skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
pg addresses this in http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

Start by writing software for smaller companies, because it's easier to sell to them. It's worth so much to sell stuff to big companies that the people selling them the crap they currently use spend a lot of time and money to do it. And while you can outhack Oracle with one frontal lobe tied behind your back, you can't outsell an Oracle salesman. So if you want to win through better technology, aim at smaller customers. [...] Corollary: Avoid starting a startup to sell things to the biggest company of all, the government. Yes, there are lots of opportunities to sell them technology. But let someone else start those startups.

On the other hand I see a lot of potential in selling cheap, lightweight, cloud-hosted, but effective "small business IT" applications on a subscription basis to help enable the little guys to compete with big business on a more level playing field. You're running a small business and you can't afford to shell out millions on an Oracle or SAP system? Maybe you can't afford to hire a full-time developer or even a consultant to build you an application? Who cares, when there's a just-as-good application that you can access online for less than $100/month?

The key to this would be understanding the use cases particular to whatever industry you are selling to. You might have to have industry-specific modules within a larger application framework.

Then there's always the potential challenge of ETL-ing the data from whatever legacy system the small business might be currently using in order to make it available inside your application, but that's much more of a consulting job than a product marketing job. That's got to be one of the the most expensive aspects of selling enterprise software in the first place.

And of course, assuring the customer about security, privacy, and IP protection of their data would also be of paramount importance, if it's going to be cloud-based.
For starters, the gratuitous building and renovation does nothing to improve the quality of the degree, and certainly increases cost of tuition. The university isn't better off, and the students undoubtedly are worse off. If that isn't a market failure I wouldn't know what is.
This video:

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

(which was also posted by politician) was very useful in explaining the theory. I also made some changes to it, but offhand I can't remember what they were. I think it was to do with the separation of starting vs initialising modules (parts of a page).
The Silicon Valley Housing Market Is Only Going To Get Crazier
Indeed.

First 3 lines of all perl code for me are:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
The $1.7B was not necessarily wasted, if it provided the BMGF learnings that improve future efforts.
I worked REALLY HARD to make it all statil HTML and Javascript, and I'm still working hard to remove the handshake servers... Any help here will be greatly welcome :-)
There's an implicit "for the best price each room could possibly bring" attached to that goal. The reasoning is basically that the cost of a hotel room (construction, upkeep, etc) is not affected too much by whether it is occupied or not. (In that way it's very similar to a seat on an airliner.) So considering your costs as a hotel operator are nearly fixed, you're quite obviously better off selling 50 rooms at $200 and then 50 more rooms at $100, than if you had kept the price at $200 and only been able to sell the first 50 rooms. Of course in the real world the pricing strategies are a lot more complicated than that and depend on having good models for how many people are willing to pay what price, and when.
Why is parkinson even mentioned? It is not a disease that is caused by infection.

Same question for HIV. It's a virus so it doesn't have a membrane which this gel is supposed to attack.

Same question for toenail infections. This is caused by fungi, not bacteria.

Lots of marketing hype here. I don't believe a word of it.
I think the real issue is that everyone (both Hacker News types and the public at large) has, up until now, been far too complacent about computer law and the justice system in general.

We should be making this much noise more often.
You are true. DataChannels are encripted by spec, and WebSockets are also being cyphered. I've taken security and anonimity as far as I could (I'm not a security nor frontend guy... :-P )
Look at it this way: now you can go on living a life based on truth, embrace your pain, and use it as a way get to know the true you, and love that person as you are, then, you will find the perfect person for you and laugh about all of this... Its funny, fundamentally, it's not really her rejecting you... It's you rejecting you... Because no one can make you feel inferior but you, you create your experience, make the best of it and turn your pain into something beautiful
Colin, if we start with the hypothesis that "any developer really ought to be able to solve [that problem]", we get a testable prediction: If a person cannot solve that problem, that person is not "really" capable of being a developer. This prediction, however, doesn't seem to survive long when exposed to reality: There are lots of people who cannot solve that problem but are succeeding, right now, in jobs that most people would accept as software development.

Software development is a big space with lots of room for specialization. Maybe it would be better, then, to model what is essential to "development" not as a distribution over knowledge but as a joint distribution over knowledge and specialization.
You mean like FreeBSD?
I love this quote: "Going to a 4 year school is supposed to be the foundation from which you create a future, not the transaction that crushes everything you had hoped to do because you have more debt than you could possibly pay off in 10 years."

I hosted a coursera meetup recently (http://www.meetup.com/Coursera/Boston-MA/829362/) and I met two students who were enrolled as part time off-campus students, taking the required minimum of classes at the university, and only "spending" those classes on requirements for their majors. All of their enrichment beyond the major was through MOOCs like Coursera. They told me it would take 6 years instead of four, but cost way less, and the preferred the MOOCs for the advanced material anyway. The last piece of the puzzle for them was finding internships, so they could lay the groundwork for a job upon graduating.

Compared to my "find yourself" traipse through college, I was blown away by the steel-trap optimization these guys were applying to school. This economic downturn is breeding a whole generation of just-try-to-stop-me kids. It will be awesome 25 years from now when they are in charge.
Sergey Brin on the NY subway wearing Google Glass
Hmm, who runs the handshake servers, and how can you remove them? Unfortunately I haven't managed to get the app to run, but it sounds fantastic in theory...
Doubtful, since they also happened to change the lyrics to say "Johnny C's in trouble"
> Scandinavia

Maybe better in some respects, but Sweden seems pretty corrupt in light of the Pirate Bay trial and Assange prosecution.
Agreed. They're not needed here. We don't need a legitimate grass roots movement dragged through the mud by having Anonymous involved.

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that the Anonymous brand is so tainted and awful that subversive forces might be using it to undermine legitimate protest by associating it with a hostile, criminal group.
WHAT?!?!?!?!! It's the first news I have about that, I don't know to be happy about it or angry about nobody told me... :-P
What's your purpose?
Ugh. Very insightful.

It wouldn't surprise me if some startup starts trading conscience futures!
One of the concerns mentioned is "GCC needing to bring in newcomers by young students and experiments from academia, while most new developments these days are using LLVM", i.e. that there _eventually_ will not be sufficient community to make those adjustments. I think that concern is justified and may not even be limited to gcc. Any open source project without significant commercial backing will have problems staying attractive to developers for decades. Why would anybody volunteer to work on a decades old and, because of it, somewhat crusty, codebase for free?

Yes, gcc has commercial backers, too, but I think at the moment most of them are more willing to pay for the support of additional architectures or architecture variants than for new language features (at the moment; that can change if C++11 gets more commonly used)
Maybe it would be a good idea to appeal on facebook to the user's friends to text/call/Dm them to wake them up.

The people i know who need something like this would sleep through public, humiliation, fire... But if the phone was ringing repeatedly... and it was their actual friends that they might not have heard from in awhile, they would wake up for that. Maybe you could even make it easy (click here) to call them with one of those phone call APIs or something.

Probably best to encourage them to only use this when they really need to wake up. Or maybe it happens after the 3rd of so snooze...

I actually like this idea. Let me know if you want help.
Transcode it out of Flash on the fly and you'll really have something!
It's not really coverage of his suicide that this site and the tech community is concerned with, to be clear. It's his life and the significance of him not being around anymore that is the focus. Aaron meant a lot to this community as he stood in and stood for the ethos and practices of the community of Internet users and workers.

He was a prolific writer and practitioner on issues that concern this community very much. He was also a sheer phenomenon in himself in that he grew with the growth of the world wide web and espoused and embodied many of it's inherent virtues and values to society. There is also a pretty strong narrative going that his untimely passing is a close consequence of his beliefs, which influenced many in this sphere (and also those outside of it, who might not even have known him at all).

I don't think you're being disrespectful or callous. Perhaps you're curious, though. The outpouring of information, discussion and attention is in and of itself an indication that this is a very big deal to many here and that it is important to keep this discussion alive and it might be useful to dig into it and see what is being said of all this.
Not acceptable.
Your credit card didn't protect you from fraud, it exposed you to it. It's only because you paid for something by giving away a number that gives anyone arbitrary access to your bank that you had money stolen, had to watch your statements to notice it, and had to file a chargeback to get the money back. Hackers on the web can never reach into your wallet and take $250 -- this is a drawback of your credit card, not "protection" offered to you.
That implies that the previous lack of modularization was a practical decision, not a political or philosophical one. Implementation of the GCC plugins system started in 2008. Can you imagine the GCC team completely changing their philosophical stance almost overnight (Clang's first release was in mid 2007), just to get more users? It would be as if they'd relicensed to proprietary software to better compete with VC++.

Previously GCC's primary competitor was ICC, and they were compared based on the quality of their output. Now GCC's primary competitor is Clang, and they compete on how user-friendly their interface is. Modularization is a user interface improvement, just like better error messages or more comprehensive warnings.
That's not a sidechannel. That's adding noise to the main channel.
And I've been through this myself, billions other experience this eventually, everyone learns in their own way... As Chuck Palahniuk says in Fight Club, "it's only after we lose everything, that we are free to do anything"
Who cares about your silly integer decrements anyway? (a.k.a. downvotes) I just broke glass of wine, the only thing that could get me into a known state. Or not?

If you can't (silly miopict people) can't deal with the truth of life... Who cares anyway? (just a tip: in the end you're gonna get fuckecked anyway, so start fucking or get vanished). Anyway, open your eyes.

PS, ASK PG: Why do you make so easy for pussies to get away with their cumbersome opinions by simply down voting instead of incentivizing them to manning up?
I like them, but the animations make no sense. The words shouldn't move.
IMO the lessons aren't really patronizing.

I'd TL;DR them down to "Whatever your bright idea is probably isn't as original as you think. If you think nobody else has thought of it you probably haven't looked very hard, or if you're very lucky the numerous other people who thought of it at the same time as you or before you never pursued it".

We all live in the same world (now more than ever), we're all influenced by the same things and IMO ideas are more tied to a time and the zeitgeist than they are to any person, every personal and historical "bright idea" I've ever encountered backs this up in my experience.

This is why ideas are a "dime a dozen" and execution is everything.
Another revenue-related reason is that many large donors want their money put towards construction. A lot of donations >$10m are specifically earmarked towards construction of a building named after the donor.
The college I went to, nearly went out of business several times. I think now, attendance is rising as people who're out of work are going back to school. I have two jobs for now, but I'm thinking of quitting one and going back to school myself.

Although it's awkward majoring in something that has nothing to do with your current line of work.

What's really annyoing is that no one asks for your GPA (well at least, they didn't ask me) no matter where I applied; just the school and what courses I took. The more I see people who don't have a college degree getting things done, the more I feel college, while you do learn, is still a scam as far as jobs are concerned. And I'd rather learn for the sake of learning than learn just to get a job.
Human nature is incompatible with a rational sense of fairness. Everybody could start off happy with the price they paid, but upon discovering other people are also happy, will become unhappy.
I think this is a reference to a story on The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...
I got "Amazon for Ugly People" hahaha
I think it's more that most of the users are ignorant of the privacy implications.
Great thought on signing before secrecy. Have you looked at the ietf JOSE project for signing json?
Last few times I've seen Phoronix articles my impression is honestly "this is a troll website, right?"

But I was pretty surprised by the attitude that surfaced very early in the linked thread on the GCC list, too. Outwardly hostile, as if to say, "well damn, you losers sure better catch up with LLVM right this instant, otherwise you're making lame excuses". I don't have any involvement in either project (other than the fact that I've used and appreciated both compilers), but this strikes me to fundamentally misunderstand open source. Does LLVM have to fail for GCC to succeed?
Not really. EGCS was producing real, usable releases while it was forked. It wasn't a rewrite in any meaningful sense.
We're very good at working around our deficits. The fact that someone can be a successful developer without knowing basic probability doesn't mean that a lack of knowledge of probability isn't a deficit; they might be a much better and more successful developer if they filled that gap.
I think you're misunderstanding what a single page app is. If a single page app is degrading gracefully when Javascript is turned off then it is probably not a single page app.
Extra long headphone cord? Try this
Simple practical solution for a problem I have. iPhone case for headphone cords.
Yeah if I remember correctly the built in Bluetooth file transfer actually won't send an apk, which was definitely surprising to us too. We could send it over our custom app, but that's the problem - what we're trying to send is the custom app itself.
I edited the post, it was poorly worded. My intention was to say that colleges are at least somewhat protected from just "going out of business" since that would potentially destroy the lives of thousands of recent graduates.

As far as why they would do that, my guess is that is probably a requirement to get accredited.
One reason for new buildings on college campuses is that donors and the government are much more willing to give funds for that purpose than they are for salaries and benefits, which make up the bulk of most college budgets. So, I understand your frustration if you're angry about tuition rising while your college is erecting a new building every three years, but those are usually two separate piles of money, and there's not much your college can do to change that.

That said, I still flinch every time I hear about a new building on our campus. I'm increasingly uncomfortable with the perception that colleges are living large while tuition rates climb, and I feel we should be more conspicuously frugal to combat it.
I'm confused but didn't Apple just do this for two operating systems.

And then moved their entire OSX and iOS development community as well ?
From my quick skip of relevant literature (there's a butt load of research in antibacterial hydrogels), we really aren't in any position to answer that question yet. The mechanism described in the press release is actually speculative.

Many of the papers raise that mechanism as a possibility, but they'll also note that there are many human cells that have a cell membrane at least as electronegative as bacteria, and that they witness antibacterial effects against relatively neutrally charged bacteria membranes as well. One example can be found here [1]. Try flipping through the mechanism and cytotoxicity (how dangerous it is to human cells) sections.

Basically, this is all exciting new research, but there really are no hard answers yet.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2650250/
This is pretty amazing. I had thought how cool it'd be to have something like this a bunch of times (specially when I want to find simplified curry recipes.)

I seem to recall someone put something similar on HN a few months ago. Any ideas who it was?
MacConnection has them for $300 off since December if you go through the link on AppleInsider. That being said, I think it'd be better if flash sales and the like weren't posted to HN.
>There is no right or wrong way to fight for freedom.

There are two wrong ways to fight for freedom (or any noble cause): (1). to fight unjustly and (2). to fight ineffectively. Starting a fight is not without a cost to a side that loses the fight, that cost may be in lives, money or emotional energy. To fight ineffectively for a noble cause is to fight unjustly since you hurt your chances of winning, to fight unjustly but effectively for a noble cause turns a noble cause into an unjust cause.

>IT is a fight a fight is a war.

Not all fights are wars, nor are all wars fights (for examples wars have been fought to pump up nationalism or to test a doctrine with neither side actually engaging in real fighting. If you read 'The Prince' much of the wars between the cities of Italy are not fights).

>There are very few rules in war.

The appeal to a war mentality you are making is an appeal to as you say "few rules". This is both untrue in that most wars are fought within a large number of rules and limited in scope, most wars are not absolute wars, and absolute wars tend to consume the original causes for the war. Absolute wars are wars for the sake of war rather than wars for the sake of principal. To advocate a war mentality for the purpose of arguing that few rules apply is completely self-defeating since such a war destroys the original purpose you are attempting to achieve.

>make no mistake if there is a fight - there will only be one winner.

This is certainly not true, you can have all losers, all winners or any combination thereof. Who wins in a absolute nuclear war? Maybe invertebrates, maybe not.

Do not take this post as defense of the earlier poster.
Tell that to the numerous kickstarters, some of which are two guys in a garage figuratively speaking. I might be assuming but it sure comes off that way in quite a number of cases. Not discounting the need of having background knowledge but still
I must be missing something here. How does an empty room make any money?
A single 3D-printed burger currently costs over $300,000 to make
You especially see this phenomenon at state universities. The university gets a new building, and the politician gets a photoshoot. Renovating an existing building, on the other hand, would save the taxpayer money but doesn't offer opportunities for photo-ops.
PhDs don't do 'final year projects'. They don't really do 'projects' at all. They produce a thesis based on original research over a period of three or more years. If a PhD student is starting some kind of project in their final year, they're seriously fucked.
Does anyone know what bands they're talking about? What's the theoretical max bandwidth on these new frequencies?
It isn't. I had a FICO score of 795 with no credit card utilization at all. I get the best loan terms and was approved for a mortgage of up to a million dollars recently. No credit card utilization ratio is required to have an excellent credit score. Simply having a card and stuffing it in a drawer for a few years, while never missing a utility or loan payment, will hit all the marks that matter.
I really like the "cell phone that connects to multiple networks" idea. Not just for the ability to make the cheapest call, but for the ability to make a call from anywhere that has reception from any provider.

I wonder if that could pave the way for boutique carriers that provide connectivity in hard-to-reach spots (say, the bottom story of a parking garage). The building owner could potentially take a cut on the phone fees the same way that building owners extract a fee from ATMs on their property.
This is clever, but the problem that I at least usually deal with is not waking on time, but getting to bed at a reasonable hour, especially if I'm using social media before bed. A Facebook plugin which told the user to go to sleep and maybe told his friends that he/she should be in bed so they should stop talking with him would actually be pretty cool.
ECMAScript 6 - The new parts of JavaScript
> If they were truly opposed to people using GCC as a module in a larger system, why would they go out of their way to encourage modularization?

Because Clang happened.
How long ago was this written? They make reference to ordering typewriter ribbons ...
Currently I'm using PubNub as a "pool of peers", where a new peer connect and send a "presence" message that's listened by the previous peers, that then send a SDP offer to that new guy. Later, it keeps waiting some time sending offers to the new guys, and when it has several connections (from older and newer peers) it disconnect and start to search for new peers only over the WebP2P network.

Ideally, I would like to use something more "agnostic" like SIP or XMPP, but didn't be able yet to do it in an anonimous way, since both protocols require to create accounts somewhere that later when you register on a SIP or XMPP server it ask to confirm that you exists, so goodbye anonimity :-(
Hey Bill Gates! Fix what Aron Swartz was fighting for.