skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They will work to ban the permanent replacement of striking workers, so workers can stand up for themselves without worrying about losing their livelihoods."

Does this scare anyone else? I can't articulate exactly why this scares me, but it seems rather... un-free. If workers are free to unionize, shouldn't employers be free to choose who they employ and when?
>> He also dismissed iPhone initially and didn't understand why people would buy it.

IMHO he just told that to the journalist. What he really think about iP or what he does and does not understand is a different matter.
They both redirect to the same page... HN just didn't realize that it's the same page.
Appending a # to the news item URL is a cheap trick. Unfortunately, it still works.
Who saw it coming?
He wants to stop reading things and start working and you're recommending a book, cruel bastard :p
Once upon a time, Joel Spolsky actually wrote about software.
> ...unless massive subsidies were involved

...unless they tax you to death

...unless they regulate your industry

...unless they make misguided statements in press conferences

Actually, they got you by the balls. It is up to them to not crush them.
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Most laptops feature a button to turn off the wireless connection. I find hitting that button has a similar effect, you've just got to restrain yourself from hitting the button again.

My work is writing, so I find it extremely convenient to have internet access as it helps with checking if I've got the meaning correct for words I rarely use in common conversation. It also helps greatly with research, however there comes a time when I have to turn my wireless off and actually use what I've research, etc.
“Agile methods and startup companies… go perfectly together.”
A passionate following is much more important than a high unique visitor count. I mean look at yahoo, it has (had?) the highest unique visitor count on the entire internet, didn't stop them sacking 1500 workers.
About time Apple invented this.
As my Crossfit coach once said, if you squat when you're young, when you're 80 you'll be able to go to the bathroom without someone to hold your hand.
Lookery sells its ad network to Adknowledge
Hank Asher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Asher did something very similar, and his work ended up powering the searches for the Patriot Act.
How Good Was 538?
Does anyone else think he sounds like a tool? Maybe the article quoted him out of context, but... "They walked away from a public offering and we were ready to negotiate. We wanted to negotiate a deal. We felt we weren't that far apart. At the end of the day, they withdrew and they have since been clear about not wanting to buy the company," "Buying AOL? I can't talk about that, John. If I told you I would have to kill you." Mr Yang said he was "disappointed that they [Google] didn't want to defend this deal." "So I clearly don't agree with what the viewpoint is, but they are the government and they can decide on these things." You know what quote I didn't see? "WE MASSIVELY SCREWED UP AND ARE WORKING ON IT" ---> Which is what everyone thinks... if they came out and said it, then put out a cohesive-seeming turnaround plan I reckon much good would come of it. Criticizing other company for not buying your company that lost half its market value, criticizing the larger profitable player who almost wrote you a billion dollar check for not fighting hard enough for it, criticizing the government... not so much good there.
The effect of the bailout on one entrepreneur
You can broadcast in 720p resolution, but most users choose not to since the player is only 320x240 (unless you go to full screen mode).
In fact until fifty years ago working class Americans used to read the paper as much or more as upper class Americans. What happened is the papers of the rich started being subsidized by advertisers, so the working class papers couldn't compete and all went out of business. (Ads are worth much more in papers that target the wealthy, so the papers of the wealthy had a bigger ad subsidy, and thus sold for less money at the newsstand than the papers of the working class.) That's why poor people are largely illiterate and uneducated today, whereas only fifty years ago it was the working class that drove the progressive movement.

That sounds like nonsense. If the separate papers appealed to separate demographics, a separate income for one wouldn't affect the sales of the other. If people started switching newspapers they would still be reading so you wouldn't be able to pin to this a disappearance of literacy. The only way this could happen is if newsstands actually dropped certain papers in favor of others, but considering the demographic split, it seems unlikely that this would be possible in all areas.

Even if you grant that this actually happened, it's hard to say that this caused illiteracy rather than the reverse, Considering the shear volume of tabloids, magazines, and newspapers that cater to the relatively illiterate.

Either way, it's a massive generalization and I don't think it holds water.
"I bet users wouldn't be opposed to paying a monthly subscription."

If Facebook started charging a monthly fee to be a member it would die a swift death. What Facebook should do is start charging for additional services beyond a basic profile. For example: basic profile is limited to 20 photos/month, $2/month gets you unlimited.
this game changed my life
Go Phish
Ah, the one game that should've had a sequel but did not. I would've traded Monkey Island 4 for GF2 gladly.

PS The tears of joy box on the very last page was a great touch.
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Can Nintendo Wii Tackle Child Obesity?
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Official Google Blog: The art of the field study
There's hope for Linus! (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=355659)
What Language Do You Game In
Video: Dharmesh Shah on insights from and around MIT
I think he is saying that the new CEO would be willing to implement subscriptions and the fb community would comply. I don't think anyone is waiting for Zuck to step down so they can pay a fee to talk to their friends :)
agreed, obviously if you are studying technology and specifically technological assistence interfaces/tools then those specific instances have a place in the classroom. I would think firearms are banned in classrooms right? What about at police academies or your local "weapons manufacturing trade school". See what I'm getting at?

I just see overwhelmingly more times than not students using aim/facebook/meebo/yahoo games/ during class. I'm sure there IS an argument to be made for people that actually use their laptops to "optimize" learning, but they are few and far between imo.
No, they both _display_ the same page. Some sites will redirect either from the core domain to www., or vice-versa.

Personally, I’m a fan of redirecting www to the root domain, but anyway.
i never investigated flex builder, so i'll take your word for it. javascript controls turned out to be the solution for me, so i didn't look any farther than that.
Why don't you buy shoes at the mall and avoid the hassle of exchanges and wrong sizes and the ability to wear it out of the store? Clothes, to me, consistently sound like one of those silly things that doesn't work in terms of online shopping.
I would love to see them get in trouble, but I'm just saying that tracking them down is not the hard part. Convincing someone to file charges is the hard part.
Mary Meeker's Web 2.0 Summit Presentation on Tech Trends
Obviously. The federal government is not used to give huge amounts of no-strings-attached taxpayer cash to irresponsible people...
Last time I gave some serious thought to FB's revenue problem this is what I came up with.

They'd have to find a way to sneak in a few initial tiny costs that don't abruptly cut off users who don't pay (i.e. limiting # of photos etc...). Once you get enough people with their credit card info in there, make it easy as heck (one-click) to upgrade to "Premium" or something and push the Premium site hard.

Microsoft does this with their Xbox Live service. It's so ridiculously easy to spend money on that service once they get your CC# for something tiny. All you have to do is press the X button (or something) to buy just about anything.
"When we had a 94% top marginal tax rate in 1944-45, or >=91% for 12 years starting in 1951, was there a big "brain drain" emigration problem, and jobs going overseas?"

--> Mobility is much, much, much increased since 1951. I did a quick google to look for how much it cost to make long distance phone calls in '51 and this came up: "The first customer-connected long-distance telephone call was made on November 11, 1951... was the first call dialed with an area code, using what would now be called 10-digit dialing, and was connected automatically within 18 seconds."

Getting up and going wasn't as viable back then for most people. Likely almost all of the people in the top tax bracket have friends, connections, and associates in at least a couple countries these days.
Looks like /officecam has a bad usb cable. We'll fix it soon.
I'm sure scientists and engineers would have discovered and created as many cool things if the money was spent on peaceful research projets instead of being confiscated by the government.
This is the modus operandi for basically every web 2.0 company. I think never before in history has there been such a large number of businesses springing up and carrying on blithely with no idea how they're going to make money.
What CMS do you think this is built on?
I'm very jealous - that's fascinating research.
Our startups' past election maps:

http://www.uuorld.com/blog/?page_id=114

We're processing the new data as we speak. Should be up later today or tomorrow.
Of course, Schneier runs his wireless open, so he doesn't have this problem.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wirele...
Ask HN: how many points do I need to be able to censor others people's headlines?
My recent submission had a headline 'BBC fired respected scientist for denying man-made climate change'. It was censored by unknown editor to 'BBC ignored botanist for denying man-made climate change'.

The headline was not the best. It should have read 'banned' instead of 'fired', however anyone who has fired his lawyer would not be splitting hairs over the choice of words. The essence of the matter was clear to anyone.

What amazes me is why people attack the choice of words or the messenger (a tabloid in this case) when they should be arguing with the article itself?

So how many points should I get on HN before I can go around amending other people headlines to suit my religious beliefs?
Someone forgot to replace the "Lorem Ipsum" text on the signup page:

http://change.gov/page/signup

and the "Plan" page needs content: http://change.gov/americaserves/plan ;-)
As long as they find a happy medium - it's not going to be "scary"
We'll move.
nostalgiastart

I was into Day of the Tentacle and Full Throttle but I never bought GF.

/endnostalgia
traffic costs $78B per year, 67% of power gen capacity goes to transmission loss!
Compete.com #s are Way Off on Low Traffic
http://www.google.com/products?q=grim+fandango&btnG=Sear...

It looks like the game is still selling for $30+ in retail. I thought it would be a lot cheaper by now.
How would they do a sequel? By the end of the game, everyone's dead.
obama's campaign site as expression engine. Guessing this is too?
It does not have to do with points. HN moderators can change titles.

They only change titles when they are inaccurate or misleading. That was clearly the least of the problems with the story considering it has been deaded.
With the US legal situation that might be feasible, but in some countries you can get yourself into pretty deep trouble. From what I remember, German law in particular makes this a really bad idea. (aside from the fact that cease-and-desists cost money in Germany) Austrian law is often quite close to the German counterpart so I'm not going to risk it, even though I strongly doubt anyone would try to leech my wifi around here. (mine is the only wifi signal I can detect, and we get about one car per hour on our road, so not exactly where it's at)

EDIT: I'm no lawyer, and it's been a while since I read the articles on the topic, but the issue was effectively that you fall into one of two categories operating an open AP:

- you get treated as an ISP. In that case I think you need to establish some kind of (implied or explicit) contractual relationship with your "customers" (paying or not) and are subject to various regulations. Hardly feasible.

- everything your "users" do is your responsibility.

I misremembered some of this stuff, and there are no doubt various subtleties I didn't go into. The subject was covered in various articles in the popular German c't magazine. http://www.heise.de/ct/
My girlfriend just spent 3 hours copying her contact info from one phone to the next. Facebook could easily charge people for exporting their contact info into other applications.
YC is not an incubator, or at least not a traditional one.

On a tangent... "Obama and Biden will invest $250 million per year". That's $250 million of our dollars, not theirs. Maybe it's just me, but that type of behavior makes me extremely nervous. I did vote for him, but we should all be wary of him going forward.

I'd pesonally like to see the whitehouse take a hands-off approach to governing. At least one time.
At the start of the game, everyone's dead.
This was done a while ago. Surely the news is that Apple may stop randomly banning tethering on their phones.
I find it hilarious that you think a company with 100 million users need to have revenue figured out within 5 years.
When I was in school we didn't have laptops and we paid attention all of the time. OK, maybe not.

We used quill pens so we could only pick out a few keywords to scratch down to jog our memory: parchment was so expensive that we would rotate the paper 90 degrees after we had written in one direction and write across. You could normally make out both directions if you were careful. I think the harder it was to write the more we appreciated what we had. Not like students these days.

This is nuts. He wants his lectures to be absorbed the same way he did when he was in law school. Student don't need a laptop to tune you out.

How would you design lectures if you knew every student had a laptop and wifi? I can't believe we will be using pen and paper in even 30 years to laboriously transcribe lectures.
5-7 years is not a big deal -- it's more a question of what your attitude is, and what kind of lifestyle you expect to lead. There are tons of 30+ software engineers in the Valley.
Why is that relevant? Is your implication that a government-funded pharmaceutical company would be more efficent? If so, why? Just curious.
Yes, that's a little nerve-wracking. We'll see what happens.
Wow.

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=20...
The secret to super productivity
Love, Unity, The American Way, and Change, of course.
He sure is whiny sometimes.

First of all, there are things everyone should do even though they don't like to do it. Suck it up. Financial planning is boring, but hey it beats outliving your money. Dental work is painful, but it's certainly better than trying to chew steak with your gums. Wearing a condom is so not spontaneous, but I prefer it to having my penis fall off. Writing documentation sucks, but I have to do it if I want more than 3 people to use my code.

Second, using drugs as opposed to a natural method often gives a suboptimal result, and not just in a holistic / living closer to the earth kind of way.

Third, if you want to be fat, all the drug is going to do is give you permission to eat even more, similar to the way people take more risks when driving as cars became safer.
That is a local weather effect most likely caused by a shift in prevailing wind and ocean currents. Anyway, it says next to nothing about global temperatures.

Oddly enough several models demonstrate a possible cooling of northern Europe as a result of global worming. But, I think it's a stretch to suggest we can predict regional weather patterns with that level of accuracy over the long term.

PS: Magnitude of change is much harder to predict than direction of change and you need an accurate prediction of magnitude before you can understand the interactions of local weather patterns. Local weather is an extremely complex problem involving everything from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect, ocean currents, to the shape of the local, regional and global land masses etc.
No, he's just saying that private companies can focus on the long term as well, if it's in their interest.
Not sure which point you are asking that to, but I'll guess...

The reason inaccurate and misleading titles are some times changed are because people do not want inaccurate or misleading titles.
They'll invade :-)
Day of the Tentacle was one of favorite adventure games ever, but there was really something special about Grim Fandango. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other game that combined superb art direction, music, ambiance, story and memorable characters to the same extent as Grim Fandango.

I don't think it's too much hyperbole to say that Grim Fandango was the swan song of an entire genre.

Now I'm getting sad :(
No, I didn't miss the "only". I don't read fiction anymore. No time. I pretty much want everything I read to be full of new knowledge for me.
I honestly don't remember the exact name. I do know they guy I met had done his thing live on a number of day-time talk shows (Oprah-type), and had gotten quite a bit of publicity out of that.
No, I was not referring to the title. It was not be the best, but it was not misleading. Readers followed the link on the title, read the article and voted it up to the front page anyway.

Why to kill a front page thread with a lively discussion?
Did someone say Archigram? Walking cities in the near future?
I must be apart of the minority, but I still need to play this game. Added to my list of "things to do after I've made bank".
From an SEO stand point, this is a no no, heh :)
Sorry, I've deleted my previous comment because I've just found out this thread has been 'deaded', so readers don't see it on HN front page. Apparently only people who have commented already can still see it.

The discussion was interesting thanks for your thoughts.

But I'm disgusted to take part in a forum where an editor can shut you up if you touch his religious beliefs. So much for hacker/scientist spirit. What a joke.
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Out of curiosity, what's the average percentage increase in bandwidth required to stream a H.264 stream over the Sorenson/On2? Anyone know?
And what is their motivation--their theory of value? Is there synergy that they can exploit with other products or web properties?

You can set a price you want because you can manage the property as is from your description of the situation. So you can be patient.

If there isn't synergy and you have determined you want to sell I would pro-actively approach other firms that might be willing to pay more than a pure discounted cash flow model valuation based on synergy. For example, if you have a community of chocolate lovers, Hersheys or Mars might be willing to pay more than a media company that would just see incremental revenue.
Users with sufficient karma flag problematic stories. It was the users that called it down.
I'm not going to bore you to death with my questions so please you do not have to answer.

However, I am puzzled what was problematic with that story apart from that it challenged certain consensus scientific views (which was the reason for submitting it on Hackers News).
Ballmer Is Wrong About Android
Superstition.

There are many "SEO experts" who swear that the opposite is true (which goes to show you the value of "SEO experts," but I digress.)

Seriously...this is web-crawler 101. I think the search engines have it covered.
Fighting it locally assumes that we can. It's not always so obvious. Global warming increases the risk of drought, flood, storms, a crop failures. Due to the reduce supply of clean water, and poorer health conditions from the lack of food, disease may more easily spread. In addition, new biological attack vectors for fast mutating viruses, bacteria and amoebas open up. New biological niches can spur a lot of fast evolution for simple organisms. With the high numbers of monoculture crops around the world, this increases agricultural disease risk.

It's not clear that you can prevent these things effectively: you can only try to mitigate them when they do happen.
That's like 1/12000th the current federal budget and something a lot of state and local governments are already doing through the SBA. If you don't want government investments what level of spending are you comfortable with?

Edit: I think we could cut 80% of the federal budget (over time) and keep 95% of I what I want but I don't see that happening. Let's cut the DoD to 100 billion a year and see if anything bad happens. (That should pay for around 500,000 people and a lot of tech.)
Apple's Core Could Soon Include In-House Chips
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Remember that earnings is income minus expenses. So this includes the cost of maintaining the site. If it is a full time job then the buyer would be purchasing a 50K job.

Also generally smaller companies go for lesser multiples than larger companies. It really depends on how much time and attention the owner has to put into it. In the case of a publicly traded company that is close to zero for shareholders (unless you own Yahoo). But for a small business you'll have to keep an eye on things even if you do hire a general manager.
You can usually get a smaller stream for a given quality with H.264.
Duplicate pages are bad. They cause a split in pagerank. Discount advice of anyone who tells you otherwise.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/duplicate-content-question/
IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 + Scala turns the tide
"such a transition is inevitable since the company is already working on a mobile processor, explained Rob Enderle"

Don't trust Enderle, he's worst than most analysts, and never knows what he's talking about. Apple are reaping huge benefits from using Intel right now on their desktops, like for example allowing people to have virtual machines for Windows. This is possible through emulation with different machine architectures but not as fast.

Anyone that reads daring fireball will know to be cautious around anything Enderle says.

Here's some video of Enderle presenting Windows 7. It's funny because multi-touch doesn't work.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7696648.stm
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10 years is still not long term.
This is quite surprising:

I'm actually WHITE. Now, we: the white men, have considered darker colors nothing else than lower down the intelligence scale for hundreds of years...

BUT: if someone (like me), just out of curiosity, takes the opposite approach (that is, considering darker-than-white colored people superior in some aspect(!) to us (the REAL minority on BROWN/DARK earth)), that only fact seems to give WHITE people all rights to instantly down-vote such an heretic opinion.

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME on YOU, WHITE ONES!!!
Not as long as something like the government could sustain, definitely. People with really long-term plans might get incubated.

Am I allowed to make Bene Gesserit jokes on HN?
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Wow... Russia had that from a long time... it's the house of Baba Yaga - http://www.valdosta.edu/~sarcarter/babayaga.JPG
Yeah.

Either side taken to the extreme is slightly scary. Absolute freedom could easily lead to very evil corporations. No freedom leads to Atlas Shrugged. Some place in the middle, where we learn from things that go wrong and try to make a good equilibrium, is potentially the best for both sides.