skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like its a requirement for C-level positions. There's some research to back up my impression:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767915828
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How can there be a whole write-up on layout with no pictures?
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Yeaaaaahhh, why don't people work, like, triple the hours a week, and retire and 40, and spend all day rollin reefers and sunnin by the beach man! Old people aren't so smart as us, you know, plus, beach.

Also, like, if you and I look at like, the same color, and we both say "orange," how do we know that, like, it's not a totally different color EXPERIENCE we both have, but, like, we all learned in kindergarten to say "that's orange," even if like, maybe it looks totally purple to you!

We know we agree on, like, the labels, and stuff, but... oh man... you can never know what goes on in, like, another person's HEAD man!

Deep.
Being on hacker news seems to HUGELY affect a links google rank.

This is anecdotal btw, I haven't measured it in any real way.
Sorry, I was too ambiguous with my use of "that." I was agreement with fallen_times...I was in disagreement with the quote from the IBM spokesperson.
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Note that new domain registrations at Namecheap currently include a free SSL cert (1st free), and you can use them for arbitrary hostnames. Roughly same distribution of the parent cert in browsers.
I'm using it and it works. Note that isn't just domains that give you a free SSL certificate, it's just about any product they sell, like Whois Guard. Make sure to add it to your cart at the right stage of the process, though.
Soon it may be off limits to remix anything with snippets of our shared mass media culture

While I respect the EFF in a lot of ways, there has never been a "remix snippets of our shared mass media culture" exception to copyright.

An equally fair way to phrase the phenomenon is "include high or perfect fidelity copies of copyrighted work in derivative works", which is activity that our copyright regime is not exactly neutral about. I mean, there are credible arguments to be made that the DMCA has been abused in some cases. Then there's the argument that you should be able to take the entirety of a song to back a video you made, and this is OK because the video is yours. (The EFF regarding the machinima videos.)

As a positive statement of US copyright law rather than a normative statement, that is infringement (absent permission, etc).

If you want to fight for creating a "you're so popular you have cultural impact which makes you fair game for derivative works" exemption, be my guest, but I'm not weeping overly hard for losing something I know I never had.
I'm not sure the implication was necessarily that it was wrong, the poster (no pun intended) could have meant that it could simply have been better to use GET.
I thought Satisfaction and UserVoice were for small businesses.

Are you really trying to build a company based on "We're like Coca Cola, but with a different name!"

Also, for the love of god, coordinate your colors. Rainbow text is so 1992.
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Exactly. It remains unclear to me how the housing crisis can be "fixed" until the underlying home values fall in line with historical price:income ratios. That is, either real incomes must rise significantly, or real housing prices must decrease much more than they already have. Anything short of that will serve only to delay the inevitable.
This is something that could be of use at my office. Do the Doculicious people post / read here? I have questions that I didn't immediately see answers to.

Namely, is there any support for marking up existing PDFs, and will this work if your form is behind a login?
It's funny but just before I read this, somebody sent me some pictures of Barcelona (where I lived back in 2000-2001). I had a bunch of pictures on my (non-corporate) website from 2000 to about 2003. Rather than digging them up from somewhere on my various hard drives, I just turned to the internet archive. And there they were.

It also turned up this error message, forever preserved in amber, so to speak:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030802202553/www.permafrost.net...
One caution for people hoping to start exercising and go from picture A to picture B: if you want to lose weight, exercise is not enough. You need to keep track of your calorie consumption, or you will just end up eating more. At least that was my experience. Restricting calories, on the other hand, works with or without exercise. Not that I'm advocating non-exercise.
That level of targeting is actually kind of creepy, in my opinion.

Try changing your status from in a relationship to single or vice-versa and see what kind of adverts you get. (Never mind what your privacy settings are...)
Hey there hypocrite. You have your own weight loss domains. And ever better, you have several spammy websites about online colleges.
They may not be right, but neither are you.
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Unbelievable. I want to write a more substantive comment, but I don't know what else to say.
'Only some of us can learn from other people's mistakes.
The rest of us ARE the other people.'
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I think a lot of assholes actually try to create that power balance (or at least the illusion of that situation) in their relationships & make it inot a central issue in the relationship.
Twilio rocks. I just got it going with Python from our chat system at work... took about 20 minutes.
I respect your experience. And I dont want to drag this. If CSS hasnt worked out for you, and you are using tables, its fine. Nobody's saying that its wrong.

The point is, choose whats best for you. For me CSS has worked!
If I'm a shareholder, I don't want to see profits (ha!) invested in a corporate jet. Fly commercial or better yet cut out travel altogether.
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Right now I miss downvoting
Even better: TVs built into every cardio machine. Far and away the only thing that keeps me running for an hour, I'll tell you that.
That's clever. eBay never tried this? (I've never bought anything there).
> And for the second time, "common" and "typical" are synonyms.

That two words can be synonyms does not mean they have only one shared meaning. In context, a thing can sometimes be one but not the other, e.g. A dictionary is a common type of book, but it is not typical of books to consist of lists of definitions set in very small type on very thin pages.

I don't understand why you're insisting on interpreting the word as "common" as I have already stated that that was not my meaning and in the context of the article (in which the author uses a single example to reflect badly on the whole) it's likely not that of the author's.

> Furthermore, there is no one case that is "characteristic of the whole set".

My point. I disagree with the author's attempt to depict this case as characteristic of the whole set of CSS layouts.

> Apparently, in order to satisfy you, a blog post (!) must cover every type of layout.

Hardly. I only wish for the author to restrict his conclusion to one that is supported by his example.
I think there.com. The business week article from 2007 lists three startups he was involved with. A recruiting firm he founded in college, There.com, and IMVU.com. IMVU is described on wikipedia as generating over 1 million a month in revenue, so it probably isn't that one. And the business week article has Eric describing There.com as having a focused strategy, but not having any idea what customers want.

Link to article:http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2007/tc200...
Google is also arguably close to being a effective monopoly in web search

Yeah, I think we're past arguably these days. I've thought that for a while.

I think arguably it was thrown into sharp relief when a bug at google.com required me to stay up past midnight trying to explain to my customers that

a) yes, I understand, the Internet is broken

b) I understand and respect that you are pissed off at this occurrence but I didn't do it

c) I empathize with your desire to have this fixed RIGHT THE '#($ NOW.

Google, you set out to dominate the Internet. You succeeded. You are now indispensable. Please do not break the Internet.
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1) Even lawyers and doctors don't make enough money to retire by 40.

2) Lawyers and doctors frequently work 80-100 hours a week. The amount of productive output is not 2x as much as the 40 hour week; due to fatigue and stress, the productive output only averages out to about 150% more work...in other words, a 25% loss in productivity as compared to just working 2 40 hour weeks.

3) The stress of working 80-100 hour work weeks kills the body good. Literally. It easily ages the body 2-3 years for every year on that sort of schedule. That's why all our presidents have gray hair when they retire.

4) The pyramid scheme: younger generations would have to work even longer to pay for the retirement costs of the retired. People live an average of 25-35 years (depending on sex and race) after 40. So you've made the already unsustainable equation (which sets the retirement date for federal benefits so that only 1/2 of all adults are expected to live past the eligibility date) even worse.

5) France. Enough said.
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If the downturn is slow and steady there may be time for adjustments, as opposed to a crash.
Digicert is a legitimate provider of SSL certificates (my company uses them pretty much exclusively; I don't think they are any better or worse than other SSL providers that I've used professionally).

One exceptional thing Digicert provides is good practical documentation for generating a certificate signing request and applying a purchased certificate to any web or application server. Makes it really easy for junior admins to get up to speed when they have to apply certs to everything from IIS to Apache, Tomcat JBoss, etc within the same environment.
If we assume that the majority of these are not simply trying to make a buck from 'nominal fees,' maybe they're using it as a sort of screening process. I assume that even a $400 charge would have a major effect on what applicants end up presenting.

Theoretically, you could argue that it keeps away anyone that doesn't believe she's got a reasonable chance of getting funded. I believe it will keep away many idea only "startups" that don't have any real substance behind them. It would also keep away those just practising or testing the waters.

Again theoretically, it is not even necessarily a problem if it keeps away perfectly good presentations. If they get can get more presentations then they can hear, it's ok to lose some good ones as long as your mean quality rises.

What throws a spanner in the mix is what startups (especially those that see $500 as a hit) think of those groups that charge them.

I have no idea what the reality is. But the tone on HN always seems to suggest that this is an option for the naive, inexperienced & clueless. That's certainly not the image they should want to project.

Again speaking with no experience, that makes some sense. Even taking the above assumption (they're not just hearing presentations for a profit) you'd be thinking that if they do need such crude screening device, they'r unlikely to be funding a very high percentage.
Definitely. My girlfriend made the comment to me a couple of days ago, that she overwhelmingly finds people she initially judges as mean or rude often turn out to be lovely people, and those she initially judges as nice people often turn out to be heavily flawed.

Personally, my snap judgements seem to be pretty reliable. Many times I've taken an instant disliking to someone, while other in the social group found the opposite, when months or years later the person will confirm my suspicions by involving themselves in some big scandal or something.

I think knowing when and when not to trust your intuition is a big part of the intuitive process.
That was what the star was for. Look at the end of my comment for the link. That's one of many that I could have chosen.
Why not use Windows?
What are the downsides to this stuff?

Here is one of the latest studies I could find (2007 Sep;18): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17418559

This study tested the hypothesis that 3-acetyl-7-oxo-dehydroepiandrosterone alone (7-Keto) and in combination with calcium citrate, green tea extract, ascorbic acid, chromium nicotinate and cholecalciferol (HUM5007) will increase the resting metabolic rate (RMR) of overweight subjects maintained on a calorie-restricted diet. [...]

In this study, the administration of HUM5007 or 7-Keto reversed the decrease in RMR normally associated with dieting. HUM5007 and 7-Keto increased RMR above basal levels and may benefit obese individuals with impaired energy expenditure. HUM5007 and 7-Keto were generally well tolerated and no serious adverse events were reported.

Note that it says, "7-Keto [was] generally well tolerated and no serious adverse events were reported". Cholecalciferol is also known as Vitamin D3 and is widely available as a dietary supplement.
Yeah, seems crazy. Fake?

Couldn't actually be the scammers getting cranky, could it?
Yeah the title is total linkbait.

I didn't go to MIT, but I studied Computer Science at the University of Minnesota which (at the time anyway) used an MIT-based curriculum (eg. first class is Scheme). When I hear people complaining about their 4-year colleges teaching Java instead of computer science, I can't help but think of how important MIT is to me even though I've never even been to Boston.

OpenCourseWare and their embrace of the Fab lab network just serve to confirm that MIT is embracing change aggressively. It's the polar opposite approach to what (for example) the music industry has done. There is a need for these kind of intellectual hubs more so now than ever.
It doesn't really matter who's to blame, it doesn't change the sorry state of things...
You know, I am always surprised there isn't more of this going on. Not just online, everywhere. CCs are just not a great solution to remote or cashless payments.
Your link says, "a college degree correlates [...] to [...] salary". It is well-known that education level correlates to income. A claim that weak does not need a reference. Correlation is not causation. My question was: "Does having a college degree increase earning power/potential?" Do you know of any education/income studies that control for IQ?
Would an opt-in social network search engine be viable? Has anyone already looked at this?
> Shouldn't Google push for dominance as far as it possibly can?

If they want to live up to their 'Don't be Evil' motto then they should do it with better products and services not by cutting others down. In the long term I think that will work out better for them.

> Isn't it some other entity's role to stop them?

You could also run that argument for a gangster or any type of criminal I suppose.
gojomo, I have looked at the file formats.
Could you propose some off-the-shelf web spiders? I would like to accumulate a lot of text for NLP research.
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What's with the sudden surge of articles about higher education going obsolete? This article isn't even about that. It's that the methods available to help people learn are in a constant state of flux and that MIT is helping lead the way with it's Fab Labs.

From the closing of the article: "The MITs of the world are far from obsolete, but instead of draining brains away from where they are most needed, these institutions can now share not just their knowledge but also their tools, by providing the means to create them. Rather than advanced technological development and education being elite activities bounded by scarce space in classrooms and labs, they can become much more widely accessible and locally integrated, limited only by the most renewable of raw materials: ideas."
The biggest problem here is hosting the index... in RAM...

It takes A LOT of machines to power a modern search engine which serves any real amount of traffic. One key component of an open source search engine would be a sort-of peer-to-peer distributed infrastructure. When I suggested this in an earlier thread, people were quick to point out the liability concerns here... but maybe it could work somehow... but then how do you get people to sign up for it?

That said, I think this is incredibly interesting stuff. I would really love to see open source, peer-served web utilities. For example, I'd want access to many of the components of a web search engine, not just the search results themselves. Things like a language model for spell checking or word segmentation. Or a set analysis tool for detecting synonyms.
I'll second this. Verisign is a racket. Network Solutions is still a reputable company and provides the cert at a good price.
Its interesting to me on an intellectual level to compare your way of describing the peeler to his way of describing the peeler. You describe breakage as an intrinsic feature of peelers, much like 1970s Ford might describe defects as an intrinsic feature of cars.

He describes his peelers as being remarkable accomplishments of Swiss engineering that do not break, period, and repeatedly contrasts it with the peelers you can buy in most supermarkets in Europe and Asia. I can just about quote it from memory: "This isn't a cheap peeler. If you want a cheap peeler you can buy one at any dollar store. This peeler was made in Switzerland and nothing from Switzerland was ever cheap. You don't buy this peeler because it is cheap and you can replace it when it wears out, you buy it because it will be the last peeler you ever buy."

Now it might be the case that you and he are still talking about the same peeler. I think that this demonstrates one little technique which makes him a really good salesman for the peeler. I think that this technique is a useful one to stick in the quiver -- it works with positioning software, too. He is so consummately good at selling that I think we could learn a lot from him, including this one little technique, which is why I consider him noteworthy to HN.

On being the Last X You Will Every Buy: I use a variation of the same to position my software. Most software in my vertical is licensed in such a way that it requires repurchase every year. There are a bunch of reasons for this -- suffice it to say that most IP in my vertical is treated that way, software is largely produced by the existing IP makers, and they ported their license terms from their existing businesses without much regard to how software changes the game. I think my customers hate that business model with a burning passion, largely because my customers tell me they hate that business model with a burning passion. I licensed my software perpetually and position it, very explicitly, as The Last X You Will Ever Buy. I think this is one reason why I can get away with charging more than almost any of my competitors, announce a price increase, and have customers send me mail telling me how cheap I am.
I believe the problem is bigger than what the article points out. Under the new scheme, all search results pages have the same URL. The part after the hash not part of the URL, it is a fragment or anchor.

It breaks my firefox extension that nukes searchwiki. It breaks my custom CSS for the search results page (see userstyles.org). I often bookmark google search results in del.icio.us. Depending on how such services are implemented, different search results pages might show up as the same page.

I'd guess there's just a lot of code out there that assume search results are separate URLs, and that's going to break.

Those two breakages are simply due to the regex identifying the search results pages not matching anymore, and are easily fixable.
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You're right that the law has never allowed for things such a mix tapes or remixes, it's pretty black and white about that. But really, how far does this go?

The article mentions that people singing popular songs on YouTube are being censored as well. Who exactly is benefiting from this? Would I be any less likely to purchase the real song because I heard a teenager's lame cover on YouTube?

I think we need to have a good look at fair use and what it means in this day and age.
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Actually, since we're talking about traits/phenotypes (instead of genotypes), this would be a truth table, not a Punnett square ;)
Man people cannot take a joke.
There's no need for a firefox plugin, you just need the mime type set correctly and it opens up in your package manager. Enter password, it installs.

This may be slightly more effort than copying an .app from a disk image, but it doesn't leave a disk image mounted.
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just a little light humor for the CSS-v-table warriors.
To me this argument itself is wrong; One of the reasons why using CSS is considered difficult by some developers is because of the different levels of support shown by different browsers.

The whole argument that CSS has a learning curve, or that we need hacks, etc - all point to the same problem. The reason it takes such a long time to get the layout just right is because there is some browser out there (typically IE6) that does not behave the way you want it to.

We would not even be having this "war" if all the browsers were standards compliant, so my gripe as a developer is - why are we not fighting the correct war? As a developer, I must be able to write code, whether using div tags or table tags, and expect that it works just as it is supposed to, and not have to waste hours trying to hack it to work with non-compliant browsers!!
I might be missing something, but I think Google can easily modify their redirect script to store the data they want (for use by Google Analytics) and then strip that data out before it hits the target URL.
how about, because the world is not perfect.
When I hired on with my current company a couple of years ago it was like a dream come true. A dev shop so small there wasn't much room for politics, everyone in the office was really cool and very laid back, and the future was very bright. Even the building we worked in screamed hip: our offices where on the 2nd story of a refurbished textiles mill. Hardwood floors, track lighting, foozball in the break room, and arty pictures on every wall. It was like working in an art gallery or something.

Fast forward two years.After buying out a competitor and assimilating their assets, we've moved into a new building with the standard issue craptastic cubes and overhead florescents. Political infighting and turf wars among management has successfully torpedoed most of the company's attempts at innovation. Most of the cool people have bailed out of frustration, leaving a core of moderately disgruntled old-timers and a few vanilla lifers (you know the type).
The world is never going to be perfect... the question is: are you trying to steer it towards perfection or are you content going with the flow and just doing what everyone else does?
Seriously? Are we still on this?
learning from mistakes is part of it. experience is also crucial for developing confidence (surety, decisiveness, calmness ?)
Epic PR failure.

The sad thing is that Microsoft did (sort of) learn their lesson from the Vista launch. Of the six versions, only two - Home Premium and Professional - will be marketed to retail customers. Starter and Home Basic are intended for developing markets, while Enterprise and Ultimate will only be sold through volume licensing and OEMs. Unfortunately, the way this story is being reported gives exactly the opposite impression.