skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other blogs that might help you run a better business:

Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen,
Master of 500 Hats,
Lessons Learned,
cdixon.org,
Steve Blank's Blog,
Venture Hacks,
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing,
...etc

I just don't see why they will put anonymous banker there...
Feds Charge Cable Modem Modder With ‘Aiding Computer Intrusion’
All dating sites were banned from advertising on yahoo. No more direct sales.
Judge OKs Challenge to Human-Gene Patents
Google Content Network – Strategy Cheat Sheet
In the US, putting more people in prison both makes the GDP go up and reduces the number of homeless. Nothing is distorted as GDP statistics or its GDP per capita derivative.
I think they know what they're doing by requesting more... At least in Europe you have to properly label your IPs and that way "prove" they're used. You will not get new ranges just because you request them.

Solution? Every time a new service goes live - give it a new ip. And another one for failover. You fill your allocations quickly and go back for more ips. This way people who over-allocated will have no problem to free up a full /24 when they need it, once ARIN and others slow down. But you won't get a new /24 at all and will not have any space to reuse / redesign... Cruel, but that will happen.
Emergency Home Food Storage
As the author notes, there are many exceptions on both sides, and he's not claiming that it's impossible for projects with closed development models to improve; he's merely indicating that the way in which their software is developed lends itself to a final product of lesser quality (because developers are rushed to meet expectations set by other groups, like sales or marketing).

I think the analogy is most relevant in the case of well-matured and widespread software. Microsoft has an incentive to continually release new versions of Office (namely, there will always be many people who will buy new versions of Office), and because people don't like to pay for bugfixes, there has to be new features to print on the box. Furthermore, these features must seem relevant to your average user.

"Mature" software almost by definition includes the standard featureset its users demand. As we all know, there's always something useful you can do to your project, but once your project hits a certain point, those useful, in-demand features apply to a narrower and narrower audience.

The lack of general applicability on the reasonable "New Features" list for the next release probably upsets marketers and others determined to milk more revenue from a successful franchise, so they go back and demand re-engineering of something that already works or the addition of bloat that nobody really wants or uses but that sounds good on the back of the box.

Open-source software has none of these woes. There are no constraints imposed by the uninformed or the ignorant and the BFDL, whom in all cases I'm aware is a technical person, has the last word on a feature's inclusion.

The difference is that in the commercial world, non-technical considerations and individuals generally mandate changes and unless something is just not possible, technical is rarely given a veto. In the open-source world, technical considerations and individuals generally mandate changes, and unless the project just can't continue without it, non-technical rarely gets a veto. One of these methods obviously leads to better software. Can you pick which one?
Thanks to Mozilla, Web Gets Less Ugly, Good Type Gets Machine Readable
Notes on a Nobelist: Kahneman on Heuristics of Judgement (behavioral econ)
Rifle preference aside, surely there are other issues to be addressing first, esp on HN?

Here in the UK there is a shortage of Helicopters to send to Afganistan because of a failed operating system re-implementation.

If the money was saved on these projects, perhaps service men/women could choose a better rifle too.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/20/chinook_hc3_cockup_f...

And further::

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/14/nimrod_mra4_prod_var...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/29/puma_refurb_comment/
Wheeler: Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling
I find the use of C-level titles in a very early startup fairly pretentious. I try to avoid using it and just call myself "co-founder" - that is what my business cards say.

However, we do also get feedback that we need to give ourselves business titles so that people know who they are dealing with. Last night I was submitting a slide deck for a presentation I'm doing at an investor conference in a couple of days. The last slide I did was "The Team" slide. The team is currently just me and my co-founder. I actually wanted to put "business guy" and "techie girl" as our titles, but its a fairly strait-laced conference so in the end I put CEO and CTO.

I did feel a bit awkward doing that, knowing that it's just the two of us. I am positively cringing now after reading that article!
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While I don't know about the rest of Scandinavia, Sweden also has a prominent cultural idea of "lagom" - that enough is better than too much or too little. "Enough is as good as a feast."
IMO (an I've been on both sides of this, having started a small company in my 20's, and now as a hiring manager at a startup), "owner" is even more appropriate.

Even "Founder", to me, seems to imply a certain amount of effort was involved above and beyond the base paperwork.

If your company exists more on paper than in practice, skip the titles and just list yourself as Owner or "Self-Employed".

Many many many many people of all ages have managed to generate some cash flow from their determination and inventiveness. It's no great accomplishment, in the relative scheme of things, to have managed to generate a couple hundred thousand dollars in above the line revenue.

A Founder or CEO type title is, again IMO, appropriate when you have created something that has started to take on some life of its own, and might have a slim chance of continuance in your absence or departure. Or, when you have managed to convince some non-relative to give you a 7 figure investment.

I just dug out some old business cards from my little venture in the 90's. I just listed the company name, what we did, my name and contact info. The legal paperwork listed me as President or CEO, IIRC, but in the day-to-day operations I was just the guy that ran the joint. The company managed to do a few $MM in revenue, net me a bit o' cash and employ a couple of people besides myself.
Introduction to Unladen Swallow
Who's hiring (remotely)?
There have previously been "Who's hiring" type of posts. Those attracted much attention and many people either found or changed their job thanks to those posts. However almost 100% of offers were for onsite work and most of them were in Silicon Valley.

There's world outside of Silicon Valley though. Even outside of US. And it's a big world out there, with many talented people who just happen to live elsewhere.

I'm Ruby on Rails freelancer with 3.5+ year experience, living in Poland. In a week or two I'm about to finish my current project and I'm looking for exciting opportunities. I believe many, many people are in similar position to mine so many companies and individuals could benefit from this.

So if there are companies (and I know there are many) who hire for remote positions, let's put it here and make good companies and talented people meet and work together.

As for me, I'm looking for an opportunity to work where not only coding is required. People too often think that developers should just pump out code. Their creative or strategical input regarding the company is mostly disregarded, if at all taken into consideration.
I don't want to work for somebody. I want to work with somebody and make a difference.

Now let's see all those opportunities for everybody who just cannot physically be where the most is happening.
Why on earth won't they figure out how to let you right click with your index finger on the mouse?
I'm very interested in a multi-touch device for my desktop machine but Apple burned some bridges with the Mighty Mouse. I have 3 of them and each one has developed scrolling problems. If they managed to miss this design flaw with the Mighty Mouse I'm betting the Magic Mouse is going to have some horrible problem too in the long run. I don't suppose Apple would take my collection of useless Mighty Mouses in return for a shiny new Magic Mouse? (yeah didn't think so)

I'm holding out until Apple, or someone else, releases a keyboard/touchpad combo that is basically the bottom half of a MacBook. Nice soft chicklet keys, big multi-touch pad, a built in USB hub, maybe an SD card reader, illuminated keys, etc. I've even considered buying the topcase + trackpad/keyboard assembly from a MacBook and building my own. The only touchpad/keyboard combos I can find have a tiny postage stamp sized touchpad hastily attacked to some junky early 90's quality keyboard. If anyone happens to know of a good quality touchpad/keyboard please let me know.
The Inside Story of Google Friend Connect
Business Guy and Techie Girl might be a little TOO informal, even in casual settings, but I think you were on the right track there.

You might want to try something like: Dick - Runs Operations, Sales and Business Development. Jane - Responsible for software, technology and server farms.

If either of you have some past experience to draw on, maybe add that in too: Dick - Formerly performed similar duties for BigCo. Jane - Previously scaled operations for WebCo.
You said it jokingly, but I think this x86 world where the OS-space seems divided between a bastard child of VMS and variants of Unix is unbelievably boring.
It's a good idea, but now that I've seen how well SSO can work with my site's existing user accounts, I'm hooked.
Great article. It makes me wanna learn more on how to write programs.
My best trick for being able to derive trig identies from scratch is to use the complex analysis identity:

exp{i \theta} = cos(\theta) + i sin{\theta}

where i^2 = -1.

As an example, lets derive the double angle formula:

cos(2\theta) + i sin{2\theta} = exp{i 2\theta}

= (exp{i \theta})^2

= (cos(\theta) + i sin{\theta})^2

= cos(\theta)^2 + i 2 sin(\theta) cos(\theta) + i^2 sin{\theta}^2

= cos(\theta)^2 - sin{\theta}^2 + i 2 sin(\theta) cos(\theta)

Since the real part must equal the real part and the imaginary part equal the imaginary part we conclude that:

cos(2\theta) = cos(\theta)^2 - sin{\theta}^2

and

sin{2*\theta} = 2 sin(\theta) cos(\theta)

~~~

The general procedure is:

cos(complicated) = ???

1) cos(complicated) + i sin(complicated) = exp{i complicated}

2) Break it up: exp{i complicated} = exp{i simple1 + ... + i simple4} = exp{i simple1}...exp{i simple4}

3) Translate back to sins and cos: (cos(simple1) + i sin(simple1))...(cos(simple4) + i sin(simple4))

4) Then multiply them out and choose the real part to get cos(complicated) or the imaginary part to get sin(complicated)

where the simple1,...,simple4 was an arbitrarily chosen number of simple bits.
A 'revisited' guide to GNU Screen
I added Shockley, and a few of the Traitorous Eight. I'm not sure that they founded actually incorporations, but it's not really fair to completely ignore their contributions. (On a side note, I think Kleiner's little investment company did OK though).
I'd be interested to know if you personally believe that dolphins don't think, or if you are simply pointing out that the people doing research on dolphin intelligence aren't doing what you think of as "proper science."

Another anecdote to the mix:

A researcher wanted to do extensive, repeatable tests with dolphins to test their abilities in communication using a symbolic language. He'd gone to a lot of work designing a board that dolphins could "read" using echo-location, and designing a language (in the technical sense) with syntax, grammar and semantics.

When he described and demonstrated his experiment to the dolphin keepers, they were encouraging and supportive, but said it wouldn't work. When asked why, they said the dolphins would get bored and stop participating.

The researcher tried anyway, and initially got a great deal of success. Early results were promising, but needed repeating to make sure there were no statistical flukes (if you'll pardon the pun) or coincidences.

When he tried to repeat the experiments the dolphins refused to cooperate. When he tried harder to get them to cooperate, they physically swam under him, liften up, and pushed him out of the pool.

The dolphin keepers had successfully predicted the dolphins' behavior. They had a theory, which let them make predictions, which the researcher inadvertently tested and showed to be accurate.

Did it get written up? No. The researcher thought his experiments were a failure because he couldn't get the repeatability. The dolphin keepers weren't scientists, they didn't write anything up.

All this was reported by the keepers in a TV show I saw over 10 years ago, but it suggests several things.

People who keep dolphins believe them to be intelligent.

That belief leads to correct behavioral predictions.

Some researchers have trouble doing experiments, because the dolphins appear to refuse to cooperate on boring tasks.
In addition to the other superficial claims presented in the article and exposed here I'd like to point out that the average age of regular cars in Norway is now 10.3 years [1], compared to 9.4 years for the US [2]. Hardly worthy of the emotional statement "they drive around in wrecks".

For bigger cars, SUVs or vans, the age difference is flipped, 6.9 years in Norway and 7.5 years in the US. There is enough difference in the car models between the two continents to explain staring googly-eyed at trucks when you get to the states, without resorting to emotionally inflated statistics.

This article is pretty shallow in my eyes. It adds nothing to any debate (I'm not sure what debate it is supposed to add to) and is full of hyperbole and superficial conclusions based on one person's observations.

[1] http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/10/12/20/bilreg_en/
[2] http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/04/study-median-age-of-cars-...
Best External Keyboards for Macbook Pro
Here are some of the useful, cheapest and Mac compatible keyboards for your Macbook Pro.

These External Keyboards for Mac can be useful at affordable price compared to the original Apple Mac keyboard.
Product in no man's land? Build your own customer.....
Call for Tips (CFT): Advise our entrepreneurs with a video pitch
5 Web Operating Systems You Can Take for a Spin ?
Web operating systems (OSs) are basically websites that replicate the desktop environment of modern OSs, all inside a Web browser.
As a soldier, I would have loved this while I was deployed. This looks to be a great service - I'm spreading the word to all my Army buddies. Such a great idea!
10gen (the company that develops MongoDB) raises $3.4M
Lawyers have to learn for many years and pass exams. Then they have a record of what they actually did, along with results in public records. Same exams situation for surgeons. Cooks usually are hired based on previous jobs (the really good ones are "tested" by entering competitions / getting additional training). Simple / begginer cooks are sometimes tested on the interview.

Those occupations are nothing like being a programmer.
I saw this presentation at the London DevDays where Jon gave it.

I was quite far back, and when he walked on stage with the sock puppet on, I assumed it was one of those wrist support gloves that you use when you get RSI because you won't just stop typing all day long, even though you're harming yourself.

After all, I thought, it's Jon Skeet - he never stops typing, surely? :-)
Vista was crashing because Microsoft finally changed the video driver model and nVidia, Intel & ATI couldn't keep up.

The ribbon was yet another dramatic change that was long overdue. Everybody loves it once they 'get it'.
Plus I suspect New York is not representative of the whole US, but I could be mistaken.

I had the same "eyes falling out" effect in Germany when I visited Leipzig, a nice city in the former east German parts. It is supposed to be poor compared to Munich (where I used to live), yet all the houses looked so new and shiny. Reason: lots of money from the government for rebuilding (economic improvement plans), and also I think a famous house building scam that let to a huge influx of money into building houses. Not all the housing is put to good use now.

Just to say that not all things are what they seem at face value.
Will Wireless Internet Disrupt Cable Modems?
You cannot sell them, at least openly. If they cached you, you could lost all your allocations.
The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
Nuheat mats radiant technology
Depending upon the size and shape of your rooms in your house, you can choose the shape of the radiant heating mats for your rooms. These mats can be installed on wood and concrete floors. Care must be taken that all radiant floor heating products are successfully installed.They are even compatible with different floors such as tile, stone, wood and vinyl.
If you don't want to deal with Amazon FPS, you can implement Amazon's Simple Pay subscriptions: https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=paynow/sub...
Ignoring P2Pers costs music biz dear - survey
Because you don't believe that there are rich people in the US profiting from exploiting the poor, or indeed that that is the innate structure of capitalism?

Not quite sure what you meant, be less flippant and more explicit please.
First Test for Election Cryptography
Berkshire Hathaway buys Burlington Northern Santa Fe (a U.S. railroad) for $44B
Wow, Inktomi. I had years without listening that word.
Internet filtering system
Get another job if you can.
There is so much hate towards the teacher's unions swirling about these days. Is it really deserved? What's the story from their side? From what I've read, it sounds like the single most important solution to fixing education is to abolish all teacher's unions, but is that really reasonable?
Thymer - a week after the launch
Funny, you just described my exact experience going from Washington D.C. (one of the Murder leaders in the U.S.) and then later from NYC to Toronto.

At least in D.C./NYC the homeless people can play music in the metro/subway. And you really don't find too many of them unless you go to the absolute crappiest part of town. In Toronto it was hard to walk more than a block or two in broad daylight without getting accosted by some drug addled homeless person wanting McDonald's money. And we're talking about places like around Queen's Park and the St. James Park area.

I also call B.S. on your Seattle description (but not your Vancouver description which is a very nice city). Last time I was in downtown Seattle I think I saw maybe 2 or 3 homeless people. And my threat level was darn near 0 compared to an average day in D.C.
Valang Validation in Spring Framework
OK, we heard you already - you don't need to spam the comments with the same thing quite so many times.

I'm in the UK and this is the first I heard about "death panels". I looked at the top listing in the NYT and on ABC, as returned by Google, in order to get a definition.

Surely any country with limited healthcare resources requires someone (maybe a panel) to decide where to restrict application of resources. In many cases this failure to provide infinite resources to any health problem will result in premature death. So you could call the panels deciding on restricting care "death panels".

There's nothing controversial about that, is there. We have such panels in the UK, the only controversial part is that location within the UK gets factored in ("postcode lottery") when we are supposed to have a "national health service".

Some drugs and treatments are too expensive for the public purse.
Rackspace's datacenter is DFW.
Stuff i've learnt from founding a startup
Can you elaborate on what it was? Same topics as HN or something different at all?
Cash-strapped colleges outsource their e-mail
That still doesn't make sense. Shouldn't it be an increase to 5.8% from 4.8%?
He should do a follow up of what happens when you actually try those commands ...
Actually it's not just that averages are bad indicators -- the examples that he chose are obviously hand picked to make his case -- which to a knowledgeable reader destroys the credibility of the article in which he does most likely have a valid point.

For example he picks a mixed drink as a buying power indicator, but Norway has an off the charts "sin tax" on alcohol, which has little to do with the buying power for, say, a burger.

Perceptions of quality of life are always skewed by the attitude of the perceiver: you being on vacation, or the author being sick of Norway, for example.

I think the real thesis of the article is that there's a gap between Norway's perception of its own wealth and actual buying power, which really hit home for me when I interviewed for a job there (and ended up moving to Germany instead).

The more deeper seated cultural values, notably between how the wealth of a society is measured, are naturally harder to measure analytically. My theory (having grown up in the US and spent most of my adult life in Europe) is that the US is a society that is more "hero" driven -- and people that "make it" are more rewarded across the spectrum, whereas Europe tends to focus on a well-functioning welfare state. As a result, the American version of poverty is rare in most western european countries, but society is also less structured for empowering individuals. Both have their up and downsides.
The questionable value of the real-time web - Demand-side attention economics
Changing Redis to use more than available RAM
Free API for URL Shortening Service
Bookmark Syncing Enabled with the new Google Chrome
The linked-to article is much more thorough:

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/07/do-you-believe-in-m...
Lojban may not be designed to be complicated, but it's designed to be complicated. By that I mean, while the goal might not be "make it complicated," the goals necessitate that it will in fact be complicated. There is no way to remove all ambiguity from language without making it exceedingly complicated.
I am pining for the days of Office 95. The other two, though, not so much.
That's a nice and simplistic interface however I've been using PostalMethods (http://www.postalmethods.com) for awhile and they offer an email interface and a Web Service API (http://www.postalmethods.com/postal-api) for a cheaper price when sending regularly. They also support postcards.

I think Dustin's service is most suitable for occasional letter senders while PostalMethods is most suitable for businesses wanting to automate their mailing.
Fake it 'till you make it. But, make sure that you make it.
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Creating iPhone and Mac icons using Inkscape
The Cost of Latency
Could you elaborate?

You bring up an interesting possibility, but it is not intuitively obvious. In mathematics it is relatively easy to break into the field with the backing of an institution (I mean easy relative to doing the same thing in say English or History, not in an absolute sense). In fact, there is a long tradition of amateurs making some significant contributions, with Fermat being the crown (if now somewhat dated example.)

Also, one of his major complaints is how long it takes to get the PHD. At least at UNLV (where I am currently seeking a master's in Math) most of my peers that are seeking their PHD expect to get it within 6 years after starting their graduate studies. While this is still longer than a usual JD or MD program, it is at the very low end of the 6-9 year spectrum that was discussed in the article.

And while there is certainly a divide between theoretical mathematicians and their applied counterparts (or scientists who us mathematics) it is almost solely in choice of topic, not about disagreement over real facts, which you can see in some topics in the humanities between the professors and the general public.