skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay first, neither eBay or google are a monopoly in the technical sense.

But in principle, eBay can defend its market dominance more than google.

Say there is eBay, and eBayCompetitor. eBay starts off with all the customers. As a single seller or buyer, I can chose to move to eBayCompetitor but it does me no good - if there are no sellers or buyers at eBayCompetitor except me, the site is useless.

On the other hand, if everybody is at Google and someone starts GoogleCompetitor, I can leave Google and GoogleCompetitor would work just fine for me, because it doesn't matter whether anybody else uses GoogleCompetitor. You could end up with some kinds of semi-steady state like in the browser wars.

The problem in practice with search engines is that I am starting to get the idea that the "market" likes having a single search engine to worry about/buy ads to/manipulate ranks for. So it is possible than in reality there is some pressure against GoogleCompetitor gaining traction.
Last friday I had to stand in front of a judge and say that two people where not living together for the last year so they could get a divorce in the state of Virginia. After 6 months of marriage it took a year, a judge, an attorney, and a witness, plus some cash to finally separate them.

If they had been married for 10 years then there would be Social Security implications etc. Plus I think they still force you to take a blood test ect.

PS: Separation of Church and State my ass.
But that's not what noscript does; it allows you to whitelist known-good scripts, and only run those. So when you go goodsite.com, you can see the cool javascript animations, but when you browse to steals-your-history.com, your history won't be stolen.

Sure, goodsite.com can choose to spy on you... but that is less likely than some other random site being the bad one.
PHP on the Google App Engine
Making the Leap from RDBMS to Persistent Objects
Tax breaks for being married? Quite the contrary. You pay additional taxes if you marry. Do the math for single vs married tax rates at various income levels. Also, if you file as married (jointly or separately) if one person itemizes the other must itemize, or vice versa w/ the standard deduction.

One gets big tax breaks for owing money to a bank for a mortgage loan or for having children, but not simply for being married. Hence the term "marriage penalty".
Read Rossum's Universal Robots -- the play wherein the term "robot" was coined, for one vision of this exact scenario.
If you get married, there's a good chance that your wife will want you to quit and get a stable job with reasonable hours. Even if she doesn't now, that's likely to change if you have children. It's also likely that her patience will wear thin eventually, especially if your first startup fails and you want to try another one.
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Does anyone know if Axiis or the Degrafa framework which it depends upon require the non-free components from the Flex Builder Professional edition?
Just added his link as a WP redirect to your link, so they both work now. :-)
I meant the generic "you." Not specifically you.

Why all the hostility?
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How web apps help business
rational for divorce proceedings through state courts has little to do with Church. The courts are mostly dealing with issues of property.
Those statistics are totally the wrong ones to look at. It's "Age at marriage for those who divorce in America". You want "Divorce rate by age at marriage".
I use NoScript too, but you can do it in pure CSS and Noscript won't block it: just set a:visited for the link you're interested in to use a certain background image, which will only hit your server if the link is actually visited.
You're being ridiculous. The marginal cost per kilobyte of data transfered during off peak hours is approximately $0.00. The marginal cost per kilowatt of electric power, while lower during off peak hours, is still material.
"When Wolfram Alpha starts solving word problems..."

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak/cgi/physdemo.cgi

It's no Wolfram|Alpha, but it solves word problems fairly well.
The article itself has been "taken over" by the same Chrome ads. irony++;
What prevents that? "The market." If your employees start feeling like you are fucking them over, they are just going to leave.
misleading. i'm guessing the number of murder victims is many orders of magnitude smaller than marriages, and is negligible.
I'm sorta halfway between Search UI and Universal Search, and in my experience so far, it really is a lot of fun. There're some crazy algorithms involved in search, and the infrastructure just makes my jaw drop in awe. We launched a new feature last Tuesday as well - that was fun. :-)

But I can kinda see how it might suck if you end up on the wrong team. One of my Noogler friends is working on an internal webapp, and I would cry (or quit) if I had to work with his codebase. Somebody's gotta do the grunt work, and it can't all be exciting.

As for the interviews - I didn't have any complaints about mine (well, except for the interviewer who didn't show up). My interviewers were friendly & competent - I just had lunch with one of them last week, 6 months after the interview. I did get the sense that they get exasperated by the number of candidates who get through the phone screen and then really don't know what they're talking about in the interview, which just wastes everyone's time. It's possible that if you're one of those people, that exasperation would seem like pomposity - but then, if you really do have that much to learn, why not learn it instead of complain about the egos of the people interviewing you?

Again though, this is biased by the "all's well that ends well" effect. It's possible that I'd have a very different opinion had I been turned down. Then again, I still have a high opinion of FriendFeed's interview process even though I completely botched it.
Perhaps it is this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=464842

http://www.dotnetdotcom.org/
> I actually really liked the movie Revolutionary Road for this reason

This was one of my least favorite movies of all time until I read your take on it. Didn't think of comparing it to the startup life.
In the UK what you can do with a pre-nuptial agreement is very limited.
activity monitor, X11 and firefox. The first thing I do when I get a new mac (or account on someone elses machine) is move the dock to the right side and rip everything off of it.
"Google's cafeterias, if they were not just for Googlers, would easily be among the best restaurants on the peninsula."

If you know a Googler - and most people in the Bay Area do - they can bring you in as a visitor. I've taken both my roommates to dinner, and am taking my sister and her boyfriend to lunch next week. Many of my non-Googler friends here have already had at least one meal at the Googleplex.

I agree with the sibling poster though - it's really nothing special compared to some of the restaurants in the area. Yeah, for free food it's great, but if you're willing to pay for restaurant food, you can get way better.
Firefox’s future does not include tabs
Eight Months with a Hackintosh Netbook
That would be a terrible user experience.

At one time browsers didn't display images by default eiter. It was horrible.
"Divorce rate by age at marriage" + the age of marriage as a percentage of all marriages (otherwise you might find 80% of marriages at age 60 are successful but fail to realize that probably accounts for a <1% of all marriages).

I think it's kind of funny that we're all seeking statistics on marriage. Where are the romantics on HN?
Winston Churchill said "gadgets"? Really? In what speech or book did he do so?

The old boy in his writings showed quite a healthy respect for the machinery of war (eg see atomic bomb). I don't see him saying such a thing in earnest.
Skepticism About the New "Missing Link" Fossil
If only it were that easy. Pre-nuptial agreements are routinely invalidated by judges at the precise moment one needs them to be enforced.
User Counts Considered Apples and Oranges
Why do you use Quicksilver over Spotlight?
I don't think their uses are that different, though. They were both designed to be flexible extension languages for programs written in a different language, and were strongly influenced by Scheme.

In particular, Javascript's JSON seems semantically identical to Lua's table notation (just with different braces in different places). Lua is used as a data serialization language as well (see the notes about Petrobras, for example), and the compiler has been tuned specifically for vacuuming up data files. It's also good as a ready-made config file format.
Larry King: Betting my last dollar on a horse
For the author: this is possibly Opera-specific but I get this error when opening the page:
<philosophymademanifest.blogspot.com>

[Error:
name: ReferenceError
message: Statement on line 3: Undefined variable: _gat
Backtrace:
Line 3 of inline#2 script in http://philosophymademanifest.blogspot.com/2009/05/metaprogr...
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-8120690-1");

]
I think that what women want is to raise a child with a partner. Neither a wedding nor a state-enforced contract is required for a committed, long-term, loving relationship.

There is an increasing phenomenon of women choosing to give birth out of wedlock. It's not yet clear if they are having children without a cohabitant partner.

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/a-new-tren...
This looks very similar to the "Eye Drive"[1] mini robot developed by the Israelis, and already in use by the IDF (according to an article[2] in the Jerusalem Post). The company's promotional video[3] of the robot shows it in action.

[1] http://www.odfopt.com/eyedrive/Eye_Drive_home.htm
[2] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArti...
[3] http://www.odfopt.com/Movies/eyedrive_new_movie.wmv
I have disagree with some of this article.

If your app needs to treat an attribute of an object (user_name in this example) as unique within the set of objects of its "type" (User), you put the constraint somewhere it is manageable and DRY. This true without regard to if the persistence is RDB or ODB.

In something like Rails, the constraint gets handled in ruby. You also have the choice, in Rails and such, of additionally having the constraint in your RDB schema.

Gemstone is a unique ODB in that code gets executed in process with the data. This is not so with other ODBs which are only a repository and most operations on objects occur outside the repository.

Gemstone is very cool and you can do lots of things much faster and smarter with it. But OO practice of encapsulating the behavior of changing the user_name is the same without regard to the use of Gemstone, some less glorious ODB, or an RDB.
> The study of math, physics, logic, will greatly improve your ability to come up with convincing arguments.

As will the study of history, philosophy, rhetoric, and psychology. Let's be honest here. Physics has no place in that list, logic is a subset of math, and a strong case could be made that math is just applied philosophy/epistemology (and the reverse is also true.) There is a reason that math is considered a liberal art and not an engineering discipline...

There is a difference between real "higher math" and the applied math that engineering students learn as a part of their vocational training. The former is useful for enhancing critical thinking, the latter is not.
The basic problem with becoming a large company is the limited supply of high quality projects and people. If they wanted to return to the good old days fire the bottom 30% to 90% at each level, give everyone left a significant pay bump and look to automate vs add body's.

Edit: Ok laying people off in this economy would be horrible long term PR but it's still an option.
2 days in a row, same author, 2 of the same article in the the atlanta journal constitution with the same spiel about Georgia having a high startup rate all with pretty much the same quotes from different state government related people...I'm sure there are more elsewhere if I look.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2009/05/19/ent...

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2009/05...

If i had to guess its a positive pr push from business associations based on a study that found in the states favor...

As for why the study is dumb see the thread thats the parent of this guy's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=598317

I'm not knocking atlanta in anyway, just didnt see the need for the downvotes on anyone who tried to offer a counterpoint to the lovefest
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I'm not saying free food/drinks/heck-even-beer is a Bad Thing, or necessarily evil. My current employer does the free snacks/free drinks thing, and I've worked for another start-up that did free lunch for a long time. At neither job was there any expectation that the employees needed to put in long hours in return for the perks.

I don't think all of Google's perks are evil, either. Certainly a free lunch is a great perk, and reasonable, since you will be at the office over a lunch hour. Heck, I usually eat at my desk when I'm in the office. But when the perks begin to replace things I would do outside of the office, then I begin to wonder if it isn't an attempt to keep workers at the office for longer hours.

The best perk for me would be management that set reasonable time lines and clear requirements for projects that didn't require engineering and QC to spend long hours in the office.
No. You do not understand conditional probability.

You have made a few simplifying assumptions. One, that the pmf of picking an number is uniform, and two, that the two choices are independent.

WLOG the first person is male (ease of pronoun usage)

Neither of these are particularly odd assumptions.

Therefore. You have a 1/10 chance of winning. He has a 1/10 chance of winning.

The probability of you BOTH winning is 1/100.

The probability of you winning GIVEN that he won is 1/10.

This is because P(A|B) = P(AB)/P(B) => 1/10 = (1/10 x 1/10)/(1/10), which is in fact a consequence of independence.

To explain: Conditional probability is special. Unlike the intersection, you have to correct for all the stuff that you know wasn't possible (i.e., guy 1 choosing the wrong number). In this case, that exactly compensates for the low probability of the intersection.

EDIT: Asterisks for times and italics don't mix
Tesla Worth More Than Half A Billion Dollars After Daimler Investment
Then why should the state care if they lived together?

It's one thing to have both people say we agree to split property like this it's another to say you have to wait and jump though a lot of hoops to get divorced.

Consider two people that want a divorce, but can't really afford separate households at this point and don't want to sell the house when the economy is bad. Granted this is not the "normal" path but plenty of people get divorced without hating each other.
Anyone here use this for anything?
No, they are independent.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/05/19/darwinius-...
All you need is the Flex SDK. It is not entirely open source, but it is free to use.
As a Google employee I am very curious to know how likely this algorithm thinks I am to quit my job. I wonder if they'll make it available to us! Although I suppose knowing the answer would probably affect my chances ;-)
Communication over Implementation
I'm with logjam on this one. I double-majored in Computer Science and Theatre, and while I do now use my Computer Science degree to make money, I don't believe I learned almost anything in my computer science classes that I couldn't have learned - and mightn't have learned better - either (a) on the job somewhere out of high school or (b) on my own through books and online resources.

The creative and teamwork experiences I got on the theatre side of things, however, are absolutely tangibly valuable to me now in my day-to-day dealings with coworkers (current and potential). Did a humanities degree "teach me how to think"? No. Did it provide me with several different ways of thinking, and help me appreciate better how different my natural thought processes might be from those of other people? Absolutely. I'm sorry, but there are in fact a lot of very narrow, closed off, fit-the-stereotype maladjusted computer professionals out there, and yes, they're unpleasant to work with. Becoming more socialized is a perfectly valid thing to expect out of an education, and a humanities degree certainly puts focus there that doesn't exist in more technical degrees.

Of course, the fact that my particular theatre program was filled with enthusiastic, smart, engaging professors who encouraged lively participation, debate and creativity while the computer science program was nearly lifeless has probably colored my perceptions, but I imagine that paradigm is not limited to the university I attended.
Marriage increases your responsibilities and, consequently, reduces your risk tolerance. Maybe it wasn't a choice, just so happened that it was because of the higher risk tolerance that those unmarried individuals could be so risky.
I'm much more concerned about suitcase nukes and a grad student that could make a super virus. I'll almost certainly die of the latter :(
Uhm, that is not true. Those two events are independent, you should brush up on your probability theory.
It has API wrappers for a lot of other database systems, as well.

See: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LibrariesAndBindings, luaforge (http://luaforge.net/), and LuaRocks (http://luaforge.net/).
This wouldn't in any way be exaggerated to sell his book, now would it?
Great article, a biological twist to marketing :-)
I would never tell my wife this, but I think it's important for other people to hear. I've never actually been "infatuated" with my wife. The only people I've actually been that sort of "in love" with were utterly unmarriable (and for that matter utterly un-relationshipable). That part of my brain really seems to like the cute, crazy chick, but the problem with the cute, crazy chick is that she's actually crazy. "Quirky" is cool and all, but the crazy that comes with it, not so much.

No, all I have with my wife is love, a deep agreement on many of the important issues (including how money should be spent), an agreement with how many children we should have (broadly) and when and broad agreement on how to raise them, the ability to be friends with each other and work through arguments, and other such things. And a commitment. Love is primarily a choice, not a feeling.

If there's a part of you rebelling and saying that sounds cold and unfeeling, kill that part. That's propaganda, bad social programming, and it will lead to exactly the sort of pain and failure you'd expect when you shut off your brain for the one of the most important decisions of your life.

It's not that feeling don't enter into it at all. I've got and had all kinds of other feelings. (You can't tell because this is a text message and it's too easy to read it as emotion-free.) I'm not saying that feelings or emotions are bad; I'm saying that this one particular feeling is treacherous beyond belief. If you are lucky enough to be infatuated with someone whom you can have a relationship with, more power to you, but consider it a bonus, not a prerequisite.

(I also think that if you do know what you are doing, some such things can be decided surprisingly quickly. Some "love at first sight" stuff does work out because it doesn't necessarily take two years to figure out whether you've got this sort of deep compatibility. Sometimes two days is enough. I don't recommend that approach, but it can work.)
How Americans get to work
Great, thanks. And thanks for the cli paste - I had not heard of 'nc'.
Yahoo! Search shifting from link legacy to user intent, from pages to objects
Good to see Yahoo! innovating again!
See also http://belowabuck.com
If employee tells boss "I feel my talents are not being used", the boss may have reasons not to pass that news up the chain to HR. Middle managers who are good at playing office politics don't like to reduce their own headcount.
Looks nice, the samples don't respond well to printing though.
How did dolla die
I think that's besides the point. Skype-out was not the method of solving the chicken-egg problem. Incentive to spread was the solution.

We don't have to stick with Skype either. Facebook solved their (enormous) chicken-egg problem by targeting specific Universities.
When was the last time you had spam in your gmail inbox?
It's interesting that in a conversation Charlie Rose had with Marissa Mayer, V.P. of Search Product for Google
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10129
she stated that your credit card company knows you are going to get divorced 2 years before you do.
Maybe Google is harvesting more info than they state.
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Isn't Icanhaz on WordPress? what sort of technology could that site possibly have that needs a "behind the scenes" introduction?
"Design Hangover" - The intersection of film and web design
> Was this conversation transcribed by someone's secretary?

How 1980s of you! Administrative Assistants are now referred to as "Cofounding Organizational Architects", or "mom" for short.

Start me up!
You will be sorry when you start tossing your shares into the pot.
Had to go with Raphael.js for our dashboard though.
I also rarely use my dock, and use Launchbar to get apps runnin.

Here's a typical day for my dock:
http://www.grabup.com/uploads/c712431bcfb2b9658fe44b5062ff60...
Larry King will milk any "story" for money, just remember what he did after Princess Diana's death. No other CNN personality, except maybe for Lou Dobbs, makes me cringe like King does, ugh!
You have a good point that user_name validation is the same whether or not you use a DB or not, however, if you have been leveraging an RDB for doing validation, queries and collection management, then making the transition to doing all of your work in objects (i.e., using an ODB), means that you need to start thinking in terms of objects everywhere.

This turns out to be a fairly common question from folks transitioning from RDBs
I like how I'm downvoted for a joke response to a worthless uncited statistic. If its because you think its not funny fine. I sincerely hope no readers of HN are dumb enough to actually be "mislead" by it.
according to wolfram its ~49.8%

http://www42.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=united+states+annual+...
I was able to compile it on the command line using the Flex SDK with:

compc -namespace http://axiis src/manifest.xml -o bin/text.swc -include-classes org.axiis.DataCanvas -source-path src/ -include-libraries libs/DegrafaLibrary.swc
US Economic End-Game Is Near - 
And I thought collecting tiberium in Red Alert was all I needed to know about economics. Staggering analysis from Dr. Woody Brock on the US economy. I'm depressed, but newly motivated to vote now.
Actually, my wife and I both got one yesterday.
Sounds like Bespin + Comet + a protocol translator could do it.
apparently prenups are pretty much worthless in this day and age. Even if its air tight, the other lawyer can just say that they were forced to sign the prenup(i.e. no prenup = no marriage) and poof, your air tight prenup is null and void
Numerate romantics seek sanity check?
Gary Vaynerchuk Keynote at Big Omaha
Regardless of the shameless PR, if it gets more people to think rationally about their religious position I am all for it. I just hope it doesn't backfire somehow.
That's an interesting perspective. What you're saying is that marriage is a mode of communication for that one sentiment. Are there other modes of communicating the same sentiment? (an epic poem, breaking into heartfelt song, getting tattoos,...) Are they all equivalent? Does choosing to not express it by marriage necessarily imply that one is not willing to express it at all?