skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a suit at common law, though, this is a seizure by government officials. The courts have generally held that those only have to allow you a chance to legally contest it after the fact.
Finally! This class was supposed to start in January 2012, hopefully all the technical kinks are worked out. Does anyone know what the issue was? I believe all the Stanford online learning classes were affected.
Alan Parson's makes this point, too: http://boingboing.net/2012/02/10/alan-parsons-on-audiophiles...
Pretty great article. Though I wish someone could point to the paper or whatever that explains the philosophy of Objective-C having insanely verbose method and parameter names. Like, readable is one thing, but they always end up like stringFromAppendingThingToThingToNumberYieldingThingThx and it becomes unimaginable to use Objective-C without XCode to autocomplete the other 40 characters.
Goodbye Android Market, Hello Google Play
Well, I finally caved in and purchased swomb.at.

Seems like the US govt is determined to destroy the value of dot-com domains. I'm sure thousands of domain squatters are crying their eyes out right now!
You're absolutely correct - there are a lot of things that get rolled into damage cost estimates that aren't legitimate. I was just trying to explain how it's pretty easy for the actual & legitimate costs to be quite high as well.
Yes, this is one of the worst trends right now. It's one of the primary reasons I killed my Facebook account and null routed all Facebook on my home network.

Any site that requires Facebook as a login or comment function is dead to me.
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Your 'friend' could gossip about you without even using a computer.
I have a relative of mine, who has around 20+ experience in embedded software/hardware areas

How exactly is he going to put up an online portfolio, or a link to a website, when he works in embedded software/hardware. Not everything programming related is done for the web!

Besides, your link that you have provided means nothing since I can't see your source code... unless you are going for a job as a front end coder of course.
This isn't true. The further away a galaxy is, the faster it recedes relative to us, and this can amplify well beyond the speed of light. This means different regions of space have had absolutely no communication with each other, as not even light could travel from one to the other to catch up with how they were receding from each other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#Universal_exp...
Can you please provide more information on this? A link would be fantastic. Thanks.
" To be honest at this point in time I would say PHP is actually the hardest to find hosting for"

huh? Every VPS and shared hosting provider out there has PHP hosting.

"Whenever I develop in Python/Ruby I actually enjoy the 'feel' of the language,"

I use a language not because of its feel, but about what I can create with it. PHP is by far the easiest, most supported, and has a ton of real-world examples of sites getting millions of hits/day using it successfully.

"I can perform the same operations but generally theres far more cruft, and a couple manual lookups to see why functions behave differently when hashes ("arrays") have numeric indices (I'm looking at you array_merge!)"

I agree with you there. My one main gripe with PHP is inconsistent syntax/usage. However, I dislike frameworks like RoR because it is too high-level. I feel like I don't have enough power to do some customizations and when I do need to do them in something like RoR, I have to add hacks onto it.
I need a job more than I need to comment on a news article, though.
cool, so does this mean the month-long campaign 37s has been running on HN can come to an end? I prefer to be marketed to by only YC-backed startups.
A subreddit being on the default set causes the subreddit to be "super lame".
I know this is tangential to your main point but I actually like and expect some bitching when I'm interviewing someone, and frankly don't see how you could do an honest interview without some bitching. The supposed motivation for the no-bitching rule is that the interviewer thinks you'll complain about their company in two years. Well yeah, no shit, if you get fired or quit in two years, you're not going to run around telling people what a pleasure it was to work there, and that the breakup was mutual.

The people who seem to say every place they worked was good, had a good team, had no problems, etc, always seem to be mediocre. The interviewee who's like "Oh my god, they didn't even use source control when I got there. I setup a subversion server on my desktop." shows that they take charge. Horror stories about bug tracker shenanigans are always good for a laugh. "Well 'critical' was getting used too much, so they created 'ultra-critical'. After all the bugs ended up at that status they added 'yesterday'." Funny, but also shows they understand the concept of prioritizing. The people who bitch, and (more importantly) take the steps to make things better are the people I want to work with.

Of course it can be overdone, and I've had people who bitched so much or were so caustic that they got a pass.

I guess maybe things would be different if I was working in Fortune 500 IT-land. Maybe then I wouldn't want someone who complains about Fortune 500 IT-land shenanigans, and just want someone who will just implement the code written by the Grand Architects on Mount High. But it's like the rule about wearing a suit and covering up any tattoos. I will never wear a suit to an interview again. If that's a pass, that's a company I don't want to work for. Same with an interviewer who would be outraged that you complained about the company you're actively trying to leave. Or that you had the gall to take a year off of your professional life to tour Europe.
So, off topic a little here, but does anybody else find the "title" attribute on the main content divs to be very irritating? Apparently I read with my mouse cursor sometimes (I didn't realize I did this), and that pesky "title" attribute constantly causes a tooltip to get in my way.
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Looking at the source code of the example projects, it seems that Sencha Touch continues to use HTML/JS/CSS as a development environment for native apps, not to be used on the web in any other way than as mobile apps. For instance, a search engine cannot read any content presented by a Sencha app, unlike a jQuery Mobile app. To me, this makes their description of Sencha Touch 2.0 as an HTML5 framework disingenuous. All attacks that have been made against Flash for compromising the accessibility of content for a slick user interface can be levied against Sencha Touch. Can this be avoided?
Audio Recording: Phone Patch with Google Voice or Skype
The tool obviously works best with a fairly wide browser window, but patches are more than welcome to improve the CSS, which is obviously kind of primitive. For simple stuff, filing an issue would be great--no need for a full-blown pull request.
Most people don't care about privacy violations. That's especially true of the Facebook userbase, because if they did care they would not be Facebook users.

Seriously, most people will say things like "I don't have anything to hide so it doesn't bother me".
All Your Internets Belong to US, Continued: The Bodog.com Case
Or not-so-subtle ones, debugging Cocoa is a pain even for simple stuff (such as the wrong format spec to NSLog) when Xcode drops you into a debugger full of assembly 9 times out of 10 instead of saying "Look here, this NSLog call makes no sense" and dropping you in obj-c code.
I got all excited for a minute and thought this was about Neuro Linguistic Programming. :) Still, sounds very interesting - I should definitely check it out!! (wasn't so excited when I saw it was a different NLP - but got excited again when I found out wat it was)
Even cheaper, if you want to trade futures, the margin requirements are even lower, $500-1000 minimum, and you can use Ninjatrader as your trading platform for certain brokerages. Ninjatrader has a pretty good C# interface to trade with. You have to pay for Ninjatrader if you want to trade, but you can sim trade and write your own trading strategies and backtest for free until you're ready to trade for real.
Of course it doesn't have a lag. You can't actually differentiate a native and a sencha app.
Ok, I know you have your reasons but why the US ? Why don't you start your startup in your own country or in another European country ? Any good reason for not staying there ?

As an european I sadly see everyone from this side of the world trying desperately be part of the new startup gold rush in the US. Fund startup, get VC money, sell it, ???, profit.

Not very long time ago, I was like you too. I wanted so much to move to SF and build my startup or be part of one. But now, I don't care. Why ?

1 - I can incorporate my company in Delaware right from my living room.

2 - I can have hire good professionals from around the world to work with me (looking at 37signals as a role model)

3 - And quite frankly, the position of the US regarding european citizens that want to live and work in the US is too restrictive and amazingly elitist. Not even Mordor is that hard travel to.
I just wished other countries had the same mesures/restrictions as they do for US citizens that want to live and work abroad.
Europe (although lots of americans couldn't even put it on the map) isn't made of third world countries.

4 - Also, lots of good startups are operating in this side of the world.

So, why are you giving the US all the credits for your work ? If they don't want you, screw it. It's not the end of the world, and your can pretty much do the same thing here as you would over there.

As a developer and founder of a new born company, I feel like we need to show the world that europe is a good place to fund a startup, we might not have the YC or other popular investors, but if more and more startups got created here, maybe they would start looking for us.
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>Security updates and general updates need to be cleanly separated.

Debian is very good at that BTW. At least they were when I ran Debian in 2006. (And you can use a 56K modem to keep a Debian box updated with security patches; can't do that with OS X or even Arch Linux.)
All evidence currently points to the universe being infinite, and with trivial topology. So no, you will not return. This can turn out to be incorrect in the future however.

The more interesting question is that if the universe is infinite, what does it mean to "expand" and "contract." Specifically, if the universe was originally localized to a small space in the time of the Big Bang, that space was actually also infinite! When you shrink infinity you still get infinity. The only difference is our rulers are way bigger. Everything will causally affect everything else in far less time (nothing is far away).
Are you sure it would cause a collapse in its user base? I don't think it would, given that it's so ingrained in the lives of college students. At most there would probably be some outcry followed by a symbolic climbdown by Facebook, but a 'total collapse' is extremely unlikely.
It makes plenty of sense and it matches my experience. The UCSIS wants people that are going to come with substantial amount of money and set up a business.

They don't want someone coming in to go to San Francisco and network, pitch to investors, rapidly iterate till you find market fit, etc.

I think they should allow educated, motivated people to come into the country and give it a shot, but that's just not how the law is right now.
Why Google is killing the Android Market & Google Music
I'll echo this. We also have just two devs currently (soon to be four!) and we are still finding issues that were caused by the previous third developer, who was let go several months ago. Some of these bugs have brought the production system down for one or more of our clients. I'm quite certain that if he has gone through Jeff's process he would have been filtered out prior to being hired.
Good all around. It sounds like you did everything correctly. Consulate officials are known to operate in a non-uniform fashion in processing visa applications. That is all I will say in public. :-)
By the way... I'm moving to NYC in 16 days and I am looking for room mates. Hit me up!
You can get great performance (at least for iOS) if you develop it right. Besides much of the performance cost is due to CSS3 and not Sencha Touch in particular. Put $include-highlights : false in the SASS file and you'll see the difference.
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I think the verbose method names are a Cocoa design decision.
Nice work John ;)
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Yes, you can. In retrospect, I believe it was a good thing, but I remember in kindergarten my mom being pissed off that I'd have to wait until the next year to enroll (my bday is in dec)
It's because Objective-C methods are named according to the nouns that they return rather than the verbs they perform. For example, "[input stringByAppendingThing:thing]" rather than "input.append(thing)".

Methods are actions, not objects, so the most concise description for a method is usually a verb. Describing it as a noun instead requires adding prepositions and turning verbs to the gerund '-ing' form.

I realized this because I write both Ruby and Objective-C, and sometimes write basically the same thing in idiomatic forms of both languages. In idiomatic Ruby method-chaining, your code is a series of verbs with the relations between the actions defined by the '.' or the '()' signs, rather than by words such as 'to', 'from', 'with', or 'by' present in the name of the method.
The article says they are longer requesting username/password and instead looking over the shoulder.

Why not add in some of your real friends? I said nothing about bots. Tell them why you need this. Change the name of your real account to something else. Hide it. Disable it.

I think also that the new facebook timeline allows you to place "stories" and "events" to any point of time in the past.

Or start deleting what you want hidden from your facebook account and then hand over the details.

Or, how about some foresight. I don't know, how about I create a second account and keep that running side by side right now, because I'm in one of those industries that are douches about this kind of thing. I know some people that do this to keep stuff hidden from family members.

Man, I have to think of everything round here... :)

Everything I've just said I think is extremely wrong and if an employer asked me for these then I'd tell them to go fk themselves.
Apple iWallet, new patent granted.
I realize I may be violating the HN etiquette by re-posting this, but I did post it at 5am on a Sunday, so I'd really like to give it another chance, as I think (by reading previous discussions) that this would be something many here are interested in.
A friend of mine is a doctor. One day she refused to perform a dangerous procedure for a patient. The procedure had already failed once, and she knew for a fact if it didn't work the first time it wouldn't work this time either. The patient insisted that she do the procedure anyway. He turned out to be a big donor, and a hospital administrator told my friend that she could either do it or lose her job. She wasn't doing that well financially at the time, and had three kids to feed at home. Put yourself in her shoes. You're staring in the administrator's face. There's a 3% chance this procedure will kill the patient, and a 0% chance it will help him. What do you do?

I hope you'd walk away, and I hope I would too. But my point is, it's easy to say what your ethics are, and a lot harder to act ethically in the moment. Doing that little thing you were sure you would never do is so easy when your boss is staring at you, or your coworker needs you to cover their ass, or you stand to make an extra $20k a year if you get this job, or whatever.

My friend said she realized that day that in order to be a good doctor, you have to always know, at any given moment, that you might just have to walk away. You have to be ready.

I'm not a doctor, but it's a rule I've taken to heart.
Unless you've played with other languages that support these features, like Ruby or Lisp, then this feels really weird. Don't worry! Lots of great things feel really weird the first time you try them, like broccoli or sexual intercourse.

I find it really weird that there's no mention of Smalltalk, which is exactly where the weird syntax comes from. It's also where the notion of IntentionRevealingNames comes from, which the author wonders about.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?IntentionRevealingNames

(That's the Ur wiki, BTW.)

Thoughtful post but with less than stellar marks for research.
Hmm...challenging question since the topic it's asking about, finance, is so broad.

Wikipedia the time value of money, valuation of perpetuities and annuities, modern portfolio theory, mean-variance optimisation, and related topics. Really understand these. Also check out the efficient market hypothesis and behavioural economics. Doing this via Wikipedia is probably better than some pre-packaged finance textbook because it's hard.

Start with bonds: Fabozzi's Handbook of Fixed Income Securities.

For equities first try Pricing the Future - it gives a rare historical context to the Black-Scholes equation. I suppose reading McKinsey's Valuation is good for understanding cash flow valuation. Hull's Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives is the cornerstone piece of the field, followed closely by Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance. If you get volatility you understand the liquid equity markets.

Now you understand basic theoretical finance and the entire capital structure (Google that).

Final building block is global macro (not college macroeconomics - you'll need to grab a textbook for that). For this I don't know of a good book. Fortunately, the IMF puts out solid Article IVs, analysts and economists write stuff everywhere, and the Fed, World Bank, WEF, IMF, and a host of other acronyms publish enough data that you can play with to get your feet wet.

From there it literally involves typing things into Amazon, and failing at that, Google, and failing at that, LinkedIn. More Money Than God gives a nice history of hedge funds. The Quants is a fun read of the newer players. You can Wikipedia banks' histories and financial crises.

Go through material because you're curious, not to get through it. Follow your curiosity down branches.

The Quora community has done a lot of good at fleshing out these questions.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/internet-awa...

"That final version has been publicly available for months, but many ACTA opponents continue to focus on these deleted provisions in their arguments against the treaty."
Here’s what I said the last time around:

First, I consider this the equivalent of asking to record conversations I have with my friends. If you as an employer think that it’s part of your business to eavesdrop on my friendships and romances, then we know where we stand and I will be over here working with someone else.

Second, I can’t give you my FB credentials even if I wanted to. The reason is that by doing so, I am violating the privacy expectations of other people, who do not expect that the things they share with me in private messages or on their wall or photos will be shared with my employer.

I have a similar arrangement with the person I date. She is welcome to ask me about my FB and email, however she is not allowed to rifle through it at will because other people may have an expectation of privacy in things they have emailed me.
I'd never heard of /r/truereddit. Thank you for that.
Maybe he had help from Sen. Wyden. I know he was trying to open up ACTA and get it ratified by the Senate.
Thanks! All things being equal, d3 is _amazing_, by the way. I used it (with some difficulty) last year for internal reporting tools. I'm looking forward to grokking this slideshow.
Interesting that this article does not mention three things:

1. The designers of the Raspberry Pi have said that while their intention was to design and manufacture the device fully within the UK, the latter turned out to be impossible from a business perspective due to the high import taxes of materials for electronic assembly.

2. Why will the untested potential of the Raspberry Pi "save the UK" when an already extremely successful and much older electronics company like ARM (also based in Cambridge) has already got there first? ARM's devices are used all over the world for the lower power efficiency of their CPU designs, most notably in Apple devices.

ARM's success has had no impact on the trend towards services in the UK economy since its founding in 1990.

3. When the size (GDP impact) of the City relative to the UK real economy is six times larger than the size of Wall Street relative to the US real economy, you can be sure that if there is any change it will be very slow indeed.

The UK long ago given up the many benefits of engineering and manufacturing. It takes a considerable amount of time to ramp up the expertise to build competitive products in the world today. Just look at the centuries old Germanic Mittlestand and the 40-year Korean engineering sector development - the formerly fastest economic developer in the world. Also, engineering in the UK (unlike in the rest of the EU) has serious cultural and financial downsides plus little government support.
[T]he "Time" feature is essentially useless…[P]roject managers like to think it's a way of predicting the next project timeframe.

There's more to time management than just prediction. When I was working for a company doing client work, we used Basecamp to keep track of how long we spent on each project so we could bill appropriately.
I can't wait for a service to pop up where for $500 they will make you an amazing, sterling Facebook account you can "share" with people. It will be populated with believable postings from other people you know, yet all of these other people will be cardboard cut-outs.
I'd be willing to help. What are your thoughts on shifting gears towards Pyrus (PEAR2) moving forward? I'd personally like to start with the freshest of the fresh if I was going down the path of improving available package management options in PHP. My thought would be to create a wrapper around Pyrus to improve upon it.

http://pear2.php.net/

You can contact me via the email addy in my HN profile.
What do they mean by the below in the Git shortcomings section:

Git on MSys is an alternative requiring minimal runtime support, though a few of the commands need some work.

Need some work on what? I hate it when some statements are made without giving any explanation
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I agree that they should be more flexible (i.e. if someone can prove that they would earn more than the US average wage, it would be a net benefit to the US for them to be allowed in).

Further to the idea of coming over to SF and couch-surfing while iterating : The UCSIS wants to see 'CEOs' coming over. So that's what you need to give them. Your friends/fellow hackers may be surprised at the suit and distinguished haircut : But the picture you have to present at the Embassy (and through the documents) is one of business success being a forgone conclusion.

It goes beyond what you might do to impress a VC-like investor (who may also take a casual approach as some kind of signalling too). The UCSIS person is also getting 'invested' in your company. And they want to know that they're going to get their money back for sure. There's no equity upside for the UCSIS : They're much more like a debt investor/bank manager.