skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
20GB Hard Drive (Cheap) / 100KB / Jpg stored = 200,000 pages.

Effectively infinite, when considering the copier lifetime. Certainly falls within most people's definition of Every.
DHH: Stop watching Lost.

^priceless advice
I think Lisp would be one reason TO buy them. Google needs a Lisp team and I imagine they realise this.
There is no way in heck I am giving Google all of my DNS requests on top of email and adsense on every site I visit.

If we aren't supposed to be using 4.2.2.2 what's another option than 8.8.8.8 or opendns?
Zeus banking virus is back warns security firm
For those of you downmodding hga, the leaked emails contained conversations between some of the researcher that specifically talk about how to keep a scientist who disagree with them out of the peer reviewed press.
Why would they do that? Half of Google uses C++.
[OAUTH-WG] First draft of OAuth 2.0
Some micro economics: An enterprise is supposed to add resources until the marginal revenue equals the marginal cost. In this case, it means the additional revenue produced by the employee equals the salary.

Some of these 'efficient' companies are likely leaving value on the table by not adding resources to the point of zero marginal profit.
The sad thing is that as innocent as this guy might be in this exchange, HR departments for the big companies (perhaps where he is going even) will not look at this posting of private emails post favorably.

I stand with you though and hope you have fun at your next position.
Ah, very informative, thanks.
Professors at elite colleges tend to cut breaks under the belief that if they don't, parents will complain to the dean who will order them to cut a break.

They hold that belief because it is true.
is there anything wrong/dubious with openDNS?
That was a remarkably immature response from Jason.
Or you have to not spend more than a month in the US every year.

While the rules aren't great, they're not impossible either.
Yes, if he posts personal information, he has to trust Facebook, but he also has to trust those 35 real friends.

Of course malice isn't an issue, since they're real friends. But friends aren't always security-conscious with their computers. Someone might borrow his friend's computer and find that it's still logged into Facebook, or that the browser stores the credentials. Someone can sneak a peek while his friend looks at personal information in a cafe. The more real friends are added, the more likely this becomes.
Folks with advanced degrees in things like math, physics, physical chemistry, ... Many types of doctors (ie non surgeons), possibly lawyers as people have said that their schooling trains the mind rather than provides "courtroom practice". One can argue that advanced degrees in organic chemistry or biology is "hands on training", but those doing research in reaction mechanisms would probably beg to differ.
Good luck being employee 4,367 at a dying company.

Obviously he took it personally and made that immature comment. but I hope you're not questioning why he asked you not to come in.

Next come, goto your superior and personally hand them a resignation letter and two weeks notice. Doing it over email is a BAD idea!
Bill Gates Comments On iPad
Spreadsheet - Ranking Tech Companies by Revenue per Employee
The real list, made in response to this blog post on 37signals blog: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2283-ranking-tech-companies-by-revenue-per-employee
Can you expand on why you believe Google needs a Lisp team? I am having trouble coming up with any convincing argument for needing one.
Francisco Dao on The Retreat & his latest ebook on Social Influence
At 300dpi (which is pretty minimally low), an 8.5x11 image is 8.4 Mpixels. At any decent compression, that's going to be more like 1MB/page, or 20,000 pages.

Maybe we're talking monochrome? That reduces image size, but I'm not sure how to calculate that.
Re-post: Jason Calcanis' Resignation Response to Evan Culver
April 20, 2010

Resignation

Jason Calacanis at his finest.

I should note, that instead of responding, he instead removed my email account. Real pro of him. Good thing I forwarded it to myself first :P

Begin forwarded message:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Evan Culver <evanc@mahalo.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: Resignation
To: jason@calacanis.com

Really?

What is your deal? I will ultimately have to come back to Mahalo to pick up my things. Why so rash, what is your rationale? This seems really unprofessional and when other developers and employees see this, it just makes them want to leave ASAP. Is it really that big of a deal that people find better things for them than Mahalo?

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:19 PM, <jason@calacanis.com> wrote:
Evan,
Don't come back to the office, do not email the team list.

Elliot will send you paperwork tomorrow. Today was your last day.

Good luck being employee 4,367 at a dying company.

Horribly disappointed in you.

J

Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

From: Evan Culver <evanc@mahalo.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:48:37 -0700
To: Jason Calacanis<jason@calacanis.com>; Jacob Burch<jacob@mahalo.com>; Jeff Ammons<jammons@mahalo.com>
Subject: Resignation

Hey guys,

This isn't an easy email to write, but as the subject suggests, this email is to inform you of my resignation from Mahalo effective in 2 weeks. An amazing opportunity came out of nowhere that I just couldn't say no to. I'll be writing code as a UI engineer at <redacted> and contributing to the open-source <redacted> project on a full-time basis. <redacted>

I've never worked with such a great team and learned so much in such a short period of time. I owe all of it to the opportunity you've given me, Jason and I thank you immensely for that. Jeff and Jacob, you guys are amazingly brave for tackling such a great undertaking. I'm impressed you do it with seemingly such ease. Many people would fail quickly in your shoes and I applaud you for your leadership in such a fast-paced environment and against such great odds.

I certainly won't be going far (<redacted>), so I hope to continue a lasting relationship and hope that we all can work together sometime in the future.

Thanks again,
While I'm not sure I buy the GP/GGP (can't see from the post window >_<) point that Google NEEDS a Lisp/CL team, I have a hard time imagining they would buy ITA for such a large sum of money only to piss off all the employees, and at the same time basically throwing away the tech if they wanted to rewrite it away from CL. The money is simply too much for doing that to make sense.

Unless they feel ITA's market position alone is worth that much cash, but I find that hard to believe.

edit: Bah wasn't in the same exact thread line but was mentioned, excuse the dumb on the grandparent/Great Grand Parent part.
yes. see tptacek's comment.
Looks like the post has been taken down. Did OP have a change of heart?
Facebook's users do not profit. They provide labor to improve the value of facebook with no compensation in return, so the relationship is unbalanced.

I think this is demonstrably false. It's true, my brother doesn't get paid by Facebook to spend time on the site. Google doesn't pay me to use GMail either, and yet I use it every day all day. Money isn't the only way to provide value. And there's no way Facebook could have reached 400 million users without providing value to a lot of those people.
Video of ultra-realistic female android Geminoid F
I think we have to stop considering Climate Research as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal.

The other paper by MM is just garbage. [...] I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!

I don’t really understand what’s incriminating about this. Please explain.
Are you aware regarding to which specific points the other side, as you say, disagrees with the majority view? I have found virtually every single mainstream article about climate change to be spin, I'd like to see for myself.

The wording of the consensus view may also play a role. How much in "Human activities ... are modifying the concentration of atmospheric constituents ... that absorb or scatter radiant energy. Most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations." is there to disagree on? It's enormously vague, is it not?
"...this is why I would never touch Subversion with a ten-foot pole. There is a massive subversion repository and it's where everybody has to write. And the centralized model just does not work..." - Linus Torvalds.

Of course this isn't quite the same thing, but Linus doesn't have a very high opinion of the people using his tool in this way. But, then again, Linus doesn't have a very high opinion of a lot of perfectly reasonable things that people do.
Argh?

The piv UI is horrible. Sometimes it auto-updates, sometimes it doesn't, the whole open/close item metaphor is horrible as it pushes stuff around constantly, the text-areas are way too small, can't edit your own comments, stuff more or less randomly jumps to other tabs when changing status (which may or may not be currently visible)...

Well, that's just what immediately popped into my head, I'm sure there's more if I look again.

Pivotal has easily one of the worst GUIs of any ticket tracker I have used. It's right down there with bugzilla, just in a different, over-ajaxified way.
Good to see these desktop style services coming to WebKit. My CS final year project was to build a bridge between JavaScript and desktop services. Unfortunately, I never built it but I did spec it.
did the original story get nuked? I don't see it even in [dead] form.
So if you are not tired not weak and almost never sick but technically underweight you don't have to worry? How can you determine poor metabolism and bad blood flow?
Any Idea how to extract these stored images. There has been more then one occasion where I would have likes copy of an accentually shredded original.
The added-value for now is the Article/Comments tab on the top right, which auto load comments page when you view the article.

It's the way how I read the hackernews, spend more time on comments than the articles themselves.

Thanks and look forward to hearing your experience on it.
What's completely missing in the "consumers" section is any discussion on the positive network externalities that come with a a highly interconnected network.

Without net neutrality, Comcast could simply throttle speeds to sites that compete with their own business interests (Hulu and Netflix come to mind). So sure, Comcast could make more money, and yes they could reinvest it to build out the network so we can all have 1gbps connections for $11/mo. But how good is that connection if the CEO of Comcast gets to decide which web sites we can use? If that's what consumers want, I could just set up a 1gbit connection to my next door neighbor's house and get roughly the same utility.
Given Evan deleted his post it might be best not to reproduce it.

Yes, Jason is an immature douche but it'd be nice not to screw over Evan, particularly when he's taken swift action to correct his mistake.
This isn't really a threat to an established military operation. Just another risk on the battlefield. A simple decoy/killer routine should be pretty effective in taking them out. It's hard to make a vehicle both air worthy and armoured.

The major issue I see is that this is a terror organization's wet dream. Instead of dirty bombs and nukes, you can easily establish a fleet of these things and let them loose on a city. Put them on blimps, set them for about 500 ft., arm them with $5 motion sensors (no need for any real target selection) add a grenade or two and you have a suicide rifleman that blows up once his magazine is empty.

Easily released by a van or two a few miles from the next Superbowl.
How to Approach a VC
@evanculver Good luck at Yahoo, dude. It's not as dead as some say, as is evidenced by the excellent code they churn out.

-- http://twitter.com/codeshaman/status/12584315658
Watch F8 live
Indeed, defaultdict was added in 2.5 to the collections module
Yagni purchasing can certainly save you money, but for me the common failure mode is suffering in silent frustration from the inability to do things because I don't have the proper equipment.

It's difficult to reliably multiply frequency of loss by average magnitude of loss and come up with the price you should pay up front to avert it. Just another one of the things that reminds me I'm not a perfect Bayesian.
It is built for HN only . It had two tabs for you to switch between articles and comments easily.

I am adding some detail info on my website for it:

http://blog.libinpan.com/hacker-news/

Thanks!
Ask HN: iPhone Developer license vs. PS3 Linux
I have heard that at least 1 person in UK got a partial refund on their PS3 due to laws in the EU/UK pertaining to removing advertised functionality after sale. Would this also apply to the iPhone Dev kit and corresponding recent license changes? (iPhone developer program license section:3.3.1)

If you were a company in the UK who purchased developer kits for iPhone to build say a Unity game couldn't you legally demand a partial refund? Even if they are not going to enforce this requirement on you?
http://www.truthout.org/soldiers-wikileaks-company-apologize...

>We have been speaking to whoever will listen, telling them that what was shown in the Wikileaks video only begins to depict the suffering we have created. From our own experiences, and the experiences of other veterans we have talked to, we know that the acts depicted in this video are everyday occurrences of this war: this is the nature of how U.S.-led wars are carried out in this region.

>We acknowledge our part in the deaths and injuries of your loved ones as we tell Americans what we were trained to do and what we carried out in the name of "god and country". The soldier in the video said that your husband shouldn't have brought your children to battle, but we are acknowledging our responsibility for bringing the battle to your neighborhood, and to your family. We did unto you what we would not want done to us.

>More and more Americans are taking responsibility for what was done in our name. Though we have acted with cold hearts far too many times, we have not forgotten our actions towards you. Our heavy hearts still hold hope that we can restore inside our country the acknowledgment of your humanity, that we were taught to deny.

>Our government may ignore you, concerned more with its public image. It has also ignored many veterans who have returned physically injured or mentally troubled by what they saw and did in your country. But the time is long overdue that we say that the values of our nation's leaders no longer represent us. Our secretary of defense may say the U.S. won't lose its reputation over this, but we stand and say that our reputation's importance pales in comparison to our common humanity.
I disagree. Evan shouldn't have taken his post down.

More people need to have the balls to stand up and reveal people as they are to the world.
Seriously take this down. You're only showing us your immature behavior, not Jason's.

If he wanted to take it down, it is his decision and his decision only.
But you don't have the right to make that call personally for Evan.

Reported.
Right, and my point was I don't want a Perl job. I've had Perl jobs, from jobs.perl.org. I don't want a PHP job, nobody would work with me in that language either. Most people use Ruby/Python in my circles these days.

I find language specific jobs incredibly lame. Language is a small factor in what I do. I just want to be able to say, "I'm gonna do it in Perl." and not have everyone groan and not want to work with me on it.
Let the upvotes decide to take this down.
Just what are those "extraordinary" new products in Apple's 2010 pipeline?
It's kind of strange to call Craigslist an enterprise, in that case.

Realize that the chart you are reading is revenue divided employees. It is not a measure of the actual revenue generated by each employee divided by his individual salary. Calculating marginal revenue and marginal costs is not that simple for the sort of IT companies listed.
Looks like it got deaded. I won't link it obviously, but in my opinion, the exchange is a matter of public record now and I support it remaining here.
Can someone explain the need for a copier to do that? Which engineer in his right mind thought that this would be a good idea without some routine clean up procedure?
I think you are missing the thrust of Linus' point.

"... it's where everybody _has_ to write"

There is nothing wrong with an 'authoritative' repository to which everyone pushes. What is a problem for Linus, and many others, is when the authoritative repository is the _only_ repository and doing work locally or sharing work between users is impossible to do using the VCS tools and people resort to passing patches.
Oh that DHH
I was just thinking, "I wonder if this is _why's new project."
Hijacking Google's personalized search suggestions
Yep, flagged the post so it becomes [dead] soon.
Implicitly confirmed true in Evan's reply:

@codeshaman Thank you sir. I was going to delay the announcement, but you know, people do things that make you jumpy.

-- http://twitter.com/evanculver/status/12585519584
Because it's a language in which you can be incredibly productive. The only downside is speed of execution, but optimisations help.

Why I think Google needs one? Because they don't have one, and considering their financial resources, they can afford it, and because ITA will pay for itself.
This metric puts a high advantage on companies that outsource people-heavy parts to other companies. Buying your customer support from an outside company greatly increases your revenue/employee even if the cost for support is the same or higher than in-house.
In large organizations, the decisions made by the employees are often not related to the bottom line. They'd rather have more direct reports than increase profit margins. Middle managers feel powerful because they tell many people what to do, not because they do more with fewer people.

Of course the investors want the company to be more efficient, but not always. This is true in the retail industry where razor thin margins are the goal. Software is the opposite. Imagine if Walmart made 35% margins like many software vendors. They'd be seen as gouging their customers and their prices would be too high. Target would create slimmer margins and take walmart's customers.

Also, employee salaries are tax deductible as expenses, so companies that are intent on employee satisfaction -- something seen as beneficial for successful organizations -- tend to pay out much, if not all profits as bonuses. If a company is making lots of profits, they have to put that money somewhere, either investments in either infrastructure or labor and it's fairly easy to hire people. Otherwise, it goes to the government and no one likes that. Employees are expensive and hiring more is a quick way to legitimize a budget. Really, investors care about revenue growth more than anything. A company that is growing revenues and growing the share price is considered good. The profits could be paid out as dividends, but fewer companies are doing that and they are double taxed, so capital is more efficient if left in the organization. Exceptions are very large, old and stable companies, but that's a different kind of investor. Those are income investors, not growth investors like I was.

It seems counter-intuitive because investors seldom have control over this kind of spending and revenue/employee isn't a popular metric for investing like PE, PEG, OM, or PM. For example, look at the key statistics for MSFT at yahoo. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT+Key+Statistics The number of employees appears nowhere and thus calculating revenue/employee is beyond the ability of most investors. Sometimes you can get # of employees on the profile page: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=MSFT+Profile

Essentially, the rev/emp metric when making investment decisions is "outside the box." Most investors don't care or even think about using it as a filter, nor is it even really possible without better investing tools.
Thanks for the support guys! I guess I wasn't sure. The best part was the comment from "bobflemming" saying to take it down because of how spiteful it made me look. Wonder who "bobfleming" was considering it showed up right around the time google alerts would have fired. I guess it worked, but at least the interwebs haz it now.
I agree but it's impossible at this point. Even if the moderators delete it so that it doesn't show up as [dead], it's an interesting enough story that people will keep reposting it and up-voting it.

This bell can't be un-rung unfortunately.
This sounds deeply wrong, unless Austria has an odd arrangement with the USA. It is not like this in Japan or Australia. In many countries, taxes are automatically deducted and it would be impractical if not impossible to give the USA first cut. Also, if you get residency in a state with no income tax and form a corporation in the USA you can pay yourself below the foreign earned income exclusion and for most practical purposes owe the USA nothing. I would get a second opinion from a different tax specialist.
Wow, that totally kicks Gnome's notify in the butt! I'm so damn tired of Gnome's notification system.
Resignation by email? If you're remote you pretty much need to resign by telephone. It's the proper thing to do. Much or all of this could be avoided.
10 World Changing Technologies
I just want to make the point that "Me talking about how to keep you out of HN" != "you being kept out of HN".
Being asked not to come back into the office (or to leave the office) isn't exactly unheard of. Insulting the new company is low, but it is yahoo...
Guestlistapp is great, the integration to 3rd party tools is extends the service and federates additional services (particularly for best-of-breed services like Campaign Monitor, though I'd like to try it with MadMimi).

I keep hoping for additional functionality, i.e., can't wait for the next release.
Early Proof That Geolocation Marketing Will Succeed
Scalr - automatic scaling for ec2
"A Free Digital Society": Stallman talk at Stanford, 4/30, open to the public
Thought this might be of interest:

You (and anyone else you'd like to forward this email to) are cordially
invited to attend Richard Stallman's talk on April 30th.

Richard Stallman* [www.stallman.org] will discuss "A Free Digital
Society." Activities directed at ``including'' more people in the use of
digital technology are predicated on the assumption that such inclusion is
invariably a good thing. It appears so, when judged solely by immediate
practical convenience. However, if we also judge in terms of human rights,
whether digital inclusion is good or bad depends on what kind of digital
world we are to be included in. If we wish to work towards digital
inclusion as a goal, it behooves us to make sure it is the good kind.

THIS TALK IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. (RSVPs are not necessary but are greatly
appreciated to ruchika@cs.stanford.edu)

When: April 30th, 11am-1pm

Where: Hewlett 201

* Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system
(see www.gnu.org [www.gnu.org]) in 1984. GNU is free software. The
GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is
used on tens of millions of computers today. Dr. Stallman has received the
ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic
Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the Takeda Award for
Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
We've found gitosis to be terrific. It gives us better control over read and write access and uses ssh the same way Github does.