skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's entirely the same of Outlook/Exchange, yet I don't think anyone would consider that web-based.
>> It's a recursive problem you'd basically be talking to nobody...

Presuming this was done where each person had fine control over the date, you may be right. However, suppose each person only had a single binary control, essentially "hide everyone newer than me."

Furthermore, rather than "newer than me" being defined by a join date specific to each user, instead it would be defined by the start date specific to a particular generation of users (the news.yc folks do seem to track mass user migrations). Visually (bars are new.yc join floods, time moves to the right):

time: |--------|---|------|-----|---...
group: 1 2 3 4 5

Joining early in group three, you would be able to view comments made by those in groups 1, 2, & 3, which would include people who joined after you in group 3 (your supposed peers).

This would still provide each user with the ability to view the site more-or-less as it was upon first arrival, without actually allowing each user fine granularity in locking everyone out.

(for the record, such a feature isn't as useful as simply applying social & administrative pressure to keep quality up; I just wanted to mention an alternative implementation that doesn't turn into an arms race)
Roxanne was great, but their other two absolutely weren't among the best. Oasis' Wonderwall became an excellent non-emo techno song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1e_h1OJfS4

The program changes minor chords in the song to major, so suddenly the chorus seems peppy and bouncy. And its version of Crazy Train fits far too well and will have you laughing out loud if you're a fan of the original:

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

I like how some people are decrying this online as the death of music, like Songsmith is going to change how music is made. (Oasis writing music with Garage Band to the contrary, most people still write their music by getting some musicians together and figuring out how stuff sounds.) I think it's really neat that it can do this! The program's working very well - I'm installing the beta today and we'll see how well it handles real-people voices - and people expecting it to magically create the memorable hooks and snares from the original are people who still miss that a machine can't generate truly great music, because the best music comes not from formula but from the human mind.
First, nice rant.

Second -- agreed. People act in what they perceive to be their best interests. We initially made the mistake of assuming this was what was actually in their best interests, but that seems more doubtful. (Unless acting strictly based on perception of best interests is the optimal condition. Then we're back to square one.)

Third -- agreed. It's to some degree faith-based. Climatology is faith-based as well, and for the same reasons. There are simply too many variables and the system is simply too huge and dynamic to be Newtonian. You get a bunch of smart guys, you make a bunch of models, and you take measurements, all the time having some "group consensus" that has as much to do with science as glow-in-the-dark watches have to do with nuclear propulsion.

I've slung some code for Greenspan and the FRB BOG (Board of Governors). The people there are all highly professional and tend to focus much more on facts than theories. But even then, in my opinion, there's no science going on. It's a lot of educated guesswork.

I wouldn't give up on the thought experiments such as what the Fed did during the Great Depression or what Carter might or might not have done. Thought experiments are powerful tools, and can lead to advances in science. To the degree that faith encourages creative explanations of what we don't know, it's a good thing. To the degree that it shuts out alternative answers, it's an obstacle. That's true in a lot of areas, not just economics.
I'm in the exact same boat as you - a Canadian hoping to move to the States for work in the coming months. I've found a potential employer, and we've done a little research into the matter. What we've discovered is that the US-based employer needs to apply for an I-129, which I then take to a US Consulate and trade in for a 12-month temporary work visa.

We've found this resource very useful: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f...

Good luck! I'm hoping we both end up making it to SFO
Im in exactly same position as you, except Im 24 and have finished college. Also in London but would love to trade it in for life in SFO. Currently working for a startup here, but not sure about their future.

Im thinking the best route is to a) find a job with an american/multinational company and transfer b) stow away aboard a cruise ship

Any advice?
Why do you think he is not good at locking himself out of his account? (He is now posting from a new account)

In what way do you think he is "dictating" guidelines?
Fuck. Suddenly I love EU.

Edit: As a EU citizen you can get a work permit in any countries in the European Union. Not sure if that's appealing to you, though.
The fix for this is easy. In types.h change

typedef long time_t;

to

typedef long long time_t;

Thereby doubling the amount of space for time_t. Future applications written in c should have this fix or something like it.
Notwithstanding his eminence, someone snarkily commenting on other people's misuse of "it's" should not be misusing "myself" non-reflexively.

Viz. Five people are involved in the part-time (very part-time) management of this forum: Dariane Hunt (web designer), Elaine Morse (my design assistant), David Rodriguez (programmer), a very wise anonymous external reviewer, and myself.
http://opensource.adobe.com

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flv/

Not too bad . Right?
I like an very simple approach, which allows me to avoid using password managers.

For all accounts which are of little importance to me (in other words, for ones which can be recreated without any problems) I have got the one easy-to-remember password. "foo87b@r" is the good illustration of what I mean. There are two simple words, separated by a number, and one special symbol. It's very easy to commit in your memory, doesn't look easy to brute force.

But what if there is a malefactor which knows your universal password? If so, you are in trouble. He has all the keys to your e-money, mailbox...

To protect things that matters I'm using unique passwords made on basis of the general pattern. It will prevent your accounts from being accessed using the insecure "foo87b@r" pass.

To illustrate that, suppose that our patter is: __&_1_H@ckN!ws (placeholders for further substitutions are marked by "_")

Let's generate password for the [n]ew[s].[y]combinato[r].com site (which characters of url are used when generating password is up to the user).

Here is your secure password: ns&y1rH@ckN!ws

So, to use it you should be able to remember one simple password, one pattern and the princible describing how to get new passwords from the existing pattern + URL.

I've been using this scheme for the last two months.
"Dashing. Charming. Modest."

Funny.
I totally disagree. I consider links here recommendations for good reading. If the discussion is not as in-depth as you might like, think of it as a set of informal reviews and opinions, probably more reliable than the ones on Amazon.
London isn't exactly cheap either...
As others have mentioned, visa requirements make this sort of travel impossible. It's a shame, too.

If you're set on leaving the UK, you may want to consider other destinations. I'm currently living in Hong Kong and you shouldn't have too much trouble getting here. You'd still need to get a work or investment visa to be able to properly live here, but it would be easier than in the US.

Finally, getting an education during the recession isn't a bad idea. The investment in yourself could be the best use of your time and money now.
Species didn't used to go extinct the way they do now. Also, new ones don't spring up anymore. We've fundamentally destroyed the natural process by drastically altering every single ecosystem out there.

The reason to care is that we could, very easily, be left with nothing but rats and pigeons if we don't.
I guess our songs reached the heavens!

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/ebaumsworld

"Once upon a time, upon the internet,
There was a guuyyyy.
A very deeply flawed man,
They called him Eric Bauman.
He was a total asshole,
And nobody knows why."
No, that whole decade bit was pretty icky. But my point was, this wasn't a nice guy getting completely screwed by a corporation. It's a slimy corporation backstabbing a slimy guy.

The initial bit... I think it would have regulated itself if somebody'd brought publicity to the people getting ripped off and made lawsuits a primary goal. I was always surprised Lowtax from Something Awful never thought it worth it to declare copyright on his Photoshop Phridays and sue Bauman until he stopped.
This site is going to have to change it's name to get to the next level. I can't ever see anyone saying "just duckduckgo it".
Seeing the scores doesn't affect my opinion! I'm impartial!

... except that a few times, I've observed my attitude towards a comment change when its score changed. What is a little frightening is I have also witnessed a struggle within me between what seems to be true to me, and fitting in with the group's opinion.

This psychological phenomenon has been confirmed experimentally (though I have met one extremely detached person (borderline autistic?) who I would bet would be above it). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

A struggle for perception of reality is a struggle for reality.
Not yet, there's more to be done. This is a good start perhaps, but we're nowhere near where we could be.
DuckDuckGo gets some interesting results on an ego search compared to Google. I wonder how it ranks results compared to other search engines.
You can't read the atoms in DNA one after the other and make a list.

Discrete units of information on DNA strands are not atoms. They are nucleotides or base pairs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_pair
I've heard London is actually the best place in the world in terms of salary for IT workers and programmers. Why are you all coming to Cal: for palm trees, or the gay scene in SF? (serious question)
MSFT, welcome to the interwebs!!!

Even Linus loves it :)
>> I really can't think of any reason why you'd want to show score before voting.

When I vote (here), I'm pushing a comment towards an idealized score. To make the decisions "do I think this is rated too highly" and "do I think this is rated too lowly" requires knowledge of the current score.
"Just duck it." :)
duckit?
Maybe, but 15 years ago "just google it" would have sounded strange too.
The file system is a lie. It's all a blob of memory and your data is like trash, thrown about all over the place. How it appears in your little Windows Explorer has little to do with how it's stored, so why can't we have more flexible systems for structuring our data?

As soon as you toss out the idea of separate folders, then your points become moot and are solved (except for maybe point 4, though I think a new OS would want to heavily promote that).
In it's current state songsmith could not kill modern music. It does not sound organic enough. It has no soul. If music created by humans using music sequencers has its quirks. Songsmith music sounds very formulaic and unimaginative and becomes boring after the first verse or so even if the tune is catchy.
Holy crap, that is absolutely hilarious. The bluegrass polka version of Crazy Train! I gotta get out the banjo!

And of course people hail this as the death of music. It's a strange tic in our culture: Every time we do anything except play the same old music in the same old way, it's a sign of something dying. If you double the number of music listeners overnight, that's a harbinger of death. If you get fifty million Rock Band players analyzing the drum tracks of Rush tunes that are thirty years old, that's a harbinger of death. If you get people competing to find off-the-wall but briefly listenable orchestrations of classic tunes, that's a harbinger of death. One wonders what life is supposed to look like.

Many people also have no idea how actual composition works.
More than likely they don't understand how to manage someone at all.
A building is intrinsically stable. I mean that in the physics sense; if the building displaces itself one centimeter to the left, the forces in the building pull it back. No part of it is intrinsically unstable.

An economy has a large number of intrinsically unstable parts. As they displace from the "norm", they will displace even further. For example, the mere fact of a commodity's price going up can cause it to go up further as others react. This is intrinsically unstable.

An unstable system can not run like a stable system. Jerks are mathematically inevitable. The only way to prevent it is to do one of two things: Remove all such things from the system, or create an instantaneous counter force for each of these things. Neither is possible economically. The second sounds appealing, but the thing is that it has to be instantaneous to work, and completely (inhumanly!) accurate, or it becomes simply one more destabilizing force.

You can see this even in economies with no human interaction; this is the source of nature's constant ebb and flow.

The only thing you can do is make things worse by convincing people that you can stop the ebb and flow of the economy, so they don't prepare, then the storm comes anyhow and is all the worse for people not being prepared.
Hi,

I am trying to do the same thing. Does anyone have any good recommendations for online collaboration solutions? For example I currently run a virtual private server to serve my email, wiki, website, git etc. I think it's still good for these things, but I might switch to say, Google Apps for email + the collaboration. Basecamp seems like an option but they don't provide email. I have also found hyperoffice. They provide email + collaboration. I haven't had the time to evaluate any of these yet. Do you have other recommendations? What do you think of VPNs?

Thanks!
would you be talking about it if the name was something else? Brand is a BIG part of any new search engine, one portion of it is remembering the name -- kinda hard to forget one with the name DuckDuckGo.
The reason to care [about species extinction] is that we could, very easily, be left with nothing but rats and pigeons

http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/TCHAR2...

We ought also consider the species of animals whose numbers are increased when the human population increases - chickens, goats, cattle, minks, dogs, cats, laboratory white mice, and canaries.
It would also be nice if URLs in the body render as hyperlinks so I can just click on them instead of tedious copy/paste + enter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN9pGgg8YlQ&feature=relat...

Interesting... so part of Obama's rhetorical skill is to start his sentences on a beat.

Songsmith looks like a mostly useless piece of software from a musical point of view... I can't imagine any real musicians using it. But from a content-creation-for-the-masses point of view, it's clearly a hit. I look forward to seeing more crazy shit put together with this software.
London is drab, grey and expensive. It's not at all a relaxed place, and whatever you make you'll spend again on overpriced items.

I'm not fond of london at all, there are much better places to live in europe.
London is expensive, huge, cold...London might have a good tech scene but its still not silicon valley.

Im sure the gay scene in London is perfectly adequate for those who like that sort of thing...
This just isn't true. It might be 'published' as such somewhere, but there is such high demand for skilled IT workers and programmers in other large cities (I'm in Bristol myself) that you can get near London rates outside of London and the living costs are substantially cheaper.
You sound like a pessimist? And a bit of a grump. I'm in the UK, where the schools are free.

With no disrespect, and I may well be misinterpreting the tone of your response, but at 17 I was given a position in one of Europe's hottest start-ups, I looked after a team of 6, jetted around Europe in fancy-class flights, stayed in swanky hotels and had an expense account.

Between two of us we developed Blyk's innovative ad production and delivery process that is currently being rolled out globally, and I might add, are currently in the process of patenting. I was responsible for the UK's main consumer site and b2b site and in September 06 (when I were a wee lad) project managed the launch of our 50 launch campaigns which included clients such as Visa, Coke, Sky, Xbox,Ford, Apple and many other fairly big companies.

...all without an education. I may have summed up my skill-set in 50 words, but that doesn't mean I'm average at it.

One for you: 'concrete skills like programming'? ; )
$ is not a generic symbol for money. Also, that video is very inaccurate, Africa for one certainly does not count in that manner all over the continent.

People count differently, but the counting methods vary across countries and areas a lot more. People who deal with money a lot also tend to count differently from normal people.
GitHub doesn't have an office, nor are we in any hurry to get one. We work out of our apartments and 1-2 times a week we'll hang out at a cafe and get dinner/drinks afterwards to discuss broader ideas. The company was built with the sort of people that can work autonomously, so while we stay in constant communication with Campfire, it's not a situation where you need to look over the other guy's shoulder to make sure he's still doing a good job. Until that's no longer a reality, I see no reason for an office; it's money better spent elsewhere.
I"m trying to pick the best investor for my project. I've got three lined up already - am I being too picky?

I'm in Manila, business plans are set, know-how is embedded (;)), but I'm trying to learn how to best protect my ass around this corrupt gov. and middle-gov officials.
Real guy using it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaUQ4_kJBHw

The chord progressions are painfully boring but that guy seems pleased.
That's why you figure the other person out before you get into the real "relationship", at which point you should know enough to be able to tell them what they're thinking, whether it's in bed or at the grocery store. I have never met a woman too complicated to figure out, given enough time and effort.

It's like a puzzle. A puzzle with contradictory pieces at times, sure. That just makes it more entertaining. This is precisely why I love women, though; the more difficult the puzzle the more fun it is. I'm still searching for the one who can routinely surprise me, preferably in a good way.
Reading...okay, reading...okay, reading...what? Aw c'mon. What about...meh. Back to less alarming development.
Its 16:34, dark and about to snow.

I just fancy a change, I don't want to wake up one morning and think, shit. where has my life gone.

In regards to UK salaries, I think it massively depends on what you're doing in the IT. I've been in mobile and I know the big guns can get pretty insane salaries.

:)
Speaking of new search engines, is there any search engine that just returns a single result for each query typed in?
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please answer what you like about salesforce, vs. a nice customized installation of vtiger or sugar?
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> It's regulating itself like a poorly built skyscraper that is being regulated by gravity: collapsing. We have rules about how to build skyscrapers to keep people from getting hurt. Why not the economy? Take what works, throw out what hurts.

Since much of the problem was caused by regulation ("encouraging" bogus loans, tax preferences for fannie mae investments, "mark to market" on illiquid assets, etc), faith in regulation seems misplaced.

You don't get to assume "take what works, throw out what hurts" because regulatory capture always happens.

I note that the new treasury secretary didn't bother to pay SSI despite being reimbursed for it with a separate payment and signing an acknowledgement of same, the new HUD secretary didn't bother to pay taxes on "in kind" payments, and top members of the senate committee that regulates banks and mortgages still won't talk about the sweetheart mortgages that they got.

"Regulation" gives us bailouts. It results in socialized risk. (Which, in some sense, is only fair. If govt is going to impose rules, why shouldn't govt pay for the consequences.)
'Fuck. Suddenly I love EU.' Yea - me too!

It is massively, I think that might be the way forward. Thanks : )
If Adobe had bothered making a reasonable Flash player for the Mac, Apple would have a much weaker public case for not including it on the iPhone. But Adobe's long neglect of the Mac is now returning to bite them.
the new treasury secretary didn't bother to pay SSI [...] the new HUD secretary didn't bother to pay taxes on "in kind" payments

What would that have to do with economic policy?
I get the feeling songsmith isn't aimed at real musicians... and for people with no musical skills whatsoever, it probably beats singing a cappela.
Complicated television through technology
I suspect that comments that have 100 upvotes and 100 down votes are far more interesting than comments that haven't been voted on at all, but have no way to know....
When I clicked to go to opentable.com, I immediately clicked back because something in my brain yelled "DOMAIN SQUATTER". Then I went forward again and looked closer, I guess it isn't a domain squatter, but it might as well be. They need to de-domainsquatter-ize the look of their site.
Berlin - Cheaper than London but has a startup community
Huh? How so? I think the poker analogy is healthy because it's a refreshing way for angels to look at deals. An angel telling you that 25k or whatever is risky, but then turns around and drops that much on a Vegas weekend is bullshit and represents a much more lucky than smart investor.
A building is intrinsically stable. [...] if the building displaces itself one centimeter to the left, the forces in the building pull it back. No part of it is intrinsically unstable.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A03EFDA1F3BE...

January 4, 1914, Sunday [...]

Several of New York City's skyscrapers are away out of plumb and have a tendency to emulate the famous leaning tower of Pisa according to the engineering department of the Building Bureau.
This closely matches the way I mod comments as well.
Downloading a file with bittorrent (lets assume a illegal one) is copyright infringement, which is illegal, and still a crime. One issue is that most copyright infringement cases these days are civil rather than criminal, but the criminal proceedings do exist.
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