skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's really fair. I'm not finding it significantly slower here, and it handles some things worse, but others better - eg try downtown San Francisco and spin around to look up at the tops of skyscrapers...the Bing thing is handling perspective deformation much better, whereas Google Streetview introduces a lot of messy artifacts as the 3d parameters change.

It is limited and it's still beta-feeling, but I'm all in favor of the competition...having two large companies duke it out to provide the best virtual rendition of the world can only be a good thing.

(On a side note, I wonder how long before this gets used for ad placement...when I'm looking at a city street and see a store with a big Pepsi sign outside, why don't I get an ad for Pepsi if I click on it? The technology exists; if I screencap a region of interest and drop the result into Tineye, it's pretty good at finding matches for corporate logos and giving me a link to their website...)
Why oh why did you not exist when I was still in school! I was born too early...
They also don't consider SETI educational but apparently cancer research is.

That's pretty odd claim. Perhaps they mean "scientific"? Even if they mean by that, than it is still a strange claim.
Agreed, easily one of the most exciting things Ive seen recently.
The internet.

Technically that isn't true of course, realistically though, If you aren't in their search engine, you may as well not be on the internet.
Good point- this was a serious problem in the later stages of the Roman Empire
It costs the fully loaded headcount cost of all admin staff at the doctor's office divided by the number of transactions the office undertakes in a year. It's still probably not that high, but it's not as simple as saying "filling out a form only costs $1.20 in billable time".
With similar funding, I've given 5% reverse vested shares to a tech employee. It created vast incentive, and if he stays with the company for 3 to 4 years, he certainly earn the 5%. I also gave 7% to a key tech employee before...no regrets.
Agreed, there's lots of 'affordable' housing in areas near me. However, the reason these houses cost so little is because they're in an area with crime rates through the roof. Oddly across the street from many of these houses the properties of similar designs with equal amounts of land costs $100k more.

Affordable housing is a noble cause, but just give it to me without it being filled with drug dealers trying to sell to kids.
NoScript filters that link as a potential XSS attack. I guess it doesn't like brackets in URLs. That could be a problem for Wolfram if the noscript author can't find a safe way to whitelist wolfram alpha links.
You can sort of increase supply by building taller buildings.
This looks like nothing more than a rehash of the MIT RAW project from 10 years ago. (but this time with x86!) Tilera's shipping products look more interesting than this Intel research project. The power management might be interesting but I can't find many details about it.
1-2%. A lot of people say 5%. 5% is what you'll give to an executive down the road. First employees are very important, but probably not as important as your second CEO. 6% is what you give to YC. First employees are very important, but a first employee who is worth almost as much as YC should probably be your cofounder, not an employee.

This is also for your first employee. You may live or die based on the work this person does, and more importantly they may be accepting extraordinary risk (if your runway is less than 6 months, say). The same rules do not apply to employee #3.

Finally, if you don't pay the person, or if you pay them bare subsistence wages (say, $20-30k) and they're senior talent, you've introduced an additional level of risk, and you should pay a premium for that. However, there may be better ways to compensate that risk; for instance, you can defer salary at a premium rate.

A really important thing to remember about employee options is that employees don't know how to value them. You need to be really engaged with the strategic course of the business (not just the product: the business and its future cash flows) to really grok what options mean in rational terms. This is a good reason not to grant huge amounts to early employees; it costs you dearly and doesn't make them much happier.
As for new, this engine design goes well back to steam engines. Hardly new.
I have been looking at sage (sagemath.org) and sympy to see if I can use open source math packages to do something like this for http://www.mathmaster.org but I don't have any successes so far. Have you seen something like this besides commercial software? They have a nice API but looking at the licensing cost make me read no further.
can someone grab a screencast?
That's an interesting take on it, I wonder what they could possibly use a 255 character Christmas greeting for.
This seems really similar to the recent posting about Craigslist shutting off someones yahoo pipes based proto-business. CL and Google seem to be trying to prevent what I would call parasitical bottom feeding businesses from leveraging their service. And these said businesses are whining about it.

So, well, good riddance -- when I search for "Courtney Love," the last thing I want is to have a stupid re-aggregator like studiobriefing.net...
This is an interesting HN thread to watch, because you can see waves of (automated?) anti-Google votes roll through the thread. The article is sitting at #1 despite being terrible for a number of reasons already pointed out here. If this isn't indicative that we now need better quality control, I don't know what is.

edit: yay, it's dead. Maybe I should take back this comment :]
But companies are owned and run by individuals, so you're interfering with an individual's ability to run his company as he sees fit.

I'm not saying I don't agree with Net Neutrality, because I do, I'm just torn about _why_ I agree with it.
a few of these seem to be a little out dated but for the most part its a good resource for beginners.
It's worth pointing out he resigned, he didn't get fired. That supports the theory that there's probably more to this than just "SETI@Home". That would be one of the dumber reasons to get fired that I've heard of.
Sorry, duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=972236
Ideally, the market would just take care of it.

EDIT: Holy crap, everyone. Please refer to my two responses just below about the reason I said "Ideally." This statement is in response to "what possible ways are there to guarantee it other than a meaningful amount of regulation." So I gave one.
It's television news guys, not real news.

How do they come up with the cost of replacement parts? And don't SETI programs only run when the machine is idle?
Completely misleading comparison...

Radio, Newspapers and Television were traditional media monopolies which limited the number of advertisers and limited the overall range of opinions and content that became available. They still exist, in fact, and if Google rejects your ads or content, you can take it to them - except they really are still quite a bit more limited than what you put on the Internet.

Google is the opposite of a traditional monopoly. It uses automated filtering of content in order to charge the lowest rates and offer high rates to its users and high profits to itself. The fact that Yahoo and MSN provide "good customer service" proves that it's available - it just isn't profitable.

Indeed, today's ultra-competitive world is going to force people to deal with automated systems rather having other people help them. Google is just one part of this world. It can be a pain to deal with but this is very different kind of pain than the pain of a monopoly.

There are plenty of things that are a pain about Google but monopoly isn't a label you can pin on it.
Depends on the pay. If you're paying market, < 1 %. If you're not paying market, match the difference to a max of 3%. Either way, make sure it is vested 1/36 every month for a period of 36 months. But if you get bought out, or go IPO before that time frame, make sure all of that is vested. And also, if you get funding that pays out the founders in some way, find a way to pay something out to the employees too.
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Or Scala or Clojure.
I treat a first employee as a co-founder just with fewer shares. Its says "we're in this together" more than words can say. I have given them rights to review our financials (noone ever did, but perhaps my openness with our revenues made them comfortable), voting rights, same dilution rules as a co-founder, etc. The percent of shares varies, but being careful to not create different classes of people in such a small working group seems valuable.
I stand corrected. I failed to take into account the effectiveness and efficiency of modern weapons. They assign disproportionate power to the top of the thugocracy (Saddam Hussein being an extreme example). Such a thugocracy can propagate itself brutally, suppressing the trickling down of wealth and development.

The question that follows (and that I honestly don't know the answer to) is whether the invention of modern weapons was a historical tipping point that obliterated previous routes of national economic development. What if mechanized warfare had been invented before the rise of the West by a non-Western civilization and transferred (via trade) to the medieval European feudal lords. Would they have allowed the rise of the middle class in the West the way it did?

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do" -- Samuel Huntington. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, p. 51.
How much did that 7% end up being worth, and how long did the company last? Those two factors probably play a large role in how much you regret issuing them. If the company came to nothing, or if you gave up 7% and the company exited before it needed new management or a large number of employees, sure, maybe you don't care. Pick a number out of a hat!
"... I've rarely been letting other sites access my Facebook data ... because I don't really trust them ..."

Here's why figital is cautious, "Dark Stalking on Facebook" ~ http://pjf.id.au/blog/?position=590 (author http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pjf)
Yes, but it pegs the processor(s) when it's running, so there's the potential for increased energy consumption and faster hardware burnout. Also it seems like it would be a sensible policy to have systems go into low power/sleep mode while unused rather than doing FFTs all night, though the article didn't offer enough details to determine if this was an issue or not.
Legality assumes that the source of the power of the government is legal. These days it is generally accepted worldwide that the only legal source of power for a government is the one that originates from the people. Most countries are democratic, at least in name. There are only a very few despotic countries left (where the source of the power is the "Grace of God" both de jure and de facto).

North Korea claims to be a democratic country, however the government is clearly not elected democratically at all so the acts of of the government can hardly be called "legal". The government of North Korea isn't fairly elected and is probably in power against its citizens' will. The only way they can remain in power is by the application of violence.

Of course, it is still a good idea for North Koreans to do whatever their governemnt calls "legal" given that they have to power to enforce it. But the fact that I have the power to mug the neighbour kid and I call it legal doesn't make it legal.
How much you wanna bet all these addresses get mailed an offer for a Chrome OS-enabled netbook when it's ready?
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I agree, but the complete lack of transparency on Google's part is still disturbing. I understand that customer service isn't Google's strong spot and that there may even be valid reasons for being a bit opaque when combating black hat SEO, but there's no excuse for not telling you what you're alleged to have done in the termination email.

And there needs to be a better appeals process than the current system of "find someone who works at Google to escalate your issue for you."
You're not in this together. When you miss payroll, she gets paid first.

I've been in companies where my shares had dramatic legal rights, and where I had access to financials. I guess I liked that at the time, but to be honest, I didn't care. However, I have friends who have quit companies because they saw financials and got a warped idea of how much their time was worth, so doing that has downsides too.
"I'm not finding it significantly slower here"

I'm on a relatively late model macbook pro using safari with a fresh silverlight install and it's dramatically slower than street view, enough that it's difficult to navigate around.

"the Bing thing is handling perspective deformation much better, whereas Google Streetview introduces a lot of messy artifacts as the 3d parameters change."

I don't see what you are referring to. What I do see is poorer quality from the top camera on google ( http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&... ), but I also see artifacts and whole blurred sections (like frosted glass) of images on bing, though it's apparently not possible to link to individual views.

And other than what I mentioned, it really, actually is just a straight up street view clone. It's not a value judgement, it's just a fact. One huge company cloned something created by another huge company. I'm not sure why any of these statements would be controversial to anyone unless they had a stake in the success of one over the other.
1-2% is silly. You can get ~0.7% by coming in at the end of a round A right before around B. Do you seriously think that being the first employee, especially with nontechnical founders, is only 2 to 3 times as much risk?

Personally, I'd ask for 5% and might be willing to take 4%. Otherwise, there are startups that will pay market salaries at 0.7% with way less personal risk involved.
Custom-designed or heavily modified buildings tend to be quirky; they are designed around the particular tastes and requirements of the previous owners. Generic houses are more one-size-fits-all. They may not fit any particular person as well, but you know what you're getting and there are certain baseline expectations that won't be violated.

To some extent, people actually will pay for quirkiness. It can be easier to find a home you love in a neighborhood with a mix of houses of different ages and styles and owner-modifications. Old houses can be more valuable partly because they've been modified over the years to be more livable. But for houses that are farther from the norm, it's harder to match the right house to the right buyer.

(I say this as the owner of an 80-year-old house in Seattle with some very odd changes made by previous occupants.)
Chrome dev tools analysis
Me. I was not prosecuted, but bullied by repeated DMCA infringement notices and ridiculous copyright infringement claims. I ran a company that produced a library to allow use of Fairplay DRM (used in iTunes) content on unsupported platforms, and despite not allowing users to strip DRM off of their files (just play them back), we were bludgeoned out of business by claim on claim from Apple.

You don't need to take someone to court to harm them with a law, simply make it so that they have no choice but to stop doing whatever it is that they're doing. In all likelihood, we would've won if we went to court, and we could've easily won a countersuit for the copyright infringement claims (they actually said later that they didn't say such a thing, despite us having it in black and white), but none of that matters if you can't take on an expensive and drawn out lawsuit.
You can't promise that all your employee shares will vest on change of control, because many big companies won't buy you on those terms. Also, even if everyone does vest on change of control, valuation and terms can be structured so that options aren't worth much, and employees are handcuffed by retention grants.
That company ran for 8 years. We had great revenues and shared the wealth relative to ownership, but there ended up not being an acquisition. During the high times and opportunities of acquisition, I never thought "I wish I had given up only 2% instead of 5%". I always knew that if we needed to dilute the holdings to take on a new CxO we could do so and all would be ok. I was careful to explain to people that if we grew by leaps and bounds dilution would occur, so get comfortable that your X% will get reduced.
True, though some people firmly believe that the dictionary has the "right" definition and other definitions are "wrong."

Others (like myself) believe that the dictionary is just a catalog of how people actually use words and that if there's a disconnect, it's because the dictionary is out of date.
OK, quick: Everyone who, upon installing a new piece of software, reads EVERY LAST SENTENCE of the terms of use and prints out the terms for future reference before hitting "install", raise your hand.

As a separate issue from the quality (or more precisely, lack thereof) of studiobriefing.net's content, I do think it's reasonable for studiobriefing.net to want to know what, exactly, they have done that is against the terms of service. Yes, you are in theory supposed to pay close attention to all of the terms of service, understand completely how your web site complies with said obligations, etc. But in practice, people don't always know what the problem is, or understand the legal and/or technical issues involved.

So even if Google is 100% justified in cutting off studiobriefing.net, I think that as a matter of courtesy, Google should be willing to state specifically what studiobriefing.net did to get cut off, i.e. the enumerated paragraph/sentence in the terms of service that governs the issue.

Of course, that is assuming that the studiobriefing.net account is an accurate report of the communications from Google.
A million dollars is probably spread over ten year. That's like 100,000 a year.
Ask HN: What more is needed in Ecmascript 5 to turn it into a mainstream lisp?
Some features that are missing right now:

1. A proper list structure instead of arrays.

2. Macros

3. A richer numeric tower.

4. FFI

What other major changes are needed in ecmascript before the bastard child of cl comes of age, to become the new lisp? Or is there something big I am missing which makes it impossible?

John Resig has a nice overview of Ecmascript 5 at http://ejohn.org/blog/ecmascript-5-strict-mode-json-and-more/

Plus tail call optimization is coming soon to SpiderMonkey, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445363
I was being a bit glib. The sausage factory is there for a reason. That reason often sucks, but it's not random.

Look at it from a policy maker's standpoint: strip out the happy talk about money and jobs. What this boils down to is a group of rich people on the left coast asking for a grant of power, the power to give visas, with no oversight. The politicians doesn't know these geeks from anyone, and here they are asking for a slice of government power.

So they propose a committee to make sure this doesn't become a loophole for rich fugitives and tax-evasion. Certain types of people smell a cushy job and the role expands, the idea gets paraphrased to someone at WSJ and we end up with that sentence.
Very similar to the Pavlov monetary reform in the Soviet Union - I was just a kid but I can remember that:

"Within hours of the stunning announcement, massive lines had formed in the bitter, early-morning cold, waiting for banks to open. "People are afraid," says Vladimir Kuzmichov, a retired engineer nervously fingering his cash notes outside a Moscow bank. The Soviet state bank had just proclaimed that all 50- and 100-ruble notes would be banned and saving accounts would be partly frozen. Each person could exchange up to 1,000 rubles, the equivalent of less than four months' average pay, for small-denomination notes."

http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1991/b319837.arc.htm
Re: 1984

My first thought was "How wicked!" Second thought was "Hey, but we have those thingies in Russia too!"

There is a wired radio system in Russia, established way back in the Soviet era, which transmits three radio channels. Simple receiver can consist basically of a loudspeaker and variable resistor as a volume knob, while more complicated receiver can receive one of 3 channels. There's a simple receiver on the wall next to me as I write this. Interestingly, I couldn't find any pictures of my exact model, so here's my (lame) attempt:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22022497@N04/4154137046/
There's another, 3-channel one, of the latest incarnation (late 80's or early 90's) in the kitchen. When my dad bought it, I remember everyone coming to our house thinking it's a VCR, so that should say something of its size and form factor. It still sits up there near the ceiling mainly because of its large luminiscent clock on the front panel. We don't turn these radios on except maybe twice a year out of curiosity :)

These things fit the description "closed-circuit system that... can't be monitored outside the country" if by that you mean "wired"
If you want more information, here's some blog posts I did to explain LABjs: http://blog.getify.com/2009/11/labjs-new-hotness-for-script-...

There's also posts on the site about LABjs in relation to:
* speeding up DOM-ready
* coupling inline script execution
* concat'ing versus parallel downloads
Ask HN: Do you have a Twitter account? How about a Facebook?
I'm contemplating the use of Twitter for user authentication, as I don't want the trouble of handling user data.<p>I was wondering how high would it make my app's barrier of entry if I use Twitter for auth, or Facebook.<p>Thanks!
I have a twitter
I have a facebook
I have both
The blog isn't run by IMDB, it's just syndicated there along with dozens of other news sources (including tvguide.com, People Magazine, and Huffinton Post): http://www.imdb.com/news/
The "visa discount" is a real phenomenon, but the alternative is not coming here at all. You don't have to like it (I don't), but that's how it goes.
A Lesson in Humility
I personally wouldn't live in NYC for less than $80K.

Reasons:
you'll pay ~$1.5K / mo to live in dumpy but reasonably safe housing with a roommate. That includes utilities which are fucking expensive in NYC. Also, it's humid as hell, so you will use your A/C 5-6 months per year. Make sure you have it. Many apartments come without kitchens or with tiny, dilapidated kitchens. Expect to eat out every meal.

The good news is there are lots of places to eat well for $6-$10 per meal. This actually isn't that bad an idea when you look at the exorbitant price of food in NYC.

You will pay city tax with a top marginal rate of ~3.5% (IIRC) after about $60K or so of income. My numbers might be a little off but not that far. Basically, if you make about $85K, you'll pay $3+K for the privilege of living in the city. Sales tax is high too -- 9+%. Your apartment will be tiny so you'll hang out with friends in restaurants or bars. You'll be shocked how easy it is to spend $100 on a night out.

The only cheap thing in the city is low end food, metro passes, and cab fare. Take advantage of them. Don't have a car -- it cost us $525/mo to park our car in the city, and that's with free dents and attendants who stole all the cables we left in it.

The bright side is this: if your expectation of public transit has been set by SF -- where transit is complete shit -- you'll be amazed by the subway. Pay to live near an express stop; it's worth it.