skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to take away from your main point, because I agree with you, but...

> But job loss, at it's heart, is mostly just companies gauging how many employees they'll need for the future and making adjustments.

Sometimes, it's also because people can't afford to have said employees. I used to work at a pizza shop, and when the state raised the minimum wage $2/hr over the course of a year... we had to get rid of people, and drop other people's hours, and raise prices. We simply couldn't afford to give the majority of our employees a pay raise.

Sometimes, there's just no money in the bank.
> I don't know how they could possibly remain a common carrier.

They are not. It's a common urban legend that common carrier status applies to ISPs.
It seems like this implementation requires a second communication channel in order to invite new users. That's interesting - and not too different from traditional IM.

Maybe this time next decade we'll still have email accounts, but they'll contain nothing but invitations to next-gen communication media? Oh, and spam.
The page just doesn't have the actual styles applied to it. I can verify it works in FF3 when you style it properly; I use it myself all the time.
"The canary in the coal mine just died!"

"That's OK, I hate canaries anyway"
Politifact did this for the US election (and continues), in fact it won a Pulitzer for it!

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/
I would be interested if you count.
Perhaps I should post this in a new thread but here it goes..

I have seen a few "hacking" (cracking) games back in 1999-2002 but most of them where too simple to be interesting. They always had one clear solution, to a beginner in cracking like me, and you never got that feeling of accomplishment.
Althouth I am still interested in cracking nowdays I'm wathcing it from the opposite side, i.e. what are the most common security threats and how do I keep my code safe from them.
I have bought/read a few security/cracking related books/articles that were recommended or written by experts on the field but as they were too specific they were of no interest, except from an academic perspective, to me. E.g. phrack.org articles.
What I would really love to see is some free course in cracking that would combine theory and practice in some sort of sandboxed environment that would be level and field based but more free than just having an assignment, e.g. find a way to create an sql injection to delete all entries in a db.

If there are any willing crackers on HN I would really appreciate it if they could share how they started cracking and what would be their recommended way for a beginner to start now. If this is too off-topic and/or illegal just say it, if it's not against rules I'll start a new thread.
But even so, being a Professor is earned by hard academic work, and not connections.
You mean 40 years?
That's the Heinlein variation.
Fan of the service, I think it has potential.

But once it become actually influential (free drinks!) how will they protect against spam? What's to stop me checking in a hundred times at a venue (or alternating 2, so I don't have to "re-check in") and becoming the mayor?
11% of the 90% they've got now is 10% of the original (or close enough for government work).
... and it's gotta be about jobs creation too!
I am not sure the voting is working for me.
Could you maybe also write an About page, describing your site and its goal?
Excel if you have it. It can access most databases directly, and can be automated using OLE. About 1/2 our reports are made using excel. Once a day we run a batch process that opens the excel report, updates parameters as required, refreshes it and emails it out.
I have a connection to someone fairly high up there. I gave him/her a synopsis of the situation, and how it isn't a good idea to mess with 4chan.
This is a mindblowing concept, truly something that would change the world if it could be made cost effectively (and trained not to become a T1000). I am curious the predicted development time frame. They talk about sub-mm resolution, but that is terrible. 3D printers have much higher resolution now, and are constantly criticized for their rough finishes. That said, the ability to program and interact with matter is fantastic and there would certainly be useful applications where surface finish isn't a paramount concern, but that car modeling demo seems to be a distant prediction.

The demo is really exciting and is a vision of tech that would be as transformative or more than the internet.
I'd like to see how 4chan responds. They are not the type to take things like this lightly.
I'm pretty sure they are capable of defending themselves. Wouldn't want to be an AT&T exec right now. Not saying its justified, but their past behavior speaks to what probably will happen.
If it was e-ink, maybe. Seems unlikely, though.
I'm on AT&T (U-Verse), though not a 4chan user (I actually don't even know how to test that the /b/ board is working or not, though I'd be interested in trying).

A few months ago I couldn't access drudgereport.com and a few others sites reliably for several days. It worked via vpn from work, and on the neighbor's Comcast connection, but those of us in my area on U-Verse were getting server connection resets.

I don't attribute it to network filtering (Hanlon's razor as mentioned in another comment ... and I work for a large telecom ... sometimes the tubes need to be snaked).

Though we ruled out DNS -- I use OpenDNS and we tested the Comcast connections set up to use OpenDNS which worked fine. There was at least one other person outside of my home state that experienced the same problem on U-Verse as well.
I was able to access 4chan.org from my iPhone (in Fl)?
He outlines a simple methodology for you to get out there, early, as soon as you start development on your first product concept, and get validation from the marketplace. The fact is: almost every startup makes bad assumptions about what their customers want, or who the customer for their product is. Steve's methodology takes it for granted that you are probably wrong about things, and incorporates customer feedback into your product development from day one.

Most of the existing product development literature fails to address the fact that most startups fail because they build something their customers don't want to buy.
I figured the first would be used to kill, like almost all modern digital technology (digital computers, internet, GPS, etc.)
The skepticism in your comment is apparent, but I thought I'd add:

The source is unnamed.

The source may very well be telling the truth. I've contacted customer service at AT&T U-Verse. I've never had fewer than three transfers and the person I end up with, while almost always being very polite and sounding as though they're smiling through the telephone ... generally has no idea what's going on.

The conversation could have gone like this:

Caller: It looks like 4chan is being blocked. I can't access it from my (DSL/U-Verse) connection.
[... after a few minutes of sorting out what 4chan is ...]

Rep: I can't seem to access that web page, it says it's blocked.

[...click...comment...]

Just a guess :o)
The IPCC reports have a lot more than just the "hockey-stick" graph. The "Understanding and Attributing Climate Change" report alone has over 500 citations to peer-reviewed papers.

Given that the report is public and free, I think you might want to take a look at it, rather than debating a straw-man.
Well, Eclipse's project manager is great for Java. For C I'd much rather use just a straight text editor - IDEs just get in the way.

C + emacs/vi is much faster than C + Eclipse, but C is always going to be faster to write than Java just because Java has so many more layers of abstraction that require so many more lines of code.
There may be some wisdom, but not a whole lot. Hiring on referrals is based on the idea that people will not refer idiots to you for fear of depleting their social capital, providing you with a fairly strong selection mechanism for talented candidates. Being forced to hire the relatives of your mate regardless of their skills does not strike me as very beneficial.
Enclojure - An integrated development environment for Clojure
"How do you build a consumer device with great multimedia features and high speed data network access and not give it a battery which will last a full day, at near constant usage."

Because it's impossible without making it 3 inches thick? And no one wants a 3 inch thick phone. It's a limitation of battery technology and practical design considerations. There are some SmartPhoness with less features, smaller screens, slower processors, less software to use, etc that will surely get you better battery life. Is it a trade off you're willing to make to avoid charging your phone once a day? You're not going to find a phone that lets you stream music for 12-16 hours a day. It's impossible.
For those of you on AT&T's network who want to test this, turn off images in your browser and access

http://img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html

This is a very NSFW website. Only part of it is said to be blocked. 4chan.org should still be accessible. It is slow, at least for me, so wait for a few minutes before reporting it as blocked.
Sulfur is capably [sic] of forming long-chain molecules like carbon. Some terrestrial bacteria have already been discovered to survive on sulfur rather than oxygen, by reducing sulfur to hydrogen sulfide.

Terrestrial bacteria use H2S an an energy source, not as the basis of life. Extraterrestrial life will almost certainly be carbon-based---or rather, its ancestors will be. ET, if we find it, will almost surely be a machine intelligence.
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If they aren't common carriers then doesn't that mean they are responsible for everything that goes over their networks?
Whenever I try to add a gadget from the 'All gadgets' link, using the xml url, I get the same error:

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IntegrityError at /gadgets/mine/

(1062, "Duplicate entry 'Wave name' for key 'title'")
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And desktop development can be much, much, much harder than web development. It really depends on what you are writing.

The nature of web apps though tend to be based around CRUD using a database already written, a web server already written, and possibly a caching server, or similar, already written. The challenging part in most web apps, as I see it, is coming up with the idea and implementing a great user experience around it, which means top notch (interaction) designers and really sweating the details.

If you contrast that with desktop apps, here my movie player needs to play WMV (via reverse engineering efforts), my browser needs a fast JavaScript interpreter, a cutting edge CSS layout engine, my photo management software needs to handle thousands of pictures in sub-seconds, should group via face recognition etc., my MP3 player needs to do 3D visualizations of the music playing and rip my CDs to a fraction of its original size using state of the art psychoacoustic models, etc.

Sure, there is plenty of desktop software which does simple things, but saying the scalability factor of web apps make them harder than writing desktop software is belittling desktop apps to a point which is absurd.
Appsto.re - Because iPhone Apps Apparently Needed A Custom URL Shortener
Which, sadly, demonstrates how far AI as a discipline has to go. I am much more encouraged by the development of Rommbas and similar that seek out an electrical outlet, and so are actually motivated to learn, by something akin to hunger.
How to find an iPhone developer
Dean Hickerson's Game of Life page
/b/ is 4chan, sure there are other portions of it, but 99% of content happens on /b/
Q doesn't look like 0 at all in this font; Q is large and has a line across it and 0 is small and has no line across it.
Exactly what I thought someone should write. I gather it didn't work out because it was difficult to monetize?
Honestly, if you are a "Regular" programmer, then RegEx would not be a problem in the first place. Without them, you are more of a "stunted" programmer.

Far better than cludges and crutches is a good RegEx tester, for example: http://www.regextester.com/

Put in the real deal. Put in what you expect to match, and tweak until you get it right and understand why it wasn't working before.
Ask HN: Exists Open Source FPGA Tool Chain?
Is there any FPGA (slightly expensive is okay) that has an completely open source tool chain? I'm not a big GPL/BSD fanatic per say, but when things break / things need to be optimized / tweaked, I like having the source code around (rather than banging my head wondering what's happening in the black box).

Thanks!
Again, no support for phones outside the US. There's a bunch of companies providing great VoIP services with added value, yet most of them seem to think there are no clients outside of the US. I wonder if it's difficult or just not worth it for some reason.
Don't forget that you can setup your webserver to serve font files gzipped, which often gets ~50% compression on ttf's.
I've seen a small van owned by 'parkeerbeheer' the much hated Amsterdam parking authority be tossed into the Keizersgracht a couple of years ago. The parkeerbeheerders would put a wheel-clamp on cars to immobilize them until a fine was paid. Some of the locals did not take to kindly to this.

Neither did the tourists, who, once clamped usually vowed to never return to Amsterdam.

The city council has since gone off the wheel clamp as being too customer unfriendly.

Smart Tossing is only a name by the way, they do it to all kinds of small cars, here a peugeot 206 in trouble:

http://www.at5.nl/imgcache/b/b66cacdd7ea47af91347c02fffec1fa...
I just found a benchmark on Intel's site that shows the effect of enabling the text processing instructions in SSE4.2. They claim a 25% speedup for XML parsing and 37% for XML validating.
NY Times on the new Mozilla/Google Browser Wars
An old theme that is well explored. http://www.transitionchoices.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=12
Isn't a "rapidly growing market" part of the definition of a fad?
This is a very simple argument.

Given fixed inputs, produce a testable, repeatable output.

It has nothing to do with peer reviews, political committees, cited papers, consensus or any of that. Nice try, but no banana.

So predict the worldwide temp in the year 2029. We'll wait around and see if that prediction holds true. As far as I know, nobody has yet been able to actually forecast climate and validate it. It's just all arm-waving and hysteria. That may pass as science for you, but it doesn't work for a lot of other people. Their position, which is mine, is that unless science is falsifiable, it's not science, no matter how much you gussy it up with anything else.

It doesn't even have to do on whether mankind is changing the climate -- that's a whole nother can of worms. Along with whether and how much we should do about it if we are. Or the role of science in politics (hint: both will have a corrupting influence on the other) Or the question of what the perfect climate should be, or how fast it should change. This is just about whether or not you talk about global warming with the confidence as you do gravity, integrals, or electromagnetism.
Apparently the wireless division is functionally separate from the land-based division.
Oh yes. I started a fairly large program at work earlier this year and used Struts2 to start off. Things went swimmingly until I started having to modify the template files, and from there I was spending far more time fighting the framework. Ended up scratching it and building my own "framework" that works better for our project in about a month.
There are many other safe harbors in the law; several in the DMCA itself.
There are instructions for visiting 4chan upthread, it's extremely NSFW. http://status.4chan.org/ is a SFW status blog which will check if sites are 'up' from your browser, "img" is the server that hosts /b/ (and /r9k/ as well I believe).
Well as a color e-book reader it would be way better than anything out there now. That is, if apple could manage the distribution correctly. So I can imagine, say, kids in college buying books on their device instead of carrying around heavy sheets of paper.
Sometimes these are almost impossible to tell apart.

/me waits for the first "Is your board long enough for her wave?" message to hit his inbox.
I don't even visit 4chan, but as an AT&T customer this pisses me off. What other websites are they going to protect me from?

Not sure what other option I have sadly. My local cable monopoly has a ridiculously low bandwidth cap with overage fees that make it pretty much unusable.

Isn't there some way we can use common carrier/net neutrality rules on this?
(Consensus on HN is not to sign messages)
What's even more "interesting" is the exception to that rule, Huang Gyangyu, up until recently the richest man in China, its "Sam Walton", who was arrested and is still being held for "insider trading", when arresting someone in China for insider trading is sort of like a character on The Sopranos getting arrested for saying fuck. With no formal education or family ties to speak of, he started his business at 16. Of China's billionaires, Wang was the only one who was 1- a Christian and 2- not a member of the Communist Party. And now he's in prison.
Thats quite an ignorant statement.

/b/ has become... ridiculous, most older anon's avoid it completely. /b/ is mostly full of children trying to jump on the bandwagon.
While I love 4chan and Anon, taking on the likes of AT&T - a hundred-billion-dollar corporation with ties to the NSA - might be just a little different than humiliating, say, Adam Goldstein. Government or the en masse consuming public are the only ones with any say here.

On another note - anyone remember the good old days when claiming AT&T had NSA ties would be dismissed as a conspiracy theory? Oh, how innocent we were ...
I've seen a couple places try things like this, and they are ripped apart by a dilemma: Either they "support free speech" and let anybody post anything, or they actually try to create a quality discussion environment, which necessarily entails some form of message suppression (which doesn't have to be "deletion", karma works but has its own issues), and get themselves nailed for "not supporting free speech".

My personal opinion is that a discussion environment you own, you are free to censor (though I don't think you should modify other's comments, either block them or don't), and that free speech is perfectly well maintained when anyone can easily create their own forums. On the modern internet, it's trivial to run your own forum. But I highlight the word "my" in that sentence because there are enough loud people who feel otherwise to ruin your day.

Turning a major newspaper into some sort of actual forum would be a major undertaking that would require a major amount of pruning, and I can see why such places shy away from the comment bloodbath that would be necessary before they could possibly be even a tenth as edifying as reddit.
Carbon don't enter into it. Just because something has a lot of carbon in it doesn't mean it acts like we do. There are plenty of other things to do with carbon than the ways organisms on Earth use it. DNA? Forget it, that was evolved. Alien biology will be completely alien.
As I always say when I see censorship, this will just force more
people to use Tor. One day the entire 'net will be encrypted and
obfuscated, and tracking down the actual criminals will be
impossible. (It's inevitable, of course, but you'd think ISPs and
governments wouldn't want to force ordinary people to use tools like
Tor just to chat with their friends on a message board. The more commonplace it becomes, the more bonehead criminals will be using it. And that makes stopping real crime much harder.)

When will people learn that whole point of the Internet is to make
censorship impossible?
We (Twilio) fully intend to support phones outside the US in the future.

Some of the challenges around international telephony include pricing and government regulations, but we'll work past these and get there - and certainly will let HN know when we do. :)
My first instinct is: ``Physician, heal thyself.''

It's great that the Obama administration sees Freedom on line as important. They can begin by making sure there is no online censorship in the US...
It seems likely that there are multiple effects here. Perhaps work has become skilled enough to produce large enough differences in productivity that it necessitates an adjustment to the model. This might help explain why the recent recessions were considered fairly jobless relative to those that came before. It might also help in explaining the increasing compensation gap that we see.

It may also be the case that businesses are delevering in the same way that households must. This would be a rational reaction to the dangers of debt financing that have been placed in stark relief by the crisis. Businesses that are reducing their dependency on debt by switching to internal financing will have less capital available for expansion.

The rising cost of benefits may have also started to effect the demand for full time workers and pushed businesses over into hiring temps and part timers.
I actually don't have an answer for you, but perhaps you could ask around on the forum at OpenCores:

http://www.opencores.org/

(It's kind of like SourceForge, but for hardware designs.)
<address> doesn't mean what you think it means:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-ADDRESS

"The ADDRESS element may be used by authors to supply contact information for a document or a major part of a document such as a form. This element often appears at the beginning or end of a document."
So the team called "Grand Prize Team" didn't win the grand prize? Hilarious.
Great thanks, this is even better (a community rather than just a yes/no answer). :-)
As a note You must be logged in to vote. And yes, an about page is a good idea, I will get right on that. Thanks for the feedback...
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Also consider Heroku if it's a ruby webapp you're building. It's free until you need more resources, and is zero-fuss to get something deployed and set up.
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I am a serious autodidact and have spent some time thinking about how the web can be useful. Unfortunately, it isn't yet. I wrote two blog posts about my thoughts.

http://williambswift.blogspot.com/2009/04/web-is-still-not-a... - The Web Is Still Not Adequate for Serious Study

http://williambswift.blogspot.com/2009/04/overcoming-bias-an... - Overcoming Bias and Learning from the WWW
I agree with many of your points. It is possible downloadable apps (such as in AIR, Silverlight, or just C/C++ apps built via direct code or cross compiled from a higher level language) will gain more traction that are just web enabled on the desktop (twitter apps for instance). It is nice to access the file system and rendering pipelines (which is needed for mobile apps since they are slower) but this also leads to a fragmented development platform.

I do believe that the ability to type in a URL and browser back and forward was a huge "killer app" feature of browsers. Not to mention the dream of combining media types into a sort of super information system with pages of all types of content.

Like you pointed out though, many of the features of the browser on the desktop seem to parallel those on the great iPhone/touch system and screen that has the same echo of that desire for information and media/games/applications. It is really fast and the updates are fairly simple now on the iPhone so it provides the user much of the same experience that the browser did and does.
I am not familiar with US telephony regulation, could you give an example about this and how it makes your services harder to export? Thanks!

BTW, Twilio looks great to me, except I can't use it! I am not too fond of the XML though.