skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think this is right. I don't think it's just in the eye of the beholder, and it is not turtles all the way down. It may be 5,000 layers deep, with people believing what people will believe what people will believe what people will believe. But at it's base, at the bottom, is at least the idea of people who want stocks because you get payed dividends for having them, or might hope to get payed in the future.

Some people might do that. Others might hope that the company they're buying shares in will be purchased and they'll make money on the deal. Others might hope that they can simply sell the shares in the future for a higher price.

> Imagine I was a business owner and I made up a new thing called "bleg". The way this works is that I need a new roof for my factory, but I'd rather not borrow the money for it from a bank. Instead I tell all my friends and family, "hey! Give me some money for my business, and in return I will issue you shares of bleg!" And my family says, "oh cool! great! what does bleg get me?" And I respond, "well it get's you a percentage of the total outstanding bleg, of course!" And my friends ask if owning bleg will get them the chance to vote on how my store is run. And I say "No!" And they say, "If you do really well one year, can we have some of your profits?" And I say "No! You don't get that either!"
> No on would want bleg. And no one would think that others might eventually want it, so they should get in early before bleg blows up. No, bleg would flop.

Of course bleg would flop. You defined it to have no value. If instead bleg were a percentage ownership in the company, people might indeed buy bleg (and they do, but they call it shares of stock).
Tl;dr: it's a smallish squarish rock.

There is, however, a genuinely impressive monolith on Mars' moon Phobos. It's about the size of a 30-story building.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_monolith
yo dawg meets inception. pure horror.
I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

- Steve Jobs

A couple of years out of college I started living by this quote and it has worked out great for me.
+1 for the most interesting thing I've seen all week. Bravo for thinking outside of the box.
Yes. But clients will understand this one better, with different known devices right in front of their eyes. Some of our clients can't map a resized browser window to a smartphone <-> tablet switch.
While I sympathize, my wife and kids need to eat now, not in 2 years when I pull equity out of an IPO.

If you can avoid the TPS-report-factory-factory (wink), by all means do so. But don't look down on those who are doing what they have to.

There's something to be said for knocking off after 8 hours, and going home to one's family as well. What I do is technically boring, but necessary, and doesn't consume my personal life. I don't have to spend 2 hours each way going to work through bay area traffic, either.

Yeah, I'd love to be building something super cool from scratch, but that lifestyle has a cost, as well.
I joined my first startup in 1988. My previous company was acquired by Xerox, and I met "lifers", (in their 60s, worked there since graduation, looking forward to pension). I didn't want to be a lifer.

My parents thought I was nuts for not going to IBM. My wife was working at Digital, and hating it. She encouraged me to go to the startup. Which I did, and I'm still doing startups 25 years later. (I predicted that my startup would be in business when Digital no longer existed, and for a short time, that was true.)

At that first startup, I formulated a very simple test for deciding where to work and what to work on. I ask myself: Am I having fun? Am I creating something new and valuable? Am I being rewarded adequately? (i.e., financially).

This has worked out really well. I've worked on and shipped really interesting software, I am constantly learning new stuff, and it has paid off nicely.
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Java compilers are very poor at lifting constant expressions out of loops. The C/Java for loop is a bad abstraction, because it encourages re-computation of the end value in the most typical case. So for(int i=0; i<str.length(); i++) is three times slower than int len = str.length(); for(int i=0; i<len; i++)

Does anyone know if this is still valid advice? I recall reading somewhere that the JIT has optimized around this problem.
Maybe I'm just old... or it's too early in the morning... but this effect played with my eyes & mind a bit, and not in a good way.
I'd never thought of this - but it's interesting that one of the foundational things we'd be teaching this AI is to lie to/deceive humans. Seems like a bad starting place.

Of course, the turing test isn't REALLY some kind of gateway through which a strong AI is probable to develop, but still
From their About section:

We estimate that we are able to track over 80% of all tickets that
are resold on the internet, and this percentage will continue to
grow as we develop additional methods of gathering data.

I wonder what is the percentage of tickets sold that are actually resold. If they are getting 80% of some small subsection of tickets sold, the data is must less interesting.

edit: styling
This is very cool indeed.

Cedric Vivier has made a LiveScratchpad that does live JavaScript evaluation in Firefox.

http://neonux.github.com/LiveScratchpad/

It would be cool to add the multiple function source to that!
I actually use YesScript rather than NoScript to selectively disable Javascript for certain sites rather than disable for all sites. It works pretty well.
I am not clear if the Klingon example was the author's (Matt Macari) or that was used by the Oracle lawyers.

Clarification?
Yes, but our code was entirely in these utterly unusable changeset files that couldn't work nicely with the version control that everyone else in the entire world was using; his version still uses files under the hood. There's a team that's trying to back Monticello with Git, I believe by saving each method into its own file in part of a Git source tree; that looks promising as a compromise.
I don't think the creative industry overall has been an extremely profitable one for artists. Through out history artists have created because that's what they liked doing. Only the best and most popular ones usually got the recognition and some money. It's just hard to monetize art unless it also has a practical purpose.
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IIRC Code Academy teaches JavaScript with,

console.log("Hello World");
This looks really exciting. I also like the way that it is presented as enormously simplifying a somewhat complex space. Great stuff!
I think this is the best one I've seen so far.
The necessary HTML dings the number of unique things up so it's not quite that simple. But I like the idea of being able to easily share your creations, I started with PHP and a friend let me FTP files onto a subdomain he set up for me. I remember sharing a "99 bottles of beer" print-out with online friends when I learned about for loops. (I also remember spiking the server load by increasing the number into the billions...) I think a JS oriented programming class has as much merit as a Python one. We can discuss tradeoffs more (e.g. JS's style of OOP is superficially further from Java's than Python's is and AP culture still favors Java/C++ style OOP, which PHP is actually very similar to) but I think they're both better attractors into the field than Java.
if the "noob" has money, domain expertise or connections to help make a new venture happen, that would probably help.
I couldn't tell if the Nuanti C++/CLI compiler was something that was open source, or if it was the secret sauce that Nuanti uses to port native projects (mostly WebKit) to Silverlight / .NET apps.
Looks intriguing, although I don't know if Smirnoff deserves to be #2 for Vodka. It would be interesting to see how the sentiment analysis works and why influences the score.
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read his post again. he's not talking about the click-to-play ui. there's a puzzle piece icon in the taskbar. clicking it displays a drop-down menu, and even if the flash is invisible you can choose the "enable flash on this page" option.
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If you're running Lion and need the old Airport Utility (5.6), it's available here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482

The new Airport Utility also doesn't give lists of DHCP leases, and graphs of wifi signal strength per connected device.
my mistake - I thought USB was limited to 500mA. Whatever it is, my phone is annoying to charge...
We already have a sort of AI that can be used for real world applications - it's called the Internet. Using Google, Facebook, Wikipedia and dozens of other sites, it's relatively easy to create a robot that can do quite a lot of things - the problem is that creating the actual physical body of the robot is expensive - humans are cheaper and still do everything better.

We don't even need AI, we need robots for specific tasks that would also be programmed to work around any potential issues (most of which can be identified and programmed if the field of application is narrow enough) - making them create workarounds/solutions for new problems would be awesome and all, but it's not necessary, IMO.
Some corporate jobs are better than others. There are cheap-skates, and those that will reward talent. But if paperwork kills you, it won't work, no.
Remember guys, this bill does pretty much nothing. If you read it, it simply allows some completely optional data sharing for prevention against attacks. However, in most cases, there is already no law against completely optionally sharing data with the government or private security firms.

But, tptacek said it better than I can: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3815912
New Prometheus ship looks a lot like Firefly
Don't be lazy. Throw out a price.
I really hope it's open source, I can't wait to give it a try.
This is so cool, that I think you'd get plenty of funding to further develop this via a Kickstarter project.
If Lisp is Maxwell's equations, then does that make Haskell Yang-Mills theory?
continuing to innovate is good, yes, but all the 'innovations' so far seem to come at the expense of one of the good bits i mentioned. if your product makes email more awesome but breaks interoperability, it's not awesome.
This piece of article is definitely targeted :). Kind of like self-help but for geeks. Nice SEO though.

That aside, I believe people can find a niche developing software targeting these soul-crushing jobs. Basically have a product that solve problems people hate to deal with.

Java EJB 1.0 and Struts sucks? Write your own framework, call it Spring Framework: worth $400M. JDBC sucks? Make Hibernate.

Dealing with Rails deployment sucks? Cloud hard? Come up with Heroku.

Silo-ed web-apps, always have to custom build CMS and comes up with your own workflow? Build SharePoint: $1B market.

Configuring and maintaining WordPress are not interesting? I heard WPEngine is making money left-and-right...

I learned that before you can call yourself a real entrepreneur, you should learn to get over yourself on these "shitty" stuff because what if you got your dream job but is interrupted with "shitty" stuff in between? Call it quit again?
As a Pentadactyl (after Vimperator after Conkeror) and NoScript devotee, I just wanted to thank you for bringing the integration addon to my attention. I had no idea that was even an option. For anyone else wondering, it can be found here:

http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/plugins#noscript-plugin
I think that speaks more to the general attitudes towards life of the teacher. The general premise is, "why challenge yourself when you coast through without putting in the effort?" It's wrapped up in sexism (girls don't need math), but boiled down to its base form, that's what she's telling those kids.
It's the latter, but I guess in this world of clouds soon I won't have the option of just keeping things on my device alone.
You couldn't make a living as a writer prior to the invention of the printing press--at least the only way you could do it was to get some individual or institution to pay you to write a book. In that case books were so expensive that there wasn't a big enough market to do so. Now the cost of a book is asymptotically headed to 0. Maybe you can't make a living from selling books in that world either.
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... because you couldn't reproduce a Rembrandt unless you happened to be, or hire, Rembrandt. In the old days, they didn't think about IP because they didn't have to: it was enforced by the laws of physical reality.
I'm using the latest chrome and this website is unusable. For a page designed to give me advice on how to make better web pages, it does about 100% less working than I would expect.
This is great, I would love to try something like it. Making each code artifact living outside of the file paradigm should enable new way to develop, but in the past what I saw trying failed (at least for me). The drafting table look like the abstraction that can make this work. The interactivity would be key too.

I can't help but think of a drafting pad and drafting notebook to allow us to work on our system everywhere...
Neither. The GPLv3 was motivated by practical concerns (tivoization, etc...) and it solves those to the satisfaction of the FSF. GNU software uses it, though Linux and much of the rest of the ecosystem does not. I don't think it's failed.

But it doesn't read like GPLv2 did. The v3 document is longer, with more definitions and more "legalese". It seems like they wanted to "polish it up" for the legal community, but in doing so I think they lost a lot of the beauty of the original.
> The article says Comcast will be first ISP to provide IPv6 to residential customers.

In the US. We've had native IPv6 with Free (3rd biggest ISP) in France since January 2008, and I wouldn't be surprised if other ISP elsewhere did it even sooner.
That's going to be a problem as we approach a world where basic human needs are easily met.
So you're saying that it would be less cluttered with touch input rather than a mouse and keyboard? I guess that makes sense... ;)

I did't say anything about it not working well with a mouse and keyboard. I said I had a hard time organizing things after I installed a lot of applications and widgets. I feel like no matter how much time I spend coloring panes and organizing them, the interface still slows me down. That's why I like using the Windows key and then typing in the application name.

I guess I just need to accept that the Metro UI is not for me, even though I wanted and tried really hard to like it.
> If you've got JavaScript disabled, no one is interested in catering to you.

I'd hope an amicable, intelligent developer would. Scripts don't always load. Errors happen.

> I understand the myriad justifications for disabling JavaScript, but I don't really care.

How nice of you to pick and choose users that matter. It must be a nice luxury.
Some of them could --- Jonathan Coulton, for instance, has been making a pretty good living over the last several years on his music, all of which has been freely available on the web since he was a fairly generic techie with a guitar and a hobby. (In part from live performances, and in part because most people _will_ buy stuff that they _could_ get for free if it's the most convenient thing to do.) Likewise Randall Munroe at XKCD (with revenue from tie-ins), etc.

How many of them could is impossible to estimate. But it's also worth remembering that for everyone who made a living at the by-now traditional, exclusive rights-based approach, there were quite a few wannabes trying to "break in" or "get discovered" by the industry gatekeepers, who weren't making a living at their stuff either.
>firstly, that it does not apply (no single point of failure like a king, in this answer here)

I'm a bit late coming into this discussion. But I think I should like to clarify that Kings were not all powerful autocrats. They had councils and other Kings they had to answer to. Still, some went "rogue" as it were.

So to me the question is, could one of the people who control the levers "go rogue" do they/would they have controls to guard against that?
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This, as usual, is amazing. Russ is just ridiculous. I range between being deeply jealous of him and deeply impressed at the productivity and quality of his work :-)

/geek-gushing
> Let's assume google issued a share that had 1/10 dividend rights and 1/10 voting rights. What would the value of the share be?

A lot more than 1/10 of a standard share, because dividends and voting rights are not the only things of value with respect to a company. In particular, there's also the potential for acquisitions and mergers.

> A share of stock confers two things. Voting rights, and dividend rights. That is what people are buying. Voting, and dividends.

A share of stock confers partial ownership of the company. That's what it confers. It might come with voting rights (or not), and it might come with dividend rights (or not).

Are you actually operating under the belief that the new class of Google will have zero value unless Google eventually issues dividends?

> bylaws

You mean the bylaws that Larry, Eric, and Sergey can change due to their supermajority voting control?
I guess if they are tracking 80% of tickets resold (and make the assumption that this 80% is accurate), you can back into the numbers pretty easily.

For example, the table for the Springsteen concert shows that 1540 tickets were resold. Let's assume this was 80% of everything resold, which grosses the total number of tickets resold for this even up to 1925 tickets. Now let's assume that the venue holds 20,000 people (this data is easily attainable - I'm just using 20k for illustration). That means that the other 18,075 tickets were purchased for face (another data point that is easily - albeit tediously - attainable).

So really the data is all there - the big assumption that this all hinges on is that the site tracks 80% of all tickets resold.
what about the drug industry? the movie industry?

Furthermore the idea that artists aren't motivated by profit is wrong. It is true that unlike -- say investment bankers -- they have intrinsic value for the work they are doing this does not negate the fact that they also want profit.
Also, the $6-8 million given to the University is after the UAA pays for all of the expenses of the non revenue producing sports teams.
Good Question. The amount of tickets re-sold definitely varies greatly depending on what the event is, and it can probably range from anywhere between 0-40%. I'd say for an event like a popular NHL / NBA / NFL / MLB game, the average is somewhere around 15%.
can you explain on how the website is unusable ? The website does work fine in Chrome, FF, Opera, IE9+.

Please tell me more (with screenshots if possible), will be helpful. Thanks!
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Um... how is "talk to us and we'll see what we can do" a problem? Isn't that exactly how proprietary licensing works for non-shrink-wrap developer tools like this. You'll get the same response if you want to buy ClearCase or a CAD tool, etc...

It's a commercial product that also happens to be available under a free license you can't use. How does the second part impact the first?

Edit: it seems the implicit context in your post is that you would use this if it were free under a permissive license, but not if it costs money or is GPL. That's not an uncommon position, but it's not something that rises to a multi-paragraph complaint on HN. You're complaining about the "GPL" instead of complaining that "the authors want to charge money", and that seems inequitable and unfair. If they were just another tool vendor, you wouldn't have posted: basically you're punishing them for releasing free software.
This is a great idea. I can almost see my development time going down by a big factor and writing much more robust programs.
I wonder, how hard it would be to do this in existing editors ?
Looks really nice! I'm wondering how you provide instant feedback on loops, where each iteration would replace the variables with different values?
He also wrote RE2 [1] and has published a few articles on regular expression matching [2]. I highly recommend taking some time to look through his blog, he's got some great stuff there.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/re2/
[2]: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/
I don't disagree with you in any way :-) these are web apps, not just plain websites with something like a commenting system.

Even with these web apps, I think its best to explain why JavaScript is needed. Except for google analytics, I'm still a huge fan of Unobtrusive JavaScript, if only because it makes for cleaner site organisation and code separation.
You've found your tribe, now what?
I expect the first troops to get it will be the ones who already use HUDs.
I couldn't find anything that indicates WHY Apple removed IPv6 support. I'd love to understand if this was an oversight or intentional. If intentional was it to simplify the user experience, fix a technical problem, or because "it was broken and we couldn't fix it"?
Would this give Oracle the ability to send a retroactive bill to Google for the great privilege of using a Java all these years under the assumption that Programming languages are not copyrightable?

Will new laws be retroactive? Does this mean the TRUE inventor gets a windfall? Does this mean James Gosling is a trillionaire? Who is awarded the rights of a language when new laws are created to copyright things that were previously not copyrighted? I guess it is he who can afford the most lawyers and the most justice. When previously non copyrighted things are copyrighted, the ownership should go to the parties involved in CREATING the language (gosling and sun micro), not the current holders of the language itself. It's like people are trading copyrights and patents as stocks in a stock market. We are trying to reward the content creators here. Not the lawyers and machine distributing it.
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