skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a job like that. I was supposed to use my analysis and creativity to build models for client forecasting, but if they didn't confirm what the brand team wanted to hear, they'd be rejected. It sucked. I was fresh out of school and cared more about getting the right answer than appeasing clients.

I lasted 8 months in that job. No regrets about leaving.

Also, $16k is piss-poor for a severance package in a brand-name consulting firm like BCG. Given the economy and the likelihood of a necessary career change, OP should have asked for 6 months' base (including COBRA) and an "office firing" (you're terminated but can use office resources for the job search and retain the right to represent yourself as employed).
Please Do Not Change Your Password: Most Security Advice is a Waste of Time
I disagree with the article. Except in some rare occasions, startups have 80%+ chance of failure. If that's the kind of risk you are assuming, then making big swings is the only reasonable bet.

That's why existing companies innovate incrementally for the most part too - they are better suited for tackling lower risk problems and will crush undercapitalized startups. Which is why "not disruptive, and proud of it" sounds like bad advice for startups to me.

Clayton Christensen's books (Innovator's Dilemma, Innovator's Solution) talk a lot about these issues. I will be adding them to my Startup Lore (http://www.deyanvitanov.com) as well in the next few weeks.
The wikipedia page isn't bad, although it doesn't talk about what 'incremental' is. It lists enough 'disruptive' things to give you a general idea, though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology
"Changing passwords is a waste of time" is the signal opinion of someone who has never been on either end of a network penetration test before.

How the universe actually works is: (1) of 1,000 servers, break into 1, (2) recover cached or hashed passwords, (3) reuse those passwords on every system on the network, (4) repeat 1-3 until you own 90% of the machines on the network.

There's lots of room to criticize bureaucratic security policies, but they sure picked a dumb one to focus on.
This is great. With CSS gradients, borders and text shadows, you can at least start some nice interfaces without any background images.
The Problem with Classrooms and Creativity
Thank you. Plus:

If you'd like to have the Color Blender for offline use, just view source and save

(actually, just saving the html page does it)
Google Docs Gets More Realtime; Adds Google Drawings To The Mix
How Corrupt Is the World Food Program?
Displaying them all in a column like that emphasizes the value variations. Which is the point, of course. It's just that there is a segment of the population that always acts shocked to discover that the three colors they picked look different put together, than they do alone.
Ncat: The Network Swiss Army Knife
Yeah, I don't get the point of Chrome. If all you need is a browser, then just run a browser under Android.

That said, if Google can produce a tablet that is to the iPad what the Nexus One is to the iPhone, I'm in.
Re: statistics, it would be interesting if someone groomed a dataset like crunchbase to start to answer certain questions about tech startups with actual numbers.

What is the success rate of companies started in year X that were tagged as "disruptive"?

You could answer other questions like the likely hood of various exit types given certain starting conditions.

Huge challenge making sure the data is relatively comprehensive, even just for tech, but would be cool.
Can you give any links to the "Linux decisions about keeping the kernel API's fluid". Curious about it. Thanks.
Tipping Point Not Likely for Arctic Sea Ice
Disruptive and incremental can go together: incremental improvements may cause disruptive change in the market.
I guess eating your own dog food doesn't always taste that great.
Oh boy :D Sorry, I have no other words.
Yes, completely agree. However, even within the startup world, there is hierarchy of ambition. I guess Jason's post is for those people who start believing startup = disruption, which isn't 100% accurate.
The official site doesn't have an announcement, though. It's not exactly "news" to link there.
This is a strawman, but an entertaining strawman, so have an upmod!

Sure, Apple theoretically could bar a Game of Life application if you actually built one with a board large enough to make a turing-complete automaton and then proceeded to demonstrate meaningful end user programs running on it.

I defy the author to tilt at the Apple Windmill: Write a Game of Life for the iPad with an actual Turing Machine running on it and write something that replicates some built-in functionality--like a calculator--running on top of that.

If the App Store rejects the Game of Life I'll publicly kowtow.
Startup's chance of failure depend on how disruptive that startup wants to be.
The more disruptive startup's goals are -- the higher change of failure.
Strategies for hiring Rails developers
I'm surprised that people don't seem to like this as much as I do. Yes, a designer is obviously going to use a more powerful tool, but that doesn't really say anything about how useful this is. I'm constantly writing small web apps and I have absolutely no design sense whatsoever. Having a really simple, elegant tool that lets me randomly choose a color and view a few shades lighter or darker is a huge help. It's got a nice, simple UI and does one thing very well. I'll definitely be using it.

And for those of you linking to other tools, they all either a) have a poor UI or b) do too much. That's not to say that they don't have their place, but they just don't do the same thing as this.
The terminal point of this logic suggests that the EU is also going to rule that we can develop arbitrary applications for our cable set-top boxes, for Cisco switches, and for automotive engine computers.
A new Google Docs
It sure as heck takes more than 25%.
If there's a lack of understanding, then help us understand. What are some examples of Apple jumping through hoops to help their developers, that is either above and beyond what another company (who does NOT piss off their developers like this) would do, or that is not brought about by massive complaining?

The app store process has greatly improved over the last year (after massive complaining), but in my experience Apple puts their interests first in every instance. This is of course their right, and even to be expected, but I am blind to the hoops they've been jumping through.
Apple's ban on intermediate platforms, and what this means for web apps
Paul Graham is speaking at the Entrepreneurial Bootcamp at Stanford Today
Taking a psychedelic is always a taxing and challenging experience, I don't know why anyone would want to do it frequently.
I'm not arguing with you, but for the benefit of those who read your comment and don't read the article, the article's examples of "simple, modest goals" are the problems solved by companies that sold for millions, but not hundreds of millions.

I also think for some people it's ok to have ambitious goals. However, if you want to make something "disruptive" that people don't yet know they need, you absolutely must have sales skill, not just technical skill.
What about Nokia? They smartphones also sucks, and they have already sued Apple for IP infringement.
Ah darn, too bad there isn't a Silverlight version for the rest of us :p
NewsTilt is at the initial press release stage... good luck, guys
Unfortunately we do not, yet. It's on our short list of features to-do.
What means "personal"? Do you do it mainly for the fun or for the money? If it's the second, it's a no brainer. Use the tools you know and focus on you problem domain.

If its an experiment or an exploratory project, well, use whatever appeals to you.
It's fast enough in my 2.24Ghz Dual Core for Windows development.

For Asp.net, my sister went on a small project and I don't understand why the hell it does take lot of time to process pages.
I thought reason we had a problem with social security was because we ignored the underfunding problem for years. My entire life I've been hearing "don't count on social security when you get older", and I'm no spring chicken.
I think that the only problem of his code is that it should be:
Map<String, List<Person>> buf = new HashMap<String, ArrayList<Person>>();

You probably don't really write that if you use eclipse.

I guess that writing articles and articles about how java is bad and ruby is much better doesn't really deliver apps. By the time all these frameworks are written it will be already outdated and the person who wrote it loosed the time to the android market.
I haven't used Eclipse much, but when I did it felt pretty similar to Visual Studio.
Is that alt title commentary or is it actually in the page? I couldn't find it in the source, at least.
A company used their own product to do something on their website. Oh no! Let's all cry about it.
Thats true-you don't have to respect or understand their point of view. If you don't respect or want to understand their reasons for the decisions they're making, perhaps you shouldn't be developing apps for the platform. And if you're not developing apps for the platform then you have no grounds on which to bitch and moan.

Great example of yes-yes persuasion technique. You made two statements few people can disagree with. Then you threw in a third one that is controversial YET appears to be just as logical as the previous two:

And if you're not developing apps for the platform then you have no grounds on which to bitch and moan.

How come?
I like the fact that many people on HN seem to be running ClickToFlash.
I type "sex" and hit Enter.. And I get "Page 404 - Not Found"... How awesome is that?
Apple's new TOS forbids Flash Ads Too?
If you look at the money trail could Apple be doing this for other non-technical reasons.

* Developer Hardware sales - ~$50M - $500M - basically to enforce developers buy apple hardware and software.

* iTunes sales $4B+

* iApps sales $1B+ - to ensure the best apps are written for the Apple iStore, at this point Apple might be able to expand revenue by a few X.

* projected mobile iAds Sales ??? - I think this is the largest market potential for Apple, on the order of Tens of Billions of Dollars.

I would suspect that the iAds market for Apple is greater than $1B and could be much higher if they corner the mobile ads market and branch out like Google did on the web. Google makes $20B+ a year on the web on ads, and by restricting these developers to these programing languages, Apple could be making it really difficult for companies like Adbrite and Google to sell advertising into the mobile market place. This could give Apple time to secure a lead in the mobile space and then branch out from their.

From what I have seen, the expectation is that the Mobile Marketplace is larger than that of the Web.
the iphone might have been an incremental idea, but that's pretty much irrelevant.
Anyone know of any seminal papers on what makes google goggles work?
Now it is showing "Page not found
The page you are looking for might have been removed,
had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
Please try the following:

If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly.

- Click the Back button in your browser to try another link.
- Use a search engine like Google to look for information on the Internet.
HTTP 404 - File not found "
>Is there a business reason behind playing catch up in big companies?

Yes, it's called "letting other companies subsidize your market research". I don't know that the copy cats are really failing to live up to anything. I'd say that android is a glowing success.

Not only that, but if google builds and android-based tablet, it might force apple to de-suckify the iPad. Competition is good for everybody including the companies that are competing; it incubates innovation.
plinq only parallelizes in-memory operations and delegates the interaction with the data-store to whatever adapter you're using.

the AsParallel() should make it clear that you're taking an existing data-set (retrieved in whatever manner you like) and signifying you'd like to execute parallel operations on it.
>It could potentially be a huge security risk,

Why is copying data into the clipboard a security risk?

> which is why it's had to be sandboxed into plugins like flash.

But it's already in a sandbox (the browser). Why do we need a sandbox inside the sandbox?

I really don't understand what the huge deal is with this. It's almost harder to get some plain text onto the clipboard than it is to get the user to run a .exe.
Our new Chinese site stats for the first month (march 2010):

- 18,000 sessions

- 65,000 page views

- IE 6 > 60%

The Chinese do not upgrade their systems. Part of the problem is the various Microsoft approaches to piracy and blocking updates for pirate installs. Of course, the root is that people aren't buying WinXP licenses, but that's clearly not going to happen. So the bulk of Chinese PCs are virus laden IE6 machines.
I say this only partly tongue-in-cheek...an enterprise-grade IDE is one that you're probably not going to use unless the enterprise paid for it (that said, I'd readily shell out $250 on a JetBrains IDEA personal license if I went back to consulting - personal performance gains more than make up the cost).
Craigslist verifies every phone number in order to post in certain sections. It probably isn't to hard.
With the big difference that googles products usually dont lock you in and give users choice, also googles software is usually free.
Sounds like good competition.
Okay, this uproar has just passed the threshold of ridiculous. "No Private APIs" is well-understood to mean that you can't call undocumented system libraries, not that you can't implement your own. Can we as a community please go back to talking about something else now? Erlang, maybe?
Even if that were true, aren't you glad that they are entering the same markets?

Otherwise, Apple's competition might only be the likes of Palm, HP, and JooJoo.
Only unlike 20 years ago, consumers are tired of computers that confuse them and break, and don't want to be at the mercy of tech-savvy people. That, and Apple have both the market share and the number of developers in their favor.
This is the kind of writing I really like. Insightful on the strategies involved and what is plausibly going on behind the scenes.

All the other articles on the 3.3.1 change have been mostly superficial and overly emotional. Even the Gruber article that Jobs allegedly referenced didn't offer any insights that weren't obvious.
I have one of these on my desk and it's truly a fantastic keyboard, especially for the price.

I advocated for it in a previous article:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1020447

(The Majestouch Click Otaku is basically the same unit. Click == what kind of key switches (longer pull, clicky = Click, slightly shorter pull and more squidgy = Touch; Otaku = No printed keycaps))

I bang on this keyboard day and night and it just keeps taking the beating. As far as attestations go, I've done a few orders through Elite Keyboards and it's been nothing but up and up, shipped fast. I haven't dealt with any customer service issues like "my keyboard broke and I have to return it" but be aware of the VERY strict return policies. Each keyboard on their site has a diff. policy based on what internal switches it is, and they are CLEAR about it. But... in many cases you return for repair and it may be 4-8 weeks. Not that you're likely to have issues if you take good care of your new best friend.
Could you really name a touch enabled Tablet to me without searching? I know I couldn't name one. There is also that nifty little stat about Apple being the worlds largest Tablet seller after their first day, so when it really comes down to it, they are the first.

Even if you don't count the above it's still the first Tablet worth a damn.

As for Google not following Apple... perception is everything. Consumers and really anyone following this epic battle will gloss over when someone tells them "well Google has been working on this for 2 years!" and simply remember that Apple did it first, Google was second, just like the iPhone and Android (I believe the same argument can be made there too but no one really remembers or cares about that).
Thoughts on the Qlik Technologies (QlikTech) IPO | Kellblog
Many startups just go straight into the dead pool by running out of cash and don't pivot either due to inability or to the lack of opportunity
The VS2010 UI may look similar to 2008, but it's quite different in implementation - the VS2010 UI is all in WPF. There are various benefits from this, but I don't think that speed will be among them.
The same could have been said about sharecroppers, but it would have been wrong. Some uses of power are unethical and threaten our ability to coexist, even if that power was gained legitimately. (This is my one problem with libertarianism.)
their core product is advertising; and all these other services exist to augment such. google's leadership is quite clearly on their A game.
I'm not seeing the Flash form in Chrome on Mac OS X.
Fixing Snow Leopard 10.6.3 Samba Write Access
Is it safe to assume they haven't updated their C support from the 21 year old standard to the 11 year old standard?
If you're a startup founder, you have to be (mostly) like Duddy Kravitz
it is not well supported in Chrome(debian)
Strongest Magnetic Substance Discovered - Will Disrupt Physics as we know it
80legs releases python API
Are you asking if you can target .NET 4.0 with VS 2008?

Highly unlikely. However, VS2010 will give you a choice of Runtime versions from 4 downwards. VS2008 will give you a choice of Runtime versions from 3.5 downwards.
I recommend you not ask people to post Erlang articles. I did that once and so many people submitted Erlang articles that pg banned me for causing an e-riot.
Ok here's the thing. The main difference between a government and a corporation is size. The bigger a corporation gets, the more its power approaches that of governments, and accordingly the more responsibility it is supposed to have like that of what we would like government to be like, such as supporting equal opportunity and free competition and basic human rights, stuff like that. Right now Apple does not have the power to destroy the First Amendment. It is not big enough yet. But it is putting in place a system now where, if it does get big enough, and eliminates its competitors the same way Microsoft did back in the day, then it will be able to basically dictate what kind of information you are going to have access to. Apple's current behavior has shown that not only is it going to be able to do this, but that they are entirely willing to do it, and not just censor for the purposes of "protecting" it's consumers, whatever their own interpretation of that might be, but censor for the purposes of advancing their own self interest and stifling innovation and competition.
Vegetable Soup Recipes - Cool Avocado
I really liked when my nephew put a Tic-Tac sticker on the alarm clock: "Two calories per tic-tac"
Thanks for the code. It seems like the gig is restricted to invitation only 300 peeps.

I look forward to seeing the conference and meeting some other UK based HNers.
What are the odds Google could offer free 3G with the device? Kindle pulls it off, but builds the cost into content. Maybe a new ad network?
Interview with Prof. Marcus du Sautoy (Get a symmetric group named after you.)
He banned you for that? Really? I was under the impression that such protests, when justly called for, were condoned by management.
"It seems this is quite a trend for Palm, MS, Google and other megacorps and it rarely turns out well."

Windows, Google web search, Office, XBox, Google Maps, GMail, and many other big successful products started out in markets that were initially defined and led by competitors.
some very powerful mechanism that is deeply and unavoidably bound into women's brain.

What, and wow-slutty-behavior receptors aren't deeply and unavoidably bound into male brains?
Ask HN:  WTF ever happened to FingerPrint Logins?
Finding Domains on a Given IP Address with Bing
ITV DVDs
This is very timely. My wife and I are huge google docs users and we were just chatting over the weekend about how slow docs seemed to be with large documents.

Docs has really replaced a lot of our use of MS Office. Its not a power users replacement, but I have to give serious props to google for turning out a set of web apps that are 'good enough' for the vast bulk of my uses.
my only suggestion is to be able to have my "saved colors" in the browser cookie. when i click it can add it to a fifo list :)
Clicking two of their own examples don't bring up anything. Not so awesome:

http://tweemp.com/Euro-Zone-Nations-Offer-40-Billion.html

http://tweemp.com/Haitians-leave-tent-cities-for-camp.html
Robert Love: iPhone OS 4 and Multitasking
Facebook Tests News Feed Format
The Turboencabulator
So these are the results of the EtherPad acquisition?
Good competition is never a bad thing...
Talk about lock in. I wasn't able to back-button back to HN.
Come on Paul -- trying for a more likely outcome of being a single-digit millionaire instead of an unlikely outcome of being a triple-digit millionaire doesn't make you "not ambitious."

I'm not saying it's bad to swing for the fences! Just that many people do out of perceived necessity.
believe or not, but the iPad isn't exactly the center of the universe. Especially not for Microsoft.
Jesper adds some thoughtful commentary to the iPhone OS/Flash furor
Or, as Chris Rock so eloquently puts it, "Shaq is rich; the white man that signs his checks is wealthy."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m37JkkGjAY
+1 for HN on iPad. Sometimes you're taking a break from working and just want to catch up on the news a bit. What better place to do so than relaxing on your couch?
United States of Insurance
On second thought, I would left justify the columns (have just 1 or two columns) and then create a docked div for the details to appear when an idea is selected.

See here:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/stayontop.htm
most thinkpads have integrated fingerprint readers and are able to log you in to windows using only your fingerprint.

fprint (http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Main_Page) supports many readers on unix that can be integrated into the login process with pam/bsd auth.
I really hope the Adam succeeds. It really looks like a neat device.
Honest. I was a bit surprised myself. Oh well.

edit: This was my comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775727
Interesting, Chrome is directed to an HTML page, but Safari and Firefox show a full-page swf (which is piss slow to load, and clunky as hell).

It's not just the form though, it's the whole page. They have even replaced the browser scrollbar with a Flash-based scrollbar.

The page is basically a poster child for why people hate Flash.
The Internet Explorer User-Agent String: Use and Abuse
I feel like this is pretty clearly a joke, and should be taken in the spirit in which it was intended: for laughs.