woman, and you can go to the lab and get some work done!
if you like perl and are productive with it, why stop?

To pick a rather extreme example, consider COBOL. COBOL is also not dead (I know people who make a living writing COBOL) but it is a tool which no young programmer wants to learn, unless they have a very specific personality or the money is really, really good.

If you don't mind the fact that the talent pool is reportedly shrinking and the price of finding talent is reportedly rising, then you're right: Perl works as well as ever. (And much better than COBOL, of course. Perl will need another thirty to fifty years to reach COBOL's current stage. It's still quite pervasive, especially in its niche.) But if you pine for the glory days of 1995, when exciting new developments in computing were being constructed primarily in your language, you will want to learn a language other than Perl. Or, if you anticipate the need to expand your operation from two or three talented coders to twenty or thirty, you might need a language other than Perl.
Introducing the world's first personal supercomputer
DRM has never been about stopping piracy. It's been about controlling how you use your content. For example, I'm sure the media companies would love to recreate that part of history where everybody rebought a bunch of music they already owned to move from tape to compact disc. This is an extension of that, though thankfully the difficulty in controlling this beast properly ought to slow it's deployment.
...and you thought it was hard to find people who could understand OO.
Textmate is one of the few applications where I am not eagerly anticipating the next release. The current version has everything I need.
I agree with this. Dating multiple girls improves your judgment, so when you want to settle down you'll often make the right choice. You won't get "oneitist" and fall for the wrong type of girl.

It's also a big confidence boost too.
I recently had an e-mail from a Windows developer in the Ruby community who pointed out how opaque many Ruby projects are regarding Windows. He works on porting a number of libraries - so he's definitely putting in some hard work - but has had issues with project owners not updating CHANGELOGs properly, deliberately breaking Windows support, etc.

At Euruko (European Ruby conference) earlier this year, I raised the topic of Windows and.. most of the audience couldn't care less. They were mostly of the opinion that if Windows people wanted to use Ruby, they had to do the legwork. (FWIW, I'm an OS X user who doesn't care too much for Windows either, but I recognize there's a massive userbase there)

Windows is in the third-world of operating systems when it comes to Ruby - so Jamis' standpoint is less than surprising.
http://grigio.org/textmate_gedit_few_steps
No, this is a new project we are starting. We hope it can help people cut through the clutter and annoyances of buying electronics.
Ruby gets the basics of object oriented programming right. You should not have different syntax for different object types. In Perl, even for things like assigning to a variable or passing an argument to a function you need to know the types. It is nearly impossible to replace a list or a hash table for another datatype later. Ruby gets the simple stuff like this right.
thanks, we think that most electronics sites have gotten out of control in terms of clutter and bloat. We focus on keeping the site blazing fast and simple to navigate.

So it is great to hear you like it!
Techcrunch interviews Zuckerberg
Sounds like a fantastic technology to extend the mentality around yo-yo dieting to every aspect of health.

I have a low IgA count so really need to look after myself >> I'm fat so I need to diet.

I have a high IgA count so I can take it easy for the next few days. I can stay out to 3am tonight and skip the gym tomorrow without worrying about getting a cold >> I've just lost 2 stone so I can reward myself with a donut without worry. Oh look, the twelve packs are on special offer . . .

Please note I have not checked to see whether staying out until 3am or going to the gym has the slightest effect on the chances of catching a cold. My point is the mentality and not the value of the specific treatments/actions. Nor do I believe that eating a donut (or 12) will automatically pile on those 2 stone again.

I believe I've tracked down the relevant paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18580401?ordinalpos=1&...
Ask HN: Help me brainstorm ideas for an Open Access Workshop
I've seen several brick and mortar places like http://www.clubworkshop.com/ where you pay for a monthly membership to have access to tools and facilities to work on your DIY projects. I'd love to learn more about these types of businesses and perhaps open one up in the Midwest area (Milwaukee/Minneapolis corridor maybe?).

Have any of you guys visited a place like this? What was your experience? How busy was it? What types of people used it? Do you get the feeling that the cost is too steep for a DIYer?

Any insight at all from "great idea!" to "stupid idea! you missed..." would be interesting for me to hear.

Thanks!
Ruby's way of doing things is not necessarily "right". It's different.

In particular, if your fundamental types are fundamentally different, there's a strong argument that they should have different interfaces. Object-oriented programming does not require that all types be polymorphic, and pretending that they are is a source of confusion.
Almost every Windows application is made by retards
Saw this on reddit and felt like sharing a laugh.

Almost every Windows application (commercial or freeware that is not free software) is made by retards (that's kind of obvious though, working on Windows) who think their application is the most important one in the world and certainly the one you bought your computer and installed your OS for. Therefore, it will:
* Require its own download manager, because what you're downloading is so special it can't be done with your regular Internet.

* Install in C:\Program Files\<company name>\<company name, again> <app name> Special Edition 2008 Woohoo Professional XP.
Surely it's from a huge developer, you'll have hundreds of apps from them and you want them classfied by vendor.

* Create a "My ..." directory in your personal directory; for example, if you install a digital version of the Kamasutra,
you'll get a "My sexual positions" directory. The "My" prefix makes it so personal, it's 100 times better and more user-friendly.

* Create a folder for its vendor (of course, you want everything classfied by vendors because vendors are the important factor for you),
with a single icon inside, in your start menu.

* Create an icon in your desktop.

* Create an icon in your quick launch bar.

* Hijack all file extensions from its own to .TXT files, just cuz.

* Break Explorer in some amusing way that can't be undone.

* Hijack the Internet Explorer homepage into its vendor's site, because every time you browse your
Internet (which, obviously, has to be done from Internet Explorer, well, the Internet I mean),
you want to go to that vendor's website to see which other amazing pieces of software it has
(namely, screensavers advertising the product).

* Install an Internet Explorer toolbar with a cute banner
so you can go to their website with one click.

* Install an updater that runs on bootup because you're devoted to having it updated.
The updater is written in .NET or something disgusting that will take no less than 20 MB RAM,
and sit a cute, animated icon in your system tray because it's awesome to know you're
connected for your one application, and it most certainly justifies a running
process for it.

* When ran, it'll also drop extra icons on your system tray
because everybody knows you love collecting bullshit there.

* When closed, it'll "minimize to system tray",
because you don't really want to close that one program.

* Use its own drawn windows, borders, colours, controls and style
(for just an extra 20 MB RAM and a 400% impact on performance), because it looks so slick nobody will
realize it's an horrendous pile of shit that looks like ass next to everything else you have.

* If uninstalled from an obscure icon and description from Microsoft's obnoxiously slow and retarded appwiz.cpl,
never uninstall completely, not just because Windows' filesystem is broken and shitty, but because you'll feel
nostalgic about your application and will still want to see that vendor's folders.
Google gets frugal
>The other top-paying degrees -- law, business -- don't create wealth.

Unless you mass produce it and ship it to Wal-mart, all the good ideas in the world stay sitting on some university book shelf.
China's .cn moves up the ladder to become the second most popular TLD.