skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do companies usually disclose that they're collecting information when they're already, well, collecting it?

But if they weren't going to use it, they would disclose that, and they do: "information supplied here will not be retained or used for any purposes outside of delivering your card"
Twitter is Searchable IRC
The world is waking up to the fact that brevity, and real time chat are really cool.
Hmm, can I get Wolfram Alpha to compute a closed form solution of a recurrent sequence - like the Fibonacci numbers?
Again[1] an article that basically is just a quote. Why not link the original source?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=961203
How fast is your site?
Are you kidding or are you speaking for real ?
Are you the prospective employee or the employer?
Well, you and I aren't negotiating, but the fact that the valley is full of shoot-the-moon startups offering almost 1% for people to take market salaries is something else I don't like about the valley. It's a distortion.

I'm apparently saying the same thing the Mint founder said, for what it's worth.
Here's a summary of his influential book A Pattern Language:

http://downlode.org/Etext/Patterns/
Well, there is potential for abuse: a startup founder gets an "investment" of $500k from an accredited angel and a permanent resident visa. A little while later, the startup takes an exit (e.g. dissolves the company and returns the assets to the investor), netting the founder a greencard in the process.
If the software is important to you, because, for example, your livelihood depends on it, then yes, I recommend reading the EULA closely :) IMO the same applies to running a business that is reliant to a significant degree on traffic from search engines. Failing to at least achieve basic familiarity with what Google does and doesn't like is equivalent to neglecting vital market research before undertaking any other business venture.
Mahmud is a boy's name.
I wasn't aware of the sub-domain; but here is the archive.org
showing a few pages in 99,01,03 then steady from 2007-Dec 15th 2009

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://starwars.yahoo.com

~ seems this was developed first (in 2007) as a way to help move the game "force unleashed"
Google, Bing, and Startups Spar over the Future of Search
I have read that Google is more and more explicitly ignoring meta tags (with the exception of description). It makes perfect sense. You can game the meta tags, but you can't game real content as easily. What's the point if your content sucks?
I had a different understanding of what the core point was, the google part felt more like a sub point.

My understanding was that since the content is freely accessible on the internet, people don't need to subscribe to newspapers, and that online advertising can't cover for the difference.
Just like how the market prevented crap like Enron? Just like how the market punishes companies that dump toxic chemicals into waterways?

I'm sorry but the idea that the market will solve every problem the world could ever dream of is a ridiculously out-of-touch-with-reality idea. Though the idea that Congress can come up with laws to solve even one problem without creating side-effects is equally naive.

The 'market' can be gamed, and there are plenty of people that make a career out of it. As long as you can bury the truth in bureaucratic nonsense and hide behind diffusion of responsibility you can get away with practically anything.
Using do-notation is probably cheating, but what do you think of this? (in Haskell):

do { w <- widgets;
s <- sprockets;
l <- locations;
guard (l `hasInStock` w);
guard (l `hasInStock` s);
guard (w `isUsableWith` s);
return (w, s, l); }

We're trading horizontal space for vertical space. I think it's much clearer than either list comprehensions or plain map/filters. It's the best of both worlds.
One of the last things I bothered printing was a transcript of this. http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-06150...
It looks like a beautiful piece of engineering! I hope they are able to find a viable niche for it and push it to market!
I'm not sure what point you were making. You originally suggested that there were economies of scale due to the reduced variance of a national risk pool, which is true but so minor as to be irrelevant.

Regarding the lower average cost of people under 35, this is true. However, this is not an economy of scale - the cost to insure 1 million people aged 20-35 is very close to 100 times the cost to insure 10,000 people aged 20-35. No economy of scale there.

Adding cheaper people to the market will lower the average cost of the broader health insurance market. Millions of new netbook buyers lower the cost of laptops, since the average price of 1 million netbooks and 1 million macbooks is lower than the average price of 1 million macbooks. This isn't an economy of scale, it's simply a change in market composition. A change in market composition (in vacuo) doesn't lower costs to any individual. Millions of new netbook buyers didn't make my macbook cost any less.

It will also raise prices in any individual market segment due to increased demand: if demand for netbooks/health insurance for 20-35 year olds goes up, prices will too.
Here's hoping it handles monospace...
How about laws requiring that ISPs be 100% transparent with all filtering/throttling/etc that they do with company-crippling penalties for avoidance (instead of laughable penalties that large companies will just write off as the 'cost of doing business')?

edit: Thinking more about this, ISPs would just bury this information in the EULA in obtuse legalese so that normal users would ignore it or at least have a hard time understanding it. Then they would be in the letter of the law, but not the spirit and they would still get away with stuff. Though it would help in places like taking the ISPs to court (as right now what happens on their network is essentially a blackbox and when there's a problem they can just shift the blame to someone outside of their network and there's little you can do to prove/disprove that).
Most advertisers don't need to reach everybody. Most can't afford to even reach their entire target market. Are you referring to an advertiser who needs to get ads to every single searcher? Or are you saying that despite any abuses, Google ads are still the best deal around?
Microsoft seems to have put very little effort into browser support for Chrome, it took forever to be able to send an email through a hotmail account. I have no understanding how or why a simple text field wasn't accessible, but MS somehow found a way.
World Freedom Atlas
Right down at the bottom of the page: "information supplied here will not be retained or used for any purposes outside of delivering your card."
I prefer to avoid using the phrase entirely. Can we deprecate parts of language? That seems like the easiest solution.
What's that even mean?

"Ideally, grapefruit would just take care of it."
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Now you see it, now you don't (Google rolls out fade-in homepage)
Just Say No: VC terms that can really hurt - Venture Hacks
There are a couple of gems in there. Another is "I am really happy and lucky. I have made $75,000 in only 38 days since I joined the 'company'."
Putting a man on the moon would not have been possible without the funding that was supplied by the American people so yes WE is appropriate.
I believe German Jews bought a lot of jewelery in the late 1930's for...similar reasons. It was easier to hide than cash, and they could always try to pass it off as some family heirloom with no more than sentimental value.
There's a reason I said "Ideally." I don't think it would work that way, hence my support of Net Neutrality. But I still like to think long and hard about restricting market forces, and so I'd almost rather wait until the market is proven unable to handle it before enacting legislation, rather than doing it pre-emptively.
You don't need to break any encryption to make a bitwise copy of a DVD.
I wouldn't put too much faith in the popularity of languages on Google trends when they have names which are commonly used in english. For me, the headlines on the right hand side say it all:

Jeff Ruby asks OJ to leave business

Ruby on Rails 2.0 Released

JFK Documents Include Reported Ruby, Oswald Conversation

23-foot python found basking in sun

Former Olympic champion Ruby dies in climbing fall

Monty Python reunite

Only one of those is related to programming.
Atoms/symbols. Continuations.
I hate to get too Paul Graham-y on you, but it depends if this person is genuinely interested in your problem. 1-2% equity isn't going to solely motivate a talented engineer because that's unlikely to convert into life-changing money.
Exactly what I said. In a perfect world, nobody would buy internet service from a company that's not a dumb pipe, because this [1] wouldn't be in a consumer's best interest as opposed to a competing company that's a dumb pipe. And if things worked the way they were supposed to, if the industry colluded to cause this to happen, we could either break it up, or new players would enter the market, and people would flock to them, putting pressure on the other companies to stop being restrictive.

But there's a reason for the first word of my statement.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/5RrWm.png
There is no one-size fits all formula for this. Its what I did in the past and it had consequences I didn't dream of when I issued the shares. Here's a story of that company which shows how you can be wrong about the payroll comes first attitude:

Around '98, my company was me plus 8 employees. I was pushing hard to turn our model from a "consulting with a product model" to a full on product and platform business. This required taking some risks with our client base to enable us to invest in product R&D to make it ready for general consumption. We ended up with one client that year. They were a big-mother of a client and gave us access to a product strategy and acquisition if we pulled the job off. I became pushy with my client as we weren't getting to where I wanted to be quick enough. I finally lost my cool one day and the client told me he was through, get lost. This was going to cost him easily 20x what he had already paid to cut ties as his core product depended on us. But he was pissed off and I was pissed off and he could afford the big loss.

That same day, I went into the office after the client meeting and sat everyone down and told them our bleak outlook: we had enough payroll for 3 more months. The next day, each employee came to me individually and offered to work for free. Each one had a different story as to how long they could go without pay; 2 told me to quit paying them immediately.

They all acted like founders and I think its because I treated them like it.

This model probably doesn't scale well. But its an experience I'll never forget.
This is definitely one of my favorite speeches of all time. It's so inspirational, particularly for a young college student aspiring to be a great entrepreneur.

Too bad they couldn't find someone better than Anthony Kennedy for the '09 Commencement.
I will define "market" for you. A "market" is a set of human beings interacting with each other freely, voluntarily, and without coercion.

So, to say that "the market" will take care of something is equivalent to saying that a set of human beings interacting with each other freely, voluntarily, and without coercion will take care of it.
How about an "I have neither" option?
Well here's a place to start reading:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

This page on duplicate content might be appropriate:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...

In general, if your site does not present any original content then don't be surprised if it's delisted by any of the search engines. Also don't be surprised if the original source sends your ISP a take-down notice for copyright violations.
"The completely broken implementation of closures."

That's what the nonlocal keyword is for.
"of course not"

or maybe your experience with women has simply been much better than mine. I live in a very wealthy area, thus there are a lot of women looking for "good marriage material" around here.
What does "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" really mean?
A silver Barber dime minted in 1900 was 2.5 grams and 90% silver. That gives you $1.40 as of the close of market today, so you could basically buy half as much gasoline now as you could then.
I've been offering these kind of calculators for a while to students... but the department doesn't require a grad their homework. Is this college? What college department requires that sort of thing?
The point of gold-backed currency is to prevent the government from devaluing currency without the people's knowledge. When government does devalue currency by refusing to redeem, at least the people know it.

There is a continuum of choices of money in terms of preservation of value with the safest being the dealing directly in gold, next, dealing with private guarantees (the market "guarantees" value), government guaranteed (the guarantee is political action), and finally, government-issued fiat. The further down the continuum, the harder it's to determine devaluation and stop it.
I am a strong proponent of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". But most things start showing signs of brokenness long before they collapse. If you start working on something once it starts showing problems, you can usually head-off total collapses. It's BROKE when things START going wrong, not just when it collapses into rubble.
At Posterous we experienced a similar boost, but then over time it turned out that we spent enough time commuting and breaking up our days that it became a bother. It's important to have a central space where everyone can coordinate and plan, but beyond that, when you're about building product -- sometimes you just need quiet time alone to make things happen.

We switched to a 3-days-in-office, 2 days work from home schedule and that's turned out to be a big boon to productivity.
"Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking"

I can't decide if this is good or bad advice. How do you find the fine line between being ambitious, and being arrogant?
For what it's worth, I found the speed to be much faster than Google's street view.

Perhaps it matters where you live?
Opening studiobriefing.net was like watching time lapse photography of some butt-ugly flower blooming.
That's not the cause. I'm in Chicago right now. Street view navigation is smooth, quick and with a blur effect, while bing navigation is chunky, slow and has heavy shearing. Are you on windows? I'm not. It could be heavily optimized for windows.
To be fair, the record label profit is more like 1/3 of the revenue, not 100%. Still, compared to 10-15% less every expense imaginable, they make out far better (even on "unrecouped" bands) than the artists.
It can't really have proper Lisp macros with its current syntax.
Please see my response to jbooth.
I know, but how much is left of Rails without ActiveRecord? I think validations and forms depend on it.
It seems like there's vague consensus on first engineer equity. Are there any common rule-of-thumbs for Nth engineer (or Nth employee) equity?
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.

But governments are run by individuals, so saying that they aren't allowed to pass such-and-such a regulation means interfering with the individual's ability to run their government the way they see fit.

The notion of "absolute freedom" suffers a stack overflow if you actually try and think about it. Any action whatsoever, not merely government regulation, reduces the freedom of some people and increases it for others.
I don't see how that is relevant. You need to identify a target seed market at first. In Facebook's case, academia at Harvard was a good choice. I don't see a good reason why any of them had to go to Harvard to do that.
Yes. e.g., http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%2C+1%2C+2%2C+3%2C+5
OwnerIQ raises $5.8 M
When the fundamental design of the language is stacked against your style of working, the cognitive dissonance of using so many workarounds is a serious problem.

I just switched to Lua during the Python 2 to 3 transition, and I haven't looked back. Real closures and tail calls, no GIL, a vastly more tasteful design, a dead-simple C API, and the whole shebang is a tenth the size of Python.
MountainWest RubyConf 2010
Total Recall asks: what if we archived everything in our lives?
Talk proposals are also being accepted: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dERsdEVIc0FT...
I have 2 twitter accts; one is for a non-profit organization, one is personal. I don't have one for my company. I have a personal fb account, but, again, not for my company.

I'm not particularly good about keeping up with them.
While it's possible for gold to fluctuate in value, it's not as easy or common to change the value of gold as it is to manipulate the value of fiat currency. The whole point of a gold-standard is to make money a more durable store of value. The argument that gold is not perfect is irrelevant. It's like responding to an argument that you should stop smoking by saying that even non-smokers suffer health problems and die.
The problems have been discussion here already.

"being able to raise money" is just clearly a too easily fudged condition since you wouldn't want to regulate what was done with the money afterwards. They snuck the "accredited U.S.-based venture capital firm" phrase in without explanation when, as previously discussed here, accrediting venture capitalists is a far from easy task and quite possibly not desirable for the industry.

An alternative would be to liberalize the terms of the H1b Visa so that workers could come on an H1b and then start startups. It would give the H1b receiver more leverage, thus increasing their salaries and reducing complaint about H1b abuse - this way everyone wins ... well, except the many H1b abusers.
Wish they made the source code downloadable... It would be helpful for students who want to step through the code and actually see what is going on. http://algowiki.com offers some code, but it isn't all necessarily in Python.
> The notion of "absolute freedom" suffers a stack overflow if you actually try and think about it. Any action whatsoever, not merely government regulation, reduces the freedom of some people and increases it for others.

Yep. But this isn't neccessarily about 'absolute,' it's about "minimal as possible," at least in my eyes. As I said to someone below, I prefer to fix problems after the fact, rather than before, but I feel like this will almost certainly be a problem, so why not just cut to the chase?
on a limb: I would say the overlap of no-script to wolframalpha users is minimal / WolframAlpha has other bigger problems to fix first.
Where are the bells & whistles for Linux?
While I (think I) understand the heart of this sentiment, if you're going to be non-patriotic, you should still be pro-human rights to some degree.

If a corporation exploits workers (either at home or abroad), you shouldn't be happy about giving them your money.

I'm not certain I understand precisely your argument; I have the impression that you're referring to the sweatshops and similar? I wouldn't put "A minimum wage of $foo" under the header of "human rights", myself, which is why I think I'm missing your point a bit.

On the assumption that I understand it, however, and the primary complaint against these companies is that they pay their workers very little, I would like to ask: what other options do the companies actually have? Paying the workers anything like a first-world wage would probably cause all sorts of fun with inflation. Paying them a third-world wage is evil. Is the solution to just not have employees in (e.g.) China at all? (Honest question.)

But, again, I probably misunderstood your point.
I have had people tell me that I should not ever change modules once they are verified to work the way we need them, even during changes to systems for version++. They claim "If it ain't broke...". Such thinking is itself broken, I consider refactoring and adding functionality to keep up w/ specs to be fixing brokenness. The alternative is layers of cruft which is fragile and smelly, but preserves some core that is no longer adequate.
You may want to consider something like OpenID instead. http://openid.net/

I'm very (very,very) reluctant to use a ID for twitter, facebook, linkedin, etc., on a third-party site. Your site has to have gained some level of trust for me to do so. However, something like OpenID would provide that trust.
Hard to tell. If you ask me, I think that if the invention of modern warfare happened before the Thirty Year's War and the subsequent Peace of Westphalia (which created the modern West as we know it) then the Thirt Year's war would have been a lot bloodier and more violent, not unlike the current tribal wars in Africa but on the scale of the World Wars. Eventually someone would have won it but the West would have became a lot weaker than it is (due to the destruction and death toll), making the world a lot more multipolar.

This is, of course, worthless crystal ball history, but that's my two cents.
Speeding up the Green Card process is actually a better solution & also has the greater probability of happening vs granting a founders visa.
Well, I have no shares or commercial ties to Microsoft or Google :) and I did describe it as 'street view' to begin with...I certainly don't mean to imply it's anything other than a clone. Both have artifacts, I just like some minor technical aspects about the Bing offering but I'm not trying to sell it. I only posted it because Google hasn't had any competition for that functionality up to now.

I'm using Chrome in Win7 btw...I feel that with both Chrome (dev channel) and Silverlight the fact that you're on a Mac might explain the performance lag, seeing as neither company optimizes for that platform.
I sure wish those animations would loop. I guess I'll just cross my fingers and hope the engine is eventually featured on animatedengines.com!
I arrived at your home page and found nothing that indicates that it's any different than something like Delicious.com. This caused me not to register since I already have an account on Delicious.

I'd mention on your home page what makes your app different than your competition.
This is really a poor article. I can't claim to be 100% objective (worked at Microsoft last summer) but negative phrases like "doing unnatural actions to compete" and "suck the value" do seem to indicate bias.

That aside, the speaker makes no new or interesting points.
There seems to be a common thread among the suggested fixes. :)

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Agree. If we're talking about investing a huge chunk of my life on someone else's startup, a chance at life-changing money is just about the only thing that will do. %1 diluted in 2 follow-on rounds sounds good if we're talking about a chance at a very large exit, but otherwise you've got to be kidding.
the way I look at it, ambition is your own personal goal/view/desire (directed inward) . . . arrogance is when you push your ambitions on others (directed outward).
I like the look of it. Am I correct that the order the statements are in translates into the order things are evaluated in when the code is called?

If eg I edited it to be:

do { l <- locations;
w <- widgets;
guard (l `hasInStock` w);
s <- sprockets;
guard (l `hasInStock` s);
guard (w `isUsableWith` s);
return (w,s,l); }

Does that force it to go through "location-first" and only check the w and s of (w,s,l) for compatibility if it has already ascertained that w and s are in stock @ l?
You can download from http://www.blogcdn.com/videos/www.autoblog.com/897.flv then play in a loop using VLC. (Though yes, looping without faffing about would be great.)