skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in the Nagoya, the Town Toyota Built, though not for Toyota. (Well, to the extent that anyone in Nagoya can be said not to work for Toyota.)

The great thing about Japanese corporate discipline: when GM has a tough year, GM blames the year. No way we could have predicted spiraling gas prices, a down economy, and increased foreign competition. When Toyota has a tough year, Toyota blames Toyota. You can bet that somewhere in the bowels of that megacorp is a team of economists reevaluating their currency hedging strategy, while another team is working 16 hour days coming up with a car that captures the imagination of the American consumer but is priced to move as compared to the Prius.

Keep doing this whole "Learn from failure and overcome it" thing for a few decades and you end up the biggest car company in the world and make the competition look like sniveling amateurs.
Who cares about the payer of a bribe, what about the recipient? That's far more important.
I don't support net neutrality because Google is behind it. Their goals just line up with mine on the issue.
Vaksel - we scour the web far and wide to report on every hire we can find, from the execs that put out press releases to the low level developers who post on twitter or their blogs about getting hired.
If you have objects or services that customers want repeatedly it may be advantageous to store the objects in S3, deploy the services from EC2, secure them via authentication/obscurity and charge in proportion to demand using DevPay. Without knowing anything about your application, this generic AWS approach seems as good as any.
anything to help improve this post would be appreciated.
Awesome site. I like what you guys are doing with jobwire a lot.
Sarbanes Oxley does hurt the IPO market, but for good reasons. It serves to protect public investors from unscrupulous accounting. Expensing stock options has been part of the International accounting standards for a while now and makes sense. Otherwise, you've hidden a lot of your costs from your financial statements. Also, forcing companies to acknowledge their special purpose entities prevents companies from hiding their debts. The article's point about "made sure that corporate directors would never again have financial privacy" is wrong. Financial transparency is always desired. Investment banks have to worry about the cost of exposing their strategy when buying & selling, why should managers be different considering they have a lot of insider information in their heads.

SOX is bad for statups, but not for those reasons. The cost of compliance for smaller companies is too great in comparison to their income. The entire SOX shouldn't be brought down, it should be made more friendly for smaller corporations and an effort is already being made (see wikipedia under heading SOX 404 and smaller public companies)
Ok much more likely is that houses near bus/train lines will increase in price and houses that don't even have sidewalks will decrease. Zipcars will rise in popularity and if possible people will actively choose to live near stores in walking distance. Renting on "main street" usa will be popular and some towns might even re-zone to make it more friendly to live near stores rather then surrounded by miles of houses and nothing.
Saving Capitalism No Sure Thing as Statism Undermines Economy
If I remember correctly, the MSDN Blogs software is written for all the blogs, and it's not written by Raymond Chen.

(Also, counting the number of errors as a statistic is tricky: It looks like that blog theme was designed for HTML, not XHTML. That would account for a large majority of the errors.)
Publishing is Perishing
Wow, your school was a lot better than mine.
Well, fiddlesticks.

Seriously, though: I understand that the App Store is Apple's garden to wall, but what do they gain by doing things like this? If they ban every book with swearing in it, then they're left with damn few books. People that want to sell books to read on an iPhone will do it somewhere else, like with an ebook reader app and separate book sales that Apple doesn't get a cut of. What's their game here?
Selling Business Intelligence software is very complicated because you need to communicate the benefits of the application in the context of the customers business processes. And businesses frequently set up their own processes to be unique. So they sales call and data gathering is pretty much a requirement.

But if your selling something like a simple SaaS application then it doesn't require the long process, and a 30-day trial is probably better suited. Or possibly just offer trials for each vertical industry, so its pretailored to the customer.
Most of the (developed) world is in a big pyramid scheme with obligations to retirees.

The whole deal was (usually) based on a rapidly growing population and is doomed to fail without one.

But old people vote, so you can't cut their benefits.
Democracy is not a good system of government it's just the least bad we have.
Democracy only fixes hard issues once they reach crisis level.
Whoa... read all the text on the home page and managed to ignore the rest. DOH!
Lisp is interesting in its own right, but I want to be able to configure my editor in the language of my choosing.

The Lisp is not the bottleneck. The problem with reconfiguring your editor is that you have to learn the API. That's a bunch of work, no matter what editor or language you use. It's not as if your extensive knowledge of Ruby means you can just sit down and start pounding out extensions for your editor.

The difference between the 2+N hours you will spend mastering Lisp + the Emacs API and the N hours you will spend mastering the TextMate API becomes less and less important as N grows larger.

I gave Textmate a serious try partly because I was curious, and one of the things I was curious about was: How great would it be to be able to configure my editor in Ruby, a language I really like? And the answer was: About ten seconds worth of great. I sat down to try to figure out how to do it, and took my first look at TextMate's API, and before I could even get into it the back of my brain spoke up: "Why are you teaching yourself the API to some proprietary software when you could be learning the equivalent-but-free emacs API, which is classic and was thought out by some fairly smart people and has a pile of very good free documentation and an awesome development environment called 'emacs' and which you won't ever need to learn more than once?" And that was that.
It depends.

Local diets will be fresher. Often that leads to better taste and nutrition since, for example, a fruit can be picked closer to its peak ripeness which means better taste and nutrition from it. The nutritional value can be salvaged with storage techniques, but most people dislike those techniques because they don't taste as good (I think they taste fine, but I'm not a foodie).

Local dies will be seasonal - sometimes very seasonal. In a place like New England, it means a winter of Apples and other produce that stores well, pastas and such, and salty, smoked meat. It's not how people who can afford otherwise want to eat.

Local diets could be impossible. Take an area like Boston. It's heavily populated with not so fertile land. With so much land already in use for things like apartments and offices, there's a decent chance it isn't possible to eat that local. If local extends to the rest of New England, the situation looks better. Right now, local food is available to pretty much anyone that wants it because few care.

Local food may or may not be more environmentally friendly. There are two things at play here. First, transportation and the associated pollution. That's pretty easy to calculate. The second is what you have to do to the land in an area to make it good for growing. New England will require more resources to be spent growing that a more fertile environment. Heck, Arizona and New Mexico wouldn't survive. You simply can't grow enough food there for the population because it's a desert.

Variety will be constrained by local produce. Avocados would become unknown on the east coast. Oranges in the northeast. This has two effects: 1) people like variety and "exotic" things like oranges and avocados; 2) it means that food that is very healthy for us (like oranges) disappear from our diets and our nutrition goes down.

For the most part, we don't really have a choice. We're not going to move people out of deserts because they can't grow local food and we aren't going to give up our variety and luxuries. Local food can be a good thing environmentally (especially for items that grow well in your locality), but the environmental cost of transport is less that the cost of local grown in other cases.

I think the easiest thing to say is, be conscious of what you're doing/eating. Don't deprive yourself of the vitamin C in oranges, but try not to make exotic foods a staple. And don't waste food. Learn how to store food before it goes bad. That will do a lot more good than arguments back and forth by people that want to stroke their own egos about how great they are.
Just installed this addon. Looks very cool. Thanks for sharing.

David
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What Makes a Good Programming Font?
For one thing, scheme has continuations, a powerful construct that Common Lisp lacks. But it's true that Common Lisp is generally more "featureful".
Are you planning to invest in a lot of Chinese start-ups?
“The change in the world economy is of a magnitude that comes once every hundred years,” Toyota’s president, Katsuaki Watanabe, told a news conference.

Uhoh it's the once every 100 years talk. Sounds like Zuckerberg speak.
I'm a big fan of Lisp, but this is definitely not true. Do you think the CMUCL (a popular Common Lisp application) team who went on to make non-sexp based Dylan are just people who suck at programming? Or the functional programming community in general? Some of the members of that community who are of a certain age would have cut their teeth on Lisp, but they ended up designing/using *ML and Haskell. Or how about Alexander Stepanov, who went from Scheme to C++ and designed the STL? Or Guy Steele, who invented Scheme but went on to help design Java and Fortress? These are not stupid people.
I'm not implying that (or at least, not on purpose). I'm railing against the implication that funded entrepreneurs are constantly appeasing (presumably moronic) investors.

Listen, the money isn't free. It comes with a few protections (for them) and obligations (to them). If you've got good leverage when you set up your terms and go with a good investor, I don't think it has to be that bad. I know plenty of people who like their investors. Many people who take money seek investment for their second effort (even if they're rich and don't need it).

Bumbling board members are a risk in the same way that (as the OP points out) a pile of money creates the danger that you'll hire too fast and build a meeting-heavy company. You need to be smart and disciplined. Desperate (or unlucky) entrepreneurs can end up with crappy investors and undisciplined entrepreneurs can end up with 12 VPs and day long meetings before they even have a product.

Clearly, anecdotes abound and there's no hard data... But I think the only one who was implying that there were any rules was the author.
They should do more research on news addiction. At least, porn needs a restricted environment, so we can't do this all the time. But news sites as hacker news is really a big problem for everyone.
I can confirm this. I am a web developer and the day after I updated my LinkedIn profile to reflect my new job they wrote a short article about my employer hiring me.
I also watched the trailer not that good. I definitely see no future for crowd-sourced movies.
That's the first option I listed: do the work quickly, then do something else. I never said that the goal was to get perfect grades in everything; the goal is not to be a martyr in the name of improving the system.
While this works out for the company, how does this work out for the investors? Maybe companies should build a profit.

I can't tell yet but it seems Slide is horribly overvalued, especially with giants like Digg and Facebook's valuations dropping precipitously.

Over investing in companies like this makes it all the harder for the littler company with a legit product.
I'm surprised apple haven't found a better way of dealing with the plethora of content/apps people want to add to the store in a better way.

The "mature" rating seems like something they would have had from the start, ala iTunes. It seems like there are plenty of violent or not-quite pornography materials that would make Apple and the developers plenty of money from consenting adults.

Think of the filth that springs from the mouths of rappers. I can't think of much literature I've read that tops that for sexual content, violence and misogyny.
A professor of mine once quipped: "What's the definition of a 'gentleman computer scientist?' Someone who knows how to make a their own computer language, but doesn't."
Knowledge of vim is not required but helps; the manual is pretty thorough.
There is definitely something to be said about being humble during a crisis. I think if more companies took this view during this time, we'd like exit this "down economy" faster.
Options are worthless because companies can't go public in most cases and therefore options can't be sold. To attract top employees, startups need the ability to give options which can be sold and therefore aren't worthless.
Would you mind sharing some examples? What promising start-ups have been killed or absorbed in an unfair manner, that used to be, or should obviously be, illegal?

The article supplies pre- and post-SOX IPO counts, and while that doesn't prove anything in itself, they do smell like fish.
Have you tried a local payment gateways that accept international Credit cards?

That might be easier. From my experience in India - most payment gateways suck real bad and at some point you will need to contact them for support.

It surely makes it easier to get support locally than overseas esp. with all the timezn diffs.
Copy of RIAA's new enforcement notice to ISPs
Ask HN: Review My Doohicky
I got bored this weekend and decided I wanted to data mine twitter and over the course of a day and a half, I made this:

http://malicelabs.com/linkalyzer/

and I would like suggestions from people as to how to improve it and what they think of it. :)

Edit: Intermittently broke things and blew away some data intentionally. Add(ing|ed) in tinyurl/is.gd/etc through-finding of real URLs and page title grabbing.
I found the above linked article while rereading this article:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/03/superstimuli_an.html

But I'm not sure of it's veracity. And the site seems to have an agenda. But there are definitely parallels.
While I agree that this will probably not be a great movie... who cares? Why must the whole endeavor be run down this way. So since they may not produce anything very exciting they should just throw their hand up, go home, and watch TV?

I find it very interesting that these people have enough motivation and drive to at least try to do something.

To me it feels like going and telling the people at the park playing basketball to just go home, they wont make it to the NBA....

Is it so bad to make something, potentially sub par, just for the enjoyment of it?
Small burdens are never directly visible. No entrepreneur thinks "If taxes were 5% lower, I'd start a startup." Instead, they think "If I had twice as much savings, I'd start a startup" without stopping to realize they're saving an amount equivalent to 5% of their taxes.

In a similar vein, if my video game character gets -10% to speed (or +10%), I typically shrug it off as nothing, but it all too often is the difference between life and death.

It was actually a comment similar to this one a few weeks ago on HN that made me recognize this as a bias. I wonder if there's any literature on it.
Wow, what a ridiculous article. I'm not willing/able to write a full rebuttal, but this quote should be enough:

"Delving into porn is not unlike hopping into a car without brakes."

Really? Wow.
It is easy to exhibit an uncomputable function, the busy beaver function is the standard, easy example. It is immediately obvious that a solution to the halting problem make the busy beaver problem computable: just stick to running the programs that halt and pick the largest output. The unsolvability of the halting problem is way easier than Godel.
Trouble is, there are completeness results. You can prove everthing that is true in all interpretations of first order logic. The statements that cannot be proven are unproveable because they are false in a non-standard interpretation of arithmetic. It is the existence of non-standard interpretations that is the big surprise, and the fact that statements are, in a sense, false that blocks proving them.

The equation whose roots are the Godel numbers of the proofs that it have no solutions has non-standard solutions. That is why there is no proof that it has no solutions. But the non-standard solution is the Godel number of, err, well what exactly? The trouble with the extra, non-standard numbers is that you cannot reach them by counting, so the proof they number is only finite in the non-standard interpretation. You cannot write it out. It doesn't count because we require that proofs be finite, and by finite we mean finite in the ambient meta-theory, which takes the standard model of the natural numbers.

It would be much better to sumarise Godel's theorem as showing that first order logic fails to tie down the nature of infinity.

Do we care about non-standard arithmetic? If memory serves, there are proofs that non-standard arithmetic is not computable. I can see why Bernie Madoff might find that convenient, but the rest of us can regard the uselessness of non-standard arithmetic as mathematically proven.

Godel's proof shows that first order logic is limited by the existence of mathematical monstrosities that we cannot use (because their arithmetic is not computable) and never encounter (because you cannot reach them by counting)
Here in Europe, we have Huf Haus, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huf_Haus

There's a Channel 4 programme called Grand Designs that featured a HH being built one week. Worth watching if you can find it somewhere.
How do you use your Netbook?
Neat analyzer! I think there is so much data that can be gathered from Twitter that we have no idea exists.
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It is. Just depends which field. Surreals, superreals, hyperreals... People have been taking the reals and adding infinity all the time.

Also, there are the cardinal numbers, for which the interesting ones consist entirely of infinity.
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Chaitin agrees with you:

http://www-2.dc.uba.ar/profesores/becher/ns.html

Note, the article is for the lay reader, but the gist is a correct representation of Chaitin's views. For more rigor, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant

Chaitin wrote a freely available book about his views:

http://plus.maths.org/issue37/features/omega/feat.pdf

A bit more discussion here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378658
And Lojban is better anyway. ;-)

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

http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2008/02/top-7-reasons-to-learn-...

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Lojban+Introd...
does anyone know if it's possible to do an IPO in Canada (instead of the london stock exchange, as the article suggests)?
All sorts of chat mediums generally see a lot more traffic (esp. off-topic general chatter) in the last 2-3 weeks of December.
World's best javascript library now gets better.
Maybe try and reverse engineer the TinyURLs so that users can see where they link to?
Would be good to expand the tinyurls or at least provide the domain they are pointing too. This may even help you consolidate tinyurls if multiple services are used for the same original url. In Python I sometimes do the following to get the finalurl (not fool-proof):

finalUrl = urllib.urlopen("http://www.tinyurl.com/5w5wod").geturl()
Have you tried programming in Prolog? The automatic backtracking search is cool when it is exactly what you want, but most of the time it isn't. So you end up working to keep it on the leash least it give you exponential run times when you were not expecting it.

I ended up concieving my algorithms without thinking about Prolog's backtracking, and then coding: bending the Prolog interpreter to my will by getting the backtracking to implement the control flow called for by my algorithm. It seemed a bit indirect and a bit clumsy.

My attempts at writing a parser in Prolog were absurdly slow. Later I read that there are ways of writing parsers in Prolog that work well, and writing parsers was one of the killer apps for Prolog, so I guess I never really understood programming in Prolog properly. On the other hand it is troubling that I failed at one of the things the language is supposed to make easy. I'm in no hurry to give it a second look.
Can they be used indirectly, i.e. X is the case because of Y, where Y is a non-standard proof?
Infinity is not a natural number (as is in Peano arithmetic) but in many cases it can be treated as an ordinary number e.g., for some problems on a complex plane.

You are in a good company thinking that infinity cannot be ever treated as a number http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/10/infinity_is_not_a_n...
Contracting is when you get paid by the hour. Consulting means a lot of different things.

Running a company and building and grooming a team is more than just launching a product and hoping. Products come and go. Protect your company --- even if it means (gasp!) consulting for a bit --- and you'll get as many shots as you want at doing products. Pin your hopes to one longshot product, and you'll end up a wage slave.
Myth 3 is most interesting. The problem with the claim is that it implies that masturbation is somehow "junk food" in a way that sex isn't. Most people I know would suggest the opposite: sex is preferable to masturbation, which is a poor substitute.

Furthermore, the evidence that it is bad consists of two anecdotes, one from a true addict (which is a problem), and one from a man who stopped for less than two weeks.
As far as quitting goes, the trouble is that there is no reason aside from willpower in most cases. You save (at most) half an hour or so, during which you probably wouldn't have done anything anyway. What you get in return is orneriness and frustration.

Remember: people have sex drives. They aren't bad. Fulfilling them isn't bad either. Just keep it in moderation if it starts to interfere with life.

Also: without porn, where would the internet be?
You just submit everything blind on the TechCrunch RSS, don't you?
It's an opinion piece. It's not even Journal's opinion, but the author's. Opinion pieces are basically rants and should read as such, whether or not they are correct at the core. This is easier with paper edition, where the context is much more obvious.

It's important to note the section when reading Journal's articles online, lest one treat an opinion of Mumbalumba's propaganda minister as WSJ front page news.
I'm a big fan of Pragmata. It's the only programming font I've tried that hasn't had nagging annoyances.