skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are overestimating the number of people willing to do startups.

As for beating the market, you certainly can. Plenty of people do it -- every successful startup founder, for instance.

You can also hedge risks, which is not hiding risk but paying someone else to assume them. This creates value: you focus on your core competency (your business) and someone else focuses on their core competency (managing risk).

Furthermore, even those who don't beat the market are contributing to raising the market average. I.e., if you didn't have a bunch of people trying to beat an average market return of 4%, then the average return would be lower (e.g. 2%).
What is it about php folks that think that everything has to be implemented in php?
Yeah, the title should be changed to "kills one blogger's anonymity," not "blogger anonymity",
Isn't the claim of the parent article that _lower_ blood glucose and insulin levels decrease self control? So wouldn't all of those work in the wrong direction?
The 50 most looked up words at NYTimes.com
Getting XHTML 1.0 Strict from TinyMCE in the face of Cut/Paste Microsoft Word
What? What happened? Who the hell is Atari? They seem like a local variable that is never used. Plus, this sentence.

It would seem that a European developer working with the
shambling mess of a company now known (but with absolutely no
relationship to the original) as Atari.
Amazon Associates to Terminate North Carolina Members
At least on OS X, this is faster than Firefox has ever been for me in the last 2-3 months. Switched back to Firefox over Safari.
Krugman: "To fight this recession - Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble"
The article fails to mention one low-risk, high side-benefit idea: plant more trees.
I'd rather utilize a metaclass in this special case. This would retain the notion of Foo being a type much better than transmogrifying a function into a class. (Granted, there's not that big a difference technically but you're tricking other programmers into believing Foo cannot be used for eg. isinstance.)

class Foo(Struct):
__endian__ = Struct.LE
foo = Struct.uint32
bar = Struct.string(foo)

If you don't like specifying the endianness as a class attribute you could still inherit from Struct.LE/BE rather than Struct itself.

Quick technical howto: make Struct have a __metaclass__ class attribute, populate the __metaclass__ class with a __new__ or __init__ method performing the desired transformations.

See http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2/descrintro/#meta... for details on metaclasses.
Sorry, but this is in no way interesting. It's just regurgitating an already boring non-story. Flagged.
If I don't want to use a framework like blueprint, and I actually prefer (in this context) the CSS syntax (e.g., braces et al) as opposed to HAML, then is compass still useful to me? That's what is (now) confusing to me given your replies to my original comment. My original criticism isn't of compass. It's just that if I don't like blueprint/YUI/960, then would it not be redundant to use compass?

Hopefully you don't take this personally. If I ever find myself required to use one of the above frameworks, they would probably be a lot more palatable when used in conjunction with compass.
Kent Beck: Just You Wait
Gotta say, of all his impressive achievements, the most impressive might be remaining calm in response to the stupid Colbert comments. (I don't know anything about Colbert other than that video).
What happens if my computer is turned off?
Marketing around release. When live launched it sounded like a PR move to bring their "online strategy" under one unified brand name. Basically no reason to look if you didn't like MSN. With the bing launch there was more of a "we are doing something different and actually trying to compete" feel to the whole thing. That actually made me curious enough to try it.
So, at 27 you're still a kid?
Guess the 30's are really the new 20's.
27 year olds constitute as kids now?

"GET OFF MY LAWN!"
LucidDB is the first and only open-source RDBMS purpose-built entirely for data warehousing and business intelligence.

Does LucidDB predate MonetDB? Or is MonetDB considered multipurpose? It has an XML front end in addition to SQL, but the data store is still column-oriented.

Not sure about the other features, like multiversioning, though that's an old technique (InterBase pioneered it) so I wouldn't be surprised either way.
Cool - also reminds me of pmog, which apprently has been renamed to Nethernet now: http://thenethernet.com/
AT&T to offer early iPhone 3G adopters $199/$299 upgrade pricing for iPhone 3G S
Given the increase in artistic production along with the greater public access conclude that "weaker copyright protection, it seems, has benefited society."

As much as I'd like the paper's conclusion to be valid, it appears to ignore the fact that creating salable creative products has become much easier and cheaper in recent years. Practically every computer sold today comes with an audio mixer and video editor.

All we can conclude is that weaker copyright protection has not offset the positive effects of technology on creative output.
it's analysis, not an advocacy for a bubble

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/and-i-was-on-the...
This list is filled with group blogs by no-name angels and angel groups, instead of blogs by well known angels. It's not a surprise that miscellaneous angel group blogs don't get a lot of feed love, but it's not an indication of low blogging activity by angels.

For example, they completely missed Dave McClure (1651 feedburner subscribers, 135,290 Alexa Rank) and Mark Cuban (44,839 Alexa).

The author also doesn't explain if he's compiling blogs FOR angels vs blogs ABOUT angel investing - it looks like he includes both.
So now some old retired couple on a fixed income can live in the ghetto since some kid took their spot. They have an age limit on these places so that doesn't happen.

But I'm sure they'd be happy to have you come in and volunteer some time with them. Who knows, maybe you can even glean some business advice from their experiences.
Ars Technica has their usual thorough review here:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/06/hands-on-review...
I've been using Firebug 1.4.0b2 with Firefox 3.5b and it works well. I use the Firefox nightly builds so I've turned off plugin compatibility checking.
Live rebranded a bunch of MSN services and the marketing centered on personalization. Live Search was a rebranding of MSN search, with some new enhancements like the image search and it was heavily promoted.
I'm not a lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt.

1)You say this 'amendment' comes out of nowhere. If it was an amendment and you haven't signed it, is it valid?

2)A shall not indirectly contact C. But you have already indirectly contacted C through B. As B was aware of this, I'd think this should be void. I would also think that you getting an @C e-mail address kinda shows that you have already been in contact with C, assuming C doesn't give e-mail addresses to people with no connection to C.

3)If C is a start-up with no value, and B is nothing, why are you even worrying about this? go out and get some business without B or C - I'm assuming your contract doesn't say that you have to work exclusively with B. If it does, than I wouldn't say B has nothing, as they have you!
Podcast Interview about Erlang, Forth and how to become a rock star consultant
I find table 6 in the paper to be quite astonishing.
(uploaded here for those who don't want to download the paper: http://imgur.com/OU3Qk.png )

In average only about 15% of an artist income seems to derive directly from recordings. If this is a general rule for well established artists they should all release their music absolutely for free and invest their energies in concerts instead.
I agree with you about Google having to realize they're entering a market that is completely misunderstood, but I don't think the issue "shouldn't" matter to the average person - and perhaps that is their point. The Internet has become a part of daily life for millions of people who don't have a clue how any of it works. Now, that is a testament to how useful it has become, and how well designed some of the interfaces are: they can send and receive data from the other side of the world virtually instantly - in a way that is entirely transparent to the average user.

The danger in that is that you have hundreds of people using that system to send sensitive data without really understanding how it works. It's like putting someone in a car without basic safety training - sure, if they've seen someone use the controls, they can pick it up pretty quickly. But there's a lot of really important things they don't realize. If people don't know what a browser is, they probably don't know how important it is to keep it updated. They probably don't know about phishing scams, or why giving your email password away is dangerous.
Hydrogen car to be 'open source'
"improvements will be sent back, so that what the company refers to as its "network of manufacturers" can contribute to the overall development of the product line." - so, an open source development model for engineering.
The Colbert Report is a satirical tv show poking fun at conservative US TV pundits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colbert_Report
Rainforest Discovered with Google Earth Yields New Species
Some more info: http://www.scummvm.org/news/20090616/
I noticed the Firefox icon changed a little bit in terms of its coloring, etc. Threw me off a bit.
Sometimes PostgreSQL time calculation is just too clever
Misleading headline because the email says "Please note that this is not an immediate termination notice and you are still a valued participant in the Associates Program". They are only going to terminate things if the legislation is passed, which it has not yet.

This morning when I got the email I could not find out the specifics of the bill. If anybody has more information, please post it.
It's generally less that people think that you'll be able to do what you did last time again, and more that people believe that you're the kind of person who delivers on their promises. If you want to get a promotion at work to best place to start might be doing something as simple as taking everyone's lunch orders and getting them right. The point isn't to show that you're really talented in one specific area, but rather to create an asset, that asset being a group of people who trust you'll deliver on your promises.
When I was a child, I liked looking at those world maps with the timezones drawn in columns.

Today, as a programmer, I am still fascinated with time zones, but there is almost always something that I hadn't considered when dealing with time and time zones.

Actually the programmer's perspective made time zones even more fascinating to me ;)
Published: Friday, August 2, 2002

(It made much more sense to me after realizing I was reading something from 7 years ago.)
The Amazon style is potentially better because it is naturally normalized by the number of raters. It is useful to augment it with a number of raters so that there is some weight given to sample size (4.5 stars by 2 raters might mean less than 4.12 stars by 283 raters). I actually enjoy seeing the full distribution with Amazon as there are many polarizing items that have lots of fives and ones, but show up as three. It may also be useful to weight the ratings by age when ranking, as things change over time, some sites and content become less authoritative, others improve.
Metaclasses won't fly in this case, since the order of struct members has to be kept. Tried a bunch of things to make it work, but in the end nothing came out cleaner.
The Java Store, a Q&A
Here's a bit more: http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/06/17/article/amazon...

Maybe somebody else can find the law itself based on that.
Became compatible with b99 yesterday, so if it's incompatible again it should be fixed fairly quickly.
FYI, you can just go to the grocery store around passover and stock up on "Coke with real sugar" (find the ones with yellow lids) for the exact same price as "Coke with corn syrup". I don't find it tastes any different, but I prefer it because real sugar is better for you. Well, more like "mildly less bad for you", but still.

If you want to know how to get food without garbage in it, go find some non-rich people who have moral or religious restrictions against the garbage, and then do what they do. It actually works.
Fans Favor Wikipedia Over MySpace For Band Lookup
Viral success of 'Stand' video fuels CD success
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 at the height of cynicism
Exactly. Not sure how this bit of "gotcha" suddenly popped up in so many places, but it's missing the point. If you read the article, Krugman isn't saying that a housing bubble is a good idea at all. What he's saying, in essence, is that the only way to avoid a recession (again, this was in 2002) was for Greenspan and the Fed to kick off a housing bubble to sustain consumer spending. And, by implication, that that was unlikely to work.

As it happened, he was wrong about that. We did experience a housing bubble (although one driven more by irresponsible bank behavior than by interest rates), and it did keep consumer spending high for the next 4-5 years. And, now that it's popped, we're experiencing the recession that Krugman predicted. He was just off by a few years, and missed one proximate cause.
Just an inquiry here, but does anyone not use wikipedia for their first reference point for just about anything these days?

When I am looking up something it goes: Google, then wikipedia because it's usually the first hit. It's like an online cliffnotes for anything and everything.

http://16.media.tumblr.com/CPmAN9xMYodpf32isth4vH7Zo1_400.jp...
IPhone 3G S too pricey for you? iPhone OS 3.0 is like a new iPhone for free.
I share your.. concerns.

Of course, the people teaching English without knowing any of the local language would claim everything is alright.

But it's undeniable that teaching will be more efficient if you do know some of the local language too.
S202:

"TO PERMANENTLY IMPOSE THE STATE AND LOCAL SALES AND USE TAX ON SALES OF DIGITAL PRODUCTS EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2009; TO
PERMANENTLY REQUIRE A REMOTE SELLER TO COLLECT SALES TAX WHEN
THE SELLER ENTERS INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH ONE OR MORE STATE
RESIDENTS PROVIDING FOR A COMMISSION WHEN THE RESIDENT REFERS
CUSTOMERS TO THE SELLER AND THE SELLER HAS GROSS RECEIPTS OF AT LEAST TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ANNUALLY FROM SALES TO ALL
CUSTOMERS REFERRED TO THE SELLER BY ALL SUCH RESIDENTS,
EFFECTIVE WHEN IT BECOMES LAW;"

Bill: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S202v6.p...
Awesome stuff. Very interesting, really good stuff comming from these guys.
Help Review Digital Media Patent Applications (Disney, Adobe, ...)
I agree with the first reader comment over at mozillalinks -- it feels like the feature should really live as an extension. The average user isn't going to know or care about this, and it just increases the size of the codebase. Firefox certainly doesn't need to get any heavier out-of-the-box.
University claims Apple's glossy screens may cause injury
Of course, that depends on what you eat when you eat out. If you eat a bunch of noodles, rice, or potatoes, the starches will give you a solid boost of blood glucose over a number of hours.
Yeah with an 80 character limit for titles - I was forced to be minimalist
Alice and Kev : The story of being homeless in The Sims 3
Slightly misleading headline. This isn't a "Harvard study." It's a draft paper that reviews prior research on copyrights.
Open source engineering that is, rather than software.
I can't figure out if you're saying your expectations were confirmed or undermined.

I don't know much about nutrition, but I was under the impression that noodles, rice, and beans are all high in starch, which the body turns into significant amounts of glucose in a healthy way (sustained blood glucose over time, instead of short spikes like with simple sugars). I'm sure surviving on Ramen is bad for you, but as far as this article is concerned, it will help you have self-control.
Yes. How do you write a good story like that then just not finish it. For nine years.
Where to Find Startup Money
Roger Ebert on how O'Reilly and sensationalist media is ruining America
I find myself asking people more often than doing the data research now. As in, people are becoming my preferable first reference point. Social bookmarking, forums, facebook, twitter. "Ask HN/NM"...
You have to take into account the rapid changes in technology. Surely, the Internet has somehow affected human behavior?
I understand that this has an "adverse" affect on those who use these programs, but any taxes have an adverse affect on any commerce. Is there a reason why other transactions should be taxed and these shouldn't?
Thanks so much for the positive feedback! We're still just experimenting and trying to figure out the format, but the HN community really is our target audience, so any suggestions about people we should interview or topics we should cover would be very welcome.
I think b99 was a QA version, for a last call for bugs before the RC.
The difference is that Bing returns quality search results; Live search did not.

People tried live search a few times then left. People try Bing and then come back for more.
I like this comment from the submitted article:

"You're right to be embarassed to be arguing against Nasim Taleb. His primary argument is that unexpected/catastrophic events (like the 1987 crash, the Dot-com crash and the 2008 crash) are far more common that most people think. A cool $10M to $30M every decade or so? Not bad in my book. How is your portfolio looking these days? Similar? I didn't think so."

An investment strategy, like that described in Taleb's first book, Fooled by Randomness, that costs real money year by year for several years but then pays off hugely at a sudden moment, has just the characteristics of an insurance policy with generous policy benefits. That's a smart way to invest. By contrast, investing to gain small amounts of real money year by year followed by a catastrophic loss larger than the original investment is a bad way to invest. But that's what a lot of leveraged "hedge fund" (wrong name, really) investors were doing before the recent crash.
You are right! Mozilla is reworking some details of the icon for 3.5 release.

Here is a <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2009/05/15/creative-brief-fo...; with all the details . You can also see in the archives the evolution of the new icon refinements.
While that 2002 is probably Krugman's most blatant call for a housing "bubble". Mises.org just compiled a list of 7 other pre-2002 Krugman calls for lowering interest to stimulate home buying: http://blog.mises.org/archives/010153.asp

Like another commenter on this page states, Krugman didn't think a housing bubble was a good idea...but it was necessary to avoid a recession. Still, why not just deal with the consequences of the dot-com bubble then? Inflating another market just kicked the recession down the road and made it worse.

Unfortunately, Krugman and most politicians think we can fix the housing bubble by creating a currency bubble. Instead of focusing on a single market like housing, the current plan is to, yet again, kick the recession down the road. This time, however, we're promoting spending across all government-controlled and regulated markets with massive stimulus. Obviously, creates a bubble of dollars. When the dollar bubble deflates, there won't be anything left to blow up.
harvardbusiness.org (the article's source) sure looks like an organization that has editors and the like.

I'll have to check that by digging around the site. Thanks for pointing that out. Then what other replies said about "journalism" would apply to that submission.

After edit: what I don't see readily by digging around on the Harvard Business.org site is how much editorial input goes into a blog post before it is posted. There plainly is editorial work invested in presenting the blogs in a common online format and serving up how they are ordered on the main blog page. I'm less sure what manuscript editing happens to submitted blog posts.
Here is a less biased source - although same basic story:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10266390-56.html
Technically Dave is now a VC.
Rather than reading "How awesome Bing is", I'd rather know how exactly Bing is different than MSN or Live search.

Also, didn't Microsoft acquire Powerset (company that 1 of the github founder worked for)? Any news about Microsoft integrating it to Bing? or Bing is a completely separate technology?
How do we even know they are accurate? Twitter seems like a great propaganda tool.

Sorry after 8 years of Bush administration meddling in Iran (and decades of US meddling prior) why should we believe any of it. The people who died are just sad pawns in someone else's struggle.
Unfortunately trees don't largely suck as much carbon dioxide out of the air as people used to think. In some studies, its being found that forests produce more co2 than they absorb through growth.

With that said, I completely agree that we should plant more forests. They have many benefits to the environment even if the co2 argument is out. Decreased erosion, increased rainfall, and increased animal habitats.
Video: iPhone OS on 24" multi-touch screen - nice!
I've been interviewed for various articles, and I agree that the published article never looks like a verbatim representation of what I remember saying in the interview. On the other hand, I've also been a journalist (not for any prestigious publication), and I've been amazed at how much is said in journalist interviews that is not the least bit verifiable or sensitive to context. So journalists usually do have to adapt what their sources say as they write up articles.

A really good book about the journalist process, sort of a "secret weapon" for sources, is Media Smart by Dennis Stauffer, a journalist whose work I used to see on local TV.

http://www.amazon.com/Media-Smart-How-Handle-Reporter/dp/B00...

Stauffer provides a lot of advice about how to get your story told your way if you deal with the press, to the greatest extent possible, and explains what extent of getting your way is possible.

P.S. I've also had occasion to read many court trial transcripts over the years, and no two witnesses to the same event ever describe it the same way, even when purporting to quote the exact words of somone else. It generally takes multiple sources to arrive at some reasonable approximation of the truth.
I think we'll just have to wait and see who has the properly functioning crystal ball. I think you're entirely missing the point of Dropbox, Flickr, online chat, etc. And you're also imagining a very unlikely future in which anyone, other than a handful of nerds that already know how to run a real web server, thinks, "Ooh, I want to host web pages on my own computer!" The idea that this will become dramatically more common, rather than as quaint as growing all of your own food, is, to me, absolutely absurd.

Even ignoring the fact that the idea of "your computer" is becoming less and less a big box that sits on your desk and more and more a tiny device that you have in your pocket or your bag; and ignoring the fact that we'd really like for computers, even the big ones sitting on our desk, to sleep when not in use so we don't chew up so much power and produce so much waste; and forgetting about the fact that someone has to actually write the code for all of the magic functions to address the problems you've proposed Unite can solve (and for a proprietary platform that about 1% of users use); and discounting the chicken and egg problem that in order for this to be easily useful across all of your devices you have to have Opera on all of your devices. Even forgetting all of these, huge, probably insurmountable even to a company the size of Microsoft, problems, Opera Unite still doesn't solve any big problems that really effect users.
Anyone know if this is real and how to get this working?