skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understand based on 'The Intelligent Investor'[1] which Buffett highly recomends, Rule 1 means that any money you lose (say $100), is not just the money lost ($100), it is also the opportunity cost (so you lose > $100) of having turned that money into something greater. So losing money, even a small amount is really really bad.

Rule 2 just emphasizes this.

IIRC 'The Intelligent Investor' has graphs of various scenarios above. This is just my understanding though, I don't remember it being explicitly stated.

The first time I read this I thought, ok, that a sounds cool but does it really mean anything or is it just meant to be catchy, but now I think I get it.

Also, I remember reading (I think it was one of his old letters to shareholders[2]), I remember him stating that if there is a year in which a year in which the DOW loses 40% and his portfolio loses 20%, and another year in which the DOW gains 30% and his portfolio gains 30%, he would consider the first to be a better year.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligent_Investor
[2] http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
At what point did Sam take part in a bribe? His response seems to have been a genuine mix of confusion, shock and "I assume this is a joke right?". Ultimately he went to arrington when it was clear the idea of a bribe was serious.

How else should he have reacted?
Half a Century of Crappy Computing
The way Ballmer brings up how is family is "all Microsoft products all the time" scares me on some level. It just seems kinda creepy for a CEO to repeat that about every product.
Just curious, but how did you come up with 4.74 rating? Is there some place that I'm not looking to get that info?
Even more surprising: For a while I had a bug where the free version had unlimited uses, making it the same as the full version. People were still buying the full version. Didn't notice the bug for months because it barely affected sales.
Authorities bust 3 in infection of 13M computers
There is actually a lot of research into this area (game theory). And for a surprising number of situations the best and most stable strategy is somewhat random. EX: Throwing a fastball vs curve ball where the odds of hitting each depend on which was expected.

While it's clearly not a stable strategy if everyone did the same thing it's actually fairly hard to consistently beat a basket of randomly chosen stocks. Which is why I think rating stocks based on their relative value for your goals and then randomly picking a basket of them is probably the best and most stable strategy. (Excluding inside information.)
So long as you don't plan on lumping them all together into one big amorphous news website that tries to cater to all tastes but has no real editorial focus or voice. Give them tools to find / understand / build their own audience.

Sounds like you're on the right track there though.
The article seems a little biased to me:

For Google:
Revenue - Optionally opt for Google checkout, which has been a mediocre product so far.

For Facebook:
Revenue - Optionally opt for Facebook payments. Early, but we’ve seen good results in their alpha and their team has been very responsive.
Very good point. Perhaps we'll know someday what happened.
> I'm a bit confused about your last sentence. Are you saying that the dev OSes will cause more outages, but we can automated that they won't be major?

I am saying that the "dev OSes" (really, I just meant Linux), if not automated, are difficult to manage. However, in a "worse is better" sense that means there's wealth of operations tools available for them (e.g., puppet, chef, bcfg2). Linux administrators are extremely used to working with these tools and developing their own.

At present web-scale (i.e., no longer a few Ultra-2s for front-end and an E10K for database) if there's no automation, outages are going to happen as result of routine failures (e.g., database master -- or Hadoop namenode -- goes down, there's no automation to fail it over).

ZFS snapshots are awesome (I've had a chance to deploy a project to a Solaris environment with ZFS -- and snapshots meant much less worries about data loss). Unfortunately, the only choices for ZFS are FreeBSD and Solaris (I wouldn't try ZFS-Fuse). However, FreeBSD provides no easy way to do many things automatically that are possible in Linux (e.g., no fully un-attended installation, although that's less of a problem with virtualization). Solaris has issues of its own and unfortunately, presently, the biggest issue isn't even technical.
How To Build A Ship in a Bottle
Doesn't work right here on Safari on Mac OS X either. Might have to do with my ClickToFlash plug-in or something, but overall I have not noticed issues elsewhere.

Also, Flash takes up insane amount of resources. The built-in PDF reader I have works perfectly.
I don't think this works the way you think it does.
have you tried "how to design programs"? http://www.htdp.org/

i haven't used it, but i think it's aimed at this kind of problem (where to apply them and how to architect your program).
Eerily familiar.

As well as making the developer's life a misery, the ÜberApplication can mean a slow death for your company as you can't sell components separately - it's all or nothing.
Google Handing Out Free Nexus Ones And Droids To Top Android Devs
Facebook Revenues Up to $700M, On Track Towards $1.1B
This stood out, negatively:

Since Cassandra uses Apache Thrift as the default RPC mechanism, exposing the Thrift layer to any non-controlled data can be dangerous. We use firewalls on our nodes to make sure our Thrift ports are only exposed to a very small set of machines, because even just telneting into the port and typing "hello" can cause the JVM to OOM.

--

I use Redis and heavily guard its telnetable port, but it doesn't OOM. This issue should have been fixed before public release, imo. You wouldn't want something as simple and common as a port scan to shutdown your data layer.
Ask HN: Chrome Can't Make Attachments in GMail?
Using latest Chrome browser with Ubuntu 9.10. I've tried 100 times to send an email in GMail with an attachment. The email sends fine every time - but WITHOUT an attachment?

How do you make a web browser that doesn't work with your web services?

Anyone else experiencing this?
Construction workers dress for safety / function not for fashion. It's like saying I will be a fashionable doctor in the ER.
Lean Manufacturing and Thought Experiments (Ingite Presentation Slides)
I'll give it a shot. Luckily I have one other ex-pro poker player in the office with me :)

Unfortunately from a gambling perspective, 2 rounds of betting would probably preclude this from catching on. The only game I can think of with that is 5 card draw, and nobody's played that in years.
Google created the android platform to drive forward technology and openness on the mobile. As long as people can use Google search, access GMail, and most importantly view Google ads, I doubt it's a big deal to Google.
It's kind of eerie to read this. What you've described is exactly how the nerds felt in your high school.

When they got to college, they found a social group that would accept them without them having to pretend to like the things they don't care about. Apparently that's a bad thing.
The updates to Android are pushed by the carrier, not Google.
pg and others have repeatedly said that persistence is a vital trait for a successful founder to have: http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html.

My own experience is that persistence is extremely important. If I were to give you (I mean, your friend) advice, I would say that he needs to work his way up to being persistent for a lot longer than three weeks. Three years seems like a bare minimum.

Having said that, maybe your friend can hack his own motivation system. For instance, he could sign a contract with somebody that says if he flakes out on a project, he has to pay some kind of penalty payment.
In a similar vein, there's a Facebook group "Oxford University: Where Your Best Isn't Good Enough, Since 1117".
Well, wrong assumption on my part. Never mind.
I think the image of the geek girl is old hat anyway now. Most of the ones I am lucky enough to know are both girly and geeky. They have some "barbie".

This might be a European thing though I don't know. Certainly the girls on my university course were nothing like the stereotypes
I don't want to see them taking notes. I want to see them paying attention to me.

This is something I recall knowing intuitively (and, by high school, explicitly): intensity in note-taking is inversely proportional to information absorption during lectures.

I'm pleased to see research on this, since I've remained curious as to whether this is innate to the individual or merely follows behavior.
My Mom is a horror movie lover, and I saws JAWS when I was 5. Different kids can deal with different things.

Although, I had some issues with our vacation to the Oregon beach that summer.
Not relevant to the OP, but: I had never heard this phrase used so much before moving out here to California. Is it a local thing? I think it's especially over-represented here when preceded by "so": "So, it turns out that virality is a big win."
I guess the trouble is you share a common interest in cs with the group. But because your social interests are so disparate it's hard to then be part of the group.

The areas you want to hang out and talk to then about are overshadowed by the opposite interests.

I can see how one might conform a little so you could have a decent cs conversation :-)
Under the Covers of the Google App Engine Datastore
Eat what you want in moderation and exercise. The formula isn't difficult - the execution just requires willpower and discipline.
Dear NoSQL: "SQL-isn't-scalable" is a lie
Douglas Adams summed it up nicely in The Salmon of Doubt:

"Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression 'it turns out' to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is. It's great. It’s hugely better than its predecessors 'I read somewhere that...' or the craven 'they say that...' because it suggests not only that whatever flimsy bit of urban mythology you are passing on is actually based on brand new, ground breaking research, but that it's research in which you yourself were intimately involved. But again, with no actual authority anywhere in sight."
What Does a Strong US Dollar Mean - Purchasing Power of US Dollar
This is an issue specifically with Thrift -- not with Cassandra.

You can see the opinion of the Cassandra developers, which is pretty negative towards thrift, in the linked ticket:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-601

This is one of the many reasons the Cassandra developers are looking at replacing Thrift with Avro:
http://hadoop.apache.org/avro/
As you know this is a very common problem, so there's nothing really new or insightful we can offer as advice.

As the saying goes: "Thought leads to action, action leads to habit, and habits lead to character". So whenever you want to make any kind of change (however insubstantial ) you have to change your habits.

A few assorted thoughts (google for more info):

1. don't break the chain

2. team up with a natural finisher

3. be aware that most people can't do anything without external pressure

4. put yourself in a situation where failing doesn't become an option

5. make a list of what you want to do. Yes, even if you already know exactly what you have to do. Complete some item on the list every hour.

6. watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P785j15Tzk

By now Your Friend should be busy on the project that's going to change the world.
"With Google" handsets such as the Motorola Droid or (obviously) the Nexus One are part of the "Google Experience" program where the handset maker and carrier have to agree to use Google's first-party version of Android bundled with the proprietary Google apps.

Other handsets that aren't part of the Google Experience program, such as ones from HTC that run the Sense UI or from Motorola that run the Blur frontend, can do whatever they want within the terms of the open-source license.
Not really true. The BBC trust is chartered to represent the license payers. The political votng has little to do with it. Hey mostly get viewer opinion from direct feedback and polling.
"real artists ship." - steve jobs
Preview is a pretty solid app. Unfortunately, I've never across anything remotely well done on any other platform.
I totally agree with you. I'm on the listserv for ACM at my school, but I rarely participate in their events because they are overwhelmingly gaming-related. I went to get pizza with them recently and had the feeling I didn't fit in.

I study both CS and Vocal Performance (opera). I'm not a gamer in the slightest. I'm also a gay male.
You've sent her e-mail to complain that she used Scribd? I have to say, that's both selfish and obnoxious.

Especially because you can just click the download link and get it in whatever format you want.
HBase indexing library
Yeah, he's referring to Big Design Up Front. It just means doing specs and schedules instead of PG style exploratory programming.

e.g. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000036.html
I like okular, the default KDE reader, a lot actually.
That was an absolutely brilliant analysis. Such an innocent phrase can be so powerfully and deceptively persuasive!
I have seen the greatest success rates with individuals who want to scratch an itch. Someone who has an idea of something they want to build. This way they relate their problem solving and the solutions they find. For example when they decide that their program needs to write a file, they go and look for information on how to write a file, take it and implement it in their program. Conversely someone who goes through a tutorial of how to write a file does not have the situational reference to call upon to remember that accomplishment. I have found that individuals who learn programming via tutorials general do so through a good deal of repetition.

I have taught two people to program from scratch and I did so with both by finding a project that they wanted to do. One was a character creator for the pen and paper Deadlands and the other was an accounts receivable batch crediting application. Both individuals where self-sufficient in less than a month and where able to search and answer all of their own questions within three.
Google Responds To The HTC/Apple Lawsuit It’s Not A Part Of
Ehn, I was amused.

I think I read that Waugh book in college.
I worked for a media company a few years back and we would hack the NYT by selling "limited edition" autographed copies of books.

We paid authors $5/signature and sold the book for $10 over MSRP. The author pre-signed thousands of books that we bought from major retailers at a discount (orders in the 10s of thousands). Then we organized speaking events and book tours the week the book released. On the book tour, when the stores ran out of stock they would buy our autographed copies because the publisher couldn't ship them fast enough. Any books that we didn't sell back to the retailers, we would sell on our online store at markup.

The key to hacking the system was negotiating with the retailer to report (on Nielsen BookScan) X number of books on release day, X number the day after, and so on...
Reminds me of the Paypal story, in which the original plan was to build a secure way to transfer money between handheld devices. They realized their destiny was on the Internet after a demo web page started gaining serious traction among users.
I was obliquely suggesting that you seek the advice of a mental health professional.
tl;dr: "sql does so scale! if you throw $millions of hardware at it." yawn.
A Steadicam is how you get smooth movement while walking with a camera: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steadicam
Best of luck! Sounds like a pretty good idea, actually - I just grabbed the .pdf for the manuscript of the Python version of the book from http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html and sent it off to my Kindle for a rainy day.
Not upvoting politics... for what it's worth the US Justice department is appealing the decision to dismiss their case.

But if Blackwater mercenaries had killed my 9 year old son, I would want Erik Prince tried before the Hague for crimes against humanity. I still want Erik Prince tried before the Hague.
I would also suggest Introduction to Computer Science and Programming from OpenCourseWare:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...

It's the right approach, they teach you the concepts so that you can pick up any language and run with it. It uses Python but it's not about Python, which is a clean language that has a great support system (perhaps the most essential part in learning how to code).
I think comments like this are part of the reason he's stopping.
And did you report this bug on a beta site, or just run here?
Human languages (un)fortunately cannot be parsed unambiguously. I think most readers know a difference between a piece of writing written for entertainment and one they can use to make substantiated scientific claims.

Also, I would not dismiss personal experiences. Turns out they are what life is made of ;)
Apple Sues Nexus One Maker HTC
Great article on a pet hate of mine.

"It turns out" is often used in mathematics lectures, when the lecturer is trying to keep things relatively informal and is avoiding proving results. Blind assertions have no place in mathematics - it's much better to provide an intuitive explanation in the spirit of the proof.
As long as you're smart enough to abstract out of your valuation system, you can survive. Buffett made his early money buying at a discount to assets: the company had a $5 million in the bank and their total market value was $3 million. Those opportunities mostly disappeared in the 1960's--conglomerates bought them out. But Buffett's meta-strategy of buying things at a discount still worked; it just worked better applied to businesses with a sustainable competitive advantage.

But if you're not exceptionally good at what you do, yes, some randomness would help. Though wouldn't the closest analogy to the fastball / curveball thing be to randomly alternate among asset-management paradigms, instead? Have some of your portfolio passively indexed, some invested for catastrophe, some in pie-in-the-sky growth, some in inflation-resistant consumer goods, etc.
Well, lots of things are bad for you, but taken in moderation. I don't have 1.5 hours to sit through the video.

I just checked out the juice/smoothies I have, and was VERY surprised to see that you are correct, they have 0 fiber.
Just goes to show that their really is no substitute for the real thing.
He was successful because the bubbles burst before he went burst.

You'll never know when the bubbles will burst.
The other phrases put the emphasis on some particular unnamed authority that you read or heard. "It turns out" puts the emphasis on the "it" -- on existence, reality, or fact. It makes it sound as though "the real" is your authority -- that you drilled all the way down, and found the particular facts were thus-and-such.

When the phrase is used in everyday speech, in my experience, it's usually true. I went to the local grocer and "it turns out" (meaning, I checked and I asked and) they don't carry such-and-such. That's what makes it such a powerful device: there's implicit trust when someone claims to have done the research.

But it's a two-edged sword. If you make a habit of abusing the phrase, and it turns out you're demonstrably wrong on occasion, opponents will begin to view the phrase with extra suspicion, and hammer you on not providing the actual "it" that turns out.
"to say that someone uses the phrase particularly well is really just an underhanded way of saying that they’re particularly good at being lazy"

Larry Wall counts laziness as one of the key "great virtues of a programmer"
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris
I don't think NoSQL people usually claim that SQL isn't scalable, just that it's unnecessarily complicated to scale.

You generally have to partition your data horizontally and thus give up many of the features that SQL has to offer: ACID transactions, unique keys, auto-increment primary keys, etc.

Then you have to come up with your own solutions to replace those features: eventual consistency, UUID keys, map/reduce, etc. And these happen to be exactly the kind of features that many NoSQL databases can give you out-of-the-box.
It brings up images of Ballmer beating his kids because he found them using a friend's iPod or something similar. But that's mainly due to Ballmer's public image of a personality bordering on manic obsession with Microsoft.
You do realize that an OS is basically a kernel with a bunch of supporting applications that your vendor decides to ship with the kernel, right? If you're going to be uppity about "picking your own apps" you're going to need to be properly outraged about the vendor picking everything that makes your system run before you ever install a third-party app.
Sometimes the proof isn't intuitive. Sometimes "it turns out" that if you just crank through this ugly mess of symbols, you get out this result. This is more common on the applied side of mathematics than on the pure side, but I've seen it in both.
The deaths are a tragedy to be sure, but the interesting thing about this particular case is the exceptional morality of the boy's father. When the child of a man like Mohammed Kinani dies, it doesn't matter whose side you were fighting on that day, you lost.
The detailed version on how to do "impossible bottles" (with ships): http://www.answers.com/topic/ship-in-a-bottle-2

Some of them a pretty crazy: http://www.moillusions.com/2006/04/impossible-bottles-pictur...
You generally have to partition your data horizontally and thus give up many of the features that SQL has to offer

There are plenty of databases that will partition data without giving up any SQL features, but they cost money.
Wow, it's interesting to see how people in different fields make use of this term. In medicine, when I say "it turns out," I am often conceding that I just discovered an obvious connection that I should have discovered days earlier:

* "It turns out that our patient with salmonella has a pet lizard."

On the other hand, when I am trying to convey my knowledge in, say, human genetics in a humble fashion and convey to the reader that it's OK that they didn't know what I'm about to say, I'll also use "it turns out:"

* "It turns out that every gene found to cause Mendelian lipid disorders also has common variants discovered by genome-wide association studies."
I tried clicking the download link. It forces you to register.

I was not willing to register with a non-functional website I didn't want to use. That was the point I pulled out Firefox instead.
Loved this post. The foibles of rhetoric and language "hacks" fascinate me. I'd subscribe to a blog that posted stuff like this regularly - not least because I'd like to learn similar rhetorical "tricks." Anyone know of any (or even books)?
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I'm not sure what you mean by "pleasant" but xpdf gets the job done.
The blog post could have been expressed in about 5 sentences. Interesting, nonetheless.
"So, it turns out that virality is a big win."

That phrase is the 1973 high school yearbook of the startup culture.
Right on. Our startup, Wikispaces, will be five in two weeks. I finally have the feeling we've got the flywheel spinning at a good clip: millions of users, thousands of customers, a stable and scalable infrastructure, and actively hiring to grow the business. But it took years and years of hard work to get there.

Everything in a bootstrapped startup takes longer than you want. This for me was and is a constant frustration. It's another reason that having a cofounder is mandatory in my mind. It's a rare person who has the wherewithal to go it alone.