skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But America has an obligation to protect American workers"

Classic make-work fallacy. American interests are best served when corporations (Microsoft in this case) are as efficient as possible. If that means immigrant workers, then so be it. If MS (and other corps) are forced to hire less-qualified or more expensive American workers then the cost of these measures is paid by their customers who are ... Americans and in lost market share which results in a cost to MS' investors who are ... Americans. The difference is that the plight of the unemployed programmers is obvious and easy to see while the plight of the customer and investors is obscured but that does not change the loss that they experience.
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Off topic, but every time I see an ampersand and a semi-colon on the same line, I think mis-escaped HTML entity. Jessica?!?! That's not even close to an entity! Oh.... I see. Anyhow, congrats!
If buggy smartphones are the “new reality”, here’s some free advice for handset makers
Like your experience with Helma, Grails has also been a breath of fresh air. My biggest gripe with building web apps in Java is dealing with all the dependencies, setting up a project structure and making all the frameworks play nicely together...with grails none of those headaches exist...all the stuff you'd usually use is integrated nicely into a project and with almost zero configuration. The community is very responsive and new plugins are released on a weekly basis. I definitely recommend any Java developers out there take a look.
If you'd like a trip to the UK to do some Python/Django stuff in Infosec then by all means drop me an email and we can have a chat.
the fact that the article fails to mention that people, children specifically, enjoy the interactive nature of handheld devices and would thereby have a positive effect on engagement undercuts the investigators argument to a degree.

certainly nintendos numbers have a tad bit of pr thrown in for good measure but surely there is some truth there. additionaly, at a fundamental level much of what we do can be distilled to a paper and pencil implementation. we could calculate trajectories and load bearings with a slide rule - but should we? i find that these studies are a throwback to Luddite times. bottom line for me is that the device itself is a major breakthrough and the opportunity it provides to enhance content delivery to the end user outstrips its early simplistic software applications at this time. no doubt, future iterations will be much more compelling.
I don't see how "people of other nationalities should be allowed to freely compete with Americans" in any way leads to "slavery should be permitted".

(I'm assuming you mean to imply that the caged compounds keep women in rather than keep pirates out.)
And another - 135287624 !
A couple ways -- USB-powered electric gloves, combined with enough not-typing and cardio to make sure the blood's still flowing.
(Mozart and his wife, for example, used to dance in their cold apartment to keep warm.)
JazzScheme public beta released
How much smaller and less intrusive has the government gotten since 1980?
SongRaptor launches interesting music site
Fan of:

The headache inducing blue ribbon winner: Pi - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/

The slightly corny but worthwhile: Sneakers - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/
why is this interesting? It is a complete rip-off of Songza!
Right down to the stolen UI!
Very Poor!
From another article, this is the website of the venture: http://www.UoPeople.org
My Caltech friend assured me that Real Genius perfectly captured the spirit of Caltech. (It borrows a lot of legendary Caltech hacks.) It certainly is the best fictional depiction of grad school I've ever seen, though it's kind of confused about the distinction between undergrad and grad school. On the other hand, perhaps that's normal at Caltech as well.
I'm curious, what's wrong with pie charts?
Antitrust: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/

Pirates of Silicon Valley: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/
It only needs to confuse them for a split second once in a while to be a net gain (no pun intended).

Even if it's just misjuding where they begin and end, their motion, distance, etc. They're not going to be like an invisibility cloak, but any legal performance gain would be cool.
It depends 100% on the person. For some people working from home has significant downsides and/or isn't an effective way for them to work. For others, like me, it's almost all upside and allows me to be much more productive than being in an office.
"Antitrust" is cheesy, but if you suspend disbelief and just treat it as fiction, it's a very entertaining movie.
And even Bill Gates is spoofed in the movie.
I hate how being harsh has become fashionable. What ever happened to manners?
I've worked from home in the past. The last stint was for about 8 months. I really enjoyed the freedom. But towards the end even with a live in girlfriend I still got a little depressed.

The problem is mostly assuredly the lack of human contact. Not physically seeing people every day got to be a little rough. I'd force myself to go out on weekends and be social but it still felt fake.

The other big problem was that since I lived in the PNW and winter was setting in. It would be dark when I got up, and dark when I shut down for the day. This mean I never really saw the sunshine. I wouldn't really leave my house for days at a time. This got to be an issue. I felt trapped, even worse than that corp job I took while in college.

Now I live in San Francisco. The startup I work for has an office. I see sun almost every day. Hell I walk 2 miles to and then 2 miles from work every day. Its great! I think the human contact combined with the daily walk has increased both my energy level and my moral.

As a caveat to this. I still prefer to work from home at least one day a week. As the break from the daily in office distractions (meetings, troubleshooting, lunch, etc..) is nice.

So I think proper life balance is in order when working from home. If almost a daily regiment that forces one to go stop working and go have meaningful human interaction.
"after I took the screenshot of myself being attacked by csh, csh was shot by friendly fire from behind, possibly by tcsh or xv, and my session was abruptly terminated."

Definitely my favorite part. I think the data modeling within the game engine still needs some work...
I liked the King of Kong: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/.

Man on Wire is on my list of movies to watch: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155592/
http://www.google.com/search?q=web+78.0
Eh. I think they're childish. This guy enables real-world trolls, and somehow is surprised that people respond negatively.
Sneakers may be corny - but it's actually based on some serious math. Essentially one of the characters has developed a way to solve a prime factorization in what appears to be constant time (i.e. O(1)). Once you do that - well that's the end of basically all public key cryptography based on the RSA algorithm (pretty much everything in common use). Much more realistic than say, Hackers.
We tacitly approve of inhumane working conditions when we allow countries with no human rights or workplace safety standards to compete on a level playing field with us.
I may be entirely wrong here... but doesn't that create a tree of cons cells (more concretely a list of tuples) instead of a true hash-table?

Would (gethash ...) work on the created structure in constant time?
Very true. Must be the one of first times a major Hollywood studio employed a consultant that had taken something beyond College Algebra.
The "it just works" model of computing is better even when you do know what you are doing. Most people are lazy when it comes to their computers. I know I am. If the a typical user can't be bothered to update their Windows anti-virus, he won't read man pages in *nix.

I don't think Linux will take off until a major computer manufacturer gets behind it. Not just Dell shipping Ubuntu, but Dell creating its own distro guaranteed to work out of the box and keep working. Sort of a linux equivalent of Mac Os X, with one company responsible for everything on the machine.
I think it's misleading to call Wikipedia an "idea" at this point; it very much is a freely-editable encyclopedia; it is already a superior substitute in the market for encyclopedias.
Small problem with your theory: over the past 20 years of H1B hiring at Microsoft, the price of their software hasn't gone down, but their market share has.

So tell me again how corporate "efficiency" means a good customer experience. Make sure to include some details.
> I apologize for not making it clear that we were only discussing VC-funded startups.

Ah... now your post makes sense!
Agreed. I have a copy of Fireworks 4 (back when it was Macromedia Fireworks) that I still use to this day to do basic graphics and picture clean-up stuff. I'm not a graphic artist by trade - something we should all be thankful for :) - but it gets the job done for just about everything I need to do.
It's American K-12 education that isn't up to world standards. That means the American secondary school graduates entering tough college programs have more catching up to do than the (much more stringently selected) international undergraduates at American colleges. See the book Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics

http://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Teaching-Elementary-Mathematic...

(or its review by mathematician Richard Askey)

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/fall99/ame...

for example of ways American primary education could do better.
Yeah, but for someone explicitly trying to push the limits of good taste? Isn't offending people the whole point?
That's somewhat begging the question, though. Assoc lists aren't hash tables, do not have the performance characters of hash tables, and excepting simple circumstances, cannot be used like hash tables. Now, many Lisps and Schemes have something similar to

(hash-from-list '((Vincent . 25) (Lincoln . 200)))

but that's still a far cry from having a literal hash table syntax à la Clojure or similar languages.
does Die Hard 4 count as one?
Somehow I was expecting to see a shirt that says:

"Ghandi Wouldn't Fucking Trade Places With You Or Matt Maroon"
On the other hand, Hackers did take the time to name its characters after handles taken from 2600.
In Hackers, I never understood how the bad-guy hacker arranges a drop-off (he comes in on a skateboard no less!) of a floppy disk from Zero Cool that had the "garbage file".

As if Zero Cool didn't have the technical expertise to
make his own copy of the disk's contents first. A drop-off
wouldn't protect the bad guy in any way!
County data requires permission from Cook County Assessor. We're working on it...

What do you mean by "intersections" and the disclosures?

This is great stuff. Thanks so much. I'm sure your friend knows more about this than we do...for now!
Stability is a feature you can sell to me. I was a loyal BB user for several years until two hardware failures and one software failure made me think about just exactly how much stability I was actually getting for my ugly fonts and crummy browsing experience.

I purchased a Nokia E71 (which my wife has taken and loves) to replace the BBs, which is a step down on the stability scale but several steps up on the feature scale. I guess that means their CEO is right, at least in my case.
Good movies about startups: "Tucker", "24 Hour Party People", and "Ghostbusters".
I liked "a beauiful mind" about John Nash and game theory.

And "The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires" is a must-see about how Microsoft, Apple, et al. started out.
Coding Horror has the answer:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001173.html

It's a compatibility feature, allowing older software to run at the speed it was intended to run at (mainly games).
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Triumph of the Nerds is great. Hopefully Cringley will make a version for this decade about Web empires.
Actually The Plague (the bad guy) was just trying to determine how much of the "garbage file" they had - how much they knew... I have to admit that the movie sort of is a guilty pleasure...
E-mail Evernote about it. Licensing their software to businesses who want similar functionality but complete privacy for their data could be a business opportunity for them, like the Google Search Appliance: http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/

Offer to beta test for them.

I don't know of any other companies that do have what you're looking for, but I would check Adobe & Xerox's offerings if you haven't already.
Personally, I don't see it happening. I think it's terrible the credit card debt that people have gotten into, but I don't think it will crash.

Why? How hard is it to make minimum payments on a few credit cards? A hundred a month? Credit cards have terms that allow borrowers to just keep going. Typically, it means that people end up paying way more than they should, but in this case it also means that they're unlikely to default.

Plus, what are credit card bills as a percentage of one's budget? Usually a much lower percentage than housing. So, it would be easier to pay credit card bills than mortgage bills even if they were to be on the same terms.

The level of credit card debt is very worrisome and I hope people reevaluate that situation, but I don't think we're going to see massive default rates simply because the way that credit card agreements are structured allows the borrower to make very low monthly payments for a long time rather than creating a confrontation that could lead to default (as mortgages do).
No, we don't. When American companies were caught using near-slave labor consumers revolted, causing widespread changes in manufacturing policies for a great number of corporations.

In fact, nowadays many manufacturers go out of their way to advertise their workers' working conditions and wages in an effort to demonstrate their social responsibility. Why? Because consumers demand it.

And then there are the Wal-Marts of the world, who do not do as above, because there are also consumers who do tacitly approve of inhumane working conditions.

The free market seems to be taking care of this problem - I don't see regulation needed here. Not to mention the fact that many of these "inhumane" conditions are actually pretty par for the course as far as those regions go.

My own mother worked as a child laborer in a textiles mill when she was still in primary school. The extra income allowed her desperately poor family to move into the city, find jobs, and get educations. I doubt I would be typing on this computer if it were not for the opportunities presented by what the Western world would have, at the time, seen as atrocious workplace safety standards and an abuse of labor. Modernization is a long and arduous process that can be sped up with the right pressure, but preventing these countries from competing is simply condemning them to continual and perpetual poverty.
UK music pirates will not be disconnected from the internet
No better... except that people actually use and enjoy it.
E-Dreams: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262021/
Startup.com: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/
agreed. I wonder why some people write that way. It's very difficult to write in second person successfully, because as soon as one presents information that is inconsistent with how the actual reader feels, the rest of the argument is nullified. Yes, it sounded silly when the writer tried to speak for me, in particular, when he knows nothing about me.
I hear you on 18 different services. I would say though...that a generic "everything" service is...generic.

And isn't google already kind of the generic everything service? if I want public records they send me to everyblock. If I want food, they send me to grubhub?

Yeah newsfeed will get a lot better. The language issue is an interesting one.
artlogic, I must have missed that detail. Now at least the plot won't be bother me so much then. I'll have to see it again sometime ;) It was overall fun to watch.
Conservatism, was originally about allowing each state to continue as they were when forming a federal government -- it's about what the states meant the constitution to mean when they designed the government. So it should be a small federal government/states rights perspective; and these states can do anything that they want as long as their state constitution allows it.
He still had a copy of the disk, that's how they were later able to figure out what Mr. The Plague was up to, and subsequently stop it.

Hackers is a great movie.
Correct. The blogger essentially works the entire day because he seems to be goofing off for most of it. The result is that he feels tired from being minimally working all day and getting nothing done.
If your position is that we should allow child labor in textile mills, and my position is that we should enact trade penalties on other countries that allow child labor, there's no useful discussion for us to have. So, duly noted.

The slippery slope is an easier thing to address; the comment that "Microsoft is not a public work" basically refutes all labor, trade, and immigration regulation. It's not a betrayal of the GOP to suggest that Microsoft might comply with the rules we already have.
He did make "Nerds 2.0" about the first web boom. Sadly, this has never been released on vhs/dvd.
Okay, I'll say this much in defense of the Matrices: (a) the first Matrix movie is emphatically not a stinker; (b) I appreciated the second two a lot better after reading these links [1]:

http://corporatemofo.com/media_and_mediocrity/the_matrix_rel...

http://web.archive.org/web/20071005000019/http://www.corpora...

I mean, I still don't think the sequels worked very well, particularly #3, but I admire the audacity of the experiment.

---

[1] (Alas, the second link now appears to be Wayback Machine material. Essayists, defend your archives!)
Tech start-up profile: Huddle.net
thank you right-click save-as!
A conservative is someone you don't like (if you're a liberal). Other than that, I have no idea what the hell it means (vice versa for the term liberal). Political discussions are tough to have because the terminology has become so meaningless. Far too often, I see people slap a political label on a person or policy and the label is intended to be derogatory rather than informative.
The problem arises when things like sandboxed execution and optimizations for a specific runtime or language come into play. These are the kinds of things that tie a VM to a specific language and platform.

That's just superficial stuff -- the real VM language constraints are things like: calling conventions, type-checking, data structure semantics (esp objects), GC, and module interfaces.

These are the kinds of things you want to have shared among languages if you want a useful multi-lang VM. Otherwise what's the point?
Remember that a child's name should also be intention-revealing. "George" doesn't do much for you there. Consider some examples--

* Pat: one of the least intention-revealing names possible. The name is androgynous; can we assume the child is as well? Should we assume the child does not wish to buck the status quo (wishes to "stand pat")?

* George: doing better. It reveals the sex, at least. There is still the problem that it doesn't say much about what the child does.

* Paul Jr.: This is much clearer. The child's sex is clear, as well as its purpose: a lighter, faster implementation of the original Paul Graham (the original, of course, is kept around for reasons of backwards-compatibility).

To test a baby name:
Imagine a second, very different baby. Will the name work for both babies?

Other examples of good baby names include mCarryOnTheFamilyName, fBiologicalImperativeToReproduce, and Buck.
Somewhere along the lines you got really confused about what the unit of selection in free market economics is. In a theoretically free market, the market doesn't make individual companies better. It makes the bad ones die and get replaced by good ones. The fact that their market share has tracked with their customer experience is proof of the theory.
Ditto. I remembered the day that Adobe bought Macromedia. My first thought was, "F#CK! They're going to turn Fireworks in to a piece of crap". Sure enough, they turned it into a piece of crap.

So much for competition!
That's pretty neat. Did anyone else see the doofus sitting several rows behind Obama wearing a Green Bay Packers hat? Geez... It's the presidential inauguration for crying out loud.
I recently rented August from blockbuster.

Its about a VC funded startup with little revenue that goes bust.

It was a pretty terrible movie though and the web2.0 talk will make you cringe.
Everyone has a mobile phone these days, even in much of the poorest countries.

Most people nowadays have owned half a dozen phones and have developed taste and higher expectations. Most people here even use two phones concurrently (for each of the carriers, basically an economic cartel issue). You don't have many people left around here to arm with mobile phones. So now

Perhaps phone makers will try to improve their phones, make them more usable, more extensive, more compatible, with better batteries, better in every way to convince customers to buy new ones.
Office is better in my view - you can talk to real humans and get honest feedback + there's still a connection (wrongly) between working at home and slacking.

Once a week + the weekend is definitely enough for me.
In a few years, $100K systems will be $1K; a few years after that, $100.

And some of the people here could help make it happen. (What if digital picture frames or pocket-size projectors had auto-focus, auto-pan cameras, and however many you positioned in a single room auto-configured themselves for optimal telepresence effect? Etc.)

So it's a valid suggestion from a speculative perspective, even if we know a single home worker isn't likely to buy one of these top-end systems today.
Wow, Ghostbusters is a movie about a startup. It seems so obvious once it's pointed out, but it never occurred to me before.
It is a good idea to have a password written down. You should have told him that it was a /valuable/ piece of paper, that should be kept with other valuable pieces of paper.

Good passwords are hard to remember. Good password discipline uses lots of good passwords. This is harder to remember. Sticking a password file in your wallet is not a bad idea. People know to keep their wallets secure. They understand how they work, and how they need to protect them.
I don't think it's begging the question. People use the term "hashtable" in a general way to subsume all kinds of associative lookup nowadays. A true hashtable is hardly the best way to represent '((Vincent . 25) (Lincoln . 100)). Your "simple circumstances" happen to be the overwhelming majority of cases one is working with this kind of literal data.

I use alists and hashtables all the time in CL. They're not intended for the same things, and I rarely convert between them.

There are two kinds of CL annoyance: the things that people who use the language to do real work are annoyed by, and the things that people who've dabbled with it enough to write ill-informed blog posts about why they don't want to use CL -- a conclusion they almost certainly started with -- are annoyed by. JRockway, incidentally, has been using CL for a while. He made the mistake, I guess, of attempting to explain something substantial about it to critics who haven't.

Edit: let me say something positive to counteract the Naggumification I seem to be undergoing in responding to these posts. If Clojure attracts the masses because it's shiny and not old like stinky CL, and in order for that to happen people need to convince themselves that hashtables which behave like immutable conses are really the killer feature that Lisp has been lacking all these years, and the net result of all this is lots more people using Lisp, I think that's great.