skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a ridiculous article. The downsides of web apps on the iPhone are painfully obvious and have been pointed out by the other commenters. Anyone who has tried to use web apps on the iPhone knows they are not ideal.
I don't read John's post as an accusation of wrongdoing. He's just pointing out something that price-conscious consumers would want to know about.

Bountii is much more powerful than Froogle & Bing because prices aren't just X in one store and Y in another store. Bountii is all about helping price-conscious consumers get the deals most people don't find. Good for them for raising awareness of this new kind of price discrimination.
> There have been absolutely no pending efforts to repeal Reg D and it is insane to do it, at least from the standpoint of startups and their investors.

Sanity and law have only a passing acquaintance.

> The only thing could guess is that Senator Dodd is trying to slip this in as a favor to the trial lawyers.

Or maybe he's trying to get money from VC funds and others that would be impacted.

Tne game is roughly "If I scare them, they'll pay money to talk with me."

Dodd is in a serious reelection fight. He took serious favors from Countrywide Mortgage in return for looking the other way during the start of the housing crisis. (His current defense is that he thought that everyone was on the "friends of Angelo" list when it came to mortgages, Angelo being the name of the president of CM at the time.)
I hope this will be my chance to get my first Arduino. Cool!
First, and most importantly, you could be wrong. Unless you really believe that, don't do anything.

Second, learn from the politicians. They never make mistakes: you have to get rid of the subject of the sentence: it's not "you made mistakes" it's "mistakes were made" Never have a conversation with somebody about what "they" did. But always have conversations about "what happened" This is another point that if you don't get, be silent.

Finally, go with principles and data, not personalities and opinions. If you admit you might be wrong, and perhaps mistakes were made, the logical next step is to ask to collect data on a couple of theories. Who knows what the data might show? The real question is not who is right or wrong, it's whether you want to collect more data from a different hypothesis. After all, we're all open-minded, right?
Thanks for bringing the nice t-shirts to Startup Weekend!
Something like this happened to me today. I noticed a floating menu that worked fine in Firefox and Safari didn't work in (wait for it) IE. After about three hours, I discovered that the JavaScript for the menu needed a CSS top attribute to work with; FF/Safari set it to 0 by default, but IE apparently needs an explicit value. Three hours, one line:

#navtool {
top: 0;
}

But it works, and that's what really matters.
Every single store you shop at pays an extra 1-2% when you make a purchase with that card. Reward cards result in a higher discount fee for the merchant to cover the rewards the bank pays out.
I always support the local business especially when dealing with something like flowers. If the local shop costs more, I can just send half a dozen instead of a dozen flowers. This is unlike electronics where you can't take home half an HDTV and are forced to shop at the big box stores.
> That cutoff might seem generous in, say, Eureka, whereas in San Francisco a $70k household income is nothing to write home about.

There are costs and benefits to living in both Eureka and SF. It's unclear why someone who gets the benefits of living in SF should get a boost over someone who doesn't.
It appears on Microsoft's quarterly financials as "income from overcharging partner customers"...? Unlikely.
"The new synthesis should embrace specific interventions that all sides agree have merit, while also borrowing from an important insight of the aid critics: trade is usually preferable to aid."

I am happy to see the above remark. I makes me feel like "There may be hope for the world yet." Having done a lot of volunteer work, therapy for my own personal issues....etc, ad nauseum... I have concluded that heroics and "saviors" typically cause more problems than they solve. For example, welfare and many other programs require recipients to psychologically identify themselves as pathetic enough to merit such help and actively encourage them to keep failing in some significant way so as to continue to qualify for aid. The harm to identity and self esteem and the bad habits they encourage are likely to cause long-term harm in the form of learned helplessness.

A couple of good books with relevant points:

Diet for a Small Planet -- One of the points it makes is that foreign aid to prevent starvation often comes in the form of foreign foods which cannot be grown locally and therefore aren't locally sustainable or economically viable once the locals are hooked on them.

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed -- In essence, this explores some of the problems with top-down solutions and how unrealistic they so frequently are.
I'm not a cryptography expert but it seems like it would be possible to come up with a scheme where I don't have to provide my cc number to the merchant so they couldn't turn around and sell it. Maybe the merchant could provide a key that I could hash my cc number with and then Visa/Mastercard would verify it for a one-time or recurring charge.
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"We found the experience far more comfortable than the one we had with the Telegraph, though fatigue from magnetic waves is inevitable in the use of each."

What cause this mysterious belief?
You're hasty applying the troll label, and slow to support any of your arguments.

As I mentioned above, "It's not given that this is better for newspapers than open search engine access, nor that this preserves the production of "beneficial" news."

Can you explain why media companies "greatly benefit" from being excluded from major search engines? Can you show why this means that "beneficial" investigative journalism continues, increasing the overall welfare of citizens moreso than open access for search engines? For that matter, can you show that newspapers do more "long form" and expose more government corruption than bloggers do in aggregate? What if newspapers accept this deal and transition to more "blog" articles and fewer "investigative" articles, leaving citizens with "no" investigative articles and no single search destination?

Being first mover doesn't give you the right to assert every piece of your argument.
Immigration policies have toughened up in recent years but coming from Canada it shouldn't be a problem.

Developers/administrators are needed in all major cities but I think Amsterdam would be your best bet. It's the most international city and certainly has to offer most culturally.

I don't know how Canadian taxes compare to those in Holland but in general taxes here are pretty high. You'll get quite a bit in return though.

I'll refer you to a recent article in the NY Times that details on the experiences of an US expat in Holland: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/magazine/03european-t.html...
The problem with the editor is that it gave people the impression that Heroku was a toy, which is what I thought when I tried it.

I retried it 2 months ago and saw it is definitely not a toy. I think it rocks. I love that recent article with the headline 'you have to be an idiot not to use Heroku'.
This argument only makes sense if we're talking about the release of IE7. But this is IE9!

Doesn't IE7 contain this bass-ackwards compatibility? Doesn't IE8? Why must IE9 continue this? Tell people to use IE8 if they must, IE7 if they absolutely must, and IE6 if they're completely stuck. But do not curse yet another IE to be full of "get out of jail free cards" for lazy web developers.
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Only on HN: Bill Gates doing product support
The article conflates selling marketing info with credit card numbers. Selling my marketing info (name, demographics & email) to companies who want to advertise to me is annoying, but not deeply wrong. Passing on my credit card number so a 3rd party can charge me for stuff I never wanted is deeply wrong. Credit card acquirers used to self-regulate that sort of thing, but clearly many of them are in on the swindle.

Is there software that warns me about devious business practices, similar to anti-Phishing software? I'd install something that highlights & explains fine print or deceptive practices that have burned people in the past. I'd pay for a version that protected my kids. They're cautious about scammy offers, but it sucks that I had to teach them about it.
This sounds like release early, release often only in house. Pixar would be another good example of this; they storyboard the whole movie and other employees "watch" it with in house voice acting it until it's good enough to animate.
It doesn't work: many companies are already at the bottom of that tar pit.
Data from last year: http://googleretail.blogspot.com/2009/11/happy-monday-import...
It also included compilers and, specifically to the problem the user called in about, a linker. Compilers and linkers are no simple matter to support, particularly in those days.
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I wasn't privy to any actual sales data when I worked at Amazon, but anecdotally it seemed that while there was a real, reasonable bump on "Cyber Monday", Black Friday itself was huge (it probably helped that we had Black Friday sales!) and so was Thanksgiving Day (when I guess families would talk about all the shopping they would do the next day when stores were open and take out their laptops to try and get an early start)
Is it maybe a kind of combo lock with http://www.isotf.org/?page_value= ?
Thanks for the link. Dug around a bit and from what I can tell they are pretty similar. Object databases have been referred to as hierarchical databases (I.e. XML data), many of the key-value databases being touted in the past couple of years seem hierarchical to me, only with some additional indexing and query language packaged on top (which you could add yourself with Lucene or Sphinx I would assume).

I must be missing something, but I'll keep digging.
I don't think it's a slam on developers - I've hit and played outfield, and I know what each side feels like. It's not that developers wants to ship bad software, but haven't you ever avoided running a test because you're afraid of opening a can of worms? QA wants to open that can. There's a perverse glee in seeing all the worms get out.

When a new bug is found (a good one, not BS indentation) then QA has a justifiable joy in finding it before it got to the customer. The developer may also be devoted to quality, but doesn't your heart sink a little when you see a new bug? Overall you both want to ship good product, but your minute-to-minute motivations are just different.
I'm from the Netherlands and can recommend you to settle down in Amsterdam. There are a lot of tech startups/companies located there which have more interesting jobs than the local consultancy branches of big international corporations. If you can't find interesting jobs in Amsterdam there are various cities within a very reasonable distance such as Utrecht (25 min by train).

Some companies offer opportunities to work from home for 1 day a week.

Personally I'm a little bit jealous on the tech communities of other countries. They tend to have more interesting jobs and companies than over here. Search on crunchbase for some of the startups in Holland. Else you will most likely end up in some consultancy job or web design agency, which is fine, but it has to be your thing. For linux sys admins Amsterdam is also perfect since the majority of big hosting companies in Europe have servers in some datacenter in Amsterdam.

There are some ruby meetups around Amsterdam too as far as I'm aware, you might want to search for amsterdam-rb.
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You should also look into the '30% tax ruling'

Basically the employer can reimburse the extra territorial costs of the employee tax free. To be able to do this the employee must hand over all the receipts and the employer must check and approve them. This can lead to a lot of work, especially if more employees are in a similar situation. To make it easier employer and employee can request the tax office (foreign tax office in Heerlen) to grant the 30% ruling to the employee for his activities for the employer. This way the employer can, once granted, pay out a tax free allowance of (roughly said) 30% of the salary of the employee. The 30% allowance will be included in the salary in such way that the costs for the employer will not be higher, while the employee has a higher net salary.
This looks cool, but I have one question: what is the source of the Ruby 1.9 dependency? I'd love to use this on a couple apps I host at Heroku, but they're on 1.8.6.
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While I grant that the ML family of languages implements some truly brilliant ideas, ...

... blog posts like this remind me why I love Tcl/Tk and shell scripting.

It is embarrassing, but I always prefer the raccoon to the panda bear.
Me too. I'm not even sure what that means. Are you supposed to apply the gamma function?
My friend sometimes visits Holland for some projects. He manages development works here in İstanbul / Turkey and goes to Holland to deploy their solutions on the clients sites. He's mainly an expert on DB-systems and seems satisfied with that job because he keeps on doing it for years. I don't know anything more about Holland.
The page contains no form or JS, so entering the digits won't actually do anything. Clearly we are dealing with some sort of joke.
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I think you missed my point. I'm all for investing for your kids future and think it would be a lot easier and more efficient to do so if you didn't have to save up to pay their exorbitant college fees as well.
I think I will need a botnet to fill that form...Anyone renting?
Back in the late 70's or early 80's I was leading a group that did compilers and assemblers for the microprocessor group. We had a problem with one of the compilers from Microsoft. I called up technical support and got Paul Allen on the line. Whatever the problem was he got it solved. If you want technical support, it's best to get the technical guy,
I agree with you 100%. However, I think that articles should be flagged as "edited" with a reference to who did the edit. Its a matter of openness.
Unlimited live streaming television was one of the selling points of the Samsung Instinct from Sprint in the US.

Six months later they cut back the free channel lineup so there's nothing interesting to watch.
Production costs. Production costs and the type of customer make a big difference. Casual/Social gamers are, by and large, easy to please. You can spend $1 million on development and get $10 back. Not so with console game development.
I still don't understand the point of the page, but you're right that (1/2)! can be expressed in terms of the gamma function: (1/2)! = Γ(3/2) = √π/2. As usual, Wolfram Alpha knows all:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%281%2F2%29%21
"Being first mover doesn't give you the right to assert every piece of your argument."

I'm not. You're just playing devil's advocate. The way you are responding, you have no interest in actually debating the idea.

Can you explain why media companies "greatly benefit" from being excluded from major search engines?

First of, Microsoft is providing an option for beleaguered newspapers. More options is universally better than less options right?

Second, they're getting cash. And the newspaper companies (struggling with shrinking advertising and layoffs) are seriously considering the cash. So it seems the media thinks that cash is more beneficial.

Can you show why this means that "beneficial" investigative journalism continues, increasing the overall welfare of citizens moreso than open access for search engines? For that matter, can you show that newspapers do more "long form" and expose more government corruption than bloggers do in aggregate?

Yes. I'm not sure how to exactly prove this in an excel spreadsheet for you.

What if newspapers accept this deal and transition to more "blog" articles and fewer "investigative" articles, leaving citizens with "no" investigative articles and no single search destination?

Completely irrelevant to the argument at hand. Microsoft would have no hand in this.
Returned. I love the discussion and environment we have here, which is why I keep returning. A bit more openness would be good.
Sick benefits mean: if you convince a doctor you are too sick to work, you can stop working and the insurance company pays your salary indefinitely instead. As you might imagine, some people try to take a long paid vacation this way using vague subjective illnesses like depression. So insurance companies really do have to defend themselves from fake claims and malingering. I dunno about this case, but in general you can appreciate why they have to try to catch fakers.
Pretty pretty pretty please do. Arduinos are really fun. If you get one, get the ethernet module for it at well (or, in arduino parlance: the ethernet shield).

Last night, I finally got my ethernet module working the way I wanted it to...it seriously felt like the first time I glanced into a compiler back before I was even a teenager...it was sooo fun. I'm sure I annoyed more than one of my friends emailing about it at 2:00am. :-P

This is the project I was doing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMAunBsv3xA

Seriously seriously seriously get one. They are a lot of fun :).

This was another one I did: http://www.gibsonandlily.com/blog/permalink.cgi?blog_id=74
Google and openid providers should host captchas and keep track of pass rates. Im getting sick of doing 5 captchas on stackoverflow every time I ask and revise a question. I've easily done several hundred of them, im not a bot for chissake.
I commented below with a couple of projects I have done, but this would be my suggestion:

Get an Arduino

Get an ethernet shield for it

Get an LCD screen

Get some servos (or scavenge them from old RC stuff if you have it).

Get LOTS of those little jumper wires, they're really helpful.

That should be ~$100...and will keep you entertained for a while (at least it has me) :).
If they aren't evaluating disposable income per child, they aren't really means-testing, and I can't think of any other reason they should care about income at all (as opposed to granting merit scholarships or something).
I disagree. I showed the original article to several friends of mine who are in no way hackers and had no idea who Paul was and they all felt that it was a very good, thoughtful article.
It isn't very funny.
I calculated the first 10 million digits of E:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/59605/ten_million_e.txt

However, the digit sequence I was looking for didn't appear :-(

Looks like it would require a massive amount of computing power (or a much better algorithm than mine) to solve this.
Well whaddyaknow. I wasn't aware of this. (I don't actually develop iPhone apps, I'm just a user.)
Didnt Facebook just recently break this number?

Not very many in the user-game!
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I understand that the LHC will help answer some physics questions, but is all this expense and effort going to contribute to any practical technology gains? Will it help us find new energy sources? What will we actually get out of it??
If 3,000 people paid $1 a month…
The key lesson is the last sentence:

"He knows that just because we can add something to the game, doesn't mean we should."
Whhhhhhhhhhhhy XML? When are people going to realize that XML is quite possibly the bulkiest way to write data?

[edit] Posting doesn't keep returns or spaces? :(

http://pastie.org/712151
Another funny story from my days as a Microsoft intern.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7vkpi/whats_the_w...
I'm interested why the journalist added the dynamic at the end of the article, when stellar performers like Sid are contrasted against mediocre or non-performers like the junior designer. The implication Sid is the bad guy because he is deflating many careers.

It does really suck when you work the hardest you can, fail, and you find out there is someone who is just so much better than you who consistently beats you. It often does create a caustic culture and a risky business environment where the company is overly reliant on one person and has no one else on the bench when the Truck Number gets called in.

But, one could easily argue that holding stellar performers back from expressing their talents is worse since they are just so much better. Could you imagine a world without Civilation because it made some people feel inadequate?
Maybe its a rephrase but:

Currently the App Store is a benevolent dictator. I don't care how much lipstick they put on the pig, I want free speach. I don't care if that means 10% of apps will have a flag "may be spyware or inappropriate" but I want those apps distributed! EVEN if those apps help violate apple's own license terms. I want the courts to decide who takes shit down, not apple. Apple is a company whereas the courts are government.
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The author is quoting from an article he wrote in 2003.
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Easy to understand and use, I just don't see how this would be useful? Or why I would use it.
Really? Fall or Spring? We might have been in the same class!
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seesmic has strayed away from their video product for a while. they're focused on twitter clients and such now.
A few points:

1) Real tables go a lot slower than online poker.

2) Relying on pre-flop premium hands is bad deep-stack no limit strategy. No one is going to pay you off big when you've just got top pair.

3) What would be the point of rigging Zynga poker? They have exactly one method through which they pay out (the prize for the Shootout tournament), and they fix the rate at which they pay out there.

4) You can always find a small number of users testifying to the occurrence of statistically-unlikely events. Compare with testing for ESP in the presence of random guessers: with a large pool, someone will get lucky.
The article only talks about how tuition hikes affect the very poor and the very rich. But what about the middle class?

If the distribution of parental household income is normal, then wouldn't hikes significantly hurt a large portion of college students; i.e. the ones who aren't receiving aid and whose parents aren't rich?
We are where we are now by trying to "answer some physics questions". Imagine if humans had not done a single thing that didn't seem to them to have a practical application at that point.