skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they're representing you, they're legally required to act in your interest, and they take that pretty seriously. I can't think of a case among all the startups we've funded where the startup felt their lawyers were selling out to the investors. There have been all sorts of disputes with lawyers (excessive bills, slowness, incompetence), but never that.
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Good teachers do try to use consistent notation, but they also understand the need to communicate with the rest of the world and so end up having to teach historical accidents.

Here's a fun one: pi is wrong! http://www.math.utah.edu/~palais/pi.pdf
Can we use Profile 2.0 on our Myspace E-mail, too? Ugh.
Why do the cards have to do the encryption? Why can't the meter do it?
Today, though, Microsoft is increasingly left only with customers whose priority is price.

Yeah, but that's probably like 95% of people and companies. Computers may not be commodities for the types of people who frequent HN, but they are for almost everyone else.
Finally. I've been asking for this for years.

Allowing you to authenticate against another SMTP server always seemed like such an easy win for them and I couldn't understand why they didn't just do it. But I guess I'm not the one supporting millions of people on my platform. :)

This makes GMail an even stronger candidate now to replace a desktop mail client in my book. Thanks, Google.
If you truly believe in the market, then things are worth what someone's willing to pay for them.

If I buy a domain for $9.95 and then try to sell it to someone for $15,000, but they won't pay, then I'm pretty sure it's not worth $15,000.

The problem is when people/companies whose domains have been squatted, pay the squatters, hence making it a profitable business.

In spite of the above, I believe there should be better regulation mechanisms to let people/companies protect their names/trademarks. Although probably those mechanisms/policies will be exploited in someway too.
Meat- I guess that's your choice, but can be healthy and cheap.

White Flour- He said bread flour, which is technically white, but sort of a necessary evil if you're making your own bread regularly. I make a good multi grain and rye which has bread flour in it.

Sugar- Not that bad if you use it in small amounts. I make my own ice cream (real cream), add sugar some to sauces, etc.

Veggies- looks like he grows a lot of his own, as I do. Defiantly not free but cheap if you have some experience and the right tools.
What is missing is the monetization available to the people in the video...I enjoyed it more on mute.
I have done this, with a partner once and occasionally solo.

Put up a basic web page that describes your rates. Get or print business cards. Don't bother with facebook or any form of advertising except talking to your neighbors and former customers, and the door-drop. Flyers on local bullitin boards ( coffee houses and churches ) are also good.

To do this as career or only source of income is hard. Doing it as a side gig is very plausible. You want to focus on jobs that are close by, and that don't tend to become overly complecated and take a long time. You will also want to filter the jobs a lot -- you might contact a few local repair places, and find a good one to refer people to when you are too busy or they have something you can't profitably fix.

If you start getting more work than you can handle, another possibility is to partner with another student in your situation who can take some of it.
I'm not sure I agree about the furniture implication.

Frankly, I'm not sure I agree either. But I decided to write it down anyway and see how it looked on the screen.
0.05 cents or $0.05 ?
My oldest son has dyscalculia -- the numbers simply don't compute for him -- and he is a visual-spatial type, so needs the big picture (context) to understand anything. Here is a list of stuff we used while homeschooling him:
http://kidslikemine.com/mathlist.shtml

HTH.
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I understand what you are saying, but what's the best alternative? Should there be no country-specific domains then? Maybe instead of geographically-specific domains, we could have industry-specific domains, very much like what TLDs were intended for in the first place.

It doesn't seem like there's a straight and simple solution for TLDs, squatting and the whole domain regulation problem.
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/246/
That's what I was thinking too but there's an ad blocker for safari also http://burgersoftware.com/en/safariadblock
"Bottom-line-driven" and "aerospace-engineering" don't mix very well...

I hope Boeing gets its act together. It would be a shame to have only one company designing and building big passenger planes...
He's saying that the kind of people who frequent HN are indicators of what the future might be like:

Regular people don’t think about their choice of computer platform in detail and with passion like nerds do because, duh, they are not nerds. But nerds are leading indicators.
Blog spam. Direct link:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/send-mail-from-another...
Wall Street Journal Creating New “LinkedIn Killer” Called WSJ Connect
It definitely seems like your notion is being borne out. Personally, I think it's indicative of a larger cultural problem in the US, so I don't have particular optimism that it will be corrected in time at Boeing, but I certainly hope that it is. It seems unlikely to me that the federal government will allow such a strategic supplier to simply fade away, I just hope they don't end up turning into zombie Boeing.
My apologies for assuming that everyone that reads hacker news was male. ;)
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> I can’t listen to music on it. It won’t sync with iTunes

Wow, is that really true for most people these days? I had no idea. TBH, that's the #1 reason I haven't got an iPhone yet.
Why is this feature so important to you? Perhaps I can learn something useful.
Unfortunately with businesses that won't be a satisfactory answer, and they will go elsewhere. What's worse, they won't recommend you to other businesses, and as word of mouth is your cheapest and most effective marketing tool...that would be put you in a bad spot.
> How can you seriously claim that today's technological progress doesn't stand up to that of the 1920's? Consider my mind boggled.

Penicillin.

I mean, we're measuring by how much it improved quality of life, no?
Boeing is, effectively, "too strategic to fail".

I too find it unlikely that it gets corrected in time, mostly because those who drove Boeing into this mess will keep their bonuses intact while grinding Boeing to a thin shell.

Sad.

But there could be hope. The engineers will end up working somewhere else. And the money to design and build planes will still exist, somewhere. This and maintenance contracts for all those 7*7s around will keep some money flowing.
Talk is cheap. If you really care than I see you contributing to an OSS desktop project.
For a tipped waitress, not at a fancy place, the federal minimum wage is $2.13/hr.
It's useful because if you're using Gmail to manage email from your own domain(s), and have a non-Gmail primary email address, now people receiving your email won't have to know that you're using Gmail. Often I would get people start using my Gmail account even though I was sending mail from my own domain's email address.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/30/gmail-kisses-on-behalf-...
An excellent discussion of how the open source community often tends to (unintentionally) exclude women, and what individual projects can do reverse that trend.
The article mentions the possibility of an attacker feeding a hash specially designed data to cause all the keys to map to the same bucket. Perl implemented a fix for this attack years ago. If too many keys map to the same bucket it randomizes the hash seed.

Here's an example of the pathological case:

perl -e '$a{"\0"x$_} = $_ for (1..20); print join("\n", values(%a)), "\n";'

Each time you run it the values come out in a different order because of the randomization.

This randomization only happens if there are a lot of keys in the same bucket, change the 1..20 to 1..10 and the values come out in the same order every time.

(I got the example code from http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=557616 user demerphq)
You are wrong to call this propaganda.

The core of Gruber's argument is that Apple's market share (not Google's) is growing quickly, whereas Microsoft's is falling.

Gruber also acknowledges that the numbers don't take into account the whole of the PC market, and he brings up a couple of important points you need to consider before thinking that Microsoft is making up for its losses in the sub-$1000 PC market. Quotes:

"What is particularly alarming about Microsoft’s numbers is that revenue from its Windows PC division suffered an even greater year-over-year revenue decline than the company as a whole: 29 percent."

"Even given that NPD’s numbers represent only retail sales, is there any reasonable doubt that Apple’s share of the non-retail market for $1,000+ computers is also growing?"

Also, it's misleading for you to suggest that Gruber implies that Microsoft is "completely F-ing it up" when comparing them to Google. His 'working title' aside, the purpose of the comparison was to demonstrate that other companies in the industry are not falling short of projections, as Microsoft has. He is suggesting that blaming the revenue decline on the economy isn't a strong argument.

You use the term 'propaganda' pretty loosely. Many things written on Daring Fireball are sarcastic and overly-dismissive when it comes to Microsoft, but it's clear that John Gruber put a lot of thought and work into this essay. Try to do the same with your criticism.
I'm also elated for this. Countless times at work, I send an email from gmail using my work/school .edu email and when that mail gets replied and forwarded around back to me with my gmail user name exposed. Not a lot of people know me by my username (which is my gmail) and sometimes I want to keep it that way.
The trick is to get creative about finding new sources of value in their assets. Maybe the answer isn't merely more advertising, but finding new revenue streams in addition to straight ad sales. Given that people flat-out won't pay for online news. the newsmedia have no other choice.
I thought someone might try that tack. Math is completely decoupled from its representation, so you can use whatever notation you want and not lose anything. I'm not gonna guess to what extent linguistic communication is bound up with its representation, but it's certainly more than math, meaning meaning can be lost. So your analogy doesn't work. Also, since mathematical notation is a tool primarily to facilitate mechanical transformations, and only secondarily for communication, you should use whatever lets you think biggest.
A company I once worked for brought in a new IT manager who implemented all sorts of absolutely crazy rules like this. Including setting the screensaver and wallpaper for every computer and blocking users from changing it.

Not long after he arrived it was discovered that a few of the guys in IT were using company servers and network to run a porn site.

Some of the stuff you mention is moderately defensible. Like iTunes (you're supposed to be working). But Skype and IM like e-mail are great productivity tools if used properly. And Skype can save a company bunch of money too.

I'd say there is a great market opportunity for somebody to figure out how to answer the problems you are describing. Giving IT the confidence and info that they want, while enabling the tools you are being blocked from using.
You make a good point, joechung, and I've been trying to find the related statistics. This is what I've been able to come up with so far:

Apple had 14% of the US retail PC market in Feb. 2008 -

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/03/17/apple_snags_14...

This article claims the number was 8.7% in the 2nd quarter of 2009 -

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/07/15/single_digit_g...

According to this article on theappleblog.com, Apple has 4% of the global PC market as of July 2009 -

http://theappleblog.com/2009/07/25/does-apple-have-a-91-perc...

If anyone has more, I'd be very curious to see them (especially the ratio of sub-$1000 retail PC sales to $1000+ retail PC sales).
Holy shit, you just called Quickbooks solid and polished.

I'm floored.
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The fact that he is suing over his lost homework is almost totally irrelevant. It is just a brilliant way to hold Amazon responsible for their actions. Once a book is purchased he owns the rights to that material and he did not initiate or consent to the removal of the book.

If you read the PDF draft of the lawsuit it clearly says that Amazon does not tell users in the Terms & Agreements that they have the ability to remotely delete e-books and in fact says that "...Amazon grants you the non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content and to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times..."

Amazon should never be allowed to change data on an individual's kindle without their express written consent. Its criminal.
I suppose this is related to previous unemployment level. So they are worse off relatively to usual.

It's also a question of what unemployment does to you financially or psychologically. At 55, the damage from 6 months off the books could be a lot worse then 25 or 35.

They are more likely to be inflexible in their spending. They are more likely to be frantically saving for retirement. They are also more likely to get demoralised. You can go from "I have 30 years experience. You can't buy that." to "No one wants to hire a middle aged employee" very quickly. They may have more of an emotional attachment to their work identity: a foreman, a manager. A 30 year old fired from a middle management job forced to temp as a receptionist is likely to be demoralised. A 55 year old in that position might be a lot worse off. I wouldn't be surprised if the older one turned down these positions or (more likely) never apply for them to a greater degree then younger people. Taking the opportunity to retrain in a new 'career' is also less likely.
I just found LingPipe on Monday, and haven't had a chance to try it yet. But it has 'entity extraction' in text mining. Not sure if that is what you're looking for.
It's a Java library.
http://alias-i.com/lingpipe/

anybody have any comments about it?
Uni student studying information systems (and computer science) working at the school as a web designer for various departments. Hanging out at HN for inspiration, motivation and knowledge.
This is some kind of solution? He moved the obtrusive content from the sidebar to right inside the email?

How am I supposed to include the catastrophic event reference in a corporate/business mail?
I think at one time that was safe advice to anyone talking about college, but I think now, unless you know the amount of debt involved and other details, you can't just glibly toss that off. There are many people and situations where going to college or staying in college is not the best idea.
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Anecdotal evidence from a single source does not a compelling argument make.

b) "They still dominate in terms of unit-sale market share, yes, but not because people don’t recognize Windows as second-rate, but because they don’t care, in the same way millions of people buy metric tons of second-rate products from Wal-Mart every hour of every day."

a) Well, honestly, did you even read OP?
"At school Feynman approached mathematics in a highly unconventional way. Basically he enjoyed recreational mathematics from which he derived a large amount of pleasure. He studied a lot of mathematics in his own time including trigonometry, differential and integral calculus, and complex numbers long before he met these topics in his formal education. Realizing the importance of mathematical notation, he invented his own notation for sin, cos, tan, f (x) etc. which he thought was much better than the standard notation. However, when a friend asked him to explain a piece of mathematics, he suddenly realized that notation could not be a personal matter since one needed it to communicate."

The story is either in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" or "What Do You Care What Other People Think?". I forget which stories are in which book. Both are great though.
There's nothing really new here.

Did you notice the part about the financial results? The historic financial results? The point of the entire article?

Microsoft's year-over-year revenue has gone up since before I or Gruber knew what a computer was. So this is big news. Maybe not as big as the terrifying numbers would suggest (the last year did also feature the worst possible coincident timing of business events in Microsoft history) but still big.
Google Apps for your domain can help you out--use Gmail and your domain all at once.
I think Gruber makes a lot of great points here and I agree with most of what he says. However, I think he's missing one important point.

Microsoft doesn't think "it is sitting pretty because Best Buy has a 17-inch Dell for $650." I can assure you that internal talks at Microsoft include very worried discussions about how they're going to deal with Apple's quickly growing market share.

Microsoft's response to "Macs are better" is "PCs are cheaper", not because they think more PCs will sell because of these ads, per se, but because they want computers to be cheaper. They want to frame the buying decision in terms of price so they can drive prices down further. Oddly enough, this kind of worked. Apple lowered their prices.

As Joel Spolsky says, "Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements... Microsoft's goal was to commoditize the PC market." (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html)

Microsoft does not think that it's OK to be inferior to Apple as long as they're cheaper. They just really really want computers to be cheaper. They always have. That's how they've made billions of dollars over the years. They tie the success of their software business directly to falling prices in the computer hardware industry. If they see any hint of that trend reversing (rising prices in hardware), they're going to fight it tooth and nail.

I think what they really need to understand is that the race to the bottom in the computer hardware market is generally over. We've arrived at (or near) the bottom. People can afford just about as many computers as they could possibly want now. If they want to further commoditize the personal computer, they should be doing what Google is doing and writing a stripped-down OS that runs on much weaker hardware but relies on the web for processing power. Insisting on machines that are both cheaper and more powerful than the PCs of yesteryear has reached the point of diminishing returns.
1984 days is more than five years. That's three years longer than the iPhone has even been out, and an absolute eternity in internet time. Is the current Apple situation obnoxious? Sure. Is that worth whining about for five years straight? No.
I noticed this about the meters in Davis Square, I've been contemplating if it was possible...
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I think that the Kindle would be much more successful if it allowed many more formats than just the Amazon approved books (in Topaz format i think).

If I could carry around all of my kindle books and a pdf of my homework assignments and free e-books found online etc etc I would be much more interested in buying a kindle.

Also, I never actually read the Terms & Agreements for services, but for the kindle it apparently does matter because Amazon is remotely deleting books that people have legitimately purchased. There is another post on HN with an article about it. If Amazon could delete things on my Kindle I would never get one and stick to the good old paper versions.
Wow. They even ask you to do non-scientific (or rather anti-scientific) analysis to enhance the effect.

Before:
"Mark your first line and read with a timer for 1 minute exactly-do not read faster than normal, and read for comprehension."

After:
"Read at your fastest comprehension rate. Multiply the number of lines by your previously determined average words-per-line to get determine your new words-per-minute (wpm) rate."

Notice anything different. Before, they specifically encourage you to NOT try to read faster. After, they specifically encourage you to read as fast as you possibly can. Um... yeah, I wouldn't have to do ANYTHING in between to see an improvement in speed there.
Last time I tried it (four months ago) it did not work well. ABP is comprehensive.
> Now, guess what OS I'm running? Not OSX that's for sure.

I'm actually curious. BSD? Linux? The only things that have kept me on OSX for so long (steep decline since Panther) are Finder and Photoshop. Well, those and that I'm hopelessly tied to the  key since I've only used Macs...+Option+O will never cease to please me.

But mainly it's Finder. Why won't other desktop environments copy Apple's excellent combination of +Tab and +`, opting for the inefficient, app-flattening Alt+Tab?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729556
Compared to the open source alternatives, it is.

It seems to require a paycheck to convince anyone to produce feature complete business accounting software, and even then the A-list individuals are probably otherwise occupied with more enjoyable projects.
What do you love about abstract algebra?

I'm asking because I found myself deeply disappointed with it when I took it in school. It seemed to me just a haphazard collection of definitions and puzzles. Why, for example, does anyone care how many non-abelian groups of order 18 there are? I found myself unable to retain much of anything, due to the lack of any coherent explanation of "What is the point?"

In computers, by contrast, no one hides the point. Searching, sorting, bits and bytes, languages that make it easier to express things without making mistakes—there's no mystery about the purpose or importance of anything.

I wonder, if someone showed me what is attractive about abstract algebra, maybe I would find myself just as addicted to math as to programming.
Once a book is purchased [the customer] owns the rights to that material [indefinitely]

According to most people's common sense, maybe, but certainly not according to US copyright law. Copyright law is very clear about under what what terms authors may license their work, and licensing it for indefinite time is not a requirement.

Edit: I'm just stating facts, not saying it's right. Personally, I see both sides. But if one argues that copyright law should be changed, I don't see why Amazon, a public corporation, should take away rights from publishers which have granted to them by the laws passed in a government supposedly representing the will of the people.