skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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My 2009 resolution to sell better has a decent start.
That's not what negative means here. For these studies the conclusion is a statistical test -- accept or reject the null hypothesis. If a drug doesn't give results significantly different from a placebo, that's "negative". More to the point, when a researcher collects a pile of data, does some analysis, and can't see a damn thing either way, then either the experiment was flawed to begin with, or that absence of meaning is a real, useful result. Maybe the sample size just wasn't large enough to show a small but significant trend. It takes a fair amount of confidence in one's skills to rule out the first possibility and announce loudly that there's nothing to be seen further down the path you took.
Dealing with small companies, I usually start by suggesting a simple NDA to protect them and make them feel safe. If they don't want more, I skip the administrivia and we move on to solving their problems.

It's been my experience that you're a lot better off being informal about the legalese and just invoicing as often as you can (bi-weekly at longest).

Companies without a legal department generally appreciate being able to do business in a straightforward manner.
Google's Eric Schmidt on Obama's Economy Plans
In our daily lives, we strive for quality in what we do. We cook aiming to make delicious food; we build to produce something durable and attractive. When I program, I aim to produce something of high quality: Performant, readable, simple, and reliable.
This is the difference between East and West Coast Startup Culture
The variation I was referring to was precipitation amount. The monthly average precipitation graph for Seattle looks very much like a sine wave. The graph for most Eastern Seaboard cities look much more like a constant function.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~dfisher/ziggurat/faq.html
Obama may very well have entered this using FCKEditor himself. Evidence: The title:

<strong>Executive Order -- Presidential Records</strong>

Empty paragraphs and all, this looks like most article content that gets spit out of a CMS. Of course, I have no reason to believe that it was Obama in particular, but you never know, it was his first executive order...

Also, a sign of things to come for lobbyists:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrder-Et...
I like to make the distinction between "airport" business books and "business school" business books. It's a useful distinction, simply because compared to engineering, business is hard (Anyone can build a product, selling it and making it succeed is hard). The problem is that the vast majority of successful people will talk about the "airport" business book that was the key to their success because their experience was primary based on luck, with some crappy motivational type writing along the way (Hey, Tim Ferris, I'm talking about you).

Michael Porter is an excellent place to start if you want to read thoughtful writing on how to actually create successful businesses. Just expect it to be as challenging as a good technical book.
Have you tried using an X11.app terminal instead of Terminal.app terminal? That may have different/better results.
Although to be fair they did inadvertently spur the growth of the netbook market that has since entirely overtaken them.

This.

I think the most positive light to put OLPC in is to compare it to the Xerox Alto: a machine that does some radically new things that spawn an industry, but fails to spearhead that industry itself.

Also, the OLPC News' rebuttal sounds a little catty, but makes some good points. I still think it's a little bit of bad style to say "nuh uh, YOU'RE the stupid-head!"; let your argument against the original author's reasoning say that for you.
Good steps, at least for pharma:

- Require better registration of clinical trials and automatic aggregation of results, as part of medical regulation

- Make the clinical data submitted to the FDA (or equivalent agencies) public, or at least accessible to researchers. Currently, the data sent to journals is not the same set previously submitted to the FDA; it's been touched up to make it more suitable for publication. Another paper found that overall these papers show slightly more positive results than the corresponding FDA data does. (Dunno how they managed to get that data set.) Authors have their own specific justifications for this, but the overall trend is bad.
A problem for the PC nuts, in particular those that maintain words like "waitress" are sexist, is that they're very often hastening the descent to a masculine-neutral, and so are ultimately complicit in preserving the very system they oppose.
Bah! 5 months? Rails has an acts_as_crm plugin, I could've been done in 5 seconds. Next! :P
That's an interesting idea. Even if the companies went away, I'm sure the patents didn't. Boo...
And I'd probably be an easy sell. Let's do this via e-mail.
Seems like a tough call to me (as in, I think it fits in this case). There was a fairly well commented story about the issue of the oath previously. This seems like a fitting follow-up.
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Clear, meaning: we want our games to be fun. Startups also have pretty clear goals: make something of value and make tons of money while doing it.

Poorly-defined, meaning: one man's fun is another man's boredom, it's hard to pin down what exactly "fun" is. Thankfully, though, there are many good educated guesses, so we can't act like "fun" is impossible to define.
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"Starting today," Mr. Obama said, "every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known."

I may never get over the astonishment of seeing a president who thinks like I do.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/us/politics/22obama.html
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And the hacker angle is...?
While I agree with most of this article, one consideration not mentioned is the time and trouble involved with an office search/build-out/move. Having been through this countless times, it always seems to be a bigger than expected drain on the entire company.

Depending on the amount of space being leased and cost, sometimes it's just not worth spending weeks haggling or ending up in a short-term lease or sublease that means you're going to have to do it again in a year. Especially if that time and energy could be spent on improving your business instead.
"Jumped the chasm" meaning "made it over safely?" I don't know if I've seen anything recently claiming decline in Facebook.

I think Twitter seems to be hitting a sort of limit. It's not picking up new people quickly, at least within my observable network. On the other hand, it's gaining a lot of older users. Most of my extended family is now on Facebook, aunts and uncles and grandparents included.
Wait, how does the title mean Obama did it directly? I'd suspect that he drafted the order, but there's no evidence of this being anything other than a copy.

The no-lobbyists order has been a long time coming. I'm thrilled.
With the exception of JFK (the "one from range on a moving target"), all of the other successful assassins used pistols at close range. This made it far easier for them to actually hit the head of their target.
I see we're also celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of naysayers insisting that Apple has to do things the way the PC market dictates it should.
One is that there's going to be a lot of data in there. It will turn out to be possible to reconstruct a lot of concealed things by noticing patterns, and by connecting indirect evidence.

More generally it represents a dramatic shift toward hacker values.
Will Cloud Computing, Virtualization Become Hacker Heaven?
The booming popularity of virtualization, cloud computing and other new technologies may prove too tempting for malware authors to resist -- and could prompt a wave of attacks in 2009, according to security vendor AppRiver. Businesses may be especially at risk because they're looking to such technology to help them cut costs during the recession, Fred Touchette, senior security analyst at AppRiver, told InternetNews.com. While these technologies will see strong growth this year, despite the grim outlook for overall IT spending, they also could mean better potential paydays for the hackers.
Good points, I hadn't considered that it is much more difficult to hit a head, increasing the chance of failure.
Now, now.
Amazon gets clever with web hooks
Read more about webhooks http://webhooks.pbwiki.com/ and http://www.slideshare.net/progrium/web-hooks-and-the-program...
You're right. A true hacker never writes user documentation for his software, so this is definitely not hacker news. (Ignore this comment if you only ever use MDI applications).

Edit: My bad, MDI interface is as stupid as LCD display.
You're too young to remember ARPA - it is possible for government to make sane technology investments, but it does require taking them out of the hands of politicians.
Um, at the nsf website? Or was this one of those rhetorical questions?
"Crossing the Chasm" is a popular book in Silicon valley, and basically refers to making the leap from early adopters to a mainstream audience - it's clear that facebook is there, and benefiting a lot from it. And twitter isn't there quite yet. They are stuck in the chasm, which I referred to as "jumping the shark," suddenly verging on not being cool, but with no real mainstream audience awaiting them.
Of course, almost anything can, and has, been given a "science shine". (This shouldn't be surprising - scientists are humans too.)

As Eisehower put it in his farewell address "Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite."
Wow.. There's a lot of hate going on here. If you don't like it, don't use it. I would have thought that the HN community would appreciate this solely for the novelty factor.
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Wow - did you grow up on a diet of seal blubber? I'm from Ottawa, currently living in SV. I only miss the snow once in a while - more now that I have kids though.
Paradigms lost: The Windows 7 Taskbar versus the OS X Dock
Many interesting thoughts here. A few comments:

It is very difficult to make a launch vehicle powerful enough of your own. No matter how you do it, you will need a good deal of propellant for lunar transit, descent and landing. This means the launch mass is bound to be relatively high. Also, your launch vehicle has to be capable of reaching orbital velocity (approximately mach 22). Even the best amateur rockets, to my knowledge, have only achieved around a fourth of this velocity, and that is with no payload.

Ion drives aren't practical for a mission like this for a number of reasons. For a full discussion of why, please see this article: http://openspacex.org/2008/10/06/escaping-the-grip-of-mother...

If you are interested in having your ideas seriously considered, please consider joining Team FREDNET, an open source team in the Google Lunar X PRIZE. Most everyone are welcome: http://www.teamfrednet.org
It's nice to see a fellow asp.net website. It also looks like you're using the mvc beta. Though, the site could use a designer.
On day one...

“When you set very tough rules, you need to have a mechanism for the occasional exception,”

...they're making exceptions. Specifically, "When the President does it, it isn't illegal.
Good points, but I wonder how many early stage startups actually sign the long term class A office space leases that so irk the author.
Except the Bush admin had the foresight to use a private email system whose archives magically got "lost".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_e-mail_controv...

But hey, maybe they accidentally used the official email system for something that might be of interest.
Well, same with normal kevlar, people still die from chest shots while wearing those.
Every time we have looked at a class A lease, the leasing agent has pushed for a minimum term of 3 years. When we looked at executive offices the lease term was really short but the cost/sqft was really high.
Plus, if Rice was appointed President, I don't think that Obama could legally just reacquire his deserved Presidency. She would have to appoint a VP and whoever (the Congress?) would appoint someone to replace her.
Personally I find the problem the lack of raw data. We need a much more opaque process with science. Imagine a website that allowed the following workflow:

1. Upload hypothesis
2. Describe experiment
3. Add datasets as they come in
4. Analyse data
5. Publish

This way, if there was a new amazing result, the first thing you would do is go through the raw data to check. Re-test the statistics. You could automatically look for signs of fraudulent data.
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I posted something very similar several days ago called "Finding the 2%"http://www.leveragingideas.com/2009/01/19/find-the-two-perce...
I am sure that's why google didn't implement it earlier; perhaps they have some licensing deal with those companies now if they are still around. It's pretty simple technology.
Agreed about Brad Bird.

The other Pixar director I really like (actually more than Brad Bird) is Andrew Stanton. I think that Wall-E and Finding Nemo are Pixar's best works yet :)
I'm also interested in writing and shooting short films. I've only shot one so far, a 3 minute Super8, but I have some more scripts and would like to shoot the next one, a digital short, some time this year.

I would love to do it full time, but never as a career.
Apple took how long to make their phone offering? Rushing isn't always ideal.
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weren't those emails magically found a few days ago? Not sure if I read it in a story or someone talked about it in a comment
Thanks for the link - I've been reading up on writing for a project that I'm currently working on.
Even though I typically read HN on my 12" PowerBook. I am typing this on my brand new (today) 15" MBP. I haven't done much on my 12" PowerBook for some time and use it very much as a "Netbook". If I am not reading the latest threads on it, I will be reading them on my iPhone. Why exactly does Apple need a "netbook" when it has the Touch and iPhone? If you want a cheap Apple "netbook" go buy a used iBook. Or a really expensive Air... now I am just rambling...
If it's not illegal, it's not worth doing
Apple just doesn't discuss future products until they're finalized and unveiled at some big event. If Apple is planning a netbook, they will first make plenty of official statements that there are no netbook plans in the works, they are not particularly excited about that market segment, and then suddenly at some conference announce that it is on sale immediately.
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Because Lisp has about a million pounds of stigma attached to it.
Where by "oblivious" we appear to mean "not oblivious".

This is a trend.
alain94040: I'm not sure the "viral" fairsoftware.net link in each of your comments is against the guidelines of this site but I think you should stop doing that before other people start copying you. If everyone did this the quality of HN would go down and that would be really annoying.
It's also unnecessary because if you post enough good comments people will see your link when they click on your userid to read them.
Try rxvt-unicode, it's a great, light terminal app for *nixes and can be compiled with 256 color support. (see the PKGBUILD: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13060)
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Obama read it word for word to his secretary, while jogging, over his blackberry phone. It's pretty cool news regardless.
Don't hire a programmer if they don't code for fun
Not if you're off by an order of magnitude!
This guy doesn't care about the law. This is just one of his many rants against logo design contests. E.g.

http://www.thelogofactory.com/library/articles/design-logo-c...
http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/index.php/contest-de...

Whether design contests are good or not, this argument is a sham. The real conflict is that design contests give non-designers a really cheap way to get design done. In particular they make it easy and low-risk to hire people from low-wage countries. And a lot of people claim the resulting design is just as good. So if you are a high-paid freelance designer, design contests are a threat to your business model.
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I think year round warmth makes you soft. I used to live in south Florida. I moved there in the winter and was wearing shorts when it was in the 60s while everyone else was wearing jackets. I laughed at a friend of mine for saying it was cold. The next winter, I got cold when it was in the 60s and my friend got to laugh at me.
That's not what he was saying. He's saying what he said, and nothing more.
If you haven't been heavily client-facing inside a large company please, for your sake, remember to make sure you have written signoff from your clients at every stage re: expectations and deliverables. Clients spending their own money or with an incentive to keep costs low (been at this 10+ ys) have all read the same book, from single owner businesses to major international shoe brands: everything for nothing, yesterday, and "oh how about we make this little change, that won't affect anything, right?"

Also make sure that if it's a fixed price contract, you factor some expectation of hours in there and have a clause handling the case that if you go over by 10% you'll need to renegotiate, or as others have suggested, you pause until payment has been made.
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The company is not "treating them like leeches" just because they put a hard cap on API usage. 100 requests per IP address is plenty for any client-based application, and they have to put some sort of limit in place.

Maybe Twitter could seed torrents of all tweets in a given time period, putting up new torrents as soon as possible. It seems like that could scale indefinitely, although it might be crazy for Twitter to give away so much of its data.
Check Elance, they have several sample agreements you can choose from. In fact, many of the rent-a-someone services will offer these.

Personally, I kept an agreement around for years. Over time, I would add or subtract from it, but in general, once you have an solid contract agreement, you shouldn't need another.
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Supreme Court deals death blow to antiporn law
The media has been placing the blame for the imperfect oath on the Chief Justice, but the fault appears to be with the President.

In the clip of the Vice Presidential oath the first phrase is "I [name] do solemnly swear..." Both the Justice and the Vice President get it right. In the clip of the Presidential oath, the Chief Justice attempts to speak the full first phrase, but is interrupted in the middle by the President.

The President is the one who starts the deviation. The Chief Justice then goes on to mangle an important line.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5VB4LgOH58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EHOHe-_uQg
There's a lot of data and political-systems content related to just about every executive action. I'm not looking forward to a parade of Executive Order text submissions from Obama fans who can squint and find a hacker angle in anything.

On the face of it, there is one major change under the new order: a former president can no longer unilaterally request withholding of their records (until possibly reversed by a court order). Now, the Archivist acting with the approval of the current President can ignore a former President's wishes.

Whether that's really a dramatic shift in practice, we'll see. (There may not be a single record actually released by this change, if Obama and his Archivist agree with former Presidents on any requests.) An article actually arguing this is a dramatic pro-hacker shift would be welcome. In the meantime, the raw Order text with a spun headline is a bad precedent.

I fully expect tenuous submissions of this type will fade with time. But the sooner they are replaced with analytical takes -- even if on the same subjects -- the better.

Editted with correction: removed "for the 12-year period" and reference to only Bush-43 and Clinton-42 as being affected. The prior policy extended to any former President.
What's wrong with PLT-Scheme? It's well-documented, has a decent amount of libs and its syntax its much cleaner than CL's one, but can't find any reference about anyone using it in production code(other than Arc).
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Lexington/Bedford/Concord are reasonably walkable if you live in a house close to the downtown area (which admittedly can be hard to find & rather expensive). I used to walk to the library, post office, bank, & 2 supermarkets in Bedford, which is the least walkable of the three. Lexington & Concord have downtown areas that are just as walkable as Mountain View or Palo Alto.

The food sucks in suburban Massachusetts though. There're like no decent restaurants in any of those town centers, and you've got a point about them being dull. Some decent places in Cambridge, but then you're back to being too urban.

The one thing I really like about the Boston suburbs is the abundance of greenery. A lot of houses are built on an acre or more, with buffer forests because the streets never run straight in Massachusetts. AFAICT these just don't exist in Silicon Valley until you get out to the foothills, and those communities don't really have downtown areas at all.
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I'm from Memphis and I used to work at FedEx. I'm really proud right now of the way that FedEx handled it. People need to realize that you can't know a city unless you live there for a long time. There are bad things about it, but there are some really great things about it too.
this is practically unreadable on the iPhone.
I can't wait til the day a US Pres use "Don't be evil" as motto for his administration.
Poker was deemed a game of chance by the US Government. That's why US Banks can't work directly with poker sites anymore.
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Congrats PG & JL!
I sense that this is going to be just the beginning of an "astonishing" year regarding what went down during the Bush years. Watergate Part II
Throw your hard drive away, Google's Gdrive arriving in 2009