skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Most of all, my coworkers wanted to avoid those “mom-and-pop” stores beloved by social commentators

I am suspicious of this writer & his agenda & the possibility of confusing the fun of slumming it with the fun of feeling trapped in minimum paying jobs(mentioned here previously). But the above quote plays to my other suspicions. It goes also for McDonalds, Nestle, Nike & any other pet hate companies. They are under so much scrutiny, that they can't get away with what a lot of the small companies can get away with.
I am he who DOS'd my cell phone.

I don't really understand what you mean - do you mean that 911 won't accept more than X calls from a single VOIP provider, after they proxy the call? Because the limit is humans answering the calls, isn't it? Is that done on a grid too, so operators from multiple regions can handle overload in one area?

Anyway, I would imagine a more likely attack would be on private PBXes. Only terrorists would want to take down 911, which should be resistant to call floods, but a much larger pool of criminals would seek to disable private phone systems.
stumbleupon is now doing this for their non-extension based experience.
Thanks for the pointer to Malo. I have looked at 960.gs and Blueprint as well before I decided to use use CSS Reset and then my own layout using the same technique as 960.gs
1. Ok. Good to know. Still seems scummy because...

2. They're adding their branding/user experience to your site, usually up at the top, in an effort to brand your content as their own.

According to think link: http://www.publaw.com/framing.html

There was a lawsuit back in 1999 in which some news orgs sued the pants off a site that was framing their content and running ads around it.

Outbrain doesn't appear to be running ads, but it's definitely adding UI elements and "login" and "about" links that I wouldn't want anywhere on my site. That's why I wonder if there's grounds for legal challenge, the user experience is being co-opted without prior consent.
In general, I agree, but if it's a really great video, I would like to watch it. And in an academic world that is growing to embrace free culture, you will only need one great lectures on each chunk of material. In fact, it is best in some cases for everyone to have enjoyed the same bit of greatness, because they can all draw similar references and allusions later. Not always, or even most of the time, mind you, but there are some lectures that are definitely worth watching.
Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video
Microsoft tried the subscription model and it failed miserably.

They eventually gave up and switched all the subscription licenses to perpetual one... A savvy colleague of mine immediately went to the store and bought all the subscription licenses on the shelf (they were considerably cheaper than a full license).
It's not the internet that changes that. It's Google specifically. IE, they are not following an advertising model in the sense that magazines or radio shows are.

They are certainly monetising, but I think it is a mistake toi think of it in those terms. Google is more similar to classifieds, service directories or even ebay then it is to the traditional advertising model.
Venture Capital Returns Dip Below Zero
Lets Have Mr. Feeny Solve It
Because such comments would be superfluous; an upvote should suffice.
Article summary in 3 sentences (apply these rules to whatever you want, not just table usage!):

If big sites do it, it must be okay!

If I can't be bothered to do proper research to learn why one should not use technique X, the reasons must be trivial and stupid!

If I am too lazy to learn how to do something properly, I must justify doing it improperly somehow!

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I haven't used tables for page layout in roughly a decade. I think I used a table improperly for the first time since then last week, when I was laying out a form and couldn't get it to render consistently after a Javascript update. I don't consider this the end of the world, nor do I take it to mean that CSS is unnecessary and I'm going to go back to pretending it's 1999.

The problem with sensationalist bullshit like this article is people will read it and form an opinion based on it, without doing their own research. Do your own research (and looking at the table counts of Alexa Top 100 sites doesn't fucking count as research, FYI). Learn the real reasons why you shouldn't use tables for layout (or why to adhere to various other web standards). If you don't find those reasons compelling enough to switch, then do whatever the hell you want -- at least you know why you're doing it.

Learn that if you choose to use the proper methods, all the layouts have already been made for you, so you can be as incompetent as you'd like and still layout a page better than Google (and yes, Google are complete shit bags when it comes to adhering to Web Standards. Thankfully, what Google does should be irrelevant to you!) Finally, at the end of the day, just because you use tables occasionally doesn't magically mean CSS IS DEAD. I can't think of a sufficiently funny metaphor for this obvious fact because I am too god damn pissed off.
that sounds like it helps with web app deployment, but development is unchanged.
"That's higher than any other basic profession except doctor/lawyer"... and computer programmer.

Assuming that pay is tied to performance and the material being taught is relevant (two huge problems,) a good teacher more than pays for their salary in the increased productive output of their students.
Agreed. Can I use "I'm new here"? Because I still slip up.
RE: Why does google put CSS inline? Because their design considerations are driven by 100 things that are so far over CSS Zealots heads they can't even fathom it: scalability, latency, back-end HTML generation, js compiled from other languages, etc.

From: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/100/beauty-of-simplicity...

But the original [Google] home-page design was dumb luck. In 1998, founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were consumed with writing code for their engine. Brin just wanted to hack together something to send queries to the back end, where the cool technology resided. Google didn't have a Web master, and Brin didn't do HTML. So he designed as little as he could get away with.
Help needed: Mapping a bidirectional list with Hibernate
Mapping a bidirectional list with Hibernate seems not to work as documented in the Hibernate Annotations Reference Guide...
There sure is a lot of cheap land out there, but nary an allodial title to be found.
How many of those inexperienced teachers stick with it? I know plenty of people who taught for a year or two and then left.

The system seems to punish new teachers and the job sucks even at 100k/year let alone what they start at. The types of skills that make a great teacher are in high demand. Many great teachers would also make a great consultants and where I work 200k/year is not that rare for senior people. Hell, at 28 I am 2 promotions from that pay grade.

PS: We need to compare teachers to other collage educated professions not just random call center / factory workers with lots of supervision.
How consistent do they have to be? Law abounds in absolute-sounding formulations that are never interpreted absolutely in practice. By policy (though probably not by law) my company has a consistent salary scale across the company. There are hundreds of people of my position and rank, managed by dozens of managers, many of whom have never met each other. (Yes, my company is really that epically huge.)

Is a Software Engineer B in my group exactly the same as a Software Engineer B in every other group in the company? Of course not; a pay grade is just a vague description interpreted by many different managers from diverse backgrounds. Yet people are content to say that we have a consistent pay scale.

The union would fight against it because they oppose giving any discretion to management, but teachers might defect from the union if it meant a chance at making teaching a rewarding and respected profession.
The entire case is really grottesque. It’s thank to that video that the idiots (sorry, I can't just find another term) got busted and proper actions have been taken to make some justice for the boy with Down syndrome.

This is only yet another way to prove that our (I am italian) justice system is such a total failure on so many side that it hurts.
Your tone and attitude is not congruent with that of your peers here on HN. Please keep this site cordial and just stick to the facts. Thanks!
I recognize that and assign none of the original attitude or my frustration to you. Furthermore, I recognize that you said "blah may say..." essentially making my rant a (response to a) straw man. me->eat(bait); :)

I contend that life in rural America (from in the country to 10,000 person towns) probably contributes less carbon per person than suburban life (say the outer 1/3rd of any city over 500k people). Furthermore, while there are always exceptions, people who live in towns where everyone knows their name have a great incentive to maintain order and not ruin resources (wells, sewer/septic, grade the land or irrigate irresponsibly).

As for the polls, I agree. Lies, damn lies, and statistics. For better or worse, there's a southern and midwest stereotype that regards curmudgeonly behavior very highly. These are the people that claim to not want anti-lock brakes or fuel injection but sure don't whine too much about their cars starting better for the last 20 years. Maybe those people won't ever want internet, but their children certainly will.
Who says changing teachers every year is in the best interests of the students or teachers?
I was going to add a few of my own points but there is so much wrong with the article he was responding to (written by InfoWorld) that there really is no point. Plus the people who visit HackerNews most likely know the pros and cons of on-demand vs on-premise.
Ask HN: Are you from Japan?
I found something out today that seemed interesting, and wasn't sure if it was representative of all Japan. In this book I'm reading, it says that at the age of 6, most children in Japan are expected to become independent from their parents (if your parents are taking you to 1st grade, it is considered weird.. as a 6 year old, you should know buses, subways, etc). This usually doesn't happen until about age 24 in the US.

Is this representative of most of Japan? Anyone from Japan have any comments on this? Once you reach 21 or 24, what are you typically doing? (this is not really hacker news, so feel free to flag, but I was mostly curious to know... I'm mostly interested in Japanese culture through the book about Yukichi Fukuzawa, who was fairly entrepreneurial)
Ask HN: Pricing Models for Subscription Services... Your Experience?
A question for the HN community as it pertains to subscription packages and pricing...

1. As a consumer, are you more included to purchase monthly subscriptions at a slight premium (ie $3.99/mo) or purchase an annual subscription at a slight discount (ie $29.99)?

2. As a company charging subscription rates, do you find that users tend to opt for shorter term billing for cheaper monthly bills or prefer longer term packages for convenience?

3. One of my companies sells a one-time charge of $39.99... very successfully! Do you think it is wiser to charge slimmer annual rates (ie $24.99) and a lifetime charge at say $59.99? Or, for instance, some type of similar package?
Cheap way of speeding up Visual Studio I/O
No, I was quite annoyed. I only turned it on to help remind me when I might be wasting time, not prevent me from reading HN. Without an override, that feature is useless to me.
Of course not! But talk of zealots and trolls seems silly to me when the issue seems mostly resolved.
nods

Okay. My bad for the title. I just used the title of the article itself. It didn't occur to me that it would provoke, but I see that amply now.
At least they're just storing a primary key on the RFID tag, as opposed to the actual data. The Boston subway actually stored value on the cards, and some MIT kids exploited that this summer -- (http://www-tech.mit.edu/V128/N30/subway/Defcon_Presentation....).
What does the design of google back in 1998 have to do with the inline CSS argument?
Thanks, those links look great.

You're lucky with the gf mate. Mine just keeps asking me, "What are these secret clever things you keep doing with the computer?"

The reason I want to move away from Windows is to learn more about how Linux works and use it to do more fun things. I've used Ubuntu a few times and I liked it. But I find because it's deliberately aimed at non-geeks, it has too much fluff.

And that's why I like xfce. It's a really minimal, simple desktop - less distraction for me. You should try it.
because of how Chinese is designed, the concept of breaking a word down into pieces just simply isn't natural for someone who only started learning English in their late 20s

Yes. There is much research to back this up.

http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Read-Thinking-Learning-about...

Phonological awareness (being able to divide words into sounds, simply put) is a learned skill that not everyone learns. It has implications for two issues we are discussing under this subject:

1) A country with a large number of speakers of regional dialects of the national language will find it harder to have people's speech converge to the national standard language without a boost from alphabetic (or at least syllabic) writing,

and

2) once a learner is well acquainted with alphabetic writing, phonological awareness can become so "second nature" that it feels natural, and the sound processing happens below the level of conscious awareness.
I am fine with it being gone, though I must say I was finally starting to exercise self control myself. Maybe he can add an option for "allow over-ride".
I agree. A calm call asking them when you can expect payment can work wonders. See also Len Sklar's "The Check is NOT in the Mail" for how to manage collection starting with your credit policy. http://www.amazon.com/Check-Not-Mail-Without-Customers/dp/09...
This is such a joke...does anyone really think that Google's senior executives are going to face jail time due to some trial in Italy? Laughable.
Ask HN: How to write financial projections?
Hello,
at the moment I am writing a kind of an business plan for an incubator program. On point is to write projections of profit and loss for the next two years.
My problem is I don't know how to estimate sales. I want to sell a hardware product in the consumer market and I don't think I can make a serious statement about the sales in the next two years.
How did or would you do it. Any are ideas welcome.

Rockin' regards,
Marco
IBM's new business plan: Run the works of the Clash through their software, crank it through Songsmith and make millions on the YouTube adsense.
trend toward treating schooling as a sort of nationalized childcare program

You don't think that trend is already here? The parents I know who are shopping for more academics in their children's school programs have very limited scope of choice to look for something better, as something better has little incentive currently even to be offered.
Didn't you get them memo? Comments like this were banished.
The way you see beauty in "perfect" code, they see in pure designs.

While I don't know these individuals, I find that most CSS advocates favor purity in the sense of obeying the rules, not purity in the design sense.
I copy & paste the data into a Google Docs spreadsheet with a timeline graph. Not fancy, but works well: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=piq4ly7pudXhSfmYvc0Jd...
StumbleUpon is an example of framing content right...a simple unobtrusive toolbar. I used that site as inspiration for a website I created during my spare time. Link: http://www.picahuna.com

I don't think there's anything necessarily scummy about framing content. In the case of StumbleUpon and my site, there's a benefit to the user experience, and visitors can immediately start using the site without installing an extension. Furthermore, StumbleUpon actually increases traffic to your site.
I have it on good authority from actual teachers that separating students according to interest and aptitude disadvantages the average and below-average students greatly

This is commonly said by teachers, but there is not a research base to back up this statement. There is a considerable research base (especially from cross-national comparisons) to suggest that grouping students by readiness at a given time benefits all learners.

http://www.accelerationinstitute.org/Research/Bibliography/
A great summary, Jasber. And with far less profanity than mine ;)
"Yeh see boy, beck in mah day we use't walk 15 mile into town just fer tah return our lib'ry books. Now, ah 'member it 'us a long way on in there, but it 'us important, and mah brother an ah use't kick a tin can down t' road so's the trip 'ud go faster. An' thet's why yeh should always code in emacs, so's you got somethin' ta keep yer mind occupied."

(Needs about another 10 sentences rambling on about walking to town, but I don't feel like writing that much)
Yes, I hope parents are aware of programs like this for the future hackers in their families.
From what I understand, something like 1 in 4 homes in America are underwater right now :)
And if Sousa were right, the country wouldn't now be full of clubs, bars, cafes and concert halls where live music is performed, and there'd be nothing to play on the radio (or, okay, download on Bittorrent). Music scales through distribution.
Update your MacPorts. It was just added:

http://trac.macports.org/changeset/46335
Other US gov't agencies use open source. NOAA runs a private sourcforge instance. They also run linux on some of their data processing systems.
Also, Ehrenreich didn't just work at a Wal-Mart - her focus was on trying to make ends meet on a minumum wage. She tried finding an apartment and a lifestyle that she could afford on a Wal-Mart paycheck.

Since this blogger talks about going home from work and looking some things up on his computer, I'm guessing that he didn't try to replicate her experiment faithfully.
In related news, they also seem to have outlawed blogging: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/26/italian_law_kills_bl...
If you only need a reminder just set minaway to 1.
Maybe Mechanical Turk could help with bulletin boards, etc.
I don't read memos and I'm not sure what "comments like this" are.
I wish I could vote you down because this just isn't true, Vista does not suck. This statement is so very tired that I sometimes wonder why I still hear it. What is it that makes Vista suck to you? I've used Vista for 6+ months now for work and I can't name anything particularly sucky about it. Conversely, just the other day I discovered DEP which actually seems like a feature that they should have touted more in the marketing.

Why is there still mindless hatred of Vista? I'm actually kind of excited about Windows 7 which I can't say I've ever been able to claim about any release of Windows.
Allow your site to gracefully degrade to a more simple version (for both mobile users and IE6) or just reject IE6 users altogether.

I plan to drop IE6 support soon. From my experience, if someone loves your site, and you make them choose between upgrading their browser and using your site, about 90% will happily upgrade their browser (most of the remaining 10% can't upgrade, but you can't please/support everyone). I know from experience; I have forced this decision on my users several years ago for mac users (dropped support for IE5/mac and older versions of Safari) and had no complaints.
While it would be great if the world revolved around what we should and shouldn't do, the reality is that it revolves more around what we can and can't do. By and large, economics are responsible for what people make, not what we feel they should get paid.
1. Monthly - I like the thought I can cancel whenever I want without a big hassle w/ refunds, pro-rating, etc.

2. Monthly subscriptions are really hitting their popularity peak right now. It seems to be the way to do business now - I've never attempted to offer an annual, not sure how it would perform. I would assume not as well though, knowing my target market.

3. I would never offer a lifetime package. The state of my application may change drastically where the standard featureset is worth much more than the lifetime user paid. If your application is "stagnant" and kind of operating itself, I don't see the harm though. Might get messy if you change the lower-level subscription prices.
It depends on what I'm buying. I like that when I buy Flickr I don't have to think about it every month I can just buy it and know I've made a choice for a whole year and it's done.

But on apps like Basecamp or Freshbooks I like the monthly since it isn't a huge chunk of money up front.
www.alexkrupp.com/projections.xls

I just added this for you. It should do the trick. Just use the tab labeled "income statement_b" at the bottom and ignore the stuff in the other tabs. Then you can just swap in your own numbers.

In terms of figuring out sales, just figure out how many units you can sell per day. If you are in an incubator then you're probably going to be the only sales guy, at least until you hire another. Here is what Guy Kawasaki has to say on the topic:

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/11/the_art_of_proj.html

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/07/how-to-write-a-.html
Poll: Allow override of noprocrast?
I recently got rid of the override option on noprocrast. Should I put it back?
yes, keep override
no, get rid of override
either way is fine
what is noprocrast?
Why would you use a antiprocrastionation feature with a giant loophole? The override made the feature useless. Now it works and I am going to use it.

PG correcting this flaw has absolutely nothing to do with him "being your mother".
I have found that pricing should be determined according to your audience but should various payment-options should be discussed and developed. Having a broad audience, it would be wise to open with a shorter bill term having a slightly higher rate than that of a longer-term (i.e. monthly vs. annual or annual vs. life-time). With the unsteady economy, each client will have their own perspective as to what may benefit their financial needs/flexibility. As it pertains to a customer preference, remain receptive of your audience.
I started using noprocrast again now that it is gone. I'm glad it's gone.
Want to talk about one of our politicians (Matteo Salvini) asking to make a parliament hearing because facebook closed his account? sigh
This will be about as successful as the MPAA's attempts sue The Pirate Bay, etc.
So, I'm going to give up and use tables [iamelgringo post]
You should lose karma if you override it
Has anyone had any luck getting this to compile for OS X (Leopard)? make seems to fail on an error for me.
Program for cracking iphone apps released.  Hold onto your hats.
In my parents time perhaps, but not in my experience. Not one of my circle of married friends have such an arrangement. As for my marriage, we own our own properties, cars, share portfolios, other investments, and maintain separate bank accounts. We throw a set amount into a kitty each month for living expenses, but everything else is by negotiation.

Why? Probably because the average age for a bride is now 29 and a groom 31. At this point you've spent a decade in the workforce and have achieved a certain degree of independence. This kind of arrangement reflects that. For us there was never any question.
Yeah, 'vigorous' is about the nicest word I can think of to describe it... :)

People who can barely make ends meet should move to the sun belt to save on clothing? If you can't afford the deposit on an apartment, it's your own fault, because people have bailed on a lease before? Huh?

But if you get past the overall obnoxiousness, though, he does actually have some good points.