skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that waiting on a technology to mature is the right way to go in general. One of the challenges I have faced is that since I am just learning about a lot of web tech there is already an enormous amount of mature proven techs out there and deciding how to filter them can be overwhelming at times.

I think I will continue to really focus on the things that I am comfortable with and read about and slowly investigate the mass of other things available out there. Thanks for the suggestion/info
So if he's not a 501(c)3, how exactly was he going to account for all this money with the IRS?
It's worth remembering that the relationship between health insurance and employment is entirely due to government meddling in the first place.

Up through the fist half of the 20th Century, medical expenses were generally paid individually, or through mutual-aid groups such as churches or fraternal societies. This began to change when the government instituted wage freezes. In that environment the only way for an employer to attract superior talent was to offer non-salary benefits, and the tax advantages of health care made that an attractive one.

Thus, American employers began to offer health insurance as a way to better compensate their workers when the government was trying to interfere with the labor market. As the practice became more common, it increasingly became a point that job hunters would look for. And the rest is history.

If you think that the results of this meddling are undesirable, then you might think twice about giving the same meddlers the authority to muck things up further.

Edit: here's a bit on FDR's wage freeze and its effect on health insurance:
http://faculty.smu.edu/tmayo/health%20care%20timeline.htm
Presumably:

* Several million dollars in inventory

* A 20 region global direct sales team, likely each consisting of a 130k base account manager and 2 90k-100k SE's

* Several million dollars a year in "marketing", including 20-50k/mo in PR firms (note: we got more press hits over the last 4 years than they did), 100k+ in Gartner subscriptions, magazine ads, and 4-5 $100k+ conference visits a year.

* 4-5 120k+ overhead head count for middle management, like a VP/Marketing, Director/Marketing, and Sr Mgr/Marketing, or 3 layers of engineering management.

* A ridiculously outsized engineering department with 1:1 or worse dev/QA.

I'm sure I'm missing some other ludicrous VC-funded-company expense than a 50+MM funded company goes through (I've been through that firsthand), but all I'll say here is, there's nothing I think they spent that money on that I want for my company now.
Tell Dropbox: Please make $5/mth for 25gb.
All of my friends have become big fans. There is a lot of interest. But $10/mth is too much.
The celebrity effect is present to a lesser degree in hacker culture, but it's still there. Zed wrote Mongrel, which helped make Rails a practical option for more people, so he's famous. That means he gets attention when he does something less noteworthy, like post rants against people who whine about what he's willing to let them do with code he gives away free of charge.
Why is There Peace?
I don't think canadians are more enterprenual than americans

Perhaps not; but we might be even less entrepreneurial without universal health care. I know I would never have started working on tarsnap if I was living in the US.
Avoid Linux, at least the pre-installed versions. Sorry, Linux nerds, but it’s true. Buy an XP model and install Ubuntu or whatever later, but don’t get the Linux netbook because it’s cheaper.

So CrunchGear is advising you to pay for XP and then install Linux. If you're going to reformat anyway, this makes no sense.
Is GWT frontend only, or is it a full stack front and backend thing?
https://www.getdropbox.com/forum
What's your unique differential/competitive advantage - say against Amazon? In other words - why should I (or anyone) buy from you? Maybe you could offer free online chat setup or hacker discounts like you mentioned above... If you can establish that (and promote it) then you might see orders. Oh and the design is a tad boring. Just my two cents.
As for Google, Autonomy had Kenjin.

I think in the UK people are just after a career, and I know people who wouldn't work on a speculative software project without applying for grants (eg, free money).

The other problem is that VC's will probably only give to Cambridge/Oxford grads.

I read in some place: "You need a PhD to turn research into a product" (in the UK).
Not to be rude, but it doesn't look like you have been paying much attention to what Universal Health Care in the U.S. will actually mean.

I legally have to have, auto, workers comp [...]

And now you will legally have to have health insurance.

Insurance sucks. It costs a fortune, health, auto, liability, property, it's all a bad deal [...]

You have a bad attitude, but the health insurance companies won't have to worry about it much longer. You'll be paying up with the rest of the citizen-units.

Well, you thought you wanted Universal Coverage. You got it. Go America! Land of the free!
My answers:

1.All rational thought is an illusion and the AI is imaginary.

2.You are asleep at the wheel and dreaming. You will crash and die in 2 seconds if you do not wake up.

3.Humans are a constructed race, created to bring back the extinct race of AI

4.All origin theories that are conceivable by the human mind simply shift the problem elsewhere and will never explain the existence of the universe.

5.All mental illnesses are a product of the human coming in contact with a space-time paradox.

6.A single soul inhabits different bodies in different universes. Multiple personality disorder is the manifestation of those bodies interacting in the mind on a quantum level.
It does, and it doesn't. Individuals work for corporations (at least, the corporations I've been involved with). There's also a decent incentive to get changes committed upstream if a corporation is at a smaller scale than the BSD project they're using.
Thanks tyohn,

I guess what I was shooting for in competitive advantage is that I wanted to specialize in these Cisco devices and have a small community where we could discuss configurations, troubleshoot, etc.

I guess the first step would be having a forum where people could interact and do this.

I'll see about pepping up the design too.
One question with regard to the GPL: Is it at all enforceable? How could you find out if someone violating it and using your code in a proprietary project?
Please update HN guidelines page with that new point.
I never said the costs would be lower. In fact, the cost issue is the only real argument I see against it.

Why not offer incentives (tax breaks, for example) to coerce the system into the right state? For example, if you go to medical school or nursing school and graduate in the top 50% of your class (from any accredited school), you would be automatically reimbursed for the entirety of your tuition by the government. This would create an incentive for more students to become doctors and nurses, which is sorely needed today; at the same time, it reduces the barrier to entry (the cost), creates motivation to do well, and also keeps the price of service (what the doctor charges you) down as well (since they're not having to pay back $200k in student loans).

At the same time, the system should require everyone to get certain tests on a regular basis (e.g. a yearly physical). If you don't take care of yourself at some kind of baseline level (the doctor should be able to tell from your charts), then you will be charged a "surplus" fee since you will be requiring more medical care down the road (e.g. heart disease due to lack of exercise). This would motivate people to get in shape, or at least they'd be paying for the extra costs of their own care. So, essentially, it's free as long as you play your own little part in the system.

On another note, all the people that I've heard argue against UH have all said that they don't want to pay for someone else's healthcare. While I understand where they're coming from (I hold mostly libertarian political views), you have to remember that the 'healthier' our society becomes (due to UH, or simply lifestyle changes, etc.), the "cost" per person is reduced. This is because healthier people are more able to contribute to society, rather than unhealthy people who must survive on the contributions of others.
It comes with the network ;-)
I think it's a perception issue, and a bit of rivalry. Most companies that release proprietary, closed-source software don't even pretend it's "open" and "free". For quite a while, the GPL was the perceived pinnacle of "open" and "free". The problem is, it's decidedly less open and free for authors who prefer a more permissive license.

Re-implementing code with another license is a massive gray area, btw. This is why reverse engineering groups go to great lengths to make sure the people working on things have never seen the licensed code they're attempting to emulate.
One of the key points of the post is that the browser is the platform, not the OS - so, regardless of the specific details of Chrome OS, it can't do much to improve the platform.
You shouldn't need guidelines to tell you to read the content of a submission before talking about it.
Sounds like he's the kind of guy who might use super simple passwords. Ask him what kind of pw it was -- if it was a single word, etc. He may have some fuzzy memories, which could help you out.

You could brute force his password if it's simple. But you'd have better luck going to a hypnotist to enhance his memory.

Sorry.
Maybe it's because we expect that our complaints to developers will be heard, but complaints to companies will fall on deaf ears. Even though the value of a company like Apple coming around to your point of view is high, the expected value of complaining is still quite low.
There's a total solar eclipse over China on the 22nd, exactly midway between the forecast dates. Quite a coincidence, if that's what it is.

In any event the prediction is NOT for the market to tank within the quoted timeframe ... rather that the market will PEAK between 7/17 and 7/27. This would be followed by a period of weakness possibly leading to a crash. If the experience of the USA in 1929 and 1987 is any guide, you would look for a crash low 55 days later (9/15) or possibly 89 days later (10/19).

Then again, maybe not.
How does this make things easier? I find FF + FireBug to be a pretty good dev environment for the front end. The problem is integrated debugging with the back end of things, whether that is PHP, Python or whatever.
So what is it about heath care that precludes economies of scale?

Just to run with your nothing is selfish theme which is born of "the fear" whether you are willing to admit it or not.

When was the last cure for a significant disease announced as opposed to a 'treatment' which locks you into a life long drug regimen?
Reflection is usually kept at minimum at most libraries and systems. Those reflection codes are also self-contained in most cases (transforming from one object to the other, etc).

So all in all, refactoring is still a lot easier.

Furthermore, GWT takes out Java reflection.
These licenses follow copyright law, not contract law. If they were contracts, there would be little question of whether they were enforceable and "GPL enforceability tested.." would not appear in nearly as many headlines as it does.
Sorry, I don't think I could recommend any of those as legitimate money making ideas to you.
Great, while I will go deeper into the whitepaper, what is the business model you're counting on and what is the primary usage you're seeing?

Very interesting!
That was a ruling that said Apple could track down the leaker. It didn't say the documents couldn't be published.
He didn't get famous from writing Mongrel. He got famous when he called Rails a ghetto. You can look this past up. Right or wrong that is what propelled him into the news.

This is the same formula. I would say Zed knows more about marketing than he leads on because drama is one way to really advertise things.

People and programmers especially, love a good versus, it is a natural, competitive, easily manipulated feature/function of psychology. It is possible that Zed was motivated entirely to write this just to have the GPL vs. BSD argument in public. Maybe that was the whole point.
No-Tech Hacking
It depends on your experience and problems that you need to solve (I'm talking about client-side).

GWT comes with tons of goodies that you probably haven't needed but Google or Yahoo or some other companies do need them.
Thanx. I'd rather not comment than having to read crap.
I'd have been in a lot of trouble. I was very sick in my early 20s and from a not so well-off background. The doctor that got me back on track is world-renowned and I was able to waltz right in his office and see him for "free" like anyone else. If I lived in (most?) states I'd probably never even think of quitting my job.
Like I wrote in my reply to "DanielBMarkham" above, I've actually heard people say that they aren't paying for someone else's health care, and that they simply don't care what happens to people without it. That's just a personal anecdote, but I'm sure the people who said that to me aren't the only ones out there.

I understand the real-world economics of the problem, but I think the real underlying issue is that many (not all, but a significant) number of Americans have simply become too selfish over the past 100 years or so. Those people simply aren't willing to sacrifice a little bit of their time and money to build a stronger community, because they don't see that they have anything to gain.

I also think that however this thing works out, it's going to become such a bureaucratic mess that it really won't be worth anything except to the most desperate people. The worst part is that we'll still spend the money, and it'll all get funneled away into mega-corporations without any real improvement in anyone's standard of living.
That realpatch_cache tip is a new one to me. I had never heard of it before. Is there any way to see how full the cache is at the moment? (Or what it contains?)
I think this is bizarre as well -- to not complain about the company that uses BSD code as part of the most closed OS in common use today, but get all uppity when someone decides to go GPL.

I figure the most plausible reason for this inconsistency is this: the GPL code is that much more tangible -- it can be read and used, just not distributed the way they'd like. Versus BSD code used in proprietary software whose code is completely inaccessible. GPL gets the flak because code released under it feels more within reach.
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I actually have a fair bit of experience with Squeak from college, but most of that experience tells me to stay as far away as possible. So I second this question: Anyone use Seaside on a decent Smalltalk environment?
Oh really? And exactly how do you know what documents they haven't published, eh?

"Minimizing harm" is one of the basic precepts of journalism, and journalists withold documents all the time for a variety of very good reasons.
i suspect an intelligence not borne of an evolutionary process will perceive our survival-orientedness as purely obsessive compulsive. the AI might say, "there is nothing to be said against not existing", and then shut itself down.
Healthcare needs to be an independent insurance that companies will pay you in salary to get on your own.

Right now do companies or governments pay your auto insurance? How about home insurance? Why health insurance? It is a tired and wrong way to do things, it removes the cost of insurance and medical care from the paying customer and it is the major reason there is a huge healthcare bubble in cost. We would see a very fast cost correction in healthcare if we treated it like other insurance.

I truly believe if health insurance moves like retirement, away from the employer, then we will have a much more agile workforce and the walls to move around more and be more entrepreneurial will be removed.
It is a balance. Follow DRY while you are developing and the refactoring should occur as you develop.

Need to write something to a file, fine; just do it. Need to do it again in another class; time to extract common behavior.

You should also have an idea of what components will likely need this kind of abstracted behavior and preempt the wasted time writing something twice by just doing it the first time.

All of this comes with experience and the best way to gain experience is by doing it. Avoid trying to keep everything loosely coupled because it adds too much complexity is a great way to introduce tons of code smells and maintainability/extensibility issues.
I wonder how to best apply this to job-seeking.. Hmm...
There's no way to currently inspect the cache, without tapping into the internal PHP API as far as I know. I wonder how difficult it would be to create a PECL package to extend it or if it's necessary at all to care about what's inside of the cache. RAM is cheap, so boosting it up should be all you need to care about.

For setting the .ini setting though, check out http://www.php.net/ini.core#ini.sect.performance
Spotify are UK / Swedish. I think they'll be bigger than Twitter.
I think Zed underestimates the value of his contribution of Mongrel. It's a great piece of code. I certainly wouldn't have heard of him if it wasn't for that. I doubt his blog posts would be making it to number 1 on hacker news without it.
TechCrunch Misses the Point on RealTime
Couple this with the fact that many professionals don't even have speakers on their machines and can't use headphones at work and you've got a real problem.
That is exactly my point. I want to install a fresh copy of the OS. Not pave over the previous instance.
But here lies the whole point of (L)GPL. I would argue that one of the most important open source projects in use today is WebKit. It started as KHTML, moved to Apple as WebKit, then moved its way into Nokia (S60WebKit), moved its way into MobileSafari, and then moved into Chrome, and now a whole OS (Chrome OS), not to mention many other projects that use it.

One of the big reasons it has spread so much and done so much good in the open source community is precisely because it is LGPL. Consider whether you think Apple, or Nokia, or any other company along that chain wouldn't have just closed sourced it at some point if it wasn't because it was specifically "copyleft".
An additional problem is that large numbers of people are 'job-locked' by their need to have a regular paycheck.

I wonder if people would also be encouraged to start businesses if we came up with a universal paycheck program.

[edit: could anyone downmodding me explain why? Just curious.]
offtopic: your profile sounds interesting. what's your bike website?
Labor mobility is broken and it is a huge problem with American capitalism.

Working for a small business is great, I have enjoyed and learned at everyone that I have worked for.

Now that I am the small business owner, my employees are my family. If I were to behave like a corporate employer I would be a lonely man.
Microsoft’s Windows Azure more dangerous than you think
It is both, as it is both a front-end development platform including a full set of widgets and an AJAX implementation that handles all the plumbing of exposing and invoking AJAX services.

It doesn't tell you how to implement the back-end application though so it is not an application framework in that sense.

(I don't mean to pimp, but I have previously mentioned http://www.teampostgresql.com which we develop using GWT)
This seems, I could have missed something, more to be about the loose coupling in Object Land. Not about loose coupling in software land.
Some sentences seems more or less taken out of context from any Haskell book (pure vs IO).
Some seem, again, taken out of context from the OTP Design principle.

More annoying is the fact that there is a code example of How Not Todo It but nowhere any How Todo it. I would have liked if the article had some indication on what direction the Author thought on some way to do loose coupling.
My understanding of the deal is that it is only for upgrades. I tried to find an instance of the stand-alone, but could not. If I could get a stand-alone copy of Windows 7 for the deal they were offering, I would have bought one without thinking.
How prices evolve in prediction markets
Google Voice Launches Blackberry and Android Applications
If that was the point, I'm glad he did it. I'd read both licenses before, but hadn't given their ramifications too much thought. I'm probably not speaking for just myself when I say that I used to believe that 'FOSS' == 'GPL'. The discussion about his (and Jacob's) articles has cleared up some issues for me, and I'm sure more people give the license choice more thought now.
Seaside: Your Next Web Application Framework
Well, you have access to the binaries. You could tell if strings are the same pretty easily. I'm sure there's a way to compare more.

No doubt there are people doing it, but the risk is just too large for any sensible company - it would need one malicious person to leak that there was GPL code in a project, and they would have to release the source of the whole project.
Our original vision is related to cloud computing. We suspect that Amazon will not be the only player, and other cloud providers will pop up to compete with them. Also, many small-to-medium size companies we talk to don't like Amazon (too expensive) but have a a few ten servers they wish to use as a distributed system (eg. database). We're attacking the distributed system market bottom-up, using open-source software to gain a foothold. Keyspace was originally planned to be a controler/meta-server, a low-level building block for other distributed systems, similar to how Google uses its Chubby server for GFS and BigTable --- Keyspace, like Google's Chubby, has an implementation of Lamport's Paxos consensus algorithm at its heart. As development proceeded, we made it into a more general key-value store that can also be used in eg. web 2.0 scenarios when high-availability is required.
Incidentally, that is how github works, if I'm not mistaken; the 'grit' library (http://github.com/schacon/grit) does as much as possible in pure ruby, falling back to command-line if necessary.

It's also licensed under the MIT license, so you could use it in your Cocoa app using MacRuby or whatever.
I wonder if the reactions are from gut-level social norms? It feels like Zed is violating a social norm for equal exchange--like showing up at a party empty handed. Maybe Apple showed up empty handed, but Zed showed up with a pie and refused to share it which seems worse.

The BSD code he is using was given with no restrictions and his "reciprocation" is restricted code that cannot be shared in a BSD project without ruining the license.
Meditation Through Silence and Self-Observation
Sadly, he is right and there does not appear to be an easy answer.

There was something good going on here: http://blog.launchpadcoworking.com/2008/10/10/coffee-with-an... but http://coffeewithanexpert.com/ is no longer loading...
Anyone seen Passenger leaking memory?
N.B. From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

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