skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont quite understand if the article was to convince me about something or was it to predict the future?

"An ambitious kid graduating from college now doesn't want to work for a big company. They want to work for the hot startup that's rapidly growing into one."

Thats a generalization and I believe its untrue and biased towards talented, ambitious young people Paul meets. Sorry if I'm wrong, but if that was to convince me, I'd need a proof. From my point of view, the rest of the world is still at sort of peak of belief in the "corporate world" (but I dont have any research doc to reference as well :)).

"Fifty years later, startups are ubiquitous in Silicon Valley and common in a handful of other US cities, but they're still an anomaly in most of the world."

Well thats what I dont understand the most. If the whole article talks about the huge positive impact that startups are going to have on economy, let me ask Paul: what has changed since then ("fifty years [ago]") that makes you believe that NOW is the moment startups are going to change the whole world so much? What was the reason you wrote (published) the article NOW?
Expert questions Windows 7 interface
What’s New In Python 3.0:

http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html
Last I checked there are two different Perl 6 implementations on the home stretch.
For those not in the Valley "it wasn’t the right time" == "they didn't offer enough cash".
I have been using Techmeme for quite sometime and like it a lot. Actually, I was inspired by Techeme's success to start our site: buzzup.com. Our content comes from three sources: users, human editor, and automatic program.
General Counsel (GC) normally has different focus than handling all of a firm's legal needs. There are a number of fields of law that a growing startup may be impacted by including contracts, employment, securities, patent, and litigation, to name a few. For a company above a certain size having a lawyer on staff to manage outside legal specialists will quickly pay for itself (you might be surprised what outside legal fees can run).

The primary challenge is to explain to the executive staff the business impact of various legal strategies (and their attendant risks) and to help reach a working consensus on the right balance between particular legal risks and other business risks and opportunities. The GC's are typically senior associates who traded the last few years on the partner track for a reasonable salary and a life.
interesting thanks
Of course, last year we thought introns we junk dna, a few years ago there was no such thing as epigenetic information and rna was only an intermediary.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?tool=bookshelf&...
Cool. One feature that I wish that you would add is RSS feeds for each sub-topic. Other than that it looks great.
Wow, I didn't realize it was this bad. People can be very silly.

As the old saying goes: "civilization is only four meals away from anarchy".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article492642.ece
The solution of course is for Google to release a user-friendly and slick Google OS built on top of Linux

That is the solution only if your problem is that not enough people use Linux. Most people, most of the time, care about building and deploying the applications they need to get their real work done; the OS's job is to get out of the way and facilitate that. If something does that better (quicker, easier, cheaper) than maintaining your own Linux servers (not difficult if Linux is synonymous with RHEL in your organization) then that's what you should use.
So you don't see a problem with few people having any familiarity with development in a Linux environment?

Linux as a desktop/dev environment will essentially disappear, at least in the US/Canada.
There is already; http://esciencenews.com/syndication

I just noticed the topic pages still link to the main rss though, will change that as soon as I get back from the lab!
true, you might want to look at empires that lasts for centuries after rapid expansion

alexander the great, napoleon, the japanese (1940ish) don't count because they cannot sustain the expansion

ironically, mongol empire (and its vast expansion) lasted for 3.5 centuries. there must be some other reasons that neither cruelty nor barbarism can explain (in fact, empires based on cruelty/barbarism don't last long)
Adobe Meermeer Will Change the Way You Test Web Sites
How many Perl jobs are turning into Cobol-esque jobs. Maintain a legacy systems and keep it chugging along. How many people build new projects in Perl?
The google cache is still up for me:
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:http://planet.emeteora....
But it costs a lot more time and money to create Facebook than it does a sandwich. You could roughly build Twitter in the time that it takes to make a good Ruben or grilled cheese.
The harvard management company's 2007/2008 annual report (http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/annualfinancial/pdfs/2008fullrepo...) says that they only have about 1.5 Billion in venture capital (and only about 1 billion of that is domestic).

However, you are right that the ripple effect could be substantial.
I'm sure this is true and the article presents relevant points about Wikipedia's drug coverage, but it probably largely comes down to what's in the second to last paragraph:

"But no internet source can replace the authority of a physician, doctors said."

In other words, "no computer can do my job better than I can."

Never heard that before and I can't imagine the motivation behind the statement.

At some point (if not already) it seems likely that it will be generally safer to look up a drug and find out the effects on the Internet (maybe never on Wikipedia, but somewhere). No doctor's brain can contain a complete database of every drug and its effects and interactions with other drugs.
Chrome’s Extensions: The Missing Piece for Google Apps
What? That's not a legitimate PROFIT strategy. You missed a vital step.
Ask YC: "Hacker-testing" service?
I've been working on a web startup with one other co-founder, and I am the only programmer. I try my best to make things as secure as I can, but it is always better to have another set of eyes looking over things to make sure I am not overlooking something obvious. Is there any security-auditing or "hacker-testing" services you would suggest that we can use? We're willing to pay something for this, but we don't have a lot of extra cash to throw around right now.

If you can't think of any services like this that you would use, what would you do in my place? Any advice is greatly appreciated - thank you!
Yeah, you have to pity those mega-corporations being forced to give money to corrupt governments. Yeah.
He never said that. He just said the "Haskell-ish beauty goes out the window," which is arguably true.

In my (limited) experience, Haskell code to do I/O (i.e., Monads) isn't a pretty or elegant as purely functional Haskell code. A lot of Haskell's useful tricks (i.e., its beauty like the ridiculously strong type system or lazy evaluation) don't work on code with side effects.
Google Cost Cuts Take The Company Away From Its Engineers
I think Paul's point is based on the fact that new technologies are coming along faster, and thus new industries are being born faster than ever before.

And as you say, "Young, fast-developing industries tend to produce rich ecosystems of startups".

These two points imply that the trend is to have many young industries (many more than there are old), and thus many many more startups than big companies.

Further, he mentions how new technologies are game changers. Big companies cannot adapt as fast as smaller ones, and therefore their "death-rate" will be higher.

At the end of the day, I think you're not taking into account the fact that the rate of technological innovation is accelerating. This fact is going to be a large cause of much social and economic disruption (a good thing).
I'm aware of that. But then, every program is procedural at some level; show me a program that doesn't execute as a sequence of steps.

The point is, OO does not require that your code be executed any more sequentially than does a functional language.
Let's be honest, there's much more Perl code in the wild than Python, and CPAN towers over any Python network. The knowledge base is far greater for Perl as well (there are books on the DBI alone).

Of course, I'd rather code Python usually.
the trend i see is that the most ambitious people do startup and degree(s) matter less as time goes

maybe a quantitative measure like Z = asset_from_work_now / cost_before_work_then where cost_before_work_then include tuition, rent, etc ... work can be defined as wall street, lawyer, plumber, startup, etc

Z for googlers can be in the thousands to millions, while Z for wall streets might be in the tens or hundreds ... big difference

or course Z can be negative (bankrupt+debt) ... but the huge discrepancy of Z value only reinforces my point, only the brave and ambitious dare to walk the uncertain path; the rest only follow thru the proven, safe path
Turning a Failing Business (Restaurant) Around
Functional Image Synthesis
And nice images on this page : http://conal.net/Pan/Gallery/
Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon
"Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is under attack by online pirates. An add-on for the Firefox browser called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ makes it possible to shop at the Amazon store but leave without paying a dime. Instead, on Amazon product pages the add-on integrates links to ‘free’ copies on The Pirate Bay."
The way it's described sounds similar to SMTP, where intermediate servers hold the entire message and keep trying until they succeed (or time out).

Wikipedia's information is quite dense and hard to skim. (The "spray and wait" protocol does sound like fun, though.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_Tolerant_Networking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing_in_delay_tolerant_netwo...
That's why I don't read Techmeme. I don't want to know what every other techhead is looking at. I want to know what the mainstream techhead missing.
If the images on http://conal.net/pan/ are any indication, we'd best stay away (and stick to Processing http://processing.org/).
Facts and Fiction About Melmine Contamination in Our Food - Associated Content
Surely I'm not the only one who liked TechMeme exactly as it was and never saw a major issue with it. I think it's actually great just as it is.

Who runs into those issues where articles are bad? If I compare it to how Google News started out, this is lots better-- I have TechMeme bookmarked and only visit Google News when I'm search for news.
This is a great first step. The real chore is migrating everything to py3k.
Posting on HN and asking advice is a great first step.
Are you sure that you don't violate the Whois TOS?

The compilation,
repackaging, dissemination or other use of this Data is expressly
prohibited without the prior written consent of VeriSign.
Not to be rude or anything, but what exactly is Truemors now? I guess it got acquired, because when you visit the URL you get redirected here.

http://truemors.nowpublic.com/

A cursory review of the content shows a moderate number of submissions, extremely light "interest" (e.g. the number one "greatest" truemor has 5 "interested" points -- maybe I don't understand what that means?) and almost zero participation in the way of comments.

So some company overpaid him for what appears to be an extremely lackluster product? Is there more to it than this? Because if not, this falls in the same category of Ethan Hawke giving a presentation called "How I Got My Novel Published and You Can Too" -- i.e. useless.
So you don't see a problem with few people having any familiarity with development in a Linux environment?

Those few people can charge higher consulting rates. :-)

Linux as a desktop/dev environment will essentially disappear, at least in the US/Canada.

Linux will disappear only if it provides no value, and I'd say in that case it deserves it.

This is overblown anyway. What fraction of Linux users are developing Web apps and only use Linux because they have to develop on the same platform they deploy on? You might as well argue that Rails killed desktop Linux, because many Rails developers develop on OS X and then deploy on Linux.
Super smart "Gen-Y"/HR webapp: Rypple
Your problem is simple: people who do this have their own tools, have auction sites, have plans ion palce for years, all sorts of things.

Basically, your pitching a spoon to dig a hole, when the problem is solved better by an Earth mover.

Now, that isn't all bad, because noobies are better ad clickers anyway, but I doubt the tool would ever get much widespread usage (sorry!), and the effort to make it so is not going to be worth the return.
Maybe it's just the fact that I am a naive hacker-in-training, but can you interpret the story a little bit? It really bugged me the first time I read it, and still does.
Things that cannot be copied:

1. The personal touch (Attention)

2. The unique history

3. Authenticity

4. Atoms*

What we are seeing is a drastic drop in the cost of knowledge and an exponential increase in it's availability.

As physical objects become more fungible, capable of being replaced by functionally identical copies, the aspect that will make one object more valuable than another is it's unique history, the knowledge about it, and the social meaning of that knowledge.

Does the fact that you know that Gucci watches today are crap mean that a Patek Phillipe is more valuable? Does it become important to you to know the history of the workshop that produced the watch? Is a watch that had been pawned by a refugee fleeing the holocaust more valuable because you can point to it and say 'A man bought his life with this.'?

A watch that you commissioned to your own specifications from a master craftsman should be the most valuable of all since the master's shop time is limited, and you needed to know enough about watchmaking to make an intelligent request.

One aspect of the consumer society has always been about the social status and peer approval created from purchases. The ground of status is shifting away from the inherent quality of the goods and towards the knowledge of the relationships embodied by the goods.

* arrangements thereof yes, but unless we get some new physics, the actual elemental material is unique, you can't fax yourself more helium when you are running low.
Start Now: 6 Reasons Why This Economy Is Good For Startups
Source:

http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.0/
According to grumpy SEO people, PageRank and automated algorithms play a far smaller role. Manual human review by Google employees is often the only time a search engine spammer gets taken out.
ah. Yes. well, that's what I will do next. ask them to go to stores and sit in chairs. this person has used a standard, cheap office chair forever, and thinks back pain is normal. (which it might very well be, but this person hasn't spent much time on ergonomics yet, so I was looking for guidance from the chair enthusiast crowd here.)
Assessing your divorce risk (using census data)
Hiring a security expert is generally like most other things you hire an expert for - expensive. There's a lot to making a website "safe" and it involves looking at many different aspects from all sorts of different aspects (time consuming).

If you're trying to determine the hardness of your machines against known vulns there are two free (oss?) programs I'd recommend: Nessus and Snort. That may buy you time until you get big enough that you have something more than script kiddies knocking at your server's doors.
It's interesting that neither Facebook nor Twitter, which appear to be integral parts of this developing Web 2.0/social network-y thing, are making money or really have any idea how to do so. I wonder how it'll all play out.
It's interesting to read this with Taleb's "The Black Swan" in mind (which I just reread this weekend), specifically because it made me think of Taleb's "barbell strategy":

"... your strategy is to be as hyperconservative and hyperaggressive as you can be instead of being mildly aggressive or conservative. Instead of putting your money in 'medium risk' investments, you need to put a portion, say 85 to 90 percent, in extremely safe instruments, like Treasury bills—as safe a class of instruments as you can manage to find on this planet. The remaining 10 to 15 percent you put in extremely speculative bets, as leveraged as possible (like options), preferably venture capital-style portfolios."

It seems that going to work for a startup is the exact opposite of this.

I.e., it would be better to be an investor in many startups rather than working solely on/for one startup.
Trying to be more specifically helpful, since I don't think I conveyed exactly what the objection was the first time (or at least not so well that you understood):

It's not that you quoted. It's that the quote is wrapped in <code> and <pre> tags, and that breaks the layout for lots of people. I'm asking you not to do that, because its effect is obnoxious.
Short answer... yes.

You have no built-in marketing, and no high-profit-per-user monetization to justify any expense to acquire visitors.

You could built a big SEO-net with themed lists of expiring domain names and go with a snapnames sort of model ("pay is $10 to monitor this domain name and we'll register it FOR FREE if it comes available")... That'd get you $10 and you could resell for a cheap registrar and make a nice margin if the names came available. You could even send them other names via email ("You're watching technology.com - here are 20 other similar domain names you might want to monitor/snatch up").

Still, commodity biz with little innovation ops, IMO.
I never "metatip" I didn't like.
Now Waegis is Completely Free
Your site is very well done. I will be returning soon.
Today I discovered that % 100 = 3; parses in Perl. I wish the space between the % and the 100 had the semantic meaning of telling perl that the % is supposed to be an operator, not a hash sigil. What other languages allow spaces in identifiers? Fortran 77 and Algol 68, I think?
World's oldest marijuana stash totally busted
thanks for the feedback and the suggestions. yeah, I figured I would have to do something like this, but I am paranoid and thought I would ask in case there was another better option.
Mac 'Security Threat' Evaporates in 24 Hours
So people almost instantly get marked as "Not on Amazon"

Other stuff is working surprisingly well.

The end of a Wii box, shoes (they were even close to the right size) that looked almost like mine, a stapler. I think once the silly value wears of this could be a really great feature.

I can really seem myself using this to record stuff that I ought to buy and then adding it to either my wishlist or just buying it with prime.
That race was over four years ago, though. Ruby won. It's nice that the old nag is finally making it to the finish line, but the audience has been gone for a long time.
I can't take an article serious that lists Visual Basic and Delphi among the top ten programming languages. Maybe they are still very common, but even if they really are, they are definitely not common in the "world" that I am interested in.
If you have to "reinvent the language and the community", how does that count as Perl 5 surviving?
Misleading headline, don't you think? Techmeme never tried to be fully automated.
As usual, the changes are early-adoptable to a degree in the preceding Python version (2.6). Just use __future__ imports and try the -3 switch to see deprecation warnings.

I am mostly curious how this will pan out on the Mac. I've released a program that relies on the system Python, which has worked okay so far because the 2.x installations of each Mac OS X version are basically compatible. I hope Snow Leopard ships with Python 2.6 as well (even if it includes 3.0), so that I have more breathing room and code doesn't automatically break. :)
didn't try it out, but great idea and your video demo is really good. Site is well laid out. Well explained,well done.
Best of luck
you get a star!
I hate articles-about-articles. What this site is actually referring to is Paul Thurrott's original post here, which has a lot more detail:

http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/win7_simple.asp
Online Advertising And Its Impact On Web Design
Mint vs. Rudder: Two Online Finance Managers Compared
"A highly modular, scalable, efficient, just-in-time data center capacity program that can be delivered anywhere in the world very quickly and cheaply, while allowing for continued growth as required."

that was their "1 sentence explanation" Buzzword Buzzword Buzzword...

- also reading this made me wonder why microsoft hasn't launched a blog product yet... (if they have sorry ;( haven't seen it)
Ask HN: The GRE subject test
I am planning to give the Computer Science GRE test,in March.

The reason I'm doing is is that I want to apply to grad school (PhD) and my scores in university are not all that great (3.25 GPA).

Any advice? Thoughts?

Thanks!
I would agree with you, when it comes to most non-virtual companies. There are also tax implications.

But for virtual companies, this is all solved by jurisdiction on the purchase contract, I believe. In other words, people placing orders on your website is equivalent to them driving to the state and placing them in person. So the transaction is inside state boundaries, and there is no need to foreign qualify in other states.

In addition, I had a company that sold services electronically but also shipped smaller lesser physical items as part (signs for the service... kind of complicated but the actual service doesnt matter). We never had any issues across state lines.

I think employees and locations are what count, for tax reasons, but buyers/consumers get to handle all the rest via use taxes in their state. Contract issues above apply.

At least, this is what I have been told, I'm no attorney.

No idea about Vermont, sounds interesting though.
Is there an iPod shortage? Apparently
I had always assumed it was setup this way, via an algorithm selecting newsworthy stories with an editor pushing out the best ones, that would at least explain the bias and lack of spam.
And change your web host to something like slice, it can't handle all our page visits and takes over 25 seconds to load.

This makes clicking anywhere on the site abhorrently slow too.
I can't believe it's not vaporware.

I can't believe they've ruined years of boasting about how hello world is as simple as "print 'hello world'" by making print a function. :(
"The timing of the ‘Pirates of the Amazon‘ launch could not have been more (un)fortunate. At the busiest time of the year for on- and offline retailers, this Firefox browser add-on offers users a download link to pirated copies of products that can normally be found in the Amazon online store."

I don't think that this is really such a tragedy. People who are going to try and download an illegal copy for free aren't going to be deterred by a lack of convenient link, as they would have had to install this in the first place. Equally, people who wouldn't normally do so won't install the plugin in the first place.
I concur.

Part of this (lack of) speed is that it is hosted in Finland, and running over Telia's network which is running abysmally slow.

New domain, host, and a little styling cleanup should do wonders.
Yeah not seeing it on my end via my IP and the goog server Im connecting to.
I'm pretty sure it was fabled. There've been people complaining about the Diggification of HN since I started reading (but not commenting) two years ago.
???

the entire point of Monads is to put stateful, side-effect oriented code on the same level as pure functional code. so actually none of the "haskellish beauty" goes out the window with side-effects
Ancient Supernova Explosion Glimpsed Anew
"extend it to monolithic intuitions such as ... policing, armies, ..."

I hear they tried that in Somalia. Do you read John Robb?