skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You also have to consider tools used to build and test, and any DLLs used. Theoretically for something used frequently, it should stay in memory, but I have no idea how well that works in practice when doing a large build.
I appreciate the rosy outlook, but this is sheer absurdity. Sure, assets like homes and stocks can be purchased at a lower price for roughly the same actual value as before. But that assumes that a) people still have the money or the fortitude to buy those things and b) that the economy will rebound entirely. Sure the latter is likely true, and the author makes some good points. But as a young investor myself with parents who have lost much, I'm not inclined to be so optimistic about the future.

If nothing else, hopefully this all teaches us to be accountable for our own money and know what we're doing with it.
Actually, they are very real, internal ads. They rotate and point to different sections of the site, sometimes it's widgets, other times it's the search, etc.
I've been moving our domains over to Gandi one by one. Just too much baggage and potential downside with GoDaddy, as has been reported on HN now dozens of times.
"Because the future earnings of GE, and for that matter most U.S. corporations, are essentially the same today as they were two years ago.."

Are they?
Time-lapse and editing, I think.
Paying Workers More to Fix Their Own Mess
I've found Storage Search to be the best information hub for enterprise-class SSDs; first saw the ioDrive there, and it's the only site I've seen mention SAS drives in development.
This blog post adds virtually nothing over the original linked article: http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1...

Otherwise, interesting.
I don't get this. Dividing equity is easy in the beginning, just like slicing a pie: equal shares.

The idea of 70/30 or other offset splits only suggests that one partner is more valuable than the other, hence by definition they aren't partners - they are superior and subordinate. You're already creating a situation where the person with lower equity isn't as motivated as the one with more. That has failure written all over it.

I think if you're talking about taking a business from piece of paper to something real, and you have partners involved, the only way you can ensure any measure of success is to divide things equally.

If the share isn't equal, I don't think partnership is what you should be discussing at all.
Fire people that are passive. Grant more options to those that deserve it. Don't hire based on loyalty.
It hasn't. He's said that before, and that he's leaving the Rails community behind rather than dwell on it.
Ghosts of a Faded Gilded Age Haunt a 19th-Century Chinese Banking Hub
Yes, I don't get this quote neither. I honestly am not sure how to interpret it. Does his lack of answer show that he has no clue about this million-node botnet thing ? Or that he does not want to talk about such a sensitive matter ?

Moreover, is any 3* general supposed to know what this is all about ? Are we talking about a specific general well versed in these matters ?

I submitted this story though, because I have not heard about this worm before and I found the speculations about the final goal of this attack rather surprising.
This looks kind of like Powershell, which I've been in awe of for several months now. But being built on a more dynamic runtime this will have the ability to use to extend objects that you get back from the shell so it could be even better.
I haven't been following IE 8 as close as I should have been, is there a good way to have both IE 7 and IE 8 at the same time? (Well it doesn't even have to be at the same time, but such that I can quit one and open the other.) Maybe compatibility mode is good enough?
Nokias Email Phone E75 Pre-Booking Begins in India
World's Largest Mobile Phones manufacturer Nokia has discreetly started promoting its upcoming flagship E-series handset, the E75 for prospective first buyers.
If you're using nginx, you can install the memcache module, which lets you speak directly to memcache and bypass Django's CacheMiddleware altogether.
Very cool. Thanks for this insight.
That would still count as solving a very hard problem for 99% of people.

It's even a hard problem for me, not because I can't set up svn/apache/webdav and whatever, but because I need to actively avoid doing this kind of things and focus on higher order issues.
Certainly not. The current earnings of the S&P 500 are down about 70% from 18 months ago. Obviously the market expects earnings to bounce back, since on a current basis, with the P/E of the S&P 500 about 28, stocks are a bad investment if you think things will continue. A dollar of earnings today is worth more than any future earnings, and near-term (five years or so), I think we can expect earnings to be less than they were eighteen months ago, so I don't think that the children have necessarily made out -- it's some combination of wealth destruction and wealth that was never really there.
Examples of what? Why it is that standing up to people is one of the components of the "opposite of haplessness"? Or of the assertion that quality of leadership has two components is a large part of why it is so difficult to do and difficult to find?

Looking at the Google guys gives you a couple of examples of the first assertion. They were ultra-careful when hunting for a CEO, and chose one who didn't try to dominate them. They played off their VC's against each other, making sure that the both of the two top venture capitol firms invested in them. That's the kind of thing I mean.
I think it's worth discussing these things in depth. Choosing a web framework for your web company is a serious commitment, isn't it?
The amount of wealth in the world is roughly the same, but the perceived value of cash has risen relative to everything else. The "wealth" has gone to the people who happen to be sitting on a lot of cash at the moment while people with lots of Plasma TVs in storage (for example) are finding they're not as wealthy as they thought they were.

I expect our kids are still going to have to work as hard as we did in order to buy those Plasma TVs. Even if they cost less, they'll probably be getting paid less too.
The citation says that AIG did what regulators let it do.

AIG exploited a loophole; it was a case of complying with the letter of the rule, but going against its spirit.

If you're going to argue that regulation is the solution

Not my assertion at all; I'm merely answering your original question about how foreign banks got stung by their involvement with AIG.
I don't understand how the wealth is being passed to the kids of baby boomers? I'm a child of a baby boomer, 28 years old and on my second home that was purchased at the height of the real estate bubble (first in 2004, second in 2007). Both homes I purchased were owned by baby boomers.

Looks like it's the kids who are passing the wealth on to the boomers to me.

If your kids are lucky, they either held off on purchasing a home or were too young to buy in. Otherwise they're probably like me, young and with a mountain of debt and while we're a long way from retirement, most likely there will be no SS benefits for us. Enjoy your retirement boomers!
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It would be annoying for some sites because sometimes email can take a while, but for things you don't use often this kind of solution would work well and don't mind waiting a bit to log in this could work well.
I still roll with GoDaddy (despite checkout hell) as I'd rather deal with a massive, faceless corporation then some rinky dink operation that may some day implode.
I've found ovh.com to be pretty good, but they've only got localised sites for some European countries (look for the flags at the bottom of the page), so they wouldn't be much help in the US. I've had good experiences with gandi.com, but they aren't the cheapest (anymore.)
I'm not saying it's not annoying, but whether or not it was sincere, I don't see where you're getting that Zed doesn't think he should experience consequences. If you give him the benefit of the doubt, you'll realize that you didn't read what he wrote before ZSSFA, and therefore he pretty much proved his point that people listen to assholes and blowhards, however mind-numbingly obvious that may have already been.
It would be cooler if it could go further back in time and give you the meta-story of reddit. As is, it's as equally interesting or boring as reddit.
Ask HN: Please review mailop.com, an instant disposable email you don't even need to check
MS Support for 10 years mean that they will issue patches to critical bugs, exploits and so on for 10 years.

However, IE6's support lifespan will not mean that it gets new CCS, Javascript, HTML 5 or ACID compliance features. IE 8 is the official fix for that. It does not mean that people should use IE6, or that MS will encourage people to use it. It does not mean that IE6 will necessarily will be "around" in the sense of having a significant browser market share. Default browser on a fresh install of XP, yes, unless an "XP reloaded edition" comes out.
I think this is less about hackers and more about forcing people to be more responsible with their record keeping.

I deal with business owners daily who have no idea who their domain is with, let alone their username or password. At least this will force them to touch their domain at least once/year.
Isn't Enom one of those scummy registrars who sends those fake invoice mailings trying to lure domain owners away?

I've had some bad experiences with Enom over the years to say the least.
Powershell is pretty cool, but its syntax takes a little getting used to. I keep wondering why they chose to create a new syntactic paradigm when they are already so many around...
How did you have contact with Sotira directly?
Umm, considering the hard attitude the article presents, the actual content is really rather fluffy.

I can think of a word in response to this article: straw-man.
LINQ I found is not that awkward to learn. It's a feature of C# and .net not just of asp.net MVC, so it's a transferable skill, and an important skill for .Net programming in general.
Digg is partly there because it cheats on its metrics. Every upvote counts as another visit.

In terms of actual traffic, last time I was dugg and reddited digg was only slightly ahead of reddit.
"whenever the word "Parrot" is mentioned"? No, I posted it because the website as as dead as a parrot. And ended with "etc" quite quickly because, yeah, old gag.
Honestly, if the jump from IE6 to IE7 is too much for some users, the jump from IE6 to IE8 going to be even more frightening. Remember IE7 didn't really fix any IE6 rendering issues, still some (badly designed) websites had issues with the transition. Now that IE8 compliant by default, there's going to be a lot more web content that looks and works slightly differently.

Basically the IE6 user base is upgrade averse as it gets, and a new major revision never cures that. IE6 can only be eradicated by a coordinated desupport effort, and that's a total prisoner's dilemma mess. No one's going to risk their traffic for it.
will it open up any link sent to it automatically? or is it intelligent about what it opens up?
Nimbuzz Launches a Super Communication App for iPhone
Big Brother: Startup Edition
Evidence of new iPhones, new iPod Touch
Bootstrap yourself until they come knocking on your door.
It has some intelligence intended not to DOS legitimate sites: if a site sends a support link along with the confirmation link, for example, the support link won't be opened over and over again. Like Mailinator, the site has also other forms of protecting itself against spam.
i like it a lot. I actually work at a web company where we have to test new registrations, and have been using mailinator for quite some time. The problem with mailinator is that if I use the email address for example jfosidj@mailinator.com I have to copy and paste it somewhere so I can check it, but your services seems like it will be easier. thanks
Tipjoy is my first web project, actually. I started knowing python. I tried frameworks, and quit when something failed. Django was the first to go from start to live test site touch using a DB without a hiccup. I think that means something for both the quality of the documentation and the framework.

TurboGears, web.py, and Pylons failed the test.

The Python community would benefit from more people switching to Django. It does have the approval of the BDFL, after all.
You know, if he'd actually done that, that would be fine. But in the past month he's flamed the music industry after doing a piss poor job of researching his claims then retaliated with a giant rant and personal attacks when folk disagreed with him.

WTF are we still paying attention to him, and why is he still getting to the top of the HN front page when he's done nothing of any real worth for the past year, apart from the opinionated rants he himself has decried?
I wrote this on his blog:

I commend your resolve to continue, but there is one fatal flaw in your argument: point 3.

Google has absolutely no intention of ever making money from their telecom products. In fact, Google considers them a cost of business. Why? Because they are trying to build the largest corpus of spoken text in the world. They are simply collecting data. The purpose of that data is to build the best text to speech algorithms in the world, so that they could then make it possible to search for audio. For example, imagine the power of being able to search for a spoken phrase in a youtube video.

So I don't ever expect them to shut down the services or charge for them. At least not until they have text to speech down pat.
At the risk of sounding vindictive, I don't think I've ever been more happy to see someone getting PSAs on their Adsense.
Ouch. A tad naive.

http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/02/maco...

http://louisgray.com/live/2008/08/i-got-mac-os-x-virus-and-i...

Just 2 from a quick google search:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mac+os+x+virus
Nice that you can have your own Gitorious. But Gitorious is not Github. One of the biggest and most useful differences is the fork queue.
At Arbor, the people that were involved in FedGov sales heard a little anecdote about John Casciano, a retired Air Force Major General who advised the company. What we were told is, despite the fact that he retired in 1999, and despite the fact that he walked into the building in plainclothes looking like any business guy off the street, every uniformed person he passed saluted him. That's a 2-star, retired.

The idea that anyone in the military would have up-to-the-minute intel about malware doesn't ring true to me. My sense of it is, from talking to people who've worked there, the NSA deserves the reputation it has. The rest of the government is a backwater.

The idea that a Lt. General --- in command of 50,000+ unforms, roughly the equivalent of a Fortune 200 company plus rifles and tanks --- would have an opinion about Conficker seems even less likely.

(I never met Casciano, but I did get to go to the Pentagon a couple times --- it feels like the largest public high school you've ever been in, except that people brandishing automatic weapons stare at you when you come through the door. Apparently unless you're a ret. 2-star, in which case they salute.)
I didn't know about Varnish so I found the link: http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/. There's commercial support for it too: http://varnish-cache.com/

Thanks for the resource. This will come in handy.
"Java is a nightmare I just escaped and have no intentions of going back."

I just received a phone call to get hired as a java developer. You just changed my mind. hah.
Personal Observations of Richard Feynman on the Challenger space shuttle
Congrats for the launch and the interesting approach!

I run 10MinuteMail.com, which is in the same space, although with a few differentiators, so take my comments with a grain of salt:)

I worry about the lack of security (i.e. someone can easily issue a forgot password event, and grab that e-mail, and take over your account). Obviously you shouldn't use disposable accounts for things like your bank's site, but in general I think people use them for forum or site accounts that they want to use, but aren't sure won't sell their address list. The only people I can picture who 100% don't care if their account can be easily stolen are forum spammers, who unfortunately use disposable e-mail services pretty often.

I like the auto-clicking action, although many sites require you to set a new password after you click the link or login with the One Time Use initial password. Since those links are only usable once, and the site will keep auto-clicking them when the mail comes in, I think you could find yourself unable to authenticate with a large number of sites.
check you mailbox
recieves
confirmaion
importatnly

looks like a good idea, just needs running through a spell checker
Language-python: A Python Parser Written in Haskell
Isn't it possible that at a given time different users may access the same mailbox for some common usernames?
This looks interesting and well done. Must investigate further.
Spacebook: A blog from space
i think it might be hasty generalization or slippery slope instead of straw man.

there are plenty of people who do live the life as described. however, there are plenty more who don't. he's attacking a fraction like its the whole.
That's a sad bunch of start ups. Nothing excites me and it has all been done already. If implemented, they'll just add to the noise of little apps that I'd have to invest time in. Oh yea...how are they going to acquire customers and make a profit?
The end of the free lunch - again
I use bookmyname, here are the fees and services:

http://www.bookmyname.com/offres.cgi?wl=en
Using the electrodes to the face as music visualization [video]
Interview with Scott Pio on Programming
There's a very important general lesson here: optimise for real-world usage patterns.
Tracing The Roots of Wall Street
First Haskell Facebook App - and it's a Math Quiz
Dude, you need to work on your morale management. Someone killing an article doesn't say anything about you.
This is incredibly dangerous. They say do not use this for "accounts you care about" but many people use the same or similar passwords and usernames across several sites. If you register for a site and they send you your password in plain text via email (many sites still do this) you may have just opened the door wide open for any number of hackers using brute force attacks (except they can assume the set of permutations will be MUCH smaller.)

It is a cool service but if you use this you need to create a substantially different username and password to really be safe. Even if your login credentials are different someone can go through the password recovery process via email, reset it, and do whatever they want. Why would I want this to happen on ANY of my accounts? Even the ones I care least about need to be more secure than that.

[EDIT]
...but maybe the people who use these services are more intelligent than the average web user, are aware of the risks, and only associate these "throw-away" email addresses with throwaway accounts.
Light and Heat: Giant Fresnel
The bigger problem than unfairness is that if you split 50/50 between two founders, you're screwed when you want to bring a third person in to do partner-level work.
I agree. It's great because it's essentially Rails ported over to .NET. That's not a backhanded compliment. I think it was the right thing to do. I know there are a bunch of Rails skeptics out there, but as far as development practices go, they made solid decisions at every step. Coming from conventional ASP.NET over to ASP.NET MVC should be a breath of fresh air. No more having to program on a platform that tried (and IMHO failed) at making web development be more desktop-development-like.

I've already decided against doing ASP.NET development on my own projects, but if I were forced to use ASP.NET, I wouldn't think twice about choosing the MVC version over the conventional one. I had already begun introducing the Castle frameworks (inspired by Rails) into ASP.NET projects well before ASP.NET MVC was even announced, so I can't help but praise MS here.
The thing is, a lot of places you might want to go have a small airport and roads, but not cab service. You have to be a decent sized city to have cab service. One of the cool things about flying around in small airplanes is that you can visit some of these out of the way places. The current way people deal with this is usually folding bikes, and now there are some folding electric bikes, which are a reasonable alternative to the terrafugia.

The real problem with the Terafugia of course is that it's not a very good airplane or a very good car. On the airplane side, it has very poor payload -- you can't even fill the tanks, and put two average sized people in it with no luggage. Also, even with full tanks, it has a practical range of only about 250 miles. If you're willing to make short hops, theoretically you could get somewhere further, but I'm not sure if it's compatible with (leaded) aviation gasoline. If not, then you have to land, drive to a gas station, drive back to the airport, and take off every 2.5 hours. At that point, from a speed standpoint, you're better off driving.

Still, this is a good start, and if they can improve the pertinent specs by about 20%, I think they will have a real winner.
WHAT? This from the generation that just borrowed a trillion dollars from us?!
What about the large spectrum of contributions between "passive, deserving of dismissal" and "top-3 contributor"? This seems a little too black and white.
it is loading really slowly for me

you should auto-gen an email address for every new visitor, makes it easier than having to check. people don't care what the username is for a throw-away email address anyway.

after auto-gen, set a cookie so if I do have to come back for something, I don't need to remember the username and I can click a link to see the inbox (or just put the inbox on the frontpage as well)

otherwise, pretty cool! a neat hack would be a bookmarklet that auto fills-in a reg form with the email address (say some javascript that searches for an 'email' text field and inserts a new unique email).

edit: come to think of it, I would probably pay money if you did this as a service for my own domain. eg. I could point a catch-all for all my email to you, which you can use to generate throw-away emails from my domain name (in that case the emails are less likely to be blocked by services).
Thank you.

Could you elaborate on that? I have never used ASP.NET. The ASP.NET WinForms model sounds good in theory. It's a little bit like Seaside: you have components on the page that have callbacks, etc. Yes, it isn't like the web, but I imagine it could work for web applications. Why is WinForms bad?
Google’s new Behavioral Targeting: Looking Beyond Keywords
I think CC licensing on blogs (or email) is a form of conspicuous production, a way of signaling that you're part of the CC movement.
Kind of-sort of: http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone
ya, i think the significance of rubish (to myself anyway) isn't so much interactivity (it's plausible, but not convincing), but this potential to abstract my personal usage pattern in Ruby.

abstraction is a form of memory.
This would be a compelling story if Neil Peart's predecessor John Rutsey was getting an equal share of revenues from albums after '74, or if you believed that Neil Peart would happily concede his share of future Rush revenue to any drummer that replaced him. Companies are more complicated than bands, but even this story is too oversimplified; Peart is a world-famous drummer and has massively contributed to the Rush brand --- you think his hypothetical replacement would deserve a full share for filling his shoes?

(Disclaimer: though I know a bit about Rush, I do not listen to Rush, and hope to exit this thread with my indie cred intact. Go buy the new Neko Case album.)
With IE8, Microsoft Ignores One Third Of The Market