skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My university does a similar thing, however while they sell the co-op pretty hard, they don't advertise on afternoon TV. I look at the co-op as an opportunity to get out, enjoy a break from classes while making money and gaining experience. I've spent 9 months of my co-op time at a national lab, doing research. As of now, it looks like I could go back there as soon as I've graduated. However, while it's very nice to have a job waiting, I'd say it's equally important that I had the opportunity to get out and do real research, get paid, and get published.
But this is not one of those instances, I'm all for what happened here.
Yes, but Direct2D is proprietary and Windows-only, and Silverlight has <50% adoption...
It might make for an interesting honeypot to catch thieves in the act. Where' Chris Hansen? (Oh, over on chatroulette.)
I want to Crowdsource my Marketing Campaign. What about you?
The interesting thing I've noticed with my grandparents and great-aunts/uncles as test cases is that it's not really universal. Both of my grandfathers are over 80.

One of them carefully writes down how many times he has to click on something (he can't ever remember whether to single or double click), doesn't really understand that he's not on a typewriter and can use the backspace, so all of his mistakes are still inline, is comfortable with email and not much more. His little sister, in her 70s, however, has more Facebook friends than I do.

My other grandfather, the older of the two (83), plays backgammon against random people on Yahoo Games, uses instant messaging, regularly buys stuff online, reads my blog and even asked me what Twitter was, commenting that, "It seemed like another kind of blog." When we first set up a company newsletter, he was the first subscriber. He still works most days and complains that he can't get DSL at his house and so he prefers to surf at the office.
You can not-vote. And if warranted, flag.
Well, he was just an intern. There's a big difference between interning, presumably returning to school, then starting a startup sometime later and getting acquired than quitting to start a startup and then getting acquired.
I'm having trouble with techcrunch feeds, but I can access the site as usual, with no delay, but keep in mind they have shortly changed their Host , and they've been hacked.
In my opinion the words "social" and "banking" should never go together. But that is just me. While I can appreciate the concept it is not something I could trust. I do however wish them the best of luck and do understand that it could become very popular since it is "social".
This is, honestly, absurd. Society depends on the internet? Sure, some people depend on the internet. And some companies. And some verticals.

But "depends" sounds to me like... without it, society will crumble or go through some dramatic metamorphosis. I find that... questionable to say the least. I don't remember much about the 1980s, I was 8, but I'm faily certain it wasn't the dark ages as it seems you're suggesting. Eliminate the internet off tomorrow, and society will carry on.

Eliminate motor vehicles? Electricity? Complete chaos.

The idea that it's some big problem because people can't differentiate between Facebook and some blog?

This is more myopic thinking. You're acting like if you're not on the internet you must either be amish or impoverished. Please.
It's very important to look at the time series, for the '60s were a special case of giving (male) students high enough grades so that they wouldn't flunk out and become eligible for the draft and service in Vietnam. I don't know about MIT's history of grading in that period, but I wouldn't be surprised if that happened.
And there I was thinking this game would never be released...
There is no spec work involved here. The only company doing any work for us is the one that we hire.
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omg for real? I wonder how much the beta invites are going to be going for on eBay.
It was PickledOnion (Paul) who made the claim about announcements coming in February. He was promoted to a management position (he refers to himself as their "GM" in this thread: http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=4348...) and appears to be the, or one of the key decision makers at Slicehost now. In that thread, he says that he accepts responsibility for Slicehost languishing during the course of the last year.
Can someone with recent GAE experience comment on how well it works these days? Any glaring problems, particularly with the JVM implementation? I plan to launch a Clojure web app in the next few months, and I'd love to avoid maintaining servers.
Full list: http://www.google.com/options/specialsearches.html
Congrats to the team but...

How can you say: "[Thanks to] Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh [who] endured my slide deck on our multi-step plan for global email domination, and pointed out that instead I should build something small, simple, and useful. It worked."

It worked so well that you kill the product? Or does "it worked" refer to the pay day + google job?
do well at Google and then to leave Google

You forgot the whole middle part where you have to burn the midnight oil working on your startup, raising $, seeing uncertainty written all over your adventure. Yes, even if you are an ex-Googler.
But there's a jarring half-second of confusion that disrupts my thinking, slows down my reading, and distracts me from what is being communicated.

I would suggest that it's your literalism (or, perhaps, if not grammar rabies, then at least excessive focus on it) that's the issue here, not the presence or absence of a punctuation mark in a transliteration of a song lyric.

The author may be guilty of not being conservative in what he sends, but your guilt, in not being liberal in what you accept, is, to me, much clearer.
Everyone says airlines cancel more flights in winter weather...but it's not true
As sorry as I am for those who are affected, I just do not see the relevance for this site. People die every day. People in startups die every day. Is this special because it is in the news, because it was a spectacular death?

Actually I find it highly questionable to draw attention to these kinds of incidents.
> In all seriousness - can you cut this out? You've got valid and good points, but adding snark/sarcasm doesn't help them.

Maybe I have a tin-ear, but the "keep it up" seemed genuine.
Gridspy monitors power usage in real time. My original plan was to effectively stream the live data through the database as it passed from collection (sensors) to display (on the website). The frequent writing to and polling of the database to keep data "live" was absolutely killing performance.

Now I have moved to a Twisted application that aggregates the data and does occasional writes into the DB. It can answer webserver queries for the latest data out of its internal datastructures and streams live data to the user's browser via Orbited

See http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/2009/09/database-meet... (the database side)

and http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/2009/10/realtime-data... (the whole application structure)

[I posted this on the original site too]
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For those hesitant to click: the site contains an out-of-print original Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics 1981 edition of "A Course in Universal Algebra" by Stanley N. Burris and H.P. Sankappanavar in PDF. Universal algebra is the use of set theory to study "algebraic structures" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_algebra
Oh! I misunderstood you. Yeah, I haven't had the pleasure of working with software that actually tracks individual costs on any kind of incremental schedule (like cost per dish per day).

I don't really know how you would solve that particular problem in software; it's more of a process problem. Restaurants differentiate from fast food in part by not serving precisely the same thing every time, so that makes it hard to track costs per dish very precisely, not to mention things like shrink. It's still possible to get a rough idea though, which is better than they're doing now.

Avero looks pretty sexy, I'll check into it a bit more. Thanks for the link.
I put in $10,000.00, and it came back w/ receipts for ~$4500 in yellow toner and ~$3500 in Air-In-A-Can.

How would one defend this during an audit? "We had a company wide chicken-colored, jet paper airplane contest. The paper we already had on hand, we just needed to pickup the coloring and the jets"
Well despite being a very sad event, it affects many people here - Power is out all over Palo Alto.
And here I thought they were going to rename the project "Starcraft Forever".
Better article:

http://www.mercurynews.com/business-headlines/ci_14416855

This is depressing.
Really?
This is the first I've heard that shipping stuff to those 3rd world countries like Australia means that lots is stolen. Our country can't seem to do anything right lately.
Ah, now I get it. Palo Alto = Silicon Valley. Ok, that explains the attention.
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I liked the definition of "transient data" - I've been promoting Redis for that kind of thing but I didn't have the vocabulary to explain what I meant (I've been staying "stuff like stats and counters"). Defining transient data as being frequently written, infrequently read is useful too.
Wow, for an operating system written in C, that's a lot of assembly! (Apparently, unix was actually re written in C a little later.)

Interesting to see the implementation of something like printf though: http://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/source/browse/trunk/src/...
It's clear that Buzz has been a major mis-step for Google. Perhaps they should just pull it temporarily and solicit comments on how they should do it next time?
A few days ago, one of the top threads was "Crime in America keeps going down, yet the American public refuses to believe it"

It's very much a human thing, getting shocked about relatively small but vivid tragedies.
I dropped out after 10th grade and went on to Iowa State. They had an 'exceptional student' admission clause, and I suspect most universities do. I'd taken summer classes there for a few years and had a professor write a recommendation, that combined with SAT scores seemed to be more than enough.

It worked out great for me, whereas high school was not going so well for me socially. I lived at home the first semester and then moved in with some friends. I'd recommend it for a mature 15 year old. But looking back, even for me, the situation could have gone either way depending on who I met at that point.
I'm not sure shutting down a product and hiring the founder(s) should be classed as an 'acquisition'.

It's just a recruitment with a golden hello really.

These seem to be getting more and more common lately.
The difference is that Slicehost includes bandwidth and Rackspace doesn't. One or the other may be cheaper depending on how much bandwidth you use.
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Awesome! It's a pitty that it's Windows only though, but I'm sure they will work it out for Mac before the release.

During this phase a Mac version will NOT be available, please check back.
If I were given a chance to do it over, I think I'd beg to be allowed to unschool for k-12, and then go to university. University was where it started getting relevant/interesting (to me, anyway).

I'm not knocking education in itself, just... so much time wasted while the teacher organizes things, disciplines people, and they managed to take interesting subjects and make them utterly boring.

There are probably great schools out there, but the 7 different schools I went to were not very inspiring.
Personally, I wouldn't move to work for a big company like Google after running a successful startup like this unless I had to as part of the deal. Not because Google is evil, but because you lose your independence. I wonder if that was part of the deal.
The part about how so much of web application development is just translating data from one format into another, and how objects just get in the way of that process, really struck home with me. With Google's key value store mapping directly to Clojure structs, which are then handed off to the HTML generation code or converted into JSON, it's clear that including a step to map to objects somewhere in there is totally superfluous. Which is exactly what I find in developing web applications in Java on a daily basis.
On2 shareholders approve Google merger
Wow, and I just thought people were tweeting content free information. Now I know it's actually harmful.
I wasn't trying to sound offensive. Wanted to soft pitch you something easy to hit because I hadn't heard of Fluther before and as long as you're disclaiming, it would be helpful to know what you're about.

I'm curious about your use of Google custom search, especially given your size. You don't think something more tailored would work better?

All in all, looks like a friendly community, which is no easy feat at scale.
The post from Avand was largely hyperbole and headline-grabbing, and your reponse here is little better either. Calling-out other posters as "a joke" does nothing to foster rational debate.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1375034#post1375034

Seems (according to one, at least) many shareholders were against the merger, but the corporate leadership managed to push it through.
This has vast potential in the language-learning space for people wanting to break into foreign literature.

I'm currently learning a language, and at times I get bogged down in long-winded sentences until someone (kindly) lays out the sentence structure in this type of a format. Then it all makes sense (and is a great aid in learning). No English required.
What is YN?
I feel really sorry for the people who don't have the patience to wait a bit more and fork out large amounts of money to participate in beta. Clearly the final product will provide a lot more polished experience. They're giving up a lot of fun for some bragging rights.
I assume the plan is to integrate his product into mobile Gmail. His product will die, but all of those ideas will live on.
People hate change a lot more than they hate inefficiency!
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By far the best one:
http://www.google.com/ie
Yeah, this was a really interesting read. In my experience, power-law distributions seem to more accurately describe more of the world than bell-curves. Yet we seem to have better tools for working with bell curves (at least in my highly limited experience working with statistics).
Is Google trying hire back every engineer or intern who left it?
I've been thinking of getting a windows PC together to play this. Am I likely to be happy if I use a newish Mac Mini?
:)
Fixed it. I always screw up HN with the YC logo and call it YN.
Retweet.com is selling itself on Flippa
Great set of slides - I wish I could have heard the talk live. I did add his company's blog to my RSS/Atom feed.

I would like to spend more time with both Clojure and AppEngine and the slides were some motivation. I am still a little skeptical however that Clojure base web apps will ever have the traction of Rails (I had a 5 hour sprint today to add two major features to a customer's rails web app: would have taken a long time to do with server side Java; I would guess that Clojure would split the difference).

I've bought 3 Clojure books, and I would by a 4th if the author of these slides would write a web app specific Clojure book.
I'm not part of this beta, and I wouldn't pay $300 for a key either, but I've participated in Blizzard's betas before, and I have to say there is something kind of special about it. I'm not just talking about bragging rights... it's about playing when everything is unknown. By the time the game comes out, strategies from the beta will already be well-known. Things change, not only over time, but as Blizzard makes changes, but never quite as fast as in the beta.
When is linode getting cheaper? I've been paying the same price for three years. I'd love to upgrade.
You can log into your battle.net account. If you are in it lets you download the beta. There don't seem to be CDkeys because it's tied to your battle.net account.

No one has gotten emails yet.
People don't need to type the url. Wikipedia is already installed as a search engine on Firefox's search box (and maybe in IE?). Eventually users will learn to use it.

Crome's omnibox search also takes users to wikipedia without visiting google. They could show ads in the omnibox, but the space and user experience is more limited.

And don't forget that most sites don't get all their referrers from Google, so users are getting there via another way. Some of those are indeed direct traffic, without an intermediary.
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I agree that MS is going to find it increasingly hard to compete against Apple and Google.

But the logic in the article is insane:

Microsoft is so big that its new Windows Phone operating system has almost no chance of making enough money to move the needle anyway. So it might as well join rival Google in giving it away for free, in an effort to drive up device sales and market share.

That's just stupid. For any big company, if you divide up their product line, most of the products will amount to only a small portion of revenue. Then we could apply this logic to each of those products in turn, and pretty soon that company will be giving everything away and getting no revenue.

Ball Corp. makes most of its money through glass jars and stuff, and only makes a fraction of its income through its Ball Aerospace subsidiary. I don't think you'd expect them to give away satellites.
If it's anything like past betas (Warcraft 3), there will be leaked copies and pirate servers set up.
These noSql people are missing the point of relational modeling, that you can easily incrementally evolve your data model. It's why object databases never caught on.

SQL databases are absolutely beautiful and elegant when you think of them in terms of the codd relational model, in my opinion the best thing that computer science has produced so far.

The only limitation of relational databases currently is their lack of automatic infinite horizontal scaling on commodity servers, but hopefully someone will solve that soon.
Everytime I hear about a startup being acquired by Google I think of http://suicidefood.blogspot.com/. As the ultimate goal of the startup seems to be, being devoured.
I'm curious. 'a recruitment with a golden hello really' means that they had an offer of acquisition but with a 'you have to work for us' clause?
It's my understanding that he was full-time at Google before joining Xobni; the "as an engineering intern in 2004" refers to the start of his career there, and he came back as a fulltimer afterwards.
I have used both DV and GS. DV for clients and GS for personal use. Both horrible.

For dedicated servers I used hostgator. It was good, but they can't match the price of Slicehost/Linode VPS price (last time I checked).

To be honest, unless you are running a HUGE project (a la digg/reddit/twitter), slicehost/Linode type VPS are more than enough. You can start small and slowly scale as you get bigger. Their largest VPS will meet the needs of most medium sized web business out there.
The Microsoft and Linux search "special" searches definitely predate the CSE product. Not sure how long they've been around for, but they're really, really old.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_korea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche

We can see this in action.
Oooh look at the gotos
I've never seen objective marketer before. I'm looking for tools that can let me test my marketing on real people before i actually jump into it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1132756 . Do you know if anything like that exists?
I have more where that came from.
looks great and simple, is it just a for fun or do you plan to make money with it? if so, how?
Don't forget friendfeed.

http://friendfeed.com/about/team
An interesting note, On2 provides one of the codecs that Flash supports for video.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video#Codec_support
Isn't that part of getting acquired? You typically don't get acquired by other startups (they don't have money), and you typically get far less of a payout if you don't work for the acquirer afterwards (they want the talent that built the software in addition to the software itself).
You're only forced to use 64 bit userspace on slicehost if debootstrapping a 32 bit chroot and replacing the root filesystem with it live is too scary. :)

The real nice thing about linode is they allow running your own custom linux kernel.
Considering Flash's migration from VP6 to H.264, the glut of codecs on the market, and the fact that VP8 is neither open nor standard, Google's $100M+ offer seems quite generous.
Yes. People go off, try new things, then get acquired and brought back into the mothership to incorporate their experiment. Its a very valid model of R&D.
I'd say so, we get a bit of lisp in AI and some C systems programming later which are done right, with more focus on the concept than the language.
It's just the initial Java classes which place a lot of emphasis on the language rather than the concepts.
FriendFeed got acquired by the competition, which is probably far worse from Google's perspective.

If you're just counting startups founded by Xooglers, you'd have to include Twitter and Cuil as well.
I believe axod's point is that an acquisition on this scale may simply amount to a signing bonus, rather than what investors might consider a substantial exit.

Since he is shutting down the original project, and terms are not disclosed, it's entirely possible that he simply became tired of running it, applied for Google, interviewed and was hired.

I'm not saying that I necessarily agree, but you had asked for clarification.
I think it's more like Yahoo!Answers
Although it should be noted that much of the editorialized parts of the story seem to have been added quite a bit after it was submitted. The article is currently 2-3x as long as when I first read it. At least don't blame the OP.
Computer science is more similar to math than the physical sciences, if one of these two had to be chosen from.
Watchdog says Google Buzz 'breaks privacy laws'
There's no mention of any future for the ideas, even vague NDA-friendly ones. That's the issue.
http://www.wikihow.com/Read-a-Clock
The type of engineers who "do well at Google" tend to do that anyway. The risk is a bit less, but the workload is just as high, and (depending upon your project) the uncertainty can be too.
I may have misunderstood you, but isn't a node with a lot of outgoing links said to be a hub and a node with a lot of incoming links said to be an authority ?

source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITS_algorithm
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Do you think Google would fake an acquisition though? It's hard to imagine for a company of that stature and those means.
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I just used the old trick of taking a snapshot of the nearest intersection, and the view from there to my car.

Then, in the morning, I'd shake off my hangover, peel myself off whoever's couch I was on, and go forth in search of my mighty steed, trying not to vomit along the way.

Uphill both ways, of course.
Can open source design actually work? I'm trying to find out
Google probably wants to ensure that Android phones have the best GV integration. At some point, as we saw with Buzz, Google will start leveraging other popular services to compete. It's inevitable. Google Voice can be a killer app and could sell a ton of first party Google phones.
Have noticed this as well, I wonder what it's hosted on.